We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
—Lucille Ball
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
—John Quincy Adams
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
—Ken Hakuta
Without labor nothing prospers.
—Sophocles
The more we do, the more we can do.
—William Hazlitt
Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parasol. Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the umbrella; and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the sun.
—D. H. Lawrence
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
—Henry Moore
Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day.
—Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
—C. S. Lewis
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
—Edward Thorndike
Step by step and the thing is done.
—Charles Atlas
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.
—Linda Marie Fedigan
Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
—John Mulaney