"I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive."

Wade, Virginia | Potential | 6 bookmarks

"The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it."

Pepys, Samuel | Pleasure | 1 bookmarks

"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | Deceit | 5 bookmarks

"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Proverb, Persian | Beauty | 2 bookmarks

"He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him."

Proverb, Persian | Fools and Foolishness | 1 bookmarks

"Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it."

Proverb, Persian | Risk | 2 bookmarks

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay | Risk | 2 bookmarks

"All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words."

Rohn, Jim | Risk | 2 bookmarks

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

Thoreau, Henry David | Wealth | 1 bookmarks

"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

Covey, Stephen R. | Potential | 3 bookmarks