Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Inspiration
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
-Coco Chanel
I live like the birds on the branch. If there is no wind I stay there. But if it grows windy, I spread my wings and go where the wind carries me.
-Alexandre Dumas
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
-Winston S. Churchill
And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive... the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
-Michael Jackson
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-C. S. Lewis
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
-William Shakespeare
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
-Søren Kierkegaard
One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
-Henry Ford
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
-Lao Tzu
