There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous HuxleyMistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce LeeNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouI would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.
Dave GrohlI think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
Dave GrohlFind people who will make you better.
Michelle ObamaHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
Kevin GatesPeople want you to fail.
Lady GagaGet up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of ArcI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergLook up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen HawkingThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinI have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper LeePursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauHe only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
Golda MeirHe who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuBottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve JobsThe Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin PowellOne thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.
Dalai LamaSome people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston ChurchillI don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
Steven WrightWhen I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.
Kurt CobainNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles DickensI was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
Dwayne JohnsonA dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin PowellNo one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham MaslowEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonIf you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve JobsReality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan WattsIt is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma GandhiGet off your butt and join the Marines!
John WayneSometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
Stephen CurryIf you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray BradburyThose people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian TracyFor a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn MonroeI love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheO! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William ShakespeareEach day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.
Russell M. NelsonI am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the GreatMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TolkienAs a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
BonoYou know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.
Tom BradyIf you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry FordBoredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur SchopenhauerSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise PascalEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
Brian EnoDon’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
Joyce MeyerFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl SaganEvery person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Napoleon HillI like money, but it’s never been about the money.
Jerry SeinfeldI 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 MeyerLots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.
Aurora