Aristotle
• One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Isaac Asimov
• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Ethel Barrymore
• You grow up the day you have your first good laugh – at yourself.

Philip Bernardi
• Few of us get up in the morning and plan exactly what we will say and do throughout the day. Of course, there are times we might privately rehearse something important that we’d like to say. But even in those situations, we must often adjust our speeches according to the verbal or nonverbal response of the person to whom we are speaking.

Erma Bombeck
• If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.

Sharon Anthony Bower
• There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.
• The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

Ray Bradbury
• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Grant M. Bright
• What makes us successful is not what we are striving for. It's what we learn by the striving itself.

David D. Burns, MD
• The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you’re most afraid of.

Michael Caine
• Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
• There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

Joseph Campbell
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Jack Canfield
• If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren’t doing enough asking.

Dale Carnegie
• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
• The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Rosanne Cash
• The key to change...is to let go of fear.

Walter Chrysler
• The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Winston Churchill
• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Arthur C. Clarke
• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

James Bryant Conant
• Behold the turtle, which only makes progress when it sticks its neck out.

Confucius
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

e. e. cummngs
• To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting... Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth.

Charles Darwin
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Max DePree
• We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

John Dewey
• Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

Dumbledore (in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) 
• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Clint Eastwood
• An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Thomas Edison
• When there’s no experimenting there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

Albert Einstein
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Ellis
• Strong feelings are fine; it’s the overreactions that mess us up.
• Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
• The goal…is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish—from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The ancestor of every action is a thought.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

James D. Finley
• Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Henry Ford
• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
• You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Ben Franklin
• You may delay, but time will not.

Mahatma Gandhi
• The future depends on what we do in the present.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

Malcolm Gladwell
• We must learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Seth Godin
• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Goethe                     
• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Vivian Greene
• Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain!

Wayne Gretzky
• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Harriett Hall, MD
• I learned…over and over in the ER: don’t be too quick to panic, because things are usually not as bad as your imagination represents them. Or as someone once instructed interns, “In case of cardiac arrest, stop and take your own pulse first.”

Napoleon Hill
• Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Thomas L. Holdcroft
• Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Make it happen: Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it--but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

John Holt
• We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.

Lee Iacocca
• I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

C.D. Jackson
• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Susan Jeffers
• We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures... Take a risk a day--one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.
• Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.

Darren LaCroix
• The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

Louis L'Amour
• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Ann Landers
• Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

Bruce Lee
• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Dexter Morgan (Dexter, the TV series)
• My dad used to say, "Be careful what you think you know about someone; you're probably wrong."

John Naisbitt
• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Dorothy Neville
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Anais Nin
• We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Pascal
• People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the minds of others.

Louis Pasteur
• Chance favors the prepared mind.

Dr. Linus Pauling
• The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Randy Pausch 
• Brick walls are there for you to show how badly you want it.

Joseph Chilton Pearce
• To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Plato
• Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

William Plomer
• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Marcel Proust
• We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Ayn Rand
• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.

Pat Riley
• The will to win is important. The will to prepare is vital.

Eloise Ristad
• The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity…When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.

Frederick Robertson
• The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Mr. (Fred) Rogers
• Play opens up a part of the mind that may have become closed. It's the things and people we play with who make a great difference in our life.
• What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for your wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
• You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Jim Rohn
• I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want, then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.

Eleanor Roosevelt
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

John Ruskin
• What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Carl Sagan
• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Diane Sawyer
• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Gail Sheehy
• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we are not really living. 

Dr. Devi Singh
• Experimentation is the quest for how to improve things, the insatiable desire to pursue perfection and excellence. Experimentation and innovation is the bedrock of change, and remember, sometimes you have to create what you want to be a part of, for which you need the courage to change.

George Bernard Shaw
• The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Viola Spolin
• The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.
• We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything... If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Jim Stovall
• Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.

Chuck Swindoll
• I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Brian Tracy
• Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Mark Twain
• I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
• The difference between the right word and almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
• 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.

Unknown
• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Wernher von Braun
• I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
• It is a common mistake to think failure is the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Put failure to work for you.

Alan Watts
• Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Dennis Weaver
• To get what you want, stop doing what isn’t working.

Harold Thurman Whitman
• Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people that have come alive.

Larry Winget
• Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

William Paul Young
• You have to prepare the soil if you want to embace the seed.