#ours

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ↗

— Robert Collier

#any #belief #chances #measured #success

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. ↗

— Paul Valery

#before #flesh #long #made #must

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#public #self #than #write #yourself

What you say and how you look does not define who you are,because some of the most beautiful people do the ugliest things.You owe it to the people who hate you, who disrespect you and who put you down, because they’re the ones who have made you who you are today,for keeping your head up and not breaking down when they want you to. ↗

— Amber Ward

#beauty

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fear #kill #many #neighbours #say

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even? ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#break #even #how #important #important question

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#asked #bad #could #course #foul

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally. ↗

— John Cornyn

#literally #pours #rains

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life