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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.