When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Kurt VonnegutLet me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. ForbesMake yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleIrrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
Virat KohliEvery loss of life is terrible.
George H. W. BushRule number one is: Beat your team-mate.
Lando NorrisIn order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai LamaThis guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.
Mr. TYou must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAnd so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
Ayrton SennaMy theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry SeinfeldThe future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald ReaganPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyWork out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
BuddhaWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich NietzscheFailure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon HillThere is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale CarnegieWe were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Frank OceanWithout discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine HepburnThere is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo MachiavelliThere is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack ObamaLet him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert FrostPersonality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.
Angelina JolieAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
ConfuciusI feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
Lou HoltzIn a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya AngelouI love being busy.
Dolly PartonI think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.
Alice MunroOnly you can control your future.
Dr. SeussIf you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinMy favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve JobsBetter never than late.
George Bernard ShawSometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George OrwellDon’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma BombeckIn this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.
Stephen CoveyLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack LondonLife is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganI don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.
Adam SandlerAs long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James BaldwinWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel JohnsonThere is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon HillIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John SteinbeckFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusThe major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim RohnNever lose a holy curiosity.
Albert EinsteinYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoNever give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.
Greta ThunbergA man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur SchopenhauerBy three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusIt is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark TwainThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley