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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“Believe you can and you are halfway there.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you do not take.”
“Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, you are right.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you have launched too late.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is. It is what consumers tell each other it is.”
“Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
“Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“It is not whether you get knocked down, it is whether you get up.”
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“Opportunities do not happen. You create them.”
“Do not wait for opportunity. Create it.”
“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.”
“In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.”
“I am not afraid of death; I just do not want to be there when it happens.”
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
“I did not fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“Age is something that does not matter, unless you are a cheese.”
“I have not spoken to my wife in years. I did not want to interrupt her.”
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You will have to use the stairs, one step at a time.”
“I could agree with you but then we would both be wrong.”
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, but the one who gets people to do the greatest things.”
“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“You know you are in love when you cannot fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“Technology is best when it brings people together.”
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you do not really even notice it, so it is part of everyday life.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
“The great growling engine of change - technology.”
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
“Just because something does not do what you planned it to do does not mean it is useless.”
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you are not part of the steamroller, you are part of the road.”
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.”
“Technology is nothing. What is important is that you have a faith in people, that they are basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they will do wonderful things with them.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“Creativity takes courage.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“You can not use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought.”
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”
“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.”
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind strong and clear.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“Happiness is the highest form of health.”
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”