100% execution of a 20% plan is better than 20% execution of a 100% plan. If you don’t just do a thing, then nothing will ever get done.
~ Linus Sebastian, YouTube Personality

We need people to keep believing in the power of innovation and to take a risk on a few revolutionary ideas.
~ Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone, but navigating the balance between pushing the limits of what’s comfortable and taking unmitigated risks can be tough.
~ Elise Strachan, Founder of My Cupcake Addiction

Il n'y a qu' un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé. ( Fr )
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. ( En )
~ George Sand

We find joy in thinking, doing and discovering - in improving people’s lives and catalyzing positive change in the world.
~ Robert Smith, Founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partner

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
~ Alasdair Gray, Writer

You’re going to be wrong a fair amount of times. So the issue is, how do you be wrong well?
~ Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates

In all healthy organizations, dissent takes place face to face.
~ Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army General

Guarding your reputation is easy. To build it, though, you must invest insane amounts of time in developing and maintaining relationships.
~ Tom Peters, Writer

This became a credo of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
~ Bette Davis, Actress

My definition of success is making an impact. 

~ Arjun Singh, Cofounder of Gradescope

In a world of unlimited voices and choices, those who can bring people together and tell a good story have power. 

~ Shonda Rhimes, Writer and Producer

The urgency, daily drive, that constant self-questioning integral in editing a paper, the ceaseless curiosity, are what I have stood upon every day of my career.
~ Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman of News Corp

La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel. ( Fr ) 

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. ( En )

~ Victor Hugo

The more you invest in your mission, the more profits your business will produce. 

~ Dan Gilbert, Founder of Quicken Loans

For every ‘yes’ on something, you’ll get 25 ‘no’s’. But it’s crazy how much that ‘yes’ gives you hope. 

~ Andre Agassi, Tennis Player

Nothing is more serious than pleasure. ( En )

Rein n'est plus serieux que le plaisir. ( Fr )

~ Jean Cocteau, French writer (1889-1963)

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward, Writer

I hope philanthropists will do things that government can’t or won’t do ... A lot of things that have started with philanthropy then became of interest to government.

~ Eli Broad,Co founder of KB Home

Il ne faut avoir aucun regret pour le passé, aucun remords pour le présent, et une confiance inébranlable pour l'avenir. ( Fr )

We must have no regrets for the past, no remorse for the present, and an unshakable confidence in the future. ( En )

~ Jean Jaurès

Failure is the one thing that stops us all from being our own entrepreneurs and following our dreams and having ownership of what we do.

~ Kendrick Lamar,Hip-Hop Artist

Success is within someone’s own well-being. It’s having a passion.
~ Adam Vanunu, Founder of Cotton Citiz

I’m involved in public service because I believe we can do things differently and better. The future is looking at us now.
~ Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, California

Success is just a never-ending process of trying to become better and better at whatever you want. 

~ John Traver, Cofounder of Frame.io

You get any opportunity, take advantage of it. And if you start anything, never quit.

~ Julio Jones, Wide Receiver for the Atlanta Falcons

I think passion is half the equation, but grit is the other half.

~ Peter Yang, Cofounder of Pokéworks

A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire. ( Fr ) 

To win without risk is a triumph without glory. ( En )

~ Corneille

If I’ve helped one person go after their dream or overcome something, that’s really important to me and I consider that successful. 

~ Julia Landauer, NASCAR Driver

The biggest management failures in both business and government are not missed targets but missed opportunities. 

~ Michael Bloomberg, Businessman, and Politician

Fear has never been a good adviser, neither in our personal lives nor in our society. 

~ Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

I believe in the power of storytelling. Stories open our hearts to a new place, which opens our minds, which often leads to action. 

~ Melinda Gates, Cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Look for the best in people all the time. If you look for the best, you’re going to draw out the best. 

~ Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group

If people are willing to bet on a lot of crazy notions, knowing that while some won’t work out, one breakthrough can change the world. 

