"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

"We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives."

"Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into."

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."

"What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?"

"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."

"In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w"

"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''"

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door."

"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it."

"It is better to live rich, than to die rich."

"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."

"Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy."

"Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor."

"Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage."

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."

"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."

"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live"

"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."