Things do not change; we change.
– Henry David Thoreau

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it  to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
– C. S. Lewis

If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there and it doesn’t matter how long it takes.
– Anonymous

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
– Chinese proverb

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
– Ursula K. Le Guin

The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
– Anonymous

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.
– Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
– Mark Twain

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
– Confucius

People are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abe Lincoln

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
– Anonymous

Excellence is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
– Thomas Jefferson

I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
– Benjamin Franklin

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
– Thomas Watson, Sr.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to get something done is to begin.
– Anonymous

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.
– Soren Kierkegaard