Challenge the authority class
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again
and again and it will succeed. ——W.M Thackeray
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world. ——Albert Einstein
I start where the last man left off. ——Thomas Edison
The further backward you can look, the further forward you will
see. ——Winston Churchill
You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the
maps in the world.
Don‘t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try
to be better than yourself. ——William Faulkner American writer
Follow your own course, and let people talk. ——Italian poet Alghieri
Dante
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
——Thomas Edison
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. ——Samuel Johnson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ——Robert
Collier American writer
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it . ——Thomas Jefferson the 3rd American president
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Luck is not
chance. It’s toilet. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned. ——Emily Dickinson
The Two-Sided Kind of Things
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ——William
Hazlitt
We choose to go to the moon and other things, not because they are easy,
but because they are hard. ——John F. Kennedy
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ——Albert Einstein American
physicist
Those who aim at great deeds must suffer greatly.
——Crassus
No pains, no palm; no thorns, nothrone; no gall, no glory; no cross, no
crown. ——William Penn
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every
defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ——Robert
Collier
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ——Henry Ford
American entrepreneur
Subjective and objective types
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a
Calamity in every opportunity. ——British prime minister Winston Churchill
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. ——John
Steinbeck
While the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming
it. ——Helen Keller
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in
whatever sunlight remains to them?——Rose Kennedy
Individuals and other humans
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world
remains and is immortal. ——Albert Pine English critic
Two heads are better than one. Three cobblers are the best of Zhuge Liang.
One boy is a boy; two boys halfboy; three boys no boy.
One monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat
A stake with three fences, a good brave fellow three help.
A fence has three stakes, a hero has three gangs
In unity there is strength. Unity is strength
A friend is indeed known by sharing hardships. Tribulation is the touchstone of friends.
A hedge between keeps friendship green. The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water
A life without a friend is a life without a sun. If a person has no friends, it is like having only life without the sun.
United we stand, divided we fall. When united, they stand; when divided, they collapse.
One swallow does not make a summer. A swallow does not make a summer.