“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.”
—Albert Einstein
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
—General George Patton
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
—Albert Einstein
“He who tells the truth should have one foot in the stirrup.”
—Arab Proverb
“Whatever you can do or believe you can begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it.”
—Goethe
“What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
—Mary Pickford
“Don't Be Afraid To Fail You've failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot. R.H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”
—A message published in the Wall Street Journal Copyright 1981, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut 06101
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone the talking- machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.”
—L. Frank Baum
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
—Louisa May Alcott
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
—William Blake
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
—Marie Osmond
“What does not destroy me makes me stronger.”
—Freidrich Nietzsche
“Control your emotion or it will control you.”
—Samurai Maxim
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
—Voltaire
“You should not live one way in private and another in public.”
—Publilius Syrus
“Better to bend than to break.”
—Scottish Proverb
“The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.”
—Samurai Maxim
“We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
—Nelson Mandela
“Look twice before you leap.”
—Charlotte Bronte
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
—Augustine
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
—Elsa Maxwell, American socialite (1883-1963)
"The Young Man Knows the Rules but Old Man Knows the Exceptions."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
—Dale Carnegie
"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man."
—Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English novelist (1826-1887)
”Winners are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelieveable believeable, and the impossible possible.”
—C. Phillips
”Never test the depth of the water with both feet.”
—Kevin Coyne
”Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
—Voltaire
”Destiny — A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
—Ambrose Bierce
”Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
"Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal."
—Winston Churchill
"Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
—Winston Churchill
"When I look back on all those worries I remember the story of an old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."
—Winston Churchill
"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than responsible and wrong."
—Winston Churchill
“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.“
—Francis Bacon
“In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.“
—James Burgh
“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.“
—Confucius
“Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.“
—Paul Zane Pilzer
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.“
—Plutarch
“If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.“
—Catherine Ponder
“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.“
—Chinese Proverb
“All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.“
—Ruth Ross
“When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.“
—Mark Twain
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve > change amid order."
—Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)
“Kites rise highest against the wind — not with it.”
—Winston Churchill
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
—Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac (1735)
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
—Robert Frost, American poet (1874-1963)
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
—Albert Einstein
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
—J.F. Clarke
"Love is not consolation, it is light."
—Simone Weil, French philosopher
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
—Chinese proverb
"He who is swift to believe is swift to forget."
—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born scholar (1907-1972)
"Don't be afraid, don't be a scared-e-cat – be true to yourself."
— David Helfgott
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go!"
— Dr. Seuss
Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
— Marilyn Monroe
"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."
— Richard M. Nixon
"Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
— Charles F. Kettering
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
— Dale Carnegie
"If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through."
— Chinese Proverb
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
— Thomas Edison
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
— Napoleon Hill
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
— Margaret Thatcher
"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty, always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself."
— Richard M. Nixon
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
— Calvin Coolidge
"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."
— Gentleman James Corbett
"It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
— Claude M. Bristol
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use."
— Iron Eagle
"Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
— Desiderius Erasmus
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
— Eric Hoffer
"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.”
— Dustin Hoffman
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
— Erica Jong
"Hidden talent counts for nothing."
— Nero
"Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work."
— French Proverb
"I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong."
— Mickey Rourke
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
Warren G. Bennis
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself."
— Charlotte Bronte
"The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority."
— Jean Caldwell
"The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things."
— I Ching
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely amatter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
— Albert Einstein
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
— Anna Freud
"If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative."
— H. Heimlich
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
— Cynthia Heimel
"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."
— A. Whitney Griswold
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
— Albert Einstein
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
— Emily Bronte
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
— Charlotte Bronte
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
— Carl Sagan
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
— Muhammad Ali
"Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking."
— George S. Patton
"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
— Charles Schwab
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
— Scott Adams
"All art is but imitation of nature."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
— Oscar Wilde
"When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!"
— Christian Cardell Corbet
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
— Michelangelo
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
— Paul Gauguin
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
— Charles Horton Cooley
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
— Kahlil Gibran
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
— Albert Einstein
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
— Thomas Jefferson
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
— Voltaire
"The churches must learn humility as well as teach it."
— George Bernard Shaw
"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringethmen's minds about to religion."
— Francis Bacon
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"To change and to improve are two different things."
— German Proverb
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."
— Confucius
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
— C.S. Lewis
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
— Napoleon Hill
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas A. Edison
Money without brains is always dangerous.
— Napoleon Hill
A jug fills drop by drop.
— Buddha
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
— B. C. Forbes
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
— Abraham Lincoln
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.
— Napoleon Hill
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
— Pablo Picasso
The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends.
— Persian Proverb
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
— Plato
The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
— Will Rogers
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
— C.S. Lewis
Whatever you are be a good one.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
— Indian Proverb
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truth.
— Moliere
My life is my message.
— Ghandi
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.
— Ben Franklin
All things are difficult before they are easy.
— Matthew Henry
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
— Chinese Proverb
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
— Feodor Dostoevsky
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
— Thomas Edison
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
— Saint Jerome
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Saint Francis de Sales
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
— Saint Jerome
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
— Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
— Benjamin Franklin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
— James Thurber
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
— Mark Twain
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
— Albert Einstein
The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
— George Bernard Shaw
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
— Alexandre Dumas
"A man is known by the silence he keeps."
— Oliver Herford
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Isaac Newton
“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
— Ann Landers
“It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.”
— Russian proverb
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
— W. C. Fields
“Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
— Isaac Asimov
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
— Socrates
“And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”
— Socrates
“The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.”
— Chuang Tzu
“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”
— Woody Allen
“Mi taku oyasin.” (We are all related.)
— Lakota belief
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
— Tao Te Ching
“Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
— George Patton
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein
“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”
— Carol Burnett
“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”
— Plato, Laws
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Greek Proverb
“I think; therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes
“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Chinese Proverb
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
— Akiro Kurosawa
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.
— Plato
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