"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" by Steve Jobs is one of the quotes that inspired me a lot...
"I'm a farmer, I don't know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this. But I think you people have proven something to the world — not only to the Town of Bethel, or Sullivan County, or New York State; you've proven something to the world. This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place. We have had no idea that there would be this size group, and because of that you've had quite a few inconveniences as far as water, food, and so forth. Your producers have done a mammoth job to see that you're taken care of... they'd enjoy a vote of thanks. But above that, the important thing that you've proven to the world is that a half a million kids — and I call you kids because I have children that are older than you are — a half million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music, and I God Bless You for it!"
Although I do not explicitly subscribe to "hippie" ideals, there is something very moving about the way he addresses a group of people often looked back upon in mockery or disdain - it reinforces that they not only truly believed in something, but that they most importantly then put said beliefs into action.
- James Fitzjames Stephen
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
- Shakespeare
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear"
- Mark Twain
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty"
- Winston Churchill
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
An optional one- 2. Happiness = Outcome - Expectations. The key to enjoying life is keeping expectations low to the degree that you're always pleasantly surprised. (do not remember who told this)
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"It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. "
- Theodore Roosevelt
Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
"When you except to run into brick walls you usually don’t go as fast as you can. When you let go of fear and focus on results, it’s freeing and effective."
It's by a tumblrer http://infjdoodles.tumblr.com/post/28056863738/
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. They don't expect to be paid back"
"Money is not everything. but make sure you make enough of it before talking such nonsense"
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it"
"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
"If you're forced to eat shit, don't nibble."
Will Durant on Hannibal Barca, in Heroes of History
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Henry David Thoreau