Quotes

"I love those who can.... Smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” Leonardo da Vinci

“There is no eye equal to wisdom, no darkness equal to ignorance, no power equal to the power of the spirit, and no terror equal to the poverty of consciousness" - Talmud of Immanuel

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" Maurice Freehill

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." Andre Gide

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst, in the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless, do not let your fire go out, spark by spark by irreplaceable spark." Ann Rand

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

"All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true." D.H. Lawrence

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." Rita Mae Brown

"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one." Albert Camus

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." T.S. Elliott

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around." Oprah

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." G.B. Shaw

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." Earl Nightingale

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." William Feather