A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

© Leonardo Da Vinci @quote

All power is from within and therefore under our control.

© Robert Collier @quote

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.

© Elbert Hubbard @quote

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

© William Shakespeare @quote

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

© Wayne Dyer @quote

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

© Mary Engelbreit @quote

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

© F. Scott Fitzgerald @quote

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

© Shunryu Suzuki @quote

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

© Huang Po @quote

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

© C.G. Jung @quote

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

© John D. Rockefeller @quote

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

© Elbert Hubbard @quote

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

© Bruce Lee @quote

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself.

© Jack London @quote

Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.

© Andrew Hendrixson @quote

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

© Leo Buscaglia @quote

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

© Colin R. Davis @quote

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

© George Lorimer @quote

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.

© Alfred, Lord Tennyson @quote

Genius is patience.

© Isaac Newton @quote