“Compassion is a verb.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.” — Cullen Hightower
“You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” — Barbara Bush
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” — Albert Einstein
“A good beginning makes a good end.” — Louis L’Amour
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.” — Miguel de Cervantes
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” — Oliver Goldsmith
“You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.” — E. L. Doctorow
“Don’t just do what makes you happy…do what makes you great.” — Charlie Day
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you.” — James Baldwin
“There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.” — Unknown
“I’ve learned to stop rushing things that need time to grow.” — Unknown
“We teach children to color inside the lines, and then expect adults to think outside the box.” — Frank Sonnenberg
“Successful people do what they have to do, whether they feel like it or not.” — Brian Tracy
“My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” — Elizabeth Taylor
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — John Locke
“If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.” — Unknown
“Stubbornness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.” — John Wooden
“Don’t re-think; pre-think.” — Vikrant Parsai
“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.” — Alfred De Musset
“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.” — Dia Reeves, Bleeding Violet
“Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.” — Nathan Mayer Rothschild
“Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.” — Dr. Thomas Fuller
“To be successful, you need family and friends. But, to be very successful, you need enemies and competitors.” — Unknown
“The ‘what ifs’ and ‘should haves’ will eat your brain.” — John O’ Callaghan
“Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.” — David Brown
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” — Pat Riley
“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don’t just survive. Celebrate.” — Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
“People who have gift of gab, often do not know how to wrap it up.” — Unknown
“The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.” — Unknown
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” — Amelia Earhart
“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.” — Shana Alexander
“‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” — William Shakespeare
“Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.” — Stanislaw Lec
“What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth.” — Friedrich Schiller
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth'” — Dan Rather
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.” — John C. Maxwell