If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you...

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then...

The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend...

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is...

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you’ve lived for your entire life.

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of...

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

No matter what, don’t live a life where you’re too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you’ve got, even if it doesn’t seem to be enough.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the...

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead...

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

What’s the use in prolonging life if you don’t do anything with it?

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you’ve forgotten.

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you’ve gained.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely...

My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

We live our days in the microscopic, but something within us calls us to dream in the cosmic – every one of us. And within us exists those two worlds: the world as it is...

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief’s relic that we must take for ourselves.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over...

There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a...

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.

Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat...

The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to...

Sic vis pacem para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war.

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong...

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.

Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.

The strong will always rule the weak.

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued – a time when the losses of the present must be accepted – and cut –...

To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don’t feel prepared to go.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.