"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall".
- Nelson Mandela
"Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls."
- William Shakespeare, 'Othello'.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
- Steve Jobs"
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon
"Excellence is not a skill.It is an attitude."
- Ralph Marston
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
- Anonymous
"You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it."
- Octavia E. Butler
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
- Louis L’Amour
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."
- William Faulkner
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
- Terry Pratchett
"Start before you’re ready."
- Steven Pressfield
"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page"
- Jodi Picoult
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
- Robert Frost
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
- Toni Morrison
"I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."
- Shannon Hale
"I get a lot of letters from people. They say, "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it."
- Ruth Rendell
"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"
- Ray Bradbury
"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
- Samuel Johnson
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
- E. L. Doctorow
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
"If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success."
- Malcolm X
"If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it."
- Wally Lamb
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
- Margaret Atwood
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
- Winston Churchill
"Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it."
- Lady Gaga
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
- Mother Teresa
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson