“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

-Lewis Carroll

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

-Calvin Coolidge

“Nothing Happens ‘Til 11:30.”

-Richard Pryor

“You can’t hit a home run if you don’t swing the bat.”

-Lou Davis

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

-Tyler Durden, Fight Club

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.”

-Aesop

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“You Can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

-Henry Ford

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”

-Aristotle

‎”We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith simply because we do cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up beforfe we start. By faith we move mountains of opposition or we are stopped by mole hills.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

-John Alejandro King