Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Without risk, there isn’t any living communication.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.