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Below is a small sample of some of my favourite quotes. They have influenced my thinking in some way and I often reflect back on them.

In some ways, I define myself by my interpretation of some of these quotes. Philosophy, quotes, and introspective thought can help to gain a strong grasp on who I am and how I'd like to be.


"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing." -Adidas ad campaign

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -Groucho Marx

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour."
-H.D Thoreau

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
-Nietzsche

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss(1904-1991)

"There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on."
-William Blake

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things - build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-Buckminster Fuller

"Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
-John Wooden

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself"
-Anthony Rapp

"I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."
-John Wooden

"The power of your example is far greater than what you say."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -President Theodore Roosevelt