“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

—Robert Browning

“We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”

—Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

—Michelangelo

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

—Emerson

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you’re sabotaging a self that is not really you.

—Armond Demele

And it is only they who are faithful in a few things who will be faithful over many things; only they who do their duty in everyday and trivial matters who will fulfill them on great occasions.

—Edwin Arnold

You always pass failure on your way to success.

—Mickey Rooney

Genius is eternal patience.

—Michael Angelo

Let us not concern ourselves about how other men will do their duties, but concern ourselves about how we shall do ours.

—Lyman Abbott

A small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

—Byron