“I had a purpose before anybody had an opinion.” ~ Jalen Hurts, Super Bowl MVP
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.” ~ Dr. Paul Kalanithi
“The credit belongs to [the person] … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly …” ~ Theodore Roosevelt from “Citizenship in a Republic”
“Inspiration follows aspiration” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Professional is not a label you give yourself. It is the description you hope others will apply to you” ~ David Maister, former Harvard Business School Professor
“The idea you don’t have is the voice you haven’t heard”~ NCWIT
“The impatience for fruit misses the flower.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore (i.e., enjoy the journey to the destination)
“The only limits to your ambitions are your own doubts. Keep moving on your path; it belongs to you … ”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore (i.e., be confident but also stay humble)
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore (i.e., be the person you want to be, to have what you want to have)
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.” Rabindranath Tagore (i.e,. be confident but also stay humble)
“… live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.” ~ some sage (i.e., be the person that others can believe in and look up to)
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”~ Anne Frank
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~Albert Einstein
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~Aristotle
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” ~ E. Joseph Cossman
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” ~ Joe Clark
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” ~ Frank Zappa
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you’ve chosen the side of the oppressor.” ~ Desmond Tutu