And then one day you realize that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

— Kamand Kojouri

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

— A.J. Darkholme

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

— John Elder Robison

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As you think so you act.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Awake! There is always a reason to give up and there is always a reason to soldier on unrelentingly. Don't give up so easily on a true purpose just because you perceive an arduous errand. Arise for you can do something to overcome something! Look beyond what you look and awaken your inner man. Move! And you shall surely see a fabulous end!

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules

— Topsy Gift

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

— Horace