“If you chase two rabbits you will not catch either one.” — Russian Proverb
“The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.” — Bob Hawk
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.” — Eli Wallach
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” — Robert Quillen
“The worth of a good book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” — James Bryce
“It’s not who you are that holds you back. It’s who you think you’re not.” — Denis Waitley
“A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergeres and looks at the audience.” — Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, (1913 – 1995) British Anglican Bishop
“I never wish to be easily defined.” — Franz Kafka
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou
“Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.” — Robin Sharma
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.” — Archimedes
“A setback is a setup for a comeback.” — Eric Thomas
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” — Anne Lamott
“The bad news: nothing is permanent. The good news: nothing is permanent.” — Unknown
“Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.” — Andy Rooney
“I’ve come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” — Bryan Stevenson
“People who shine from within don’t need the spotlight.” — Unknown
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“Be poet enough to call forth life’s daily riches and enjoy them.” — inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.” — Idries Shah
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” — Cormac McCarthy
“Eaten bread is soon forgotten.” — Thomas Fuller
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” — Stephen King
“Let your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.[ed]” — Nelson Mandela
“When eating fruit, remember who planted the tree; when drinking water, remember who dug the well.” — Vietnamese Proverb
“I had to remove knowledge to make room for belief.” — Immanuel Kant
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” — Democritus
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.” — Dee Hock
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.” — John W. Campbell Jr.
“I’ve learned… that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.” — Andy Rooney
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” — Haruki Murakami
“If you’re not enough before the gold medal, you won’t be enough with it.” — from the movie Cool Runnings
“Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.” — Lord Raglan
“You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going to be headed somewhere great.” — Unknown
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon
“You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.” — Anne Lamott
“Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” — Scott Adams