"Inspiration follows aspiration."
– Rabindranath Tagore
"Calmness is the cradle of power."
– Josiah Gilbert Holland
"If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.– Chögyam Trungpa
"Despise not small things, either for evil or good, for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world."
– Martin Farquhar Tupper
"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture."
– Anandibai Joshee
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
– Booker T. Washington
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
– Lady Bird Johnson
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
– William C. Durant
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
– Hannah More
"Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to."
– Basil Maturin
"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
– Pat Riley
"Let me listen to me and not to them."
– Gertrude Stein
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