I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
--- Aldous Huxley
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
--- Goethe
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
--- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
--- Edward De Bono
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!
--- William James
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us, and new beauty waiting to be born.
--- Dale E. Turner
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself finds a foothold for others and who, desiring attainment for himself, helps others to attain.
--- Confucius
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
--- Charles P. Steinmetz
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
--- Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
--- Janis Joplin
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.
--- Elbert Hubbard
Without labor, nothing prospers.
--- Sophocles
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
--- Mahatma Gandhi
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
--- French proverb
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
--- George Eliot
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers ---- or both.
--- Elizabeth Charles
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.
--- Lewis Carroll
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
--- Peter Marshall
A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you’re not enough without the medal, you’ll never be enough with it.
--- from the movie Cool Runnings
Justice is truth in action.
--- Benjamin Disraeli
To see what is right and to not do it, is want of courage.
--- Confucius
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
--- Henry Ford
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
--- Anthony Robbins
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
--- Anthony D’Angelo
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
--- Thomas Edison
There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind, the choice you make, makes you.
--- unknown
History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true.
--- Leo Tolstoy
It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
--- Sir Edmund Hillary
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
--- Sir Winston Churchill
The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeing new landscape, but in having new eyes.
--- Mike Lancelot
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
--- Marian Wright Edelman
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
--- Harriet Rubin
Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.
--- Stephin Levine
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
--- Walt Disney
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do that by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
--- Mark Twain
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,
"I used everything you gave me."
--- Erma Bombeck
Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.
--- Winston Churchill
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
--- Mme. Du Deffand
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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