Who's Responsible?

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Voltaire

Success

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Charles Kendall Adams

Temptation

No man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. There is a silly idea about that good people don't know what temptation means.

C.S. Lewis

He Gave

“For God so loved the world, that he gave… “ We are never more like him than when we do the same.

Not the Same Thing

Never mistake legibility for communication.

David Carson

The Making of a Fool

Nature seldom creates a fool – she merely supplies the raw material for a do-it-yourself job.

Speaking in Action

My life is my message.

Ghandi

Strength

My flesh and my heart may fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 73:26

Doing Instead of Talking

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Buddinton Kelland

Out on a Limb

Most people wait until everything is just right before they do anything. They refuse to go out on a limb because they don’t understand that the fruit is always out on the limb.

Zig Ziglar

The pivotal moment

Investors should back people rather than ideas. It is easier to launch and test an idea, and to pivot to another if it flops. Fail to twirl and (you) may become one of the living dead. An entrepreneur can (also) overdo it and become a “compulsive jumper, never picking a single direction long enough to find out if there’s anything there.”

Read more at The Economist

Good Timing

Most people know how to say nothing but few know when.

Someone Else

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Education

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Frank A. Clark