"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."

- Sigmund Freud

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

- Mary Kay Ash

"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."

- Dale Carnegie

"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals."

- Lou Holtz

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

- James Allen

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain"

- Henry Ford

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."

- Sun Tzu

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

- Buddha

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

- James Allen

"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be."

- Yogi Berra

"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

- Confucius

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

- Jim Rohn

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

- Confucius