You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.