James Thurber

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

Everything in life is luck.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

Make today worth remembering.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Unite to win. Divide to conquer.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.