The best way to learn is to ask the questions and lead by example. When considering life on the larger scope, you must realise that many have trodden this path before and have gained little insights into the world as they see it. And so it becomes important to use these knowledges as building blocks for our own growth, and reason the words into our own truth.
The following are a selection of quotes, the first few from my own reasoning, which will further your knowledge and understanding. Those with question marks have unknown origin e.g. ("I do not invent, I rediscover" --??)
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." --Edmund Burke
"Life: - To experience the world and gain as much knowledge as we need to get through to the end." --DW
"Life: To try out different things to meet your requirements." --DW
"Meaning Of Life - To prove yourself worthy of it." --DW
"Do not work in the shadow of others, learn what they found out and take it on from there." -- DW
"The art of double checking a move before you make it, is a skill worth mastering." --DW.
"Hope is the difference between nothing and everything." --DW
"Decide what you think is right, and stick to it until you find enough evidence to chance your opinion." -- DW.
"Once an ambition has been realised, go out of your way to find a new one to fill the hope gap left by the old one." -- DW
"A problem pondered is a problem worried about. A problem acted upon with feeling and laughed about is a problem no more." --DW
"If you can't find a reason for a negative memory, find a lesson you can learn from it and remember that instead." --DW
"What you believe you are capable of, you will achieve." -- DW/??
"Good cheer goes a long way." --DW/??
"If you drive slower you can see more of the view." -- DW/??
"Knowing yourself truely can be the hardest task you will ever set out to do." --??
"Everybody and every body is different." --??
"Never forget to be you." -- ??
"Try to forget about what may be, or has been, and concentrate more on what is." -- ??
"The moment you stop learning, you stop leading." -- Rick Warren
"To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die." -- Vauvenarges
"Problems are the price you pay for progress." -- Branch Rickey
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." --Plato
"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." -- Don Herold
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." -- Joe E. Lewis
"Today, the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it." -- Anne O'Hare McCormick
"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible." -- Italian Proverb
"The one who commands the past controls the future." The one who commands the future, conquers the past." -- Unknown
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself." -- Publilius Syrus
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." -- Christopher Morley
"In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life." -- Janet Erskine Stuart
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow
"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." -- Northcote Parkinson
"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. -- Helen Hayes
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"To follow, without halt, one aim. There's the secret of success." -- Anna Pavlova
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A man wrapped up in himself is a very small bundle." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution." -- Barbara Tuchman
"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." -- Jonathan Winters
"Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind." -- Timothy Fuller
"Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side." -- The Talmud
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation." -- Elizabeth Drew
"What can be done at any time is never done at all." -- English Proverb
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do." -- Olin Miller
"A great man is always willing to be little." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities." -- Elizabeth Bowen
"He who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world." -- Rudyard Kipling
"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." -- Larry Bird
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." -- Ivy Baker Priest
"Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised." -- William Hale White
"We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best." -- Janet Erskine Stuart
"Above all, try something." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -- Helen Keller
"Fear is the prison of the heart." -- Anonymous
"There are no rules. Just follow your heart." -- Robin Williams
"The purpose of life is life." -- Karl Lagerfeld
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." -- William James
"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." -- Joan Baez
"If you want to be listened to, you should put time in listening." -- Marge Piercy
"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest." -- Thomas Fulle
"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency." -- Maya Angelou
"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." -- Eva Young
"He who limps still walks." -- Stanislaw Lec
"The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others." -- Jean de La Bruyere
"Don't curse the darkness--light a candle." -- Chinese proverb
"Never let yesterday use up today." -- Richard H. Nelson
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." -- Corita Kent
"Fear breeds fear." -- Byron Janis
"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement." -- Thomas N. Carruther
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob A. Riis
"Every path has its puddle." -- English Proverb
"Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. -- George Matthew Adams
"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." -- Benjamin Lipson
"No one knows what he can do until he tries." -- Publilius Syrus
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." -- Raymond Lindquist
"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do." -- John Holt
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." -- Christopher Morley
"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." -- Thomas Carlyle
"If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." -- Paula A. Bendry
"Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause." -- Phillip Gribble
"A man is literally what he thinks." -- James Lane Allen
"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight." -- Scottish Proverb
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested." -- Helen MacInness
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." --Arthur Schopenhauer
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." --Phyllis George
"You don't have to be the greatest man to be a great man - just be a man! --The Bible?
"Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." --Johannn von Goethe
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness estroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! --Jane Austen
"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." --Herbert Samuels
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power." -- Balzac
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." --Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it." -- Barbra Streisand
"Faith in oneself is the best . . . and safest course." --Michelangelo
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Enthusiasm moves the world." --J. Balfour
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." --Lauren Bacall
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge." --Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." --John Kenneth Galbraith
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." --Seneca
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." --H. T. Leslie
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." --Carl Sandburg
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." --Elizabeth Arden
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? -- Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige
"Never let go of the fiery sadness called desire." --Patti Smith
"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution." --Raymond E. Feist
"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." --Mae West
"Make fear's energy work for and not against you." --Milton A. Grant
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers." --Erich Fromm
"Do not think what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach." --Marcus Aurelius
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." --William Jennings Bryan
"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." --Anon.
"Action is the antidote to despair." --Joan Baez
"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only." --Francois de La Rochefoucald
"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." --Anon.
"The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable." --Eugene Kennedy
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." --Nancy Reagan
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." --Ethel Barrymore
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." --Malcolm Forbes
"Whether you ride it out or work it out, you can overcome bad luck --??
"I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead." --Anita Baker
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
"The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often." --Thomas Jefferson
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." --Henry David Thoreau
"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right." --Chick Corea
"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression." --Karen Horney
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." --Doris Mortman
"Be yourself and wear what you like: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are." --Quentin Crisp
"Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit." --Rita Mae Brown
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." --Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss." --Diane Ravitch
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." --Anon.
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --Horace
"Action is the foundational key to all success." --Tony Robbins
"Leadership is action, not position." --Donald H. McGannon
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." --Jean-Paul Sartre
"Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." --Gail Godwin
"The delights of self-discovery are always available." --Gail Sheehy
"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." --Julia T. Alvarez
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." --Albert Camus
"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen." --Marge Piercy
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." --William Blake
"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life." --Diane Ackerman
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." --Katherine Mansfield
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. " --Sophia Loren
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases." --C. G. Jung
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles Kettering
"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve." --Nancy Hale
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."--Thomas Fuller
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right." --Mario Cuomo
"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit." --German proverb
"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently." --Anatole France
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." --Dr. Joyce Brothers
"The best things in life are free! Like Hope. And Love. And Laughter. " -- Anon
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." --Gertrude Stein
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either." --Leo Burnett
"In no time at all it will be tomorrow, and then tomorrow and tomorrow." - ??
"When things go wrong, don't go with them." -- ??
"Brains will only get you so far.." --??
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life." --Michael Leboeuf
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." --Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
"The world is quite simple really, it's designed for people who know how to use it." --??
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." --Stewart B. Johnson
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." --Gail Sheehy
"Never answer a critic, unless he's right." --Bernard Baruch
"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." --Ellen Glasgow
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act." --Abraham Maslow
"Inches make a champion." --Vince Lombardi
"We will either find a way, or make one." --Hannibal
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."--Doris Lessing
"The less of routine, the more of life." --A. B. Alcott
"Dare to be naive." --R. Buckminster Fuller
"Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it." --Anon.
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." --Dolly Parton
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." --Moliere
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps." --Henry Ford
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." --Carl Rogers
"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated." --William James
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game .... Confidence makes the difference." --Chris Evert
"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." --Gloria Steinem
"Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." --Saul Alinsky
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." --Frank A. Clark
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue." --Alice Duer Miller
"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness." --Fontenelle
"Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead." --Anon.
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." --Florence Shinn
"Life is the sum of all your choices." --Albert Camus
"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent." --Sydeny Smith
"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own." --Jacqueline Briskin
"Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous." --William Matthews
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Always take a job that is too big for you." --Harry Emerson Fosdick
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." --John A. Simone Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." --Elbert Hubbard
"The impossible is often the untried." --Jim Goodwin
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." --Irving Berlin
"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." --Heinz R. Pagels
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." --James Magary
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth." --Ed Howe
"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." --Mae West
"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." --Benjamin Lipson
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." --Beverly Sills
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." --Marcus Aurelius
"Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done." --Julia Louise Woodruff
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." --Blasie Pascal
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." --Richard Steele
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." --Katharine Graham
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." --Henry David Thoreau
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." --James Thurber
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story." --Mary McCarthy
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." --T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." --Joseph Conrad
"Statistics are no substitute for judgement." --Henry Clay
"The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything." --Lee Iacocca
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." --Lady Bird Johnson
"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy." --Dale Carnegie
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." --Confucius
"Instinct is the nose of the mind." --Madame de Girardin
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." --Shakti Gawain
"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life." --Katharine Butler Hathaway
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