Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
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Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb
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Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
Albert Einstein
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"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty ."
Albert Einstein
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The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,
-- over every idea.
Latin Proverb
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination
John Lennon
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Lin Yutang
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell
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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Confucius
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
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We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
Goethe
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
Henry David Thoreau
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Mark Twain
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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
HH the Dalai Lama
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
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You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Shakespearer
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Shakespearer
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lipman
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
William Shakespeare
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Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought.
R. C. Trench
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
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Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
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If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
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There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
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There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Seneca
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Louis Kossuth
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Corneille
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They can because they think they can.
Virgil
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You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
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Nothing succeeds like success.
Proverb
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence
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He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
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The seat of knowledge is in the head,
of wisdom, in the heart.
William Hazlitt
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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Winston Churchill
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
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It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cech
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The first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Be silent, or say something better than silence.
Pythagoras
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The soul of conversation is sympathy.
Thomas Campbell
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Wise men know how little he knows but a fool thought he knows all.
Lao Tze
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