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“Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.”
— Steve Harvey
“It ain't where you start in life, it's where you end up, and what you did along the way.”
— Colin Powell
“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”
— Helen Keller
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
— Alan Watts
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
— Alfred Adler
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
— Malcolm Forbes
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.”
— Tom Hanks
“It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. ”
— Wayne Dyer
“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”
— Paddy Chayefsky
“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”
— Voltaire
“I think, therefore I am.”
— René Descartes
“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
— Aristotle
“Bloom where you are planted!”
— Mary Engelbreit
“I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.”
— Janelle Monae
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Quality is earned long after midnight the night before a major launch, pouring over details that no one will notice but you.”
— Rob Rhyne
“Make your stand today. On this spot. On this day.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will.”
— James Allen
“If you practiced for the day, then you have won. If you were lazy for the day, then you have lost.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The highest level of wisdom is when you not only accept but love adversity.”
— Maxime Lagace

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