Perry, John

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it."

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"The greatest threat to our world is not what we have to fear, but what we fail to love."

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."