“It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonise at length and be right too late.” — Marilyn Moats Kennedy

“Pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” — Maya Angelou

“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time given to us.” — Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkein

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832) German writer, poet, playwright, and scientist

Emphasizes his belief that having knowledge or good intentions is merely a starting point. According to his philosophy, it is only through decisive action and execution that understanding and willingness translate into real-world results. [1, 2, 3] Note: While often attributed to Goethe in modern popular culture, this specific quote is actually a famous distillation of a principle originally written by martial artist and actor Bruce Lee

"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions." — Alan Watts

“The most powerful, efficient energy source in the world is your own mind. Explore & discover that it can make creative fuel from anything.” — Bagels & Beans napkin

“And I have always had an especially great desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, [to verify or expound] in order to see my way clearly in my actions, and to go forward with confidence in this life. It is true that, so long as I merely considered the customs of other men, I found hardly anything there about which to be confident, and that I noticed there was about as much diversity as I had previously found among the opinions of philosophers. Thus the greatest profit I derived from this was that, on seeing many things that, although they seem to us very extravagant and ridiculous, do not cease to be commonly accepted and approved among other great peoples, I learned not to believe anything too firmly of which I had been persuaded only by example and custom;

and thus I little by little freed myself from many errors that can darken our natural light and render us less able to listen to reason. But after I had spent some years thus studying in the book of the world and in trying to gain some experience, I resolved one day to study within myself too and to spend all the powers of my mind in choosing the paths that I should follow.” — René Descartes **, Discourse on Method (**Descartes published Discourse on Method in 1637, and he was born on March 31, 1596,)

“Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.” — Richard Branson

“Give yourself permission to slow down. You can speed up by slowing down.” — Gabby Bernstein

“You must not ever stop being whimsical.” — Mary Oliver

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/letters-kids-gift

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” — Vincent van Gogh

You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success." — Charlie Munger

“An essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” — Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991), an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” — Eckhart Tolle