“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”