“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way and not starting.”

– Buddha

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.”

– Rick Warren

“Workaholics are addicted to activity; superachievers are committed to results.”

– Charles Garfield

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the greatest foundation for failure.”

– Og Mandino

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon J. Suenens

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!

– Rudyard Kipling

“My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.”

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It isn’t what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.”

– Brian Tracy