”A work well begun is half-ended.”
– Plato
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Dr Seuss
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but
you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
– Maya Angelou
“The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go.”
– Winston Churchill
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked.
His response was a question: ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it
doesn’t matter.”
– Lewis Carroll
“Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.”
– Sir William Jones
“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet
those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”
– J.C. Penney
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and
tempests.”
– Epictetus
“Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest
in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of
experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things
that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will
sustain you both mentally and economically.”
– Martha Stewart
“Think of life as a gigantic ice cream parlor with infinite
flavors to taste. Tell yourself the goal of life is to taste
as many flavors of experiences as you can. Admittedly, you
won’t like every flavor. But hey, you don’t need to go near
that flavor ever again. Instead, indulge in flavors you know
you’re passionate about! And don’t be afraid to taste
something that might look funny — you never know!”
– Karen Salmansohn
“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter
how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is,
they’re probably right”
– Cathy Guisewite
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you
create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to win is.”
– Catfish Hunter
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never
score.”
– Bill Copeland
“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard
“It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
– Jacki Joyner-Kersee
“Whatever you are be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Darrell Royal
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. “
– Henry Ford
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you
can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep
moving forward.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in
the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not
at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely
frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able
to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is
real. It is possible. It is yours.”
– Ayn Rand
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth.
Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and
respect yourself — no one else will be able to make that
happen. Accept who you are — completely; the good and the bad
– and make changes as you see fit, not because you think
someone else wants you to be different.”
– Stacey Charter
“You’re worried about how you’re going to feel at the end of
your life? What about right now? Live. Right this minute.
That’s where the joy’s at.”
– Abigail Thomas
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the
thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.
It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you,
but they’re not worth bothering with.”
– J. K. Rowling
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone
else, which makes you unique.”
– Walt Disney
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find
his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the
dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love
is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish.
It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no
pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth.
It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure
whatever comes.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort
zone.”
– Karen Salmansohn
“In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, “If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?” It’s not as hard as you think.”
– Timothy Ferriss
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
– Alan Alda
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
– Peter Drucker
“Doing more of what doesn’t work won’t make it work any better.”
– Charles J. Givens
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. “
– Brian Tracy
“Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately. “
– Stephen R. Covey
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
– Ovid (Roman Poet)
“Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it.”
– David Jordan
“I said to myself: “You mean all those people out there that I’ve been envying because they’re not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn’t somebody tell me!?” I guess I never asked.”
– Susan Jeffers
“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
– Arthur Christopher Benson
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur
“If you want to know your past — look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future — look into your present actions.”
– Chinese Proverb