Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

~ Lawrence J. Peter

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~ Helen Keller

They are ill discoverers who think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

~ Francis Bacon

commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

~ W. H. Murray

Leader of the Scottish Himalaya Expedition