Quotes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren Bennis
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
- Ronald Reagan
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
- Eminem
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.
- Jeanne Calment
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
- Pierre Schaeffer
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
- Rudyard Kipling
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
- B.R. Ambedkar
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
- Henry Van Dyke
Insight is the first condition of art.
- George Henry Lewes
I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Julius Caesar
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
- Jon Bon Jovi
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something , sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
- Walt Disney
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
- John Lubbock
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- Ernest Hemingway
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Zaglar
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
- Napoleon Hill
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
- Ernest Hemingway
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
- Les Brown
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
- Matt Cameron
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- John F. Kennedy
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
- Niccolo Michiavelli
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Rumi
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
- Kobe Bryant
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
- Indira Gandhi
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
- Swami Vivekananda
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Swami Vivekananda
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
- Roy E. Disney
Calmness is the cradle of power.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
- Mary Kay Ash
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
- Michael Jordan
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
- Octavia E. Butler
Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya An
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- Maya Angelou
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership does not depend on being right.
- Ivan Illich
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
The only journey is the one within.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Steve Jobs
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
- Rudyard Kipling