Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneYou have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard ShawMen of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da VinciIf a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin PowellYou’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
Vivienne WestwoodNobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?
EminemI don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldDreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David ThoreauTo reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelThe man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. ForbesSuccess is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jim RohnOnce someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
Jordan PetersonI am just one human being.
Dalai LamaThe truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.
Jordan PetersonNearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiYears ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
Anthony HopkinsNever leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin FranklinOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David ThoreauMy success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.
Conor McGregorNo one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou HoltzDon’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will RogersBe careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark TwainWe’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.
Richard BransonWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson MandelaThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinBut the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl SaganOnly the insecure strive for security.
Wayne DyerEach of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope FrancisIt is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
Thich Nhat HanhIf anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.
Anthony BourdainIf you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey NewtonMy protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
Jackie RobinsonGive a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
Maya AngelouThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriI like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham LincolnSome men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
George Bernard ShawI’d rather be a victor than a victim.
Robert KiyosakiIf a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.
Abby Lee MillerThe boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore RooseveltOne of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Henry FordYou must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.
Anthony HopkinsFame hit me like a ton of bricks.
EminemIrrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
Virat KohliYou must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. NixonNothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAny man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas AdamsLeaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. MaxwellHe who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinI am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret ThatcherI think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
Clint EastwoodWe are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. KennedyI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingAsking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
Jim RohnEverybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
EminemThe problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.
Margaret AtwoodI used to get into a lot of fights.
Dwayne Johnson