People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.
Don't depend too much on anyone.
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.
The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
Don't depend on others to give you strength. . . . Find it within yourself
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.
How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.