Everybody starts at the top and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long slow climb and self-discipline.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
From your parents you learn love, and laughter, and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Related Quotes to Explore
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.