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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
—Vita Sackville-West (English Gardener)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool”). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought”. And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man’s habits change quickly enough?
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich (German-born American Actor)

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
—Charles Sanders Peirce (American Philosopher)

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
—Bob Dylan (American Singer)

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
—Lisa Kirk (American Actor)

Be grateful for yourself… be thankful.
—William Saroyan (American Novelist)

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon (English Poet)

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
—Madeleine Albright (Czech-born American Diplomat)

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
—Barbara Kingsolver (American Novelist)

The more you speak of yourself, the more likely you are to lie.
—Johann Jacob Zimmermann (German Nonconformist Theologian)

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
—John Loengard

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

He turns not back who is bound to a star.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
—H. Norman Schwarzkopf (American Military Leader)

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
—Erich Fromm (German Psychologist)

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
—Saul Bellow (Canadian-born American Novelist)

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
—E. M. Forster (English Novelist)

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
—Laurence Sterne (Irish Anglican Novelist)

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer (German Playwright)

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
—Eddie Rickenbacker (American Military Leader)

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
—Frederick Douglass (American Abolitionist)

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

For some moments in life there are no words.
—David Seltzer (American Screenwriter)

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
—Ned Rorem

The door to virtue is heavy and hard to push.
—Chinese Proverb

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
—Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand-born British Author)

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one’s attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
—Edward Howard Griggs

Climb mountains to see lowlands.
—Chinese Proverb

It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
—Earl Nightingale (American Motivational Speaker)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
—Annie Dillard

It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
—Tony Robbins (American Actor Author)

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, and honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, and honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

The very best way to learn self-control is by practicing self-control.
—Sterling W. Sill (American Mormon Religious Leader)

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
—Henny Youngman

Happiness is like peeing your pants: Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.
—Unknown

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

I see God walking in every human form. When I meet different people, I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.”
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
—Epicurus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
—Roger Babson (American Entre)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.
—Unknown

Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failures and introspections. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.
—Soichiro Honda (Japanese Inventor)

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
—William Wordsworth (English Poet)

You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
—Jack Welch (American Businessperson)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

How important it is to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
—Joel A. Barker

The world is governed by opinion.
—William Ellery Channing

Life is a lying dream, he only wakes who casts the World aside.
—Zeami Motokiyo (Japanese Playwright)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)

Confidence is attractive, but vulnerability is disarming.
—Derek Sivers (American Entrepreneur)

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

A wise man should keep far away from an unpleasant person, from injuring others, from other’s views, from unrighteous conduct and from untruth.
—Subhashita Manjari

Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
—Robert Bresson

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
—Unknown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
—Annie Besant (British-born Indian Theosophist)

Play is the exultation of the possible.
—Martin Buber

The Spirit filled all with his radiance.|He is incorporeal and invulnerable, pure and untouched by evil.|He is the supreme seer and thinker, immanent and transcendent.|He placed all things in the path of the Eternal.
—The Upanishads

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
—Marion G. Romney (American Mormon Religious Leader)

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
—Marcia Wieder

Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking Him for them.
—Vincent de Paul (French Catholic Saint)

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
—Anonymous

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
—Francis de Sales (French Catholic Saint)

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
—Unknown

You cannot solve the problem with the same kind of thinking that has created the problem.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.
—Clare Boothe Luce (American Playwright)

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
—Tim Robbins

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
—Earl of Chesterfield

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
—Romain Gary (French Diplomat)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Irish Author)

For those who have seen the earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
—Donald E. Williams

Dream not for yourself but dream for those whom you love and care for. For in every dream that this goal is realized, more dreams will follow; dreams truly meant especially for you.
—Oliver Juanir

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise … .
—William Osler (Canadian Physician)