Words to inspire by influential people

Associate yourself with people of good quality,  for it is better to be alone than in bad company.  Booker T. Washington #Rafikfarouk

If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.  Peter Drucker #Rafikfarouk

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.  Virgil #Rafikfarouk

The longest journey is the journey inwards.  Of him who has chosen his destiny,  Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.  Dag Hammarskjold #Rafikfarouk

We must accept life for what it actually is -  a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made,  or grow to our full stature.  Robert Louis Stevenson #Rafikfarouk

You are today where your thoughts have brought you;  you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.  James Allen #Rafikfarouk

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.  Joe Paterno #Rafikfarouk

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.  Harry S. Truman  #Rafikfarouk

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.  Vaclav Havel #Rafikfarouk

Adversity is the first path to truth.  Lord Byron #Rafikfarouk

If a man does his best, what else is there?  George S. Patton #Rafikfarouk

Leadership is an education. And the best leaders think of themselves as the students, not the teachers. Simon Sinek #Rafikfarouk

As far as we can discern,  t he sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.  Carl Jung #Rafikfarouk

The Courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing,  it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.  Brené Brown #Rafikfarouk

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.  Alfred Lord Tennyson #Rafikfarouk

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare #Rafikfarouk

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. Victor Hugo #Rafikfarouk

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.  George Santayana #Rafikfarouk

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.  Juan Ramon Jimenez #Rafikfarouk