“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.” — Horace Walpole, British historian
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.” — Khalil Gibran
“Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.” — Tom Wilson
“When you throw dirt, you lose ground.” — Texas Proverb
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” — Erich Fromm
“A desk is a terrible place from which to view the world.” — John le Carré
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” — James Baldwin
“I never feel so accomplished as when I open a tough jar.” — Emma Watson
“We are each other’s destiny.” — Jacqueline Novogratz
“Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.” — Unknown
“Leadership is a sacred trust like priesthood in civilized, humane religions. No one gets into it lightly or unadvisedly because it demands qualities of mind and discipline, of body and will, far beyond the need of the ordinary citizens.” — Chinua Achebe
“The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce – instantly.” — Demetri Martin
“Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.” — Honore de Balzac
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Don’t forget you are human. It’s OK to have a meltdown, just don’t unpack and live there.” — Unknown
“When you pass the buck, don’t ask for change.” — Solomon Short
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” — Colette
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” — Douglas William Jerrold
“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.” — Warren Buffett
“Money is the cause of a lot of drama in people’s lives. Whether you have more or less, it ignites fires so treat it with caution.” — Wendy Williams
“[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.” — Oliver Burkeman
“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” — Herman Melville
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.” — Mae West
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
“The words you speak become the house you live in.” — Hafiz
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” — Mexican Proverb
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler, British writer
“It’s not where you take things from – It’s where you take them to.” — Jean-Luc Godard
“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.” — Christian Nestell Bovee
“A pitfall of throwing tantrums is that sometimes, people throw them back.” — Seth Godin
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” — John Dryden
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” — C.S. Lewis
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” — Eva Young
“The axe forgets what the tree remembers.” — African Proverb
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” — Susan Statham
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” — Winston Churchill
“This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible, this was terrible with raisins in it.” — Dorothy Parker