It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen KellerWho can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
Jean-Paul SartreAs for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor RooseveltAs iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King SolomonI’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Babe RuthThe idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
Frank OceanEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne FrankOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalIf you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
Wayne DyerYou may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
Abraham LincolnThere is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson MandelaExperience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
Fidel CastroI was becoming post-ideological.
Christopher HitchensNow I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.
David BowieWhy am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.
Clint EastwoodI think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
Madeleine AlbrightAnd obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Richard BransonBecause I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret AtwoodThe highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John RuskinThe confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.
Pope FrancisWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao TzuSometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.
Joyce MeyerA mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne DyerFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayEvery man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCommitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul SartreEvery time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Albert CamusBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthurThe difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Mahatma GandhiI worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana GrandeAs I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
Wayne DyerIf we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfErudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
Robert Baden-PowellI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergWhen I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
Lou HoltzIf something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.
Bob MarleyIf there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl JungBetter to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph AddisonYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin DisraeliFind out who you are. And do it on purpose.
Dolly PartonI tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.
Joyce MeyerSometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry PratchettI woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
Paul AusterIt’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.
Michelle ObamaYou know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.
EminemFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreTo err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander PopeI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongThe only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert CamusOnly God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy GrahamAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsI walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
Dolly PartonIn the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz KafkaIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David ThoreauWe become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
AristotleIf I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
Bad BunnyI was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Bill GatesWe are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne DyerI know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
Taylor Swift