Quotes

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."

- Buck Rodgers

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."

- Warren Bennis

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another; forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

- Samuel Johnson

“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."

- Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."

- Ralph Charell

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

- Charles Lamb, "Table Talk"

"Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."

- J.C. Watts

"They can because they think they can."

- Virgil, Aeneid

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

- Claude Levi-Strauss

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

- John F. Kennedy

"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue."

- Francis Bacon, Essays

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."

- George Savile

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

- Aristotle

"All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

- Brian Tracy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

More Quotes

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

- William Arthur Ward

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."

- Will Rogers

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

- Norman Lear

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

- Roy Goodman

"Make your life a mission -- not an intermission."

- Glasgow

"No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."

- William Ralph Inge

"Far away there in the sky are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

- Lillian Hellman

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

- Norman Lear

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

- Arthur Ashe

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop, Fables

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

“One human life lasts, at most, a century. As far as we can tell, the universe is more than ten billion years old. Every moment one spends alive, able to exert their tiny influence on the universe, is precious, as one only has this power for a brief, fleeting instant.”

- Michael Currie