For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...

It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

Many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was...

What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?

"Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -"

Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.

But she squared her shoulders. Straightened her spine. My name is Celaena Sardothien, she whispered, and I will not be afraid.

Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser

"Chasing a dream has a price. It may require us to abandon our habits, it may make us go through difficulties, it may lead us to disappointments, etc. But no matter how high the price, it is never as...

I will at least have gained one ver

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger....

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

When you move they can't get you 'A'

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

And he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. He used to say, 'I want only can-do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can-do people around....

If you do everything, you'll win

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.