Quotations, Proverbs, Thoughts

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
It is only when we take chances that our lives improve.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value
One man with courage makes a majority
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much
Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done
You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves
Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less
The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why
First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence
Practicing leadership – enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty – requires engaging the heart, the head, and the hands: motivation, strategy, and action.
How do you invest in developing leadership but not in creating dependency of that leadership upon you?
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion
Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you
It always seems impossible until it's done
Belief creates the actual fact.
Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong
All you need is the plan, the road map and the courage to press on to your destination
Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals
I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end
We are not our best intentions. We are what we do
The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift
We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it's] the choices we make after.
Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards
Start by doing what's necessary; then, do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible
Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret to success
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself
The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated
If you can change your mind, you can change your life
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further
To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage
Don't count the days. Make the days count.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities
When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
You will never win if you never begin
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows
Well done is better than well said.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done
Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.
Rearranging your day around when you have the most energy is one simple way to work smarter instead of just harder
A goal without a plan is just a wish
“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” – Wyatt Earp
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things
Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Successful people are simply those with successful habits
Nothing is particularly hard when you divide it into small jobs.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
The most wasted of days is one without laughter.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential
Start before you’re ready.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
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
Dream big and dare to fail.
It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain.
Courage is grace under pressure.
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
We become what we think about most of the time.
Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others
Life is tough my darling, but so are you.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
The time is always right to do what is right
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
Peace begins with a smile
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Don't think or judge, just listen
Any fool can know. The point is to understand
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future
I am not young enough to know everything.
Memory cannot replace records.
Find stuff that is quotable, memorable, applicable.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence
What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life
The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Actions, not words
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
The beginning is half of every action.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage
When deeds speak, words are nothing
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Many people see discipline as the absence of freedom when in fact it is the source of freedom
Discipline is remembering what you want
Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos.
Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you're willing to do your best.
There comes a time when you can't just be a spectator. You have to step outside the lines
Am I doing my best?
Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that ncompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone
Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think
Even a small star shines in the darkness
Each of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect.
We relish our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children
Lord grant that I may seek rather to comfort than be comforted
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness
Kindness is more important that wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses
Education is more than filling a child with facts. It begins with posing questions
The key is in our decisions, not in our conditions.
The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves
Everyone has it within his power to say, This I am today; that I will be tomorrow
A human being can alter his life by altering his attitude
No man ever was wise by chance
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened
Courage requires accepting a measure of reasonable risk
By embracing risk, you will accomplish more than you ever thought you could
Many things are lost for want of asking
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts
Opportunity knocks only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it
Character is the sum total of our everyday choices
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but won't taste good
Character is much easier kept than recovered
The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The antithesis of integrity is indifference - when we fail to voice or stand up for what we believe
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice
When something important is going on, silence is a lie
Honesty is abandoned as much by the theft of a dime as of a dollar
Perfect valor is to do without witness what one would do before all the world
Exhibiting integrity often requires nothing more than showing a respect for and trust in your conscience
Truly great men and women are never terrifying. Their humility puts you at ease.
Humility breeds growth and friendship
An ego trip is something that never gets you anywhere
The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away
When your work speaks of itself, don't interrupt
Reasons and occasions for gratitude abound, even in a harsh world
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it
When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way
Dreams are very important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation
So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbably, then inevitable - Christopher Reeves
Lord, grant me I may always desire more than I accomplish - Michelangelo
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one
People don't plan to fail - they just fail to plan
The beginning is the most important part of the work
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win
Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
One of the virtues of being young is that you don't let the facts come in the way of your imagination
Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what no one has thought
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will be the boss.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning
In the race for quality, there is no finish line
I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need it to be stroked
Hard work paves the road to achievement
People like to be served, but invisibly
To see all without looking; to hear all without listening; to be attentive without being servile; to anticipate without being presumptuous
Quality does not need a lot of expense, but it does require a careful attention to detail
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence
The work praises the man
Action may not be all happiness, but there is no happiness without action
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the others willing to let them
Team work is respect, empathy, unity.
Treat a man as he is,and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own
Teacher believed in me, and I resolved not to betray her faith. - Hellen Keller
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in honoring the differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities
It's the things in common that make a relationship enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little
Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
True achievement bridges individual excellence and collective progress
The true measure of your work is how it empowers others to succeed
The smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life
The moment you replace excuses with action, everything changes
The difference between success and failure is not strength, but persistence
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow
Real progress happens when you move beyond planning to action
The gap between goals and achievement is filled with constant effort
Your daily choices become your life's results
The path to achievement is the consistent application of effort.
The results you get will be in direct proportion to the effort you put in
Great achievements require time, dedication, and relentless effort
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.
Done is better than perfect
Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results
Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
It always seems impossible until it's done
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek
You can be efficient with things, but not with people. People need time.
There is a way of listening that surpasses all compliments
Real communication happens when we feel safe
Listening is wanting to hear
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
When we put ourselves in the other person's place, we are less likely to want to put him in his place.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Bring ideas in, and entertain them royally, for one of them may be King.
Unity implies oneness. But oneness does not mean sameness, just unity of purpose.
First rate men hire first rate men. Second rate men hire third rate men.
Don't be overheard complaining, even to yourself
Don't talk more than you listen
Don't avoid difficulty
Don't tie your identity to the clothes you wear or the things you own
Don't go along just to get along
Don't put off to tomorrow what can be done today
Don't shun people you disagree with
You don't get harmony when you sing the same note
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that no one can get there unless everybody gets there
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it
Adversity causes some men to break, other men to break records
May there be enough clouds in your life to make a beautiful sunset
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve
A problem well stated is a problem half solved
Ofter we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs. He is jolted disagreeably by every pebble in the road.
Means are as important as the ends, and in the long run, maybe more important.
The way to change others' minds is through affection, and not anger
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anything; in great anger, do not speak or reply
Compliments make us happy, but criticism makes us think.
You can't get ahead when you're getting even
After burying the hatchet, don't mark the spot
Persverance trumps both failure and fatigue. It gets people through both hardship and drudgery.
Ignore the naysayers
Replace the phrase "if only" with "next time"....it is a phrase that supplies lift instead of creating a drag
The key is to choose a problem that is worth persistent effort.
The problem with all innovative ideas is that they quickly degenerate into hard work.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after getting tired of the hard work you already did
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault
All my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward
Memories are the key, not to the past, but to the future
Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post
Patience is the companion of wisdom
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself
I had no special sagacity - only the power of patient thought. - Isaac Newton
Simplify by focusing only on that which matters most.
Luxury consists in having time to spare
We rush through the highways of life, ignoring the landscape
Men's energies are consumed in making a living, and rarely in living itself
There's more to life than increasing its speed
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it but to savor it
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
Time flies, but remember, you are the navigator
Most lives have little that is dramatic and overwhelming, but every day has its quota of le petit bonheur, the little happiness, yet few learn to cherish it.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing several things simultaneously
Slow down, simplify, and be kind
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them
The primary danger of the TV screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents
An unhurries sense of time is in itself a form of wealth
Go to a quiet place....and listen carefully
Reach back and recollect your best memories
No kindness is ever really wasted, or ever completely lost
Re-examine your motives
A detour may uncover the best part of a journey
If you burn the candle at both ends, you may not be as bright as you think
To remain at work constantly will cause you to lose your power of judgment
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it break
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness
It's not about being a star, it is about being part of something greater than you are
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A Vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
Don't spend major time on minor things
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better
It is about delivering the vision one gives. It is about doing the right thing, without sparing oneself
I cannot do everything. But whatever I can do, I will
In a crisis, focus on the present. At other times, relax, prepare, organize, consolidate, reflect, be ready.