Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius–one and the same.
Victor Hugo

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

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.
Earl Nightingale

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

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Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.
Booker T. Washington

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Aristotle

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Awakening is the process of overcoming your false self and discovering your True Self. It begins when you decide to grab the tiger by the tail and ends with the tiger tenderly licking the sweat off your brow and face.
Steve Baxter

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
Dr. Robert Anthony

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Adams Keller

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Seeney

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
- Peter Thomson

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
- Maurice Freehill

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
- Robert Alden

Live in rooms full of light.
- Cornelius Celsus

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error.
It is these mingled opposites which people our life,
which make it pungent, intoxicating.
We only exist in terms of this conflict,
in the zone where black and white clash.
- Louis Aragon

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
- Edward Bellamy

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light – whatever that is for you – no matter how far away it seems.
- Jan Berry

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
- Jose Bergamin

Light tomorrow with today.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
- Stefan Zweig

Love is not consolation. It is light.
Light is the symbol of truth.
- James Russell Lowell

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, has been my heart’s undoing.
- Thomas More

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.
- Astrid Alauda

If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help.

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Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.
- Grey Livingston

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- Simone Weil

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- John Muir

Beauty and folly are generally companions.
- Baltasar Gracian

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- Stendhal

Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.
- Gabriela Mistral

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
- Anonymous

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
- Saint Augustine

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
- Stevenson

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
- Sarah

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

The Best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

The Young have aspirations that never come to pass, the Old have reminiscences of what never happened.

We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un birthday presents and only one for birthday presents.

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.

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To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root .

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

If you don’t want anyone to know, don’t do it.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair .

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish .

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases .

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

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The real trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Give a man a match, and he’ll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.

Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.

If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?

If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.

I once prayed to god for a bike, but quickly found out he didnt work that way.so I stole a bike and prayed for his forgiveness.

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.

You can’t be late until you show up.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.

My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Optimism: Waiting for a ship to come in when you haven’t sent one out.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn’t pay..so if you keep reading, you’ll go broke.

Anyone who uses the phrase “easy as taking candy from a baby” has never tried taking candy from a baby.

It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Every rule has an exception. Especially this one.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Never eat with your mouth full.

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.

Whenever you meet a man who would make a good husband, you will usually find that he is.

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.

Sometimes people need what only friends can provide – Absence.

Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over the strings are attached.

Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence. (A life sentence!)

Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness otherwise it’s hard to tell if someone is inconspicuous.

Be alert – the world needs more lerts.

Marriage certificate is just another name for a work permit.

Friends don’t let friends drive naked.

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move dead bodies.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry.

With computers, every morning is the dawn of a new error.

To err is human. To really screw things up you need a computer.

If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you are in deep water.

Free advice is worth what you paid for it.

Anywhere is walking distance, if you’ve got the time.

People have the right to be stupid, but some abuse that privilege.

Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them.

Always remember, three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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