Who against hope believed in hope.
-Bible
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
-Jean Cocteau
Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
-Khalil Gibran
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
'Joy' emanates only from those actions which bear fruits instantly. 'Act' today and
'result' tomorrow, such karmas can only impart pains and pleasures.
-Deep Trivedi
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
-Jim Rohn