Favourite quotes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -Epictetus

Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. -William A. Ward

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." -Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something, you must be something. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. -W. C. Doane

Nature creates ability, luck provides it with opportunity.

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"If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot." [Korean Proverb]

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for ?

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. -Benjamin Disraeli

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. -Thomas Carlyle

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. -Leon J. Suenes

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -Confucius

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. -Tony Dorsett

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." [William Shakespeare]