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“I believe that if you focus on what you should do, the road ahead will open up naturally.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

“Communication is an essential factor in any type of relationship; friend, romantic, or business.”

Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The first true love is always the last one.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“The noblest art is that of making others happy”

P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist

“Life is a progress, and not a station.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”

David Rockefeller (1915–2017) American banker and philanthropist

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.”

Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”

Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) Member of the United States Senate from Maine

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.”

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

“There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.”

Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”

Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher

“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”

Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet

“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”

Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor

“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

“Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist

“All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) 11th President of India, scientist and science administrator

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

Gail Sheehy (1937) writer, biographer

“I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.”

Harbhajan Singh (1980) Indian cricketer

“There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it.”

Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”

Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) American writer and philosopher

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.”

Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer

“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”

Clay Shirky (1964) American technology writer

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer