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“Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.”
Harry S. Truman
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.”
Thomas Carlyle
“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
Frank Herbert
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein
“I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.”
Ernest Shackleton
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Anatole France
“My instinct is always to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.”
Josh Waitzkin
“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
— James Dean
“I consider myself the end user. I make movies that I would like.”
James Cameron
“Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.”
Harry S. Truman
“If you focus on results and finding shortcuts, you'll get impatient. If you focus on the process and doing the right thing, you'll be unstoppable.”
Maxime Lagace
“The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.”
— Wendell Phillips
“All wealth is the product of labor.”
John Locke
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
Nelson Mandela
“Always look on the bright side of things. If you can't comprehend this, polish that which has become dull until it begins to shine.”
Zen Proverb
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”
Tennessee Williams
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. ”
Zig Ziglar
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.”
— Cass Canfield

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