Personal Quotes
Challenges
"There are already all good intentions, we just need to apply them."
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and writer (1623-1662)
"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
Ronald Reagan
Actor and 40th President of the United States
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
John Augustus Shedd
Writer
"The people who shift something from today to tomorrow are the same ones who have shifted something from yesterday to today."
Peter Ustinov
Actor
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host, actress and entrepreneur
"You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem."
Tim Cook
CEO Apple
"The annoying thing about anger is that you harm yourself without being useful to others."
Kurt Tucholsky
Writer
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist, politician, satirist, music critic and pacifist
"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."
Michelle Obama
Former US-American First Lady (2009-2017)
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian lawyer, resistance fighter, revolutionary, publicist, ascetic and pacifist
"The best way to fight the forbidden is to allow it."
John B. Priestley
british writer (1894-1984)
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
American basketball player & entrepreneur