Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Like everyone else, I’ve had moments when I’ve felt that I’ve been losing my grip.

I like villains because there’s something so attractive about a committed person — they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They’re motivated.

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Sir Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge…
Albert Einstein

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The important thing to me is that I’m not driven by people’s praise and I’m not slowed down by people’s criticism. I’m just trying to work at the highest level I can.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.