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“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
— Voltaire
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
— Beverly Sills
“I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I'm doing it myself.”
— Albert Einstein
“The best answer to anger is silence.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”
— Judy Garland
“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.”
— Big boss
“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. ”
— W. Clement Stone
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
— Michael Jordan
“Tall oaks grow from little acorns.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
— Charlie Munger
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”
— Otto von Bismarck
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the soul.”
— Bruce Lee
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
— Virginia Woolf
“First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work. ”
— Estee Lauder
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.”
— Tony Robbins
“The whole world opened up to me when I got my first pair of binoculars.”
— Thor Heyerdahl

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