Life

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
- Henry Ford

“We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.”
- Walter E. Cole, Korean War Hero

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

“The fountain if youth is the pursuit of dreams unscathed by the fear of past failures.”
- Amrapali Ambegaokar

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”
- Charles Caleb Colton

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
- Mark Twain

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
- Plato

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
- Sidney J. Harris

“Man is or was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”
- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
- Confucius

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
- T. Alan Armstrong

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
- Chinese Proverb

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain

“Had he begun the lessons with [these crucial] exercises, he would never have been able to convince you that you owe then anything decisive. You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.”
- Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust

“There’s nothing succeeds like insouciance. Plain flippancy will actually get more done in less time than anything else you can name.”
- L. Ron Hubbard

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
- Siddhartha Buddha

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
- Voltaire

“An unexamined Life is not worth Living”
- Socrates

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
- Marianne Williamson

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
- Abraham Maslow

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman

“A lot of people miss opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work”
- Thomas Edison

“A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Chinese Proverb