Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven’t even begun to live.
—William P. Merrill
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
—John Wanamaker (American Merchant, Civil Servant)
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)
There is a growing strength in women, but it’s in the forehead, not in the forearm.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
—Katharine Graham (American Publisher)
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
—Virginia Woolf (English Novelist)