"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. | Change | 14 bookmarks

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will."

Reagan, Ronald | Inaction | 8 bookmarks

"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William | Adventure | 9 bookmarks

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les | Dreams | 66 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 86 bookmarks

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark | Action | 72 bookmarks

"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world."

Rimbaud, Arthur | Life and Living | 7 bookmarks

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Watts, Alan W. | Identity | 5 bookmarks

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James | Change | 13 bookmarks

"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian | Despair | 6 bookmarks