#sever

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. ↗

— Kent M. Keith

#love #perseverance #love

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#dream #dreams #following-dreams #inspirational #overcome-fear

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. ↗

— William Cobbett

#men #much #oftener #perseverance #talent

To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better 3) Go step by step, One day at a time. 4) Create/make your own opportunities. 5) Believe in your abilities at all times, 6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going. 7) Finish what you started ↗

— Pablo

#begin #belief #believe #blessings #discipline

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#among #because #been #endorse #failure

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#along #been #browser #build #client

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ↗

— Mark Twain

#cowardice #good #protections #several #surest

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#open #path #paths #several #take

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#character #failure #perseverance #character

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dreams