The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately NOT AS GOOD AS someone who is stimulated by PASSION and INTERNAL WILL
What controls your attention, controls your life
The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.
If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.
Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.
Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.
Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.