“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Failure is not the opposite of success, it is a stepping stone to success.” – Arianna Huffington
“The correct lesson to learn from surprises is that the world is surprising.” – Daniel Kahneman
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” – Thomas Carlyle
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Mark Twain
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
Napoleon’s definition of a military genius is the person “who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.”
“The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.” – Niall Ferguson on the lessons of history.
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.” – Voltaire
“Passion is the RESULT of action, not the CAUSE of it.” – Mark Manson
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“Kids love athletes because they follow their dreams.” – Up in the Air
“To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn’t and has never been, but as it might be.” – Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
“Comparison is the death of joy.” – Mark Twain
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.” – Charles Bukowski
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.” – Charles Bukowski
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” – Charles Bukowski
“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.” – Charles Bukowski
“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski
“Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.” – Jake Herbert
“The greatest failure is the failure to try.” – William Arthur Ward
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
“Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Sir Richard Branson
“Retirement is earning the privilege of being free to enjoy the balanced lifestyle of our dreams, without ‘working for a living’ getting in the way too much. You don’t have to quit working altogether, you just have to feel secure enough to be choosy about your work, and your schedule.” – Mr. Money Mustache
“Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”
“No one is you and that is your power.” – Dave Grohl
“He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.”
“Whenever the time is right, it will be the right time.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller
