You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)
Success is in the details.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
—Anais Nin (French-American Essayist)
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
—Hannah Arendt (German Political Theorist)
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
—William Feather (American Publisher)
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
—William Cowper (English Anglican Poet)
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Head of State)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “Failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
—Mary Pickford