In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. (Quote by - George Eliot)

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die. (Quote by - Marie Bashkirtseff)

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life, and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. (Quote by - William M. Punshion)

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. (Quote by - Miles Franklin)

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life. (Quote by - Henry J. Golding)

He who wants to do everything will never do anything. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

We're half the people, we should be half the Congress. (Quote by - Jeannette Rankin)

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds. (Quote by - Rhodesian proverb)

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. (Quote by - George Washington)

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. (Quote by - Aristotle)

A useless life is an early death. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)

Who begins too much accomplishes little. (Quote by - German proverb)

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. (Quote by - Josephine Baker)

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret. (Quote by - Leon Uris)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist. (Quote by - Jack London)

My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests. (Quote by - Maria Goeppert Mayer)

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)