Quotes Collection

"Hold fast to your dreams, for when dreams die, life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"It meant more to our father to see us deal with a setback and try to bounce back than to watch how we handled our successes. 'Show what you are made of,' he would say."

"Whereas children here had ghosts and the boogeyman, our equivalents were our governments."

"You are not your circumstance. Where you start out in life doesn't have to determine where you'll end up or just how far you can go. Only you can determine your distance."

"Please do not twist yourselves into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you."

"Dreams have no boundaries if you learn to read the signs of life."

"We are all mortal. What divides us is the use we make of the time and opportunities we have."

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

"Do not take no for an answer. Not when you're applying for jobs. Not when you actually get a job. The food court at the mall is littered with people who didn't fight for it. Fight for it."

"History tells us that modern science evolved from the visual arts. Observational science started with the visual arts. Galileo's first publication was not on a scientific matter. He wrote a monograph on perspective, on shadow and light."

"The story of your lives will be the story of your struggle to be true to the ideas you believe in."

"If you calm down, you will know what your instincts are telling you and you'll know which way, right or wrong, that you must proceed."

"Ready, Fire, Aim. If you feel positive in your gut about your idea — do it. Don't get stuck in the limbo of 'Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim' and let someone else do the firing. Be there first!"

"I have discovered that it is just as easy or just as hard to climb a tall mountain as it is to climb a small mountain—so why not go for it!"

"You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success."

"Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard. Don't be content to work around the edges of your profession. Speak up. Volunteer. Show your enthusiasm. Knock on doors."

"Wealth and fame are an illusion. The only times I've been truly miserable is when I was lying to myself or to others."

"When you listen, when you really listen to people, when you listen as fiercely as you want to be heard, when you respect the idea that you are sharing the earth with other humans, when you lead with your nice foot forward, you'll win every time."