"Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine."

-- Margaret Thatcher

#Father Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.”
“God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.”

Source : Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”
“Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.”
“Idleness only leads to bad deeds”
“It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.”
“I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?”
“I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.”
“Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.275, Applewood Books

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