When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

Josh Groban

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

William James

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Eric Hoffer

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nevell Bovee

These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.

Albert Camus

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard wordsbruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Billie Holiday

Pay attention to what you pray for. Your prayers are not just a reflection of your desires and hopes; they are a guide for personal behavior. PRAY it, BE it, and you will SEE it.

Steve Maraboli