"Sometimes you have to do all the wrong things to figure out what's right."
- NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Life is a promise. Fulfill it."
- Mother Teresa

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."
- Christopher Reeve

"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
- Ben Hogan

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great."
- Mark Twain

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
- e.e. cummings

"Perhaps one can at last in middle age, if not earlier, be completely oneself."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There's no harm in trying. Nothing can harm you till it comes. And it may never come. Or if it comes it is something else again. And those who say, 'I'll try anything once,' often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for."
- Carl Sandburg

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
- H. D. Thoreau

" . . . the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell

"You doubtless will make some mistakes, just as we do, just as everybody else does, but if we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, there would be little hope of advance."
- Orville Wright

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- H. D. Thoreau

"Make no small plans. Small plans have no magic to stir people's blood. Make big plans, and the Lord shall abundantly bless us."
- Maggie Walker

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history."
- Plutarch

"More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination."
- Wilbur Wright

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Butler Yeats

"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
- Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
- Romans 10:9

"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
- John 14:6

"The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line."
- Orlando A. Battista 

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among that overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
- Economist Herbert Simon

"Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work."
- Bob Dylan
 
 "There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view; there's none if we pretend it's not there."
- C.S. Lewis

Soar to Success the Wright Way © 2007 by Jim Meisner, Jr.

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