Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
Independence now: and Independence forever.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thingâ that's the Lord's test.
Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humilityâthat priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.