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Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in the second, more lips are waiting to say that your firs…
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
On Discipline
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
On Discipline
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
On Purpose
All cruelty springs from weakness.
— Seneca
On Purpose
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
— Seneca
On Purpose
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
— Alphonse Karr
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
— Helen Keller
On Confidence
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengt…
— Helen Keller
On Discipline
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— Helen Keller
On Purpose
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
— Helen Keller
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller
On Confidence
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
— E.B. White
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
— Seneca
On Focus & Distraction
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca
On Confidence
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
— Seneca
On Confidence
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no greater burden than carrying an untold story inside of you.
— Maya Angelou
On Confidence
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
On Purpose
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
— Maya Angelou
On Starting Over
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
— Maya Angelou
On the Working Life
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
— James Joyce
On Starting Over
Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.
— Bruce Lee
On Focus & Distraction
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
— William Bruce Cameron
On Focus & Distraction
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
— Warren Buffett
On Discipline
Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
— Warren Buffett
On Discipline
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
— Warren Buffett
On Focus & Distraction
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost…
— Warren Buffett
On Focus & Distraction
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are…
— Warren Buffett
On Money, Plainly
The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
— Warren Buffett
On the Working Life