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90% of corporate life is feigning it. That’s what happens when you‘ve sold your soul, exist to get the next paycheck and your job becomes ‘not to get fired’. Pretend you’re interested, show up to the meetings, and hopefully find meaning elsewhere in your life. A better solution is to find meaning in everything you do, every day, even if it means a pay cut. – Hugh Macleod

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. – Rumi

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you‘re moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you‘re standing still. – Maxwell Maltz

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. – Scott Adams

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. – Wayne Dyer

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. – Joseph Campbell

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln

Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner

Art is anything you can get away with. – Marshall McLuhan

As soon as you trust yourself, then will you know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

Assume the virtue if you have it not. – Shakespeare

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi

Be a light unto yourself, a refuge unto yourself. – Buddha

Be absolute for death. Either death or life shall thereby be the sweeter. – Shakespeare

Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and be established in the self. – The Vedas

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you’re happy with a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken away from you. – Deepak Chopra

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. – Mother Teresa

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Plato

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere. And you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have. You‘ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don’t matter. And those who matter don’t mind. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

Be yourself, because everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

Believe nothing unless it agrees with your own reason. – Buddha

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. – Wallace D. Wattles

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu

Caring about how you look must start in your heart and soul. – Coco Chanel

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith. Not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you‘re doing. – Twyla Tharp

Depressed? You‘re living in the past. Anxious? You’re living in the future. At peace? You’re living now, in the present. – Lao Tzu

Do not do what you would undo if caught. – Leah Arendt

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. – Scott Adams

Do not say to yourself, “I am going to act this way tomorrow.” Just say to yourself, “I am going to imagine myself acting this way now, for 30 minutes, today.” – Maxwell Maltz 

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain

Do the best you can until you know better, then when you know better, do better. Do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell you, “I love you.” Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. – Maya Angelou

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t ask me why, I just know what I know. In art and in business, you need one eye looking in and one eye looking out. People who do only one usually fail at both. – Hugh Macleod

Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing, then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. – Maya Angelou

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. – Mark Twain

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. –  George Burns

Don’t waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

Ecstasy is the final stage of intimacy with yourself. – Rumi

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

Everybody is born a genius, but the process of growing up de-geniuses you. – Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

Everything changes when you change. – Jim Rohn

Everything is energy. That is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. – Albert Einstein

Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. – Jigaro Kano, founder of modern Judo

Fear will be the strongest when you are closest to winning. It won’t die easily. It knows if you win, it will perish, so it will put up quite a fight. – Debra Jones

Fitness and business should enhance your life, not run it. – Ryan Masters

Follow a simple rule: If you can take the worst, take the risk. – Joyce Brothers

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. – Joseph Campbell

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain

Go ahead, want it all. Just learn to be happy before it arrives, or you may not notice when it does. However much you give, more than that will be given to you. – Mike Dooley

Happiness is a question of changing your troubles. – Colette

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. – Aristotle

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. – Lao Tzu

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is not master of himself, will always remain a servant. – Goethe

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. – Epictetus

How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours. – Wayne Dyer

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. – Jean Tinguely

I think you just have to play it by ear. And pray for rain. – James Baldwin

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving isn’t for you. – Scott Adams

If it captures your imagination, it will captivate others. – Howard Schultz

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi

If the world finally gives you praise, it won’t be from the people you originally had in mind. – Hugh Macleod

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. – Vince Lombardi

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then yours is the Earth and everything in it. – Rudyard Kipling

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s somebody else’s. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. – Joseph Campbell

If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t understand it yourself. – Albert Einstein

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. – Mother Theresa

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you‘d best teach it to dance. – George Bernard Shaw

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. – Lao Tzu

If you don’t believe in magic, you will never find it. – Roald Dahl

If you don’t expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. – Heraclitus

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. – Warren Buffet

If you don’t have a plan for your life, somebody else has a plan for you. – Tony Robbins

If you don’t know what introspection is, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself. – Ian Smith

If you don’t like something, change it. It you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa

If you follow your bliss, you will always have your bliss, money or not. If you follow money, you may lose it, and you will have nothing. – Jospeh Campbell

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. – Stephen King

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. – Buddha

If you look for the bad in people, you will be sure to find it. – Abraham Lincoln

If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone. – Maxwell Maltz

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe. – Nikola Tesla

If you refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you. – Margaret Atwood

If you stop marketing to save money, you might as well stop the clock to save time. – Henry Ford

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

If you think you‘re free, there’s no escape possible. – Baba Ram Dass

If you want small changes, work on your behavior. If you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms. – Stephen Covey

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. – Lao Tzu

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. – Albert Einstein

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up very comfortable. – T Harv Eker

If you‘re the one who tells the lie, you‘re the first to find out. – Fergus O’Farrell

To compose, all you need do is remember a tune that no one else has thought of. – Robert Schumann

In the long run, not doing what’s necessary to do the thing you’re afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it. – Nick Murray

In the vast skies of dreams from down to earth to up in the stratosphere you must hold on only to those that make you unlike anyone else. Else you dissolve. – Mike Dooley

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you need to set up a life that you don’t have to escape from. – Seth Godin

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. – Napoleon Hill

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes a very long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. – Mary O’Connor

It’s not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Or clever stories that make a writer. And it’s not piles of money that give you power.  It’s having a dream so strong you rather go for it and fail rather than succeed with anything less. You so have what it takes. – Mike Dooley

It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

It’s possible that your next frontier isn’t to get more efficient but to get more brave. – Seth Godin

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Just because you are offended doesn’t mean you are right. – Ricky Gervais

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. –  Mark Twain

Learn rules like a pro. So you can break them like an artist. – Pablo Picasso

Life is difficult. Once you understand and accept that, then the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. –  M. Scott Peck

Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as you were to live forever. – Gandhi

