“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
― Harry S Truman
“Manage things. Lead people.”
– Grace Hopper.
“One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
-Grace Hopper
“We’re flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.”
– Grace Hopper
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
– Victor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
– Victor Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
– Victor Frankl
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
– Thomas Hardy
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
– Friedrich Nietzshe
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
– Will Rogers
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
– Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
– Will Rogers
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
– Abraham Lincoln
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
– Thomas Paine
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
– Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
We are asleep until we fall in love!
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?
– William Shakespeare, MacBeth
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
– T.S. Eliot
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope.’
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
― T.S. Eliot
“We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”
― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day
Waste no pains
Where thy endeavour nothing profiteth.
– Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Often when contending with obstacles of every sort that interfered with my work . . . a secret feeling within me whispered: “There are but few contented and happy men here below; grief and care prevail everywhere; perhaps your labors may one day be the source from which the weary and worn, or the man burdened with affairs, may derive a few moments’ rest and refreshment.” What a powerful motive for pressing onward!
– Joseph Haydn