What others apprise, the same you want to, what others avoid, the same you want to, that is why, you fail as others, how ridiculous it is!

~ Lao Tzu

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

~ Buddha

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

~ Confucius

"We, the rusting leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you, so silent?"  - "I am a mere flower."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. >>>

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

~ Steve Jobs

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.  >>>

~ Henry David Thoreau

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

~ Seneca

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

~ William James

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.  >>>

~ Coco Chanel

If you want to succeed, you have to forge new paths and avoid borrowed ones.

~ John Rockefeller

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. >>>

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glory may be fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.  >>>

~ Charles Kuralt

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.  >>>

~ Sam Walton

Our success is due, in part, to not just an ability but a willingness to look at things differently.  >>>

~ Michael Dell

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

~ Bill Cosby

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not follow the crowd. Ignore the market, the crowd, and its fashions.

~ Warren Buffett

Every level of income demands a different you.

~ Mike Litman

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

~ Greena Davis

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. >>>

~ Grace Hopper

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. >>>

~ Elbert Hubbard

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.