From what we get, we can make a living:
by Arthur Ashe

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

Related topics: Values Generosity

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie