A few interesting perspectives of life:

1. Life

“I am a better person today than I was yesterday. We cannot change the past, but we can learn from the past to make the present a better place to be. Each day brings promise, with each new sunrise”.

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

"You must be the Change you wish to see in the World"
Mahatma Gandhi

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity"
Henry Van Dyke, American Author and Clergyman

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American President

"There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em..."
Kevin Welch

2. Leadership:

You’ve got to Lead & not drive, Inspire & not dominate, cause Respect & not fear, win Support & not opposition.
Anonymous

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

“ Winners never quit. Quitters never win”

3. Teamwork:

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
….Halford E Luccock

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

4. Planning:

“Luck is Preparation waiting for an opportunity”
F1 Ferrari Team Manager

Abraham Lincoln's is reputed to have said:
"If I had six hours to cut down a tree I would spend the first five hours sharpening the axe"

5. Learning:

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (1881-1973)

"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)

"Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
TH Huxley, British biologist (1887-1975)

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
Alvin Toffler, US management author, editor (b.1928)

6. Other Quotes:

"After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box."
Murphy

"Only passion, great passion, can elevate the human soul to achieve great things."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep in them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammad Ali, US boxer (b.1942)

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch, Greek biographer, essayist (46-120 AD)

"In the book of life , the answers aren't in the back."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte, French soldier

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
Groucho Marx, US comic actor (1890-1977)

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, businessman (1833-1896)

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen, US film actor, director (b.1935)

"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success."
John Keats, British poet (1795-1821)

"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."
Thomas J Watson, US businessman, founder of IBM (1874-1956)

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
Ed Foreman, US politician, entrepreneur (b.1933)

"Be daring. Be first. Be different."
Anita Roddick, British business executive

"If it doesn't matter who wins, then how come we keep score?"
Vince Lombardi, US football coach (1913-1970)

Secrets for success:
1. Get up early.
2. Work hard.
3. Find oil.
J Paul Getty, US businessman (1892-1976)

"People cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide, French novelist, critic (1869-1951)