A curated list of some of my favourite quotes which I come across.

Favourite Quotes

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; 
 and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
-- Maya Angelou

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

"If you can't outplay them, outwork them."
 -- Ben Hogan

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.” 
-- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. 

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
-- Mary Anne Radmacher

"I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by."
-- Douglas Adams 

"Do it with passion, or not at all."
-- unclear origin, sometimes attributed to Rosa Nouchette Carey

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We must all suffer one of two things: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
-- Jim Rohn

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
-- Ernest Hemingway 

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
-- Oscar Wilde

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
 to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but
 rather teach them to long for the endless immensity
 of the sea."
 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 "Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff."
-- Robert Downey, Jr 

"There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old
 therefore it is good. The other one says, This is
 new therefore it is better."
--Dean William R. Inge

"A year from now you may wish you had started today"
 -- Karen Lamb
 
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
 -- Michelangelo

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
 -- Wayne Gretzky 
 
 "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. 
 The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus." 
  -- Alexander Graham Bell

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
  -- Henry Ford
  
"Done is better than perfect."
  -- Sheryl Sandberg
  
"And may be our dreams don't come to us in the way we fancy. May be they take on
this subtle cloak and sit around a little hoping that we'll have the tiniest bit of
courage to step out and lift the veil."
 -- The Dreamer

"To begin, begin".
 -- William Wordsworth
 
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down." 
 -- Stephen Richards
 
"Fail early, fail often."
 -- a phrase commonly used in Silicon Valley
 
 "When one door closes, another opens; 
 but we often look so long and so regretfully 
 upon the closed door that we do not see the 
 one which has opened for us."
 -- Alexander Graham Bell
 
 "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
  -- Abraham Lincoln
 
 "When in doubt, dare."
  -- Robin Sharma

 "Most people do not listen with the intent to 
  understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
  -- Stephen R. Covey

 "Over time, the hurt doesn’t hurt. Only regret does."
  -- Terri Guillemets
  
 "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very
  important that you do it."
  -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
 "It always seems impossible, until it's done"
  -- Nelson Mandela 

 "Do not settle for a candle, when you were taught to love the sun."
  -- T.B. LaBerge 
  
 "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you 
  a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
  -- Herbert Bayard Swope

 "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the 
  old, but on building the new."
  -- Socrates
  
 "There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, 
  nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
  -- Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent 
   than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so 
   on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good 
   time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent
   than man—for precisely the same reasons."
   -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy