"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
- Mortimer Adler
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
- Alan Alda
"It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges and I believed in myself."
- Muhammed Ali
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
- James Allen
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Allen
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
- Woody Allen
"Wealth is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
- Woody Allen
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
- Michael Althsuler
"The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves."
- Greg Anderson
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou
"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
- Maya Angelou
"What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second- or third-best horse and win."
- Vicky Aragon
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
- Arthur Ashe
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac Asimov
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson
"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation."
- Norman Augustine
"Every man's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."
- Marcus Aurelius
"I'm not a has-been, I'm a will-be."
- Lauren Bacall
"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."
- Lauren Bacall
"Action is the antidote to despair."
- Joan Baez
"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear view mirror."
- Byrd Baggett
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-
James Baldwin
"If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Carl Bard
"Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant."
- P. T. Barnum
"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."
- Ethel Barrett
"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open."
- John Barrymore
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
- Bernard M. Baruch
"Nothing can be done except little by little."
- Charles Baudelaire
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Do your best every day, and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death."
- Betty Bender
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."
- Arnold Bennett
"You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself."
- Warren B. Bennis
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
- Yogi Berra
"I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat."
- David Berry
"Dreams come a size too big so that we can fit into them."
- Josie Bissett
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
- William Blake
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Blok
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
- Margaret Bonnano
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
- Victor Borge
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
- Harriet Braiker
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success."
- Dorothea Brande
"Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."
- Jacob M. Braude
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
- Robert Brault
"If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked one."
- Bertolt Brecht
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide."
- Emily Bronte
"The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there."
- Gene Brown
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- Les Brown
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
- Rita Mae Brown
"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."
- Rita Mae Brown
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well."
- Steve Brown
"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."
- Merry Browne
"Less is more."
- Robert Browning
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Gentians Bryan
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."
- Art Buchwald
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."
- Buddha
“We cannot change the things that happen to us, but we can change our responses."
- Buddha
"What we think, we become."
- Buddha
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
- Buddha
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
- Warren Buffett
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
- Warren Buffett
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little."
- Edmund Burke
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
"By working together to open doors of opportunity for citizens with disabilities, we can help fulfill the promise of our great Nation."
- President George W. Bush
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
- Samuel Butler
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
- Michael Caine
"Much of what we see depends on what we are looking for."
- Phil Calloway
"Bloom where you are planted."
- Nancy R. Campion
"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success."
- Eddie Cantor
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
- Truman Capote
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
- Sandra Carey
"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
- Thomas Carlyle
"The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."
- Thomas Carlyle
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie
"Remember that happiness doesn't depend on what you are or on what you possess, but only on how you think.”
- Dale Carnegie
"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."
- Dale Carnegie
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver
"Don't let anyone steal your dreams!"
- Brian Cavanough
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
- C. W. Ceram
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Allan K. Chalmers
"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools."
- Nicolas Chamfort
"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."
- Lord Chesterfield
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
- Lord Chesterfield
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K. Chesterton
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
- Frederic Chopin
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"I began my education at a very early age - in fact, right after I left college."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"We make a living through what we get; we make a life through what we give."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"When you're going through hell, keep moving!"
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
- Cicero
"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
- Tom Clancy
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
- Frank A. Clark
"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill."
- Richard Clopton
"Our history is not our destiny."
- Alan Cohen
"Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act."
- Leonard Cohen
"If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles."
- Hartley Coleridge
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
- Gary Collins
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
- Charles Colton
"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
- Condorcet
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
- Alistair Cooke
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
- Calvin Coolidge
"To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution."
- Joe Cordare
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman
"The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep."
- E. Joseph Cossman
"We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed."
- Charles Caleb Cotton
"It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."
- Georges Courteline
"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."
- Park Cousins
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
"No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others."
- John Craig
"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."
- Roger Crawford
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
- e. e. cummings
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
- Michael Curtiz
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"It is not the strongest of the species who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
- Adelle Davis
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
- Bette Davis
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
- Geena Davis
"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."
- Michael Davis
"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
- Clarence Day
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."
- Sir James Dewar
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard
"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
- Isak Dinesen
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"When it's all over, it's not who you were... it's whether you made a difference."
- Bob Dole
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
- Norman Douglas
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
- Peter F. Drucker
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter F. Drucker
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
- Peter Drucker
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
- Peter Drucker
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
- John Dryden
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
- Duguet
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
- Amelia Earhart
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."
- Isabelle Eberhardt
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
- Thomas Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
"Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress."
- Thomas Edison
"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
- Thomas Edison
"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."
- Max Ehrmann
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
- Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax."
- Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
- Walter Elliott
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every wall is a door."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We become what we think about all day long."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
- Epictetus
"The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts."
- Paul Erlich
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
- Euripides
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
- Richard L. Evans
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
- Paul Fargis
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- William Faulkner
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
- William Feather
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
- W. C. Fields
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
- Doug Firebaugh
"There is only one small letter between the words CAN and CAN'T... and that one letter will TOTALLY change your destiny."
- Doug Firebaugh
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
- Ella Fitzgerald
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Don't forget until it's too late that the business of life is not business but living."
- B.C. Forbes
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
- Malcolm Forbes
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind."
- Malcolm Forbes
"If you never budge, don't expect a push."
- Malcolm Forbes
"Men who never get carried away should be."
- Malcolm Forbes
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
- Malcolm Forbes
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes
"When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done."
- Malcolm Forbes
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
- Henry Ford
"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."
- Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
- Henry Ford
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it."
- Anatole France
"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke."
- Brendan Francis
"Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them."
- Brendan Francis
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
- Benjamin Franklin
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Empty your purse into your head and you'll never be poor."
- Benjamin Franklin
"If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
"You may delay, but time will not."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The punch that knocks you out is the one you didn't see."
- Joe Frazier
"We can have it all, but not at the same time."
- Patricia Fripp
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
- Robert Frost
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
- Robert Frost
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
- Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
- Margaret Fuller
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do."
- Don Galer
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion."
- John Gardner
"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."
- Greer Garson
"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
- André Gidev
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What you can do or think you can, begin it - boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
- Emma Goldman
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn
"The impossible is often the untried."
- Jim Goodwin
"The two great laws of life are growth and decay. When things stop growing, they begin to die. This is true of men, business or nations."
- Charles Gow
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can."
- Cary Grant
"Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim."
- Graham Greene
"Statistically, 100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
- Wayne Gretzky
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
- Martha Grimes
"It isn't work, it's worry that makes people tired and frustrated."
- J. E. Gulick
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Gyorgyi
"Never hurry - and don't worry - and don't forget to stop and smell the flowers."
- Walter Hagen
"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
- William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
After all is said and done, more has usually been said than done."
- Michael W. Hamrick
"It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little."
- Mark Victor Hansen
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
- Elizabeth Harrison
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
- Bret Harte
"If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck."
- David Hasslehoff
"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
- Katharine B. Hathaway
"We may affirm that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
- George W. F. Hegel
"Ideas move fast when their time comes."
- Caroly Heilbrun
"People change and forget to tell each other."
- Lillian Hellman
"Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemmingway
"Never confuse movement with action."
- Ernest Hemingway
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn
"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."
- Thomas W. Higginson
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays."
- Harrold Hill
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."
- Napoleon Hill
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
- Napoleon Hill
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
- Hans Hoffman
"One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."
- Josian Gilbert Holland
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
- Bob Hope
"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
- Bob Hope
"Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back."
- W. K. Hope
"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."
- Homer
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' "
- Grace Hopper
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
- Horace
"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth."
- Horace
"Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wides as you possibly can?"
- A. E. Hotchner
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page."
- Mark Houlahan
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
- Edgar Watson Howe
"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience."
- Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
"The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it."
- Elbert Hubbard
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
- Victor Hugo
"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
- Victor Hugo
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley
"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
- John Irving
“Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank."
- Ben Irwin
"It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
- Mick Jagger
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James
"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
- Susan Jeffers
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead."
- Edith Johnson
"Clear your mind of 'can't.'."
- Samuel Johnson
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
- Samuel Johnson
"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
- Samuel Johnson
"What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure."
- Samuel Johnson
"It's your life, your one and only life - so take excellence VERY personally."
- Scoot Johnson
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones
"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas F. Jones, Jr.
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
"Never cut what you can untie."
- Joseph Joubert
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
- Carl Jung
"It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive."
- Walter Kane
"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
- Alphonse Karr
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
- Danny Kaye
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
- Dena Kaye
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
- Helen Keller
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough."
- Helen Keller
"Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says 'Go!' - a leader says 'Let's go!'"
- E. M. Kelly
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."
- Harry Kemp
"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
- Eugene Kennedy
"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
- John F. Kennedy
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."
- John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
- John F. Kennedy
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
- Jean Kerr
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
- Ken Kesey
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
- Charles F. Kettering
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."
- Victor Kiam
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
- Rudyard Kipling
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
- George Kneller
"Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep."
- Brian Koslow
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
- Jonathan Kozol
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
- Thomas La Mance
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- Dalai Lama
"Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then do it."
- Ann Landers
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
- Stephen Leacock
"You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
- Timothy Leary
"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
- Fran Lebowitz
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
- John Lennon
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
- John Lennon
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
- W. M. Lewis
"All things come to those who wait, but only those things left behind by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
- Raymond Lindquist
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
- Jack London
"Mistakes are the price we pay for a full life."
- Sophia Loren
"I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us."
- Konrad Lorenz
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
"Fate loves the fearless."
- James Russell Lowell
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
- Max Lucado
"Learn from the mistakes of others - you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
- John Luther
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"For me, the safest place is out on a limb."
- Shirley MacLaine
"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams."
- Sidney Madwed
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
- Naguib Mahfouz
"A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts."
- Dayle Maloney
"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
- Nelson Mandela
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield
"You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough."
- Adam Marshall
"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
- Karl Marx
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
- Elsa Maxwell
"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."
- William McFee
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
- Larry McMurtry
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image."
- Thomas Merton
"The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing
compared to your true potential."
- Paul J. Meyer
"Genius is eternal patience."
- Michelangelo
"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius."
- Michelangelo
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
- James A. Michener
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home."
- James A. Michener
"Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there."
- Richard C. Miller
"We create our fate every day we live."
- Henry Miller
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
- Charles Mingus
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."
- Wilson Mizner
"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."
- Walter Mondale
"A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night."
- Marilyn Monroe
"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
- Thomas L. Monson
"I quote others only the better to express myself."
- Michel de Montaigne
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
- Henry Moore
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Morely
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
- William Morris
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa
"To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say... 'Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it.' "
- Bill Murray
"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - did you ever try buying them without money?"
- Ogden Nash
"Whoever said it's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost."
- Martina Navratilova
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."
- Patricia Neal
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
- Earl Nightingale
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
- Anaïs Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anaïs Nin
"It has been said that people will generally live up to or down to our expectations. Make sure that the direction of YOUR expectations, is UP!"
- Susan Niven
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- Richard M. Nixon
"There are some things in life that you are not meant to be. Don't waste your time and tears trying to be them. Reach for the things you are meant to be, and you will reach your destiny."
- Sarah Normile
"It's not so much how busy you are - but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted."
- Marie O'Connor
"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
- Babatunde Olatunji
“Have a very good reason for everything you do."
- Sir Laurence Olivier
"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything."
- Sir Laurence Olivier
“The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise person grows it under his feet.”
- James Oppenheim
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
- Robert Orben
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."
- Cyril Northcote Parkinson
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
- Gen. George S. Patton
"Say what you mean and mean what you say."
- Gen. George S. Patton
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
- Linus Pauling
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
- M. Scott Peck
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
- Jack Penn
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
- Laurence J. Peter
"An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it."
- Laurence J. Peter
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
- Laurence J. Peter
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
- Laurence J. Peter
"The only problems money can solve are money problems."
- Laurence J. Peter
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
- Laurence J. Peter
"There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that's the man who will argue over nothing."
- Laurence J. Peter
"If you've got it, flaunt it. If you do not, pretend."
- Wally Phillips
"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."
- Wendell Phillips
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpots
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
- Pablo Picasso
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
- Plato
"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate."
- Alexander Pope
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
- Colin Powell
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."
- Hugh Prather
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
- Bonnie Prudden
"If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got."
- Nido Qubein
"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you... if you listen to it, you can play it."
- Nido Qubein
"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are."
- Anna Quindlen
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
- John Randolph
"Only as high as I reach can I grow. Only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see. Only as much as I dream can I be."
- Karen Ravn
"There is always a risk to follow your bliss - a price to pursue your passion."
- James A. Ray
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will eventually triumph. And there's purposes and worth to each and every life."
- Ronald Reagan
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
- Auguste Rodin
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
- Ginger Rogers
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
- Will Rogers
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
- Arthur Rubenstein
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
- Theodore Rubin
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
- David Russell
"To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce."
- William Safire
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
- Dr. Jonas Salk
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
- George Sand
"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
- Dorothy Sarnoff
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
- May Sarton
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible."
- Miriam Schiff
"You are what you think about all day long."
- Dr. Robert Schuller
"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
- Albert Schweitzer
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
- John Sculley
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
- Seneca
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
"There is no failure in life other than not trying."
- Jane Seymour
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
- William Shakespeare
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
- R. E. Shay
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
- Gail Sheehy
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
"The real problem isn't whether machines think but whether people do."
- B.F. Skinner
"A place for everything, and everything in its place."
- Samuel Smiles
"Progress, however of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
- Samuel Smiles
"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
- Samuel Smiles
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
- Elinor Smith
"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability."
- Roy L. Smith
"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
- Sydney Smith
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
- Carrie Snow
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates
"You become what you think about most often."
- Kidde Spinne
"Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
- Bruce Springsteen
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."
- Gertrude B. Stein
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then - for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
- Jonathan Swift
"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel."
- Ben Sweetland
"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
- Charles Swindoll
"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
- Publius Syrus
"It's not the having, it's the getting."
- Elizabeth Taylor
"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
- Junior Teague
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
- Sara Teasdale
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
- Margaret Thatcher
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
- Dylan Thomas
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
- Henry David Thoreau
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Most men live lives of quiet desperation. I want to live each day to the full. For when it comes time to die, I do not want to find that life has passed me by."
- Henry David Thoreau
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau
"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
- Henry David Thoreau
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation."
- Mike Todd
"Not all who wander are lost."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience."
- Leo Tolstoy
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
“For fast acting relief try slowing down."
- Lily Tomlin
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
"No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand new hours to spend every single day."
- Brian Tracy
"The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things."
- Brian Tracy
"Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly."
- Brian Tracy
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."
- Brian Tracy
"If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em."
- Harry Truman
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
- Lao Tsu
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
- Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
"It is easier to stay out than get out."
- Mark Twain
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
"Put all your eggs in the one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET."
- Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
- Mark Twain
"There is no security in life, only opportunity."
- Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
- Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"We can secure other people's approval, if we do it right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it."
- Mark Twain
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
- Frank Tyger
"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
- Theodore Vail
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness."
- Leland Val Vandewall
"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be king."
- Martin van Doren
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
- Gore Vidal
"Common sense is not so common."
- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking."
- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."
- Michelle Walker
"It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't so."
- Artimus Ward
"If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
- William Arthur Ward
"Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."
- William Arthur Ward
"The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
"Wise are they who