Dan Rather Quotes

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.

Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

The struggle I went through has value.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. You know what you've done and what you've been through to get to where you are.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Never judge a journey by the distance.

For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.