1.
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's."
– Billy Wilder
2.
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character."
– Theodore Roosevelt
3.
"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich."
– Sir Thomas Browne
4.
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
– William C. Durant
5.
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
– Virginia Satir
6.
"Let me listen to me and not to them."
– Gertrude Stein
7.
"When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity…I can be sure that I am right."
– Federico Fellini
8.
"When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder."
– William Joseph Slim
9.
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
– Henri Frédéric Amiel
10.
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
– Plutarch
11.
"We make our fortunes and call them fate."
– Benjamin Disreali
12.
"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
– Pythagoras
13.
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
14.
"Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to."
– Basil Maturin
15.
"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
– Pat Riley
16.
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
– Benjamin Mays
17.
"Character is simply habit long enough continued."
– Plutarch
18.
"Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there's nothing else…"
– Tennessee Williams
19.
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
– Abigail Van Buren
20.
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
– Katherine Mansfield
21.
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
– e. e. cummings
22.
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
– Marie Curie
23.
"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
24.
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
– Gilda Radner
25.
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
– Jean Kerr
26.
"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
– Julia Cameron
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"I learn by going where I have to go."
– Theodore Roethke
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