"failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." ~ john wooden

"whether it’s ending conflict, or rebuilding a country, the world cannot ignore half the population." ~ hilary clinton

"real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. what better books can there be than the book of humanity?" ~ cesar chavez

"change means movement. movement means friction. don't complain, please." ~ paulo coelho

"life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those cards you hold well." ~ david roads

"the beginning is the most important part of the work." ~ plato

"one stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better." ~ cesare pavese

"guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare." ~ pierre corneille

"one can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking." ~ john burroughs

"nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. you not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him." ~ martin luther king, jr.

"the possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." ~ george bernard shaw

"you don't have to be the best. you just have to be better than last week." ~ lito sy

"every path has a destination. direction, not intention, determines destination."

"i have been impressed with the urgency of doing. knowing is not enough; we must apply. being willing is not enough; we must do." ~ leonardo da vinci

"if you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, don't blame the mirror; if you look at the world and don't like what you see don't blame the world.”

"keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on." ~ thomas alva edison

"life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." ~ george eliot

"real change is accompanied by a new insight. insight is an impulse of love dissolving some old imprint." ~ deepak chopra