1. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
2. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
3. “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
4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot
5. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot
6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
10. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown
14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
15. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown
17. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch
18. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White
20. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
- “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
- “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
- “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan
- “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
- “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
- “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
- “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis
- “It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Failure is an event, never a person.” – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
- “The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.” – William Strong
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
- “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Schuller
- “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
- “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
- “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha
- “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha
- “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha
- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha
- “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha
- “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp
- “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb
- “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty
- “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
- “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso
- “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner
- “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
- “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace
- “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
- “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou
- “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein
- “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
- “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis
- “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
- “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files
- “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti
- “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown
- “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud
- “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman
- “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”
- “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement
- “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce
- “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”
- “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel
- “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.
- “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist
- “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment
- “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
- “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh
- “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin
- “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
- “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer
- “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda
- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
- “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More
- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan
- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy