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1. Find what you got to do
Find purpose, the means will follow.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Henry David Thoreau

The man who invented fire was probably burned at the stake.
- Ayn Rand

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
- Karen Ravn

What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?

Answer: Nothing.
- Anon

2. Don't give in to this world
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– G.B. Shaw

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.
- Lizzie West, American singer-songwriter

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Eric Berne

3. Be a man of action
TO THE MAN IN THE ARENA
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled 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 up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows 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.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt

"Carpe Diem" ('Seize the day')
- Horace, 65-8BC, Roman poet

"Aut Viam Invenium Aut Facium" ('Where there's a will there's a way', literally, 'I'll either find a way or make one'.)

"Facta Non Verba" (literally, 'Deeds not words'.)

Jesus is coming, look busy.
- Tattooed on the bottom of the fake Archbishop of Canterbury in the movie Johnny English

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

4. Go your own path
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let each man march to his own rhythm, however measured, or far away
- H. D. Thoreau

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets.
I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
- Bruce Lee

If I don't express myself, then what is my life?
- Herbie hancock

Against silence. Which is slavery.
- Czeslaw Milosz

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you are still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

5. Think for yourself
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
- Bertrand Russell

"Cogito Ergo Sum" ('I think, therefore I exist')
- René Descartes, French philosopher

I keep six honest serving men, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.
- Rudyard Kipling

The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.
- Anon.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
- Sir Alec Issigonis, British car designer

6. Be passionate

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, Football Coach

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