Compiled by:
Pradeep Arora
“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world, but does not feel good to your heart, it is not success at all.”
–Anna Quindlen
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the Ocean desert of water, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.”
– Carl Schurz
“A smile costs nothing, but has the power to give much. It takes a moment to give, but leaves the memory forever.”
– Anonymous
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
– George Washington
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
– Ovid
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have, was once among the things you only hoped for.”
– Epicurus
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought, what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
– Goethe
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
– Roger Von Oech
“The man who doesn’t read good books, has no advantage over the man, who Can’t read them.”
– Mark Twain
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