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Twenty years from now you will be

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

~ Mark Twain

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

~ Harold Nicolson

We must believe that we are gifted

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, most be attained.

~ Marie Curie

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

~ Lao Tzu

Action is the antidote to despair.

~ Joan Baez

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

~ Gloria Steinem

Be the change you want to see in this

Be the change you want to see in this world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

~ Henri Frederic Amiel

There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

~ Aristotle

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

~ John F Kennedy

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

~ William James

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

~ Thomas Huxley

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

~ Peter Marshall

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

~ Unknown

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

~ Alfred Adler