It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusThe reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.
Nipsey HussleI write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Isaac AsimovSuccess is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey HepburnAll of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas SowellMan becomes his most creative during war.
Clint EastwoodThe beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George EliotThe secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin DisraeliPeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndForgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce MeyerTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce MeyerI have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
Dolly PartonThe chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel JohnsonNothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!
Audrey HepburnBegin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William JamesThat is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
Kurt VonnegutIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. WashingtonTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise PascalI must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark TwainWhat inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
Billie Eilish‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
Ernest HemingwayGive a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
Clint EastwoodIf I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Anne FrankTo me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.
Tom BradyMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
AristotleI get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘
Mr. TThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotMy imagination is a twisted place.
Taylor SwiftWhy should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?
Greta Thunberg‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The WeekndDon’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.
Ariana GrandeMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert SchweitzerSuccess is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily DickinsonMy goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.
Bad BunnyCreativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamSuccess is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
John C. MaxwellHe only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.
Michelle ObamaGood thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
John C. MaxwellNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas CarlyleControl your own destiny! Control your own destiny!
Stephen CurryThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanWhy did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee WilliamsI have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor SwiftI’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady GagaPrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaCould the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William JamesI think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.
Joyce MeyerLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. MenckenA #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce MeyerThe world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert HubbardWhen I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Dolly PartonThe mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Blaise PascalIf you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas AdamsAll the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney