Will Henry Quotes
Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).