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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
—Bernie Siegel

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

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 (American Author)

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
—Pearl S. Buck (American Novelist)

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
—Gloria Steinem (American Feminist)

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
—Katharine Graham (American Publisher)

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
—James Baldwin

The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

Hail thy brother’s boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore.
—Indian Proverb

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
—Walter Bagehot (English Businessperson)

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others’ that deserve it.
—William Temple

Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
—Malaysian Proverb

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
—William Temple

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don’t have to manage them.
—Jack Welch (American Businessperson)

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
—Owen D. Young (American Businessperson)

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)

People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
—William Hutchinson Murray

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

I think and think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A positive attitude is like a fire: unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out.
—Alexander Lockheart

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
—Marie Chapian (American Children’s Books Writer)

Corporations will take 90% less ability for 10% more attitude every day of the week.
—Mark Horstman