Words to inspire by influential people

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus #rafikfarouk

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.  Hyman Rickover #rafikfarouk

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.  Sam Walton #rafikfarouk

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.  Audrey Hepburn #rafikfarouk

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.  Peter Drucker #rafikfarouk

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.  Herbert Spencer #rafikfarouk

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.  Will Rogers #rafikfarouk

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.  Winston Churchill #rafikfarouk

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.  John Wooden #rafikfarouk

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.  Audre Lorde #Rafikfarouk

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.  John Ruskin #rafikfarouk

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.  Franz Kafka #rafikfarouk

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.  Andrew Jackson #rafikfarouk

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.  W. Clement Stone #rafikfarouk

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.  Paulo Coelho #rafikfarouk

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.  H. G. Wells #rafikfarouk

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.  Soren Kierkegaard #rafikfarouk

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.  #Marcus Aurelius #rafikfarouk

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.  Khalil Gibran #Rafikfarouk

There's a way to do it better - FIND IT.  Thomas A. Edison #rafikfarouk

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.  Lord John Russell #rafikfarouk

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.  Vince Lombardi #rafikfarouk

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.  Lao Tzu #rafikfarouk

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.  Homer #rafikfarouk

There is nothing permanent except change.  Heraclitus #rafikfarouk

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.  James Geary #rafikfarouk