Among a man's many good possessions,
A good command of speech has no equal.
Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.
Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
-Tirukkural 65: 641-642
I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.
-Thomas Jefferson
The longing makes the Messiah.
-Theodor Herzl
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
-Will Durant
You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky
Do not despise any person, and do not consider anything impossible, for there is no person who does not have an hour and no thing that does not have its place.
-Pirkei Avot
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
It is better for my enemy to see good in me than for me to see evil in him.
-Yiddish proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr