Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor.

Georges Clemenceau

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he is not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

Benedict Spinoza

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it.

James Madison

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Ken Venturi

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dan Millman

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Jim Rohn

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Greer Garson

Starting out just to make money is the greatest mistake in life.

Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Nagarjuna

When young, rejoice in the tranquility of the old.

However, boast not of what you know even when learned.

However high may you rise, be not proud.

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; It is a state of mind;

It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;

It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;

It is the freshness of the deep springs of life………

Thomas Moore

How calm, how beautiful comes on The still hour, when storms have gone,

When warring winds have died away

And clouds, beneath the glancing ray

Melt off and leave the land and sea

Sleeping in bright tranquility.