"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-- Erica Jong
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
-- W.J. Slim
"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."
-- Steven H. Coogler
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo willow survives by bending with the wind."
-- Bruce Lee
"If you think are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
-- Anita Koddick
Don't laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams, don't have much.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-- Dr. Seuss
"Plan your work and work your plan."
-- on a fortune cookie
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
-- Muhammad Ali
"Joy is not in things; it is in us."
-- Richard Wagner
"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self-reliance."
-- The Laws of Manu
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm."
-- Malayan Proverb
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-- Steve Prefontaine
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
-- Chinese Proverb
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
-- Frank A. Clark
"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."
-- Indian Proverb
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-- Mark Twain
It is good practice to leave a few things unsaid.
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
-- Paul Valery
"Give to the world the best you've got, and the best will come back to you."
-- Forrest "Phog" Allen
All glory comes from daring to begin.
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."
-- Arnold H. Glasgow
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Dale Carnegie
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
-- Mark Twain
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
-- Hugh White
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
-- Ken Kesey
"Change before you have to."
-- Jack Welch
Do not disregard your mistakes.
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
-- Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-- Judy Garland
"It is important to find what you love and then love doing it."
-- Billie Jean Moore
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
-- English Proverb
"Ability is useless unless it's used."
-- Robert Half
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see your shadow."
-- Helen Keller
"If you aren’t going to go all the way, why go at all?"
--
Joe Namath
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