To know oneself, one should assert oneself. --Albert Camus

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. --Bob Marley

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. --Pat Riley

“When you feel like quitting: think about why you started.” --— Corey Borner

"Brevity is the soul of wit.” --— Hamlet

There is always something left to love. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

“Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” --— Attributed to Miles Davis

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” --— Alfred Hitchcock

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie.” --— Jack Epps, Jr.

That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most --Up

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. --William Faulkner

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. --Buddha

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. --Napoleon Bonaparte

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. --Barbara Bush

"He brought his ‘C' game. Normally he's a 'D' game kinda guy, but he gave a little bit more this time.” --— Adam Carolla

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. --Bo Jackson

"We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” --— John F. Kennedy

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. --Ashton Kutcher

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' --Eleanor Roosevelt

I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone. --Betty Ford

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. --Benjamin Franklin

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. --African Proverb

“We are living in an age that glorifies the single study." --— Nina Strohminger

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. --Plato

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t alive --The Good Dinosaur

No longer certain that one ever does win a war, I am. --Yoda, The Clone Wars

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. --Fred Rogers

In the long run, there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely and then act boldly. --Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don’t challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with. --Julia Hardy

"Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. --Albert Einstein

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. --Benjamin Franklin

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. --Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

Just because it's what's done, doesn't mean it's what should be done --Cinderella

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. --Peter Drucker

History is always changing. --Aung San Suu Kyi

The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability --Ratatouille

The ancestor of every action is a thought. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have no time to build your community when they keep you occupied with protests.” --— Hotep Jesus

"All men dream: but not equally.” --— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. --Aldous Huxley

You have the ability to choose what you want to experience. --Rhonda Byrne

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. --Barack Obama

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. --Warren Bennis

“An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness.” --— Kim Stanley Robinson

If we talked about anything else, we might expose the fact that most of our arrogance is based on exploiting a fashionable alienation rather than on anything substantial. --Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. --Benjamin Franklin

“The state is a soulless machine. It can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” --— Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to predict the future is to create it. --Peter Drucker

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do. --E.A. Bucchianeri

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --Andrew Jackson

“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” --— John Adams

If you're gonna be the death of me, that's how I wanna go. --Bridgerton

I want to put a ding in the universe. --Steve Jobs

Courage is grace under pressure. --Ernest Hemingway

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. --Colin Powell

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. --Sir Winston Churchill

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom' out of your vocabulary.” --— Malcolm X

"Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” --— Peter Bilak

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts --Aladdin

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? --Charles Lindbergh

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.” --— Abigail Adams

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” --— Margaret Thatcher

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.” --— Bumper Sticker

“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” --— Isak Dinesen

“Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.” --— Ludwig von Mises

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. --Albert Einstein

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. --Stephen Covey

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. --Andrew Carnegie

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. --Albert Einstein

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! --Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)

“Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --— George Orwell

Because it’s not worth winning if you can’t win big --The Mighty Ducks

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. --Euripides

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." --— E.L. Doctorow

A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. --David G. Allen

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain

“My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” --— David Sipress

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. --Ron Paul