23.
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
24.
"The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong -
influence everything else you do. When you get a proper
perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how
many other things fall into place."
- Roger Birkman
25.
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- Henry Miller
26.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
27.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge
28.
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
29.
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a
patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of
uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard
times bravely and cheerfully."
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez
30.
"Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not
self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies,
memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness
there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference
between the two."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
31.
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. "
- Richard M. DeVos
32.
"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a
while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
- George Horace Lorimer
33.
"With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands."
- Ezra Pound
34.
"It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of
our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage,
developing between man and his limitations, that brings success."
- Alice Foote MacDougall
35.
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you
can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
36.
"Keep away from small 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."
- Mark Twain
37.
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to
turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia
38.
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on
earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
- Katherine Mansfield
39.
"To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk
of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by
material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man
communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the
more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply."
- Charles Baudelaire
40.
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
- Henry David Thoreau
