The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
—Michael E. Gerber
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
—Mukesh Ambani (Indian Businessperson)
When many work together for a goal, great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed by a single colony of ants.
—Sakya Pandita
I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
—Ingrid Bergman (Swedish Actor)
Knowledge is light; avarice ice.|Knowledge is water; this world dirt.|A trickle of wisdom appears from beyond|to check the vices of this world.|Should the trickle become abundant,|none would endure, be it virtue or vice.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)
Pressure makes diamonds.
—George S. Patton (American Military Leader)
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first … when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
—Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)