"Intelligence is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes."

-Voltaire

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

(Pearl S. Buck)

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which
kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

-Washington Irving

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it."

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

"Drawing is not the same as form."

(Edgar Degas)

"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."

~Unknown

"Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves."

(Robert Frost)

Buckminster Fuller, on "what one person can do":

"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary -- the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.

It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.

So I said, call me Trim Tab."

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

~ Buckminster Fuller

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become."

-- James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews

"There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight
and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good."

-- Tillotson

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

~ E. B. White

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them everyday, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

Brian Tracy in The Power of Discipline

"Your work is to discover your work - and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

(Buddha)

"The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady
resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who
succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance
of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. "

-- W.J. Davison

"See the job. Do the job. Stay out of misery."

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions not our circumstances”.

- Martha Washington

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."

-- John Farrar (1945-) Australian Composer