- Vince Carter: “I challenge myself every day when I get on the floor to play my minutes hard and compete, and not to prove to anybody else but to me that I deserve to be here.“
- Richard Hamming: “The purpose of (scientific) computing is insight, not numbers“.
- Charles A. Coulson: “give us insight not numbers“.
- Sean Penn: “When everything gets answered, it’s fake.”
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
- “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others” – L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
- “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
- “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” – Mia Hamm
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “I won’t get upset at you about a mistake. I’ll get upset at you for the next mistake that comes from still thinking about the last mistake.” – Doc Rivers
- “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive” _ PCA Founder Jim Thompson
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –Nelson Mandela
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” –Walt Disney
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” –Steve Jobs
- LIFE
- “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” –Oprah Winfrey
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” –John Lennon
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” –Mother Teresa
- “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” –Margaret Mead
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” –Aristotle
- “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” –Anne Frank
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” –Maya Angelou
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” –Babe Ruth
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” –Dr. Seuss
- LOVE
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz
- “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft
- “Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
- “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
- “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”— Seneca
- “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”— George Sand
- “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”— Khalil Gibran
- “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”— Oscar Wilde
- “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”— Benjamin Franklin
- “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”— Elbert Hubbard
- “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”— Pablo Neruda
- “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman
- “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”— Andre Breton
- “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”— Hubert H. Humphrey
- “The best proof of love is trust.”— Joyce Brothers
- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”— T. Tolis
- SUCCESS
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” –Winston S. Churchill
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” –Henry David Thoreau
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” –John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” –Estee Lauder
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” –Colin Powell
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville
- “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” –Colin R. Davis
- “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” –James Cameron
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” –Steve Jobs
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
- “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” –Oprah Winfrey
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” –Norman Vaughan
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” –Sheryl Sandberg
- WISDOM
- “You can do anything, but not everything.” —David Allen
- “The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” —Unknown Author
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”—Wayne Gretzky
- “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”—A. A. Milne
- “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”—Abraham Maslow
- “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”—Baltasar Gracian
- “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”—Basho
- “Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching”—Unknown Author
- “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” —André Gide
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle
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“Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.” —Cale Yarborough
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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” —Edith Sitwell
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” —Ellen Parr
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” —Erica Jong
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“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.” —Gordon R. Dickson
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“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.” —Thomas Szasz