~ Bill Gates, Cofounder of Microsoft

I regret not getting a formal education, but what did I learn from that? Don’t be afraid to hire somebody smarter than yourself. 

~ Todd Christopher, Founder of Vogue International

I’m not really interested in building a reputation for myself. But I do care for what the company stands for. I believe in work and being connected to the world we live in. 

~ Miuccia Prada, Co-CEO of Prada

By the end of the day, I’ve learned something that shows how dumb I was yesterday. 

~ Bernard Marcus,  Cofounder of The Home Depot

Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions. 

~ B.C. Forbes, Founder of Forbes Magazine

Un peuple malheureux fait les grands artistes. ( Fr )

An unhappy nation makes great artists. ( En )

~ Alfred de Musset

We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long-term today. 

~ Mark Zuckerberg,  Cofounder, and CEO of Facebook

Whatever drives us, we all derive happiness from finding purpose. 

~ Robert Smith, Founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners

Don't worry about the money. Love the process.

~ Joan Rivers

Même la nuit la plus sombre prendra fin et le soleil se lèvera. ( Fr )

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ( En )

~ Victor Hugo

My hope was never to build a company. I was driven by a sense of purpose to connect people and bring us closer together. 

~ Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder, and CEO of Facebook

The time to ‘kick’ people and by kick I mean ‘challenge’ is when they’re on the way up, to remind them that when you’re growing, make sure your head isn’t swelling, too. 

~ Jack Welch, Former CEO of GE

Confidence in what you do is crucial, but that does not mean being delusional. You must always face the truth and then combat the obstacles as they appear. 

~ Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion Designer

There’s one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. 

~ Warren Buffett

We travel to change, not of place, but of ideas. ( En ) 

On voyage pour changer, non de lieu, mais d'idees. ( Fr )

~ Hippolyte Taine, French critic, and historian (1823-1898)

Anything worthwhile in life requires teamwork, and you cannot manage what you don’t understand. 

~ Martine Rothblatt, Founder of United Therapeutics and Sirius

If you have the humility to listen to other people, you’re going to have a lot of customers. 

~ Arthur Blank, Cofounder of The Home Depot

L'intégrité, c'est faire ce qui est juste même quand personne ne regarde. ( Fr )

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. ( En )

~ C.S. Lewis

If you love your people and let them know you’re giving back, not just hoarding all the money for yourself, they want to join in. 

~ John Paul DeJoria, Cofounder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patrón Tequila

Life is a slumber of which love is the dream, and you will have lived if you have loved. 

~ Alfred de Musset, French poet (1810-1857)

My legacy isn’t anyone asset class like junk bonds. It’s the understanding of the capital structure and how best to finance companies that create jobs and drive change. 

~ Michael Milken, Financier and Philantropist

La gentillesse est le langage qu'un sourd peut entendre et un aveugle peut voir. ( Fr ) 

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ( En )

~ Mark Twain

Life is too short to be living someone else’s dream. 

~ Hugh Hefner, Publisher

Those who seem to be motivated by taking a great idea and turning it into reality are the ones who end up acquiring significant wealth. 

~ Dan Gilbert, Founder of Quicken Loans

The higher we go, the wider our horizons become and the bigger the challenge of looking beyond them. 

~ Yuri Milner, Founder of DST Global

Great melodies have a lot in common with great ideas. They’re instantly memorable. 

~ Bono, Musician

People who lose their relevance get stuck in the past because they’re no longer in the present moment.

~ Marc Benioff, Founder of Salesforce

I don’t repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. 

~ Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer

A woman who loves transforms the world. ( En )

Une femme qui aime transforme le monde. ( Fr )

~ Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French novelist (1912-2001)

I don’t repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. 

~ Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer

Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do.

~ Brian Chesky, CEO and Cofounder of Airbnb

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. 

~ Steve Jobs

People who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love. 

~ Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. 

~ Simone Weil, Philosopher

I'll die if I lose you, but I'll die if I wait. ( En )

Je meurs si je vous perds, mais je meurs si j'attends. ( Fr )

~ Jean Racine, French dramatist (1639-1699)

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 

~ Henry Ford

I don’t go by the rule book, I lead from the heart, not the head. 

~ Diana, Princess of Wales

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist. 

~ Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959) 

Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. 

~ Jean de La Bruyere, essayist, and moralist (16 Aug 1645-1696) 

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. 

~ Russell Baker (b. 14 Aug 1925) 

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader, the writer learns. 

~ P.L. Travers, author, creator of the "Mary Poppins" series (9 Aug 1899-1996) 

Every entrepreneur learns at some point that you don’t know what you don’t know. 

~ Jamie Kern Lima, Co-founder of IT Cosmetic.

La critique est aisée, mais l’art est difficile. ( fr )

Criticism is easy, art is difficult. ( en )

~ Philippe Destouches

You never lose a dream; it just incubates as a hobby. 

~ Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet

No amount of belief makes something a fact. 

~ James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928) 

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. 

~ P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014) 

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. 

~ James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987) 

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. 

~ Herman Melville, novelist, and poet (1 Aug 1819-1891) 

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. 

~ J.K. Rowling, author (b. 31 Jul 1965) 

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. 

~ Eric Hoffer, philosopher, and author (25 Jul 1902-1983) 

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. 

~ Ernest Hemingway, author, and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961) 

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. 

~ Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947) 

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

~ George McGovern, senator, and author (19 Jul 1922-2012) 

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 

~ Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013) 

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. 

~ Ingrid Newkirk, animal rights activist (b. 11 Jul 1949) 

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. 

~ Arthur Helps, writer (10 Jul 1813-1875) 

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. 

~ Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988) 

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. 

~ Peter Singer, philosopher, professor of bioethics (b. 6 Jul 1946) 

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? 

~ Jean Cocteau, author, and painter (5 Jul 1889-1963) 

Shadow owes its birth to light. 

~ John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732) 

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (29 Jun 1900-1944) 

The highest result of education is tolerance. 

~ Helen Keller, author, and lecturer (27 Jun 1880-1968) 

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. 

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (22 Jun 1906-2001) 

Life has no meaning a c… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. 

~ Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 19 Jun 1947) 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 

~ Winston Churchill

When you have full belief in yourself and the need to make things happen, that’s the powerful force behind being successful. 

~ Julia Landauer,  NASCAR Driver, Entrepreneur

If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. 

~ Conan O'Brien, Talk Show Host, & Comedian

Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work. 

~ Daya, Musician

If you make a mistake, own it and move quickly to fix it. 
~ Tooey Courtemanche, Founder of Procore Technologies

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. 

~ Maya Angelou, Writer and Activist

We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. 

~ Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

~ Mahatma Gandhi 

Remember that money can come as quickly as it goes, but time, once it is gone, never comes back. 

~ Damon Brown, Author and Entrepreneur 

Never listen to the haters. Work hard, and do what you love.

~ Ariel Martin, Internet Personality

Dreams absolutely come true, but they take time, dedication and patience.

~ Seán McLoughlin, Internet Personality

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. 

~ Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of Starbucks

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

~ Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Muhammad Ali

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

~ Albert Einstein

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. 

~ William R. Inge, clergyman, scholar, and author (6 Jun 1860-1954) 

In God we trust. All others must bring data.

~ W. Edwards Deming, Statistician, Professor, and Author

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

~ Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of Starbucks

Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you will drift in that direction.

~ Warren Buffett

Be the hardest-working person you can be. That's how you separate yourself from the competition.

~ Steph Curry,  Athlete

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? 

~ Adam Smith, economist (5 Jun 1723-1790) 

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. 

~ Cornel West, author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953) 

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. 

~ Alanis Morissette, musician (b. 1 June 1974) 

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. 

~ Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892) 

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968) 

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. 

~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author (26 May 1689-1762) 

The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (25 May 1803-1882) 

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. 

~ Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, Nobel laureate (b. 24 May 1941) 

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. 

~ Margaret Fuller, author, critic, and women's rights advocate (23 May 1810-1850) 

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

~ William James, Philosopher, and Psychologist

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. 

~ Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (18 May 1872-1970) 

As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. 

~ William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator (16 May 1801-1872) 

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. 

~ Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (15 May 1904-1999) 

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. 

~ Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (12 May 1802-1861) 

Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence. 

~ Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (11 May 1930-2002) 

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. 

~ Bono, musician and social activist (b. 10 May 1960) 

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. 

~ Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957) 

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. 

~ Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527) 

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. 

~ Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (2 May 1903-1998) 

A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. 

~ William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835) 

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. 

~ Harper Lee, writer (28 Apr 1926-2016) 

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

~ Charles Lindbergh

The earth laughs in flowers.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a leader, one of the things that’s most important is to know your team needs to see you as confident.

~ Steve Kerr

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician. 

~ Glenn T. Seaborg, scientist, Nobel laureate (19 Apr 1912-1999)

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. 

~ Earl Warren, jurist (1891-1974) 

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. 

~ Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) 

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

~ Herbie Hancock

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Theodore Rubin, psychiatrist and writer (b. 11 Apr 1923) 

Always be genuine. People can sense when someone isn't being themselves.

~ Jeffree Star

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

~ Rumi

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. 

~ William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850) 

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other. 

~ Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794) 

The path in front of you is rarely a straight line. It’s full of bumps ... Embrace the bumps in the road. 

~ Ellen Bennett

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. 

~ Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)

Every great founder can tell a great story. 

~ Jeff Jordan

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. 

~ Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (31 Mar 1596-1650) 

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. 

~ Anna Sewell, writer (30 Mar 1820-1878) 

When it comes to business, art, education even, innovation is key for growth and success. 

~ Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. 

~ John Quincy Adams

History is a novel whose author is the people. 

~ Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863) 

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. 

~ Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980) 

Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. 

~ Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (21 Mar 1806-1872) 

I accept the great adventure of being me. 

~ Simone de Beauvoir, French writer

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. 

~ Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987) 

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. 

~ Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959) 

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. 

~  Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955) 

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 

~ Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971) 

No human being is illegal. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) 

Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. 

~ Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926) 

People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.

~ Simon Sinek

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak for me. 

~ Martin Niemoller, pastor, initial supporter of Hitler, concentration camp survivor (1892 - 6 Mar 1984) 

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. 

~ Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) 

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. 

~ Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991) 

The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. 

~ Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967) 

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. 

~ Peter De Vries, editor, novelist (27 Feb 1910-1993) 

We're here to put a dent in the universe. 

~ Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor (24 Feb 1955-2011) 

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive, but mutually dependent because without discipline we would sink into chaos.

~ Paulo Coelho

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. 

~ Anais Nin, writer (21 Feb 1903-1977) 

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist (1821-1881) 

Whether success or failure, you need to move forward. The momentum is what is critical.

~ Frederique Dame

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground. 

~ Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895) 

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. 

~ George Jean Nathan, author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958) 

The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. 

~ Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997) 

"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.

"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.” 

~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. 

~ Boris Pasternak, poet and novelist (10 Feb 1890-1960)

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. 

~ Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, and reformer (1829-1906) 

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. 

~ John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900) 

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. 

~ Florence Luscomb, architect and suffragist (6 Feb 1887-1985) 

The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. 

~ Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895) 

I tire so of hearing people say, 

Let things take their course. 

Tomorrow is another day. 

I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. 

I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. 

~ Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967) 

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged. 

~ Norman Mailer, author (31 Jan 1923-2007) 

Life has way more imagination than us.

~ François Truffau, French film director

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. 

~ Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984) 

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

~ Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1861-1937)