Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Bertrand Russell
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillip Brooks
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."
Henry Ford
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
Ellen Hubbard
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Henry Ford
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient amounts to carry through trials which may lie ahead."
Andre Norton
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not mearly to grasp the world, but to change it."
Colin Wilson
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
George Bernard Shaw
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good things happen to those who hustle."
Chuch Noll
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, 'Why me?' Then a voice answers, 'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.'"
Charles Schulz
"A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure ujntil he begins to blame somebody else."
J. Paul Getty
"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."
Andrew Young
"I wanted to change the world, but I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
Aldous Huxley