We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

aristotle

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

Helen Hayes

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sharing a bed with a mosquito.

dalai lama

Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.

arianna huffington

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

henry ford

‘In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.’ I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court of the United States. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

E’yen A. Gardner

There are two kinds of people—those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi