“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

- G. K. Chesterton

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I never use that word, retire."

- B.B. King

"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

- Sigmund Freud

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying with a Positive Mental Attitude."

 - W. Clement Stone

"The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them; or, as the Italian proverb runs, 'The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.'"

 - Joseph Addison

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." -Terry Pratchett

- Terry Pratchett

“For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”

- Shirley MacLaine

“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!”

 - Edwin Markham

"Sometimes it takes strange circumstances to provide a mirror in which to find yourself."

- Iggy Pop

"...Just don't give up, because the finish line is a great place to be."

 - Rebekah Gregory DiMartino

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

- Robert Kiyosaki

"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

- William Ellery Channing

“Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.”

- John Fowles

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

- John Fowles

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

- Tennessee Williams

“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”

- Erich Fromm

"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."

- Ovid

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”

- William Jennings Bryan

“The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.”

- William Gibson

"You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again..."

- René Daumal