No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. I'm preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

Online leadership is about leveraging digital platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other networks to build a loyal following of people who want to learn more about and benefit from your experiences and expertise.

As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.

Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business.

People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might present to them. So telling stories to build a relationship with your audience is usually far more effective than other methods of marketing or publicity.

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.

Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.