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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr, 1909-1993
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night. - Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Denis Waitley, 1933-present
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman, 1820-1913
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph LeConte, 1869-1901
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. - Lao Tzu, 6th Century BCE
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell, 1802-1876
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. - J. G. Holland, 1819-1881
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836-1907
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James, 1842-1910
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. - Marcus Aurelius, 121-180
The only journey is the journey within. - Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman, 1820-1913
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them. - J. Petit-Senn, 1792-1870
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - Clement of Alexandria, 150-211
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-1873
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller, 1891-1980
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton, 1885-1945
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller, 1880-1968
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates, 469-399 B.C.
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. - J.G. Holland, 1819-1881
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell, 1802-1876
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot, 1819-1880
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White, 1899-1985
My father taught me how to be a man -- and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants. - Kevin Smith, 1970-present
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. - Cullen Hightower, 1923-2008
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. - Juvenal, 55 AD-127 AD
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. - Paul Tournier, 1898-1986
No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. - Po Bronson, 1964-present
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. - Andre Malraux, 1901-1976
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. - Martina Horner, 1939-present
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama, 1935-present
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell, 1883-1963
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama, 1961-present
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen, 1953-present
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve, 1952-2004
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. - Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. - Randy Pausch, 1960-2008
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis, 1380-1471
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon, 638 BC-559 BC
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. - Ellen Goodman, 1941-present
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. - Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC