quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -Thomas Carlyle
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. -Warren Buffett
The question is not who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. -Malcolm Forbes
If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose. -George Eliot
The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it. -
Making the simple complicated is commonplace - making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. -Charles Mingus
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney
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
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. -Milton Berle
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. -Alan Keightley
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. -Debbi Fields
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
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain
Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness ... happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have. -Tony Hsieh
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. -Oscar Wilde
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. -Napoleon Hill
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi
A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb
Live simply, so others may simply live. -Mahatma Gandhi
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -Albert Einstein
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. -Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. -John Le Carre
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do. -Elbert Hubbard
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). -Faith Popcorn
We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like. -David Ramsey
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -Theodore Roosevelt
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. -Seth Godin
It’s a funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham
We make a fine bourbon, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always FINE BOURBON. -Pappy Van Winkle
An army of lions led by a sheep is no match for an army of sheep led by a lion. -Winston Churchill
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for.  -Grace Hopper
I never let my schooling get in the way of my education -Mark Twain
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. -Roger Staubach
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -Albert Einstein
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is the true failure. -George Woodberry
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. -James Cash Penney 
The best thinking has been done in solitude. -Thomas Edison
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else. -Dave Ramsey
The harder I work, the luckier I get. -Samuel Goldwyn
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. -Maya Angelou
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. -Victoria Holt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future - it is something you design for the present.";Jim Rohn
Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you. -NULL
Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life.  Take time out to take care of yourself.  You deserve it. -NULL
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. -Thomas Jefferson
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. -Jim Rohn
I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. -Thomas Alva Edison
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary. -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing. -Ron Swanson
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. -C. S. Lewis
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. -Charles Dickens
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. -Walter Anderson
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. -Jim Rohn
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? -Shantideva
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. -Steve Jobs
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. -Oscar Wilde
Underpromise; overdeliver. -Tom Peters
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. -Sarah Ban Breathnach
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change. -A. McLaughlin
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo Da Vinci
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. -Carl W. Buechner
Be too busy to have time for regrets. -Angela Wright
Don't spend time with anyone you don't like. -Prue Leith
Work hard but make sure you enjoy life too. -Ted Smart
You only get one crack at a big opportunity so make sure you recognize it and grab it with both hands. -Darren Richards
The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become. -Brian Tracy
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -James M. Barrie
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle
Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. -J. C. Penney
Respond; don't react. Listen; don't talk. Think; don't assume. -Raji Lukkoor
Do not fear going forward slowly - fear only to stand still. -Chinese Proverb
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -Albert Payson
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -Stephen King
Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed. -Richard Bandler
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. -Brian Tracy
A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot. -Dr. Joe Vitale
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. -Mark Twain
It always seems impossible until it's done. -Nelson Mandela
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. -Wendell Johnson
Don't find fault, find a remedy. -Henry Ford
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. -Bob Dylan
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -Confucious
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson