Quotes

Present people

“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Dale Carnegie

“We are here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here?”
Steve Jobs

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs

Historical people

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein

“I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion.”
Alexander the Great

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”
Charles F. Kettering

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve

“It is said that a Butterfly can, with a flap of its wings, change the world… that the ripple it sends out can spawn a hurricane.”
Edward N. Lorenz

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, … if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.”
James Dean

“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o’clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.”
Lord Chesterfield, to his son

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
Winston Churchill

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar

Fictional characters

“Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.”
Lionel Luthor

“Traditional rules, supply and demand–they’re secondary. But to rise above those rules, to know when to break them, requires absolute personal commitment. I consider it a prerequisite for success.”
Lionel Luthor

“Weakness isn’t something you’re born with, you learn it.”
Lionel Luthor