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“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Everyone you admire was once a beginner.”
— Jack Butcher
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford
“I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.”
— Albert Einstein
“What are we doing here, that is the question.”
— Samuel Beckett
“I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”
— Woody Allen
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
— Tony Robbins
“When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.”
— Spencer Johnson
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
— Jandy Nelson
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
— Sherlock Holmes
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
— Albert Einstein
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
— John Locke
“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”
— Mason Cooley
“If you find you are not valued and appreciated, then shift your attention to places where you will be valued and appreciated.”
— Celestine Chua
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ”
— Wayne Dyer
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
— Joyce Meyer
“Nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
— Alexander Pope
“Be interested in finding the best way, not in having it your way.”
— John Wooden
“You don't need to be better than anyone else, you just need to be better than you used to be.”
— Wayne Dyer

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