THOUGHTS ON CHANCE AND DESTINY & RIGHT AND WRONG
CHANCE
AND DESTINY
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is
determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-
Jawaharlal
Nehru
Take
a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one
who is willing to do and dare.
-
Dale
Carnegie
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably
doesn’t lead anywhere.
-
Frank
A. Clark
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often
we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened
for us.
-
Helen
Keller
The cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
-
Jonathan
Swift
If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.
-
John
Atkinson
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and
I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-
Robert
Frost
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| Robert Frost |
Expect
for best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalise on what comes.
-
Zig
Ziglar
In
reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in
life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
-
Peter
McWilliams
Success
on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. …in the final
analysis, the one quality that all successful people have … is the ability to
take on responsibility.
-
Michael
Korda
RIGHT
AND WRONG
Like an unchecked
cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate
destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe
the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with
the false and the false with the true.
- Martin Luther King, JR.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who think he’s wrong.
- Charles Wordsworth
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes
from bad judgement.
- Barry LePatner
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be
criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless
witness of a single wrong or a single misery. But it is not possible for me, a
weak, frail, miserable being, to mend every wrong or to hold myself free of
blame for all wrong I see.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are
different from things we do.
- Freya Stark
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| Freya Stark |
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that
nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
The only correct actions are those that demand no
explanation and no apology.
- Red Auerbach
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, JR.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about
things that matter.
-
Max
Beerbohm
