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“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately rise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.â€? – Blaise Pascal    

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.â€? – George Bernard Shaw

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.â€? – Samuel Johnson

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.â€? – Orison Swett Marden

If necessity is the mother of invention, curiosity is the father.

“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.â€? – Robert Louis Stevenson

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.â€? – E. B. White

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” – Victor Hugo 

 

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur

 

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy” – Dale Carnegie

 

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.â€? – Plato

 

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.â€? – St. Francis of Assisi

 

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

 

“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke

 

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson 

 

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – H. Jackson Brown