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"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St. Jerome

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

"Action is the foundational key to success." - Pablo Picasso

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." - Helen Keller

"The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." - Les Brown

"It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving." - Mother Teresa

"In matters of style, swim wiith the current; in matter of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucious

"The art of conversation lies in listening." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion." - Deepak Chopra

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on." - Robert Frost

"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." - Unknown

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger." - Harriet Tubman

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it." - Emily Dickinson

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

"True forgiveness is when you can say, thank you for that experience." - Oprah Winfrey

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancements, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." - Mother Teresa

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - C.S.Lewis

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become" - Oprah Winfrey

"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchhill

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family." - Barbara Bush

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Only life lived for others is worth while (sic)." - Albert Einstein

"Without forgiveness, there's no future." - Desmond Tutu

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchhill

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family." - Barbara Bush

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself makes you fearless." - Lao Tzu

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step, you enhance immensely the value of your first." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [source]

"Decisions are easy when values are clear." - Roy Disney

"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came." - Abe Lincoln

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." - Diane Sawyer

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roossevelt

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream." - C.S.Lewis

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." - Eleanor Roosevelt from her 1960 Preface to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1961. P.xix.

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." - Kevin Kruse

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men." - Pythagoras

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." - W. Clement Stone

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"We become what we think about." - Earl Nightingale

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." - Vince Lombardi

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." - Stephen Covey

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart." - Ancient Indian Proverb

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

"Fall seven times and stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see." - Confucius

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." - Aristotle

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb

"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." - Unknown

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti

"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." - Benjamin Franklin

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." - Roger Staubach

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe." - Oprah Winfrey

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." - Abigail Van Buren

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. " - Teddy Roosevelt

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. " - Ziad K. Abdelnour

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. " - Teddy Roosevelt

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world." - Vincent Peale

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it." - Zig Ziglar

"I love coffee. It gives me the illusion that I might be awake" - Lewis Black

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our powerlessness, stupefy us." - Theodor W. Adorno
from Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life., 1974, p57.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and everyone and make that Best a part of my life." - Helen Keller

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin

"Life is just what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - Allen Saunders and John Lennon

"It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance." - Albert Einstein

"To know what life is worth, you have to risk it once in a while." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and, even his life for the welfare of others." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller from The open Door, 1957, p.17.

"Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times." - Edward Coke

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." - Marie Curie

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel." - Albert Einstein from Life May 2, 1955, p.64.

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." - Arnold Palmer

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - Charles Darwin

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay from a 1971 meeting at PARC

"There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James Baldwin

"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

"I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." - Warren Buffett

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work." - Anna Pavlova

"It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." - Douglas William Jerrold

"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little." - Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

"True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice." - Ben Jonson

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." - René Descartes

"The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought." - Pythagoras

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind." - Abdus Salam

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!" - Lawrence Lovasik

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." - Warren Buffett

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Denis Diderot

"Truth exists, only lies are invented." - Georges Braque

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." - Mother Teresa

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun." - Cicero

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life." - Helen Keller

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is—the power of lighting its own fire." - John W. Foster

"Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often, we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - Charles Darwin

"Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations." - Desmond Tutu

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future; act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions, and gradually over time, their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another." - Helen Keller

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide

"If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things." - Larry Page

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." - Helen Keller

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson

"If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I am in this cause with my whole heart and soul. I believe that the Progressive movement is making life a little easier for all our people; a movement to try to take the burdens off the men and especially the women and children of this country. I am absorbed in the success of that movement." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country." - Homer

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own." - Mother Teresa

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate." - Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2002

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs

"The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,

"As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live." - Pope John Paul II

"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it." - Isaac Newton

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future; act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies." - Robert F. Kennedy

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot

"Lead from the back and let others believe they are in the front." - Nelson Mandela from Guglielmo, Frank, and Palsule, Sudhanshu. Social Leader: Redefining Leadership for the Complex Social Age. N.p., Taylor & Francis, 2016.

"The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy." - Mother Teresa

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

"People often... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower." - Helen Keller

"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun." - Winston Churchill

"Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before." - John Wooden

"You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it." - Karen Joy Fowler

"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have." - Timothy Ferriss

"Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking." - David Schwartz

"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking." - David Schwartz

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone

"The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds." - Brian Tracy

"The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it." - Robert H. Schuller

"The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely, it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost." - Nikola Tesla

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau, from Walden p.427.

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington

"The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely, it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost." - Nikola Tesla

"We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in." - Atul Gawande

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential." - Barack Obama

"I would hope that all educated citizens would fulfill this obligation—in politics, in Government, here in Nashville, here in this State, in the Peace Corps, in the Foreign Service, in the Government Service, in the Tennessee Valley, in the world. You will find the pressures greater than the pay. You may endure more public attacks than support. But you will have the unequaled satisfaction of knowing that your character and talent are contributing to the direction and success of this free society." - John F. Kennedy

"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design." - Oprah Winfrey

"The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts... everything we do, we do for the young." - Elizabeth II