If I cannot prevail upon heaven, I shall move hell.

(Virgil)

 

You mustn't confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

 (F.Scott Fitzgerald)

 The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(ALAN KAY)

 

Anger is like milk, it should not be kept too long.

(Phyllis Bottome)

 

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

(Willa Cather)

 

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

(Olive Schreiner)

 

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

(John Muir)

 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, and believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

(Louisa May Alcott)

 

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on the facts filed away just below the conscious level.

(Joyce Brothers)

 

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

(Madeleine L'Engle)

 

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

(Stephen Hawking)

 

Once more unto the breach,

dear friends,

once more.

(William Shakespeare)

 

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

(Vaclav Havel)

 

If we're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on.

(Sheryl Sandberg)

 The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

(Alfred Adler)

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

(Madame Swetchine)

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

(Anne Lamott)

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

(George Washington)

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

(Logan Pearsall Smith)