“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed, for it's a sign he tried to surpass himself"
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”--Steve Jobs
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow - witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he has firmly persuaded that he know already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” - Leo Tolstoy
The less I cared about whether or not I was wrong, the clearer things became --Mark Douglas
“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein
" There is no bigger accomplishment than making something out of nothing."
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” – Win Borden
“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.”--Garth Stein
"Imagine a world where the minutes flow by so effortlessly they almost stand still; a world in which ancient history blends with modern technology"
“Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.” - Doug Coupland
"Fortune favors the prepared mind"
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."--Albert Einstein
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William B. Sprague
Some people do increasingly harder things every day. Others bounce off. Don't bounce off.--@daytrend
"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself"
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature? is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life"
" A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.” - Lou Holtz
