S.A Sachs say

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

Jackson Brown say

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

English proverb

Do not fall before you are pushed.

Howard Ruff say

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Ta'ai Ken T'an say

Water which is to pure has no fish.

Joseph Joubert say

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up.

George Orwell say

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On losing

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Chinese proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Swedish proverb

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more;
hate less, love more; and all good things are yours

Baltasar Gracian say

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin say

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Robert Brault say

Every day is conquerable by its hours and every hour by its minutes.

Robert Frost say

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Best advise on promises

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

George R Kirkpatrick

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.
Ever since than man's success or failure has been dependent on
the one he used most.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Charles Dicken

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurt.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Jonathan Kozel

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Pope John

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Go Forth

I am the new American pioneer, looking forward, never back.
No longer content to wait for better times.
I will work for better times.
'Cause no one built this country in suits.
All I need is all I got. Bruises heal.
Stink is good. And apathy is death.
So I strike up for the new world!
A newer mightier world. The one I will make to my liking,
for after the darkness comes the dawn.
There is a better tomorrow.
Look across the plains and mountains and see America's
the world's eternal promise. A promise of progress.
Go forth with me. Go forth!

Levi's Go Forth ad campaign.

Just Do It

Do not resist chances. Take them like vitamins.
Let go of the brakes. See what happens if you go five more miles.
Footbridges be damned, find your own way across.
Don't worry about the bumps and bruises.Your body can take them.
Don't steer around the bits that scare you, go over them, go through them.
You feel your chin rise up from your chest, and you'll be able to see what's
around you. What's ahead of you.
And there will be one less thing you cannot do.
JUST DO IT.

Nike just do it ad campaign.

Yesterday you said tomorrow

All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you're not good enough
or strong enough or talented enough.
They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong
weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or
achieve this.
They will tell you no, a thousand times no until all
the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and
very quickly. They will tell you no.
And you will tell them yes.

Nike ad campaign.

Impossible is nothing

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men
who find it easier to live in the world they have been given
than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing.

Adidas impossible is nothing ad campaign.

The frog's view

A frog in a well says, "The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well." 

Mao's red book

We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results.

Mao's red book

What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work.

Pharoah's dream

In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows came up, scrawny and very ugly and lean. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted, withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads.

Change starts with you

These are not easy times, but they are our times.
Together, there is nothing we can't do - or undo.

Levi's go forth campaign