“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou
“When you forgive, you don’t change the past…you change the future.” — Inspired by Paulo Coelho
“People who make us happy are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. [ed]” — Marcel Proust
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see that you are unarmed.” — Unknown (but often mistakenly to William Shakespeare)
“Upon leaving, our feelings about the business mirrored a line in a country song: I liked you better before I got to know you so well.” — Warren Buffett
“When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.” — Unknown
“An action may have its pleasures, but it also has its price.[ed]” — Socrates
“We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter De Vries
“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
“You can’t turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’ without a ‘maybe’ in between.” — Frank Underwood, House of Cards
“At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards.” — Hunter S. Thompson
“My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“It is not sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.” — Mia Hamm
“Excuses are the rocks where our dreams are crushed.” — Tim Fargo (?)
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You have to be odd to be number one.” — Dr. Seuss
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” — Terry Pratchett
“Inspiration and awareness without action is just entertainment.” — Unknown
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” — Joan Didion
“Golf is a game of expletives not deleted.” — Dr. Irving A. Gladstone
“Grow wherever life puts you down.” — Ben Okri, The Famished Road
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for you happiness.” — Richard Bach
“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” — Carlton Fisk
“It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” — Mother Teresa
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Never create based upon what you think other people will like. Create because you like it.” — Andre Supa
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” — Mark Twain
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ― George Lorimer
“There is a wilderness we walk alone however well-companioned.” ― Stephen Vincent Benét
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“We don’t fade as we age, we become more concentrated.[ed]” ― Paulette Bates Alden
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit as vital to our lives as water and good bread.” — Edward Abbey
“And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” — Meister Eckhart
“The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.” — Orison Swett Marden
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken
