Ray Bradbury

"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
American author

Dag Hammarskjold

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Secretary General of the United Nations
Nobel Prize laureate

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The greater thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going."

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American physician and author

Henry Ford

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American industrialist, inventor

Ichiro Suzuki

"It was a great team and I wish I could play major league games with this team for one season."

Ichiro Suzuki
Baseball Player, Seattle Mariners outfielder

B.C. Forbes

"It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal."

B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)
Scottish journalist & founder of Forbes magazine

James Freeman Clarke

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)
American minister & scholar

Winston Churchill

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British prime minister

George S. Patton

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
World War II general

Henry J. Kaiser

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)
American industrialist

Alan Alda

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing."

Alan Alda (1936 - )
American actor, screenwriter & director

Vivek Paul

"We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past."

Vivek Paul (1959 - )
Indian businessman, ranks among
Barron's Most Respected CEOs

Emily Dickinson

"Luck is not chance; it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned."

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
American poet

Theodor Seuss Geisel

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)
from "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
American writer and illustrator

Walt Disney

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Walt Disney (1901-1966)
American entrepreneur, movie producer and showman