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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the world around him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, ‘This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.’ The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
—Louis L’Amour

Creativity means believing you have greatness.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude.—If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it.—But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself?—Miserable is he who slights that witness.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (Roman Philosopher)

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
—Robert Brault

Everything is possible for him who believes.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
—Robert Brault

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
—Mason Cooley

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.
—Unknown

Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
—Sydney Smith (English Anglican Writer)

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
—Scott Adams (American Cartoonist)

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

An elephant can be tethered by a thread–if he believes he is captive. If we believe we are chained by habit or anxiety, we are in bondage.
—John H. Crowe

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
—Janet Erskine Stuart (English Catholic Nun)

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.
—Friedrich Ruckert

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much is impossible.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Austrian Novelist)

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
—George Herbert (Welsh Anglican Poet)

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

The powerful exact what they can; the weak grant what they must.
—Thucydides

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
—Alexis Carrel (American Surgeon)

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘Golden Age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt…that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
—Rupert Hughes (American Historian)

The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.
—Buddhist Teaching

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy-the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
—Norman Podhoretz (American Political Activist)

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician)

Greed is the root cause of all sins. Greed is the cause of all problems that one faces. Greed fuels the growth of enemies. Excessive greed destroys one’s life.
—Subhashita Manjari

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
—Sicilian Proverb

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
—John Henry Newman (British Catholic Clergyman)

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.
—Unknown

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you’ve falied to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
—Frank Abagnale (American Fraudster)

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.
—Arlene Blum

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
—Charles F. Kettering (American Inventor)

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
—Unknown

You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
—Unknown

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
—Samuel Butler

Spend time daily doing something you enjoy.|Do those things that bring inner peace.|Learn to laugh heartily and frequently.|Cultivate an attitude of hope.|Fill each day with as much love as it can possibly hold.
—Steve Goodier

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one’s actions.
—Nagarjuna (Indian Buddhist Philosopher)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird–that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace–making the complicated simple, awesomely simple–that’s creativity.
—Charles Mingus

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
—William Mather Lewis

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
—Russian Proverb

All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
—Aristotle Onassis (Greek Businessperson)

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.
—Unknown

I think it’s generally a mistake to assume that rationality is going to be perfect even in very able people. I think hubris contributes to it.
—Charlie Munger

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos’d as things forgot.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)

Meditation consists in conducting consciousness beyond the point where it is the consciousness of a finite body or a finite mind, transferring the focus from level to level without losing its continuity or form.
—Vilayat Inayat Khan (British Sufi Mystic)

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
—William Ellery Channing

It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.
—Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (American Sociologist)

To be yourself is an achievement in itself.
—Anonymous

Concern over criticism clogs creativity.
—Duane Alan Hahn

The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
—Heywood Hale Broun (American Journalist)

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
—John Kotter (American Academic)

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
—Margaret Mead (American Anthropologist)

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect)

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
—William Winter

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Professional success requires more than talent. Among other things, it requires drive, initiative, commitment, involvement, and–above all–enthusiasm.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.
—Warren Bennis (American Scholar)

A good rule for going through life is to keep the heart a little softer than the head.
—Anonymous

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
—Benjamin Graham (American Investor)