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“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu

“You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
― Les Brown, The Power of Purpose

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
― Les Brown

“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”
― Les Brown

“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
― Les Brown

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.”
― Les Brown

“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”
― Les Brown

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“You are what you practice most.”
― Richard Carlson

“Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
― John Lennon

“When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.”
― Steve Jobs

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
― Steve Jobs

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon