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“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
Confucius
“Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm”
— Giovanni Morasutti
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair
“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
Spencer Johnson
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”
Sydney Smith
“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. ”
Zig Ziglar
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
Aristotle
“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”
Mitch Hedberg
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
“A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. ”
Chinese Proverb
“Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.”
Stephen Covey
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The only way to truly handle our challenges is by facing them head on - and that requires a powerful, pure-burning motivation to take action despite these setbacks.”
Zig Ziglar
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
Rumi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
— Albert Szent-Györgyi
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
— Edward Phelps
“Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
George Eliot
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.”
Charles Darwin
“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”
Ray Bradbury
“When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”
Dalai Lama
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”
Martin Luther

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