""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out."
- Anita Roddick
Originality
"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."
- Therese of Lisieux
Originality
"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."
- Franz Joseph Haydn
Originality