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. – Albert Einstein

Long only for what you have! – Andre Gide

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Make sure to check up once in a while that you’re not losing any of the things money can’t buy. – George Lorimer

Make the best of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens. – Epictetus

You have to learn to ignore your fear. Without the will to believe in yourself, nothing good can happen.- Hilma Af Klint

Manage the top line , the strategy, the people, the product, and the bottomline will follow. – Steven Jobs

Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience. – Scott Adams

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. – Maya Angelou

Never try to sell a meteor to a dinosaur. It wastes your time and annoys the dinosaur. – Hugh Macleod

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.  – Marshall McLuhan

Self-image and habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. – Maxwell Maltz

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. – Rumi

Remember you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses. – Epictetus

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow, after you have done your best to achieve success today. Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. – Maxwell Maltz

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

Saddle your dreams afore you ride ‘em. – Mary Webb

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Socrates

Sticking to it is genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much as I did if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that’s any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I’ll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. –  Thomas Edison

Stop buying the unnecessary. Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness. Reduce half again. List four essential things in your life, do these first, stop doing the non-essential. Clear distractions, focus on each moment. Let go of attachment to doing and to having more. Fall in love with less. – Leo Babauta

Stop wasting time playing a role or concept. Instead, learn to actualize yourself, your potential. – Bruce Lee

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr

Take your pleasure seriously. – Charles Eames

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Don’t get the green disease of envy. Don’t be fooled by success and money. Don’t let anything come between you and your work. – Louise Bourgeois

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Steven Covey

The challenge is in accepting that the masses might not cheer you on. – Seth Godin

The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Socrates

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth. – Maxwell Maltz

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life. And the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. – Voltaire

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior. – Maxwell Maltz

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton 

The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke, but you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate. So let us not talk falsely now. The hour’s getting late. – Bob Dylan

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? – Warren Buffet

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley

Things get a lot easier when you no longer expect to win. – Leonard Cohen

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer

This is your time, and it feels normal to you. But there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it, and then more change. – Meryl Streep

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. – Anaïs Nin

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest achievement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates

To have a meaningful life, you have to do something meaningful. Meaning it doesn’t happen on autopilot. – Hugh Macleod

To hit a target, you must see it, clearly. – Mary Kay Ash

To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go. – Tao Te Ching

To live several lives, you have to die several deaths. – Françoise Giroud

Trade in all your judging for appreciating. Lay down your righteousness and just be together. – Ram Dass

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. – Mel Brooks

Unhappy is when you define yourself from other people. – Beat Schindler

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

We become what we think about all day long. The question is, what do you think about? – Wayne Dyer

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. – Seneca

What you deny submits you. What you accept transforms you. What you resist persists. – Carl Jung

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you seek, is seeking you. – Rumi

What you think about and thank about you bring about. – John DeMartini

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. – Seneca

When everything is coming your way, you‘re in the wrong lane. – Scott Adams

When in a hurry, step #1 for changing the entire world is falling in love with it as it already is. Same for changing yourself. – Mike Dooley

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Buddha

When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird. – Tara Brach

When you take care of the inches, the universe takes care of the miles. – Beat Schindler

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

You always become the thing you fight the most. – Carl Jung

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what. – Bob Dylan

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms. – Terence McKenna

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi

You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us, you reveal yourself differently, to the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship. – Rainer Maria Rilke

You are the master of the moments of your life. – Paramahansa Yogananda

You become mature when you become the authority for your own life. – Joseph Campbell

You become what you think about most of the time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can either practice being right or practice being kind. – Anne Lamott

You can fall in love with the natural world in the same way you fall in love with a person. There’s that same sense of helplessness, of lacking control over how much of your life you want to devote to it. – Andrea Barrett

You can find something better than death anywhere. – Brothers Grimm

You can have anything you want, be anything you want to be and do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. –  Abraham Lincoln

You can have everything you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you‘re finished, you‘ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So, let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing, that’s what counts. – Richard Feynman

You can lead people to truth, but you can’t make them understand it. – Bill Watterson

You can safely assume you‘ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. – Jim Rohn

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within himself. – Galileo

You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be creative and conform too. What makes you different also makes you creative. – Arno Penzias

You can’t make people listen. They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. – Ray Bradbury

You create your own universe as you go along. – Winston Churchill

You don’t know nothing, but you don’t need to know. The wisdom’s in the trees not the glass windows. – Jack Johnson

You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues. Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose, you don’t know what love is. – Don Raye / Gene Depaul

You don’t learn so that you can then do. That’s an anxiety reaction and an avoidance behavior. You learn by doing, or I solemnly declare, you’ll never learn at all, or worse, you’ll abandon your calling altogether. – Nick Murray

You don’t need to have been a horse, to be a jockey. – Arigo Sacchi

You get good at anything by being bad at it first. – J.K. Rowling

You gotta be willing to fail. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far. – Steve Jobs

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You‘re on your own. You know what you know. You‘re the one who’ll decide where you‘ll go. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

You have got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.  – Arthur Ashe

You have to inject yourself with a little fantasy every day in order not to die of reality. – Ray Bradbury

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no rights to the fruits of the work. Desire of the fruits of the work must never be your motive in working. – Baghavad Gita

You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs

You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way, you prepare for its arrival? Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller

You only find out who’s swimming naked when the tide goes out. – Warren Buffet

You sell, or else. – David Ogilvy

You suppose you are the trouble, but you are the cure. You suppose you are the lock on the door, but you are the key that opens it. – Rumi

You teach best what you most need to learn. – Richard Bach

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass. – Bruce Lee

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality next to honor. – Aristotle

You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha

You‘ve got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that’s the only way to succeed – by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you‘ve got to do you will succeed. – Elizabeth “Betty” Cuthbert, four-time Olympic champion