Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

I’m open and ready to go to the next place, the next level, the next height.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

I would say to do you and do you well. Don’t try to be anyone else. Don’t try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, don’t try to do what they’re doing. Just keep doing you.

We will either find a way or make one.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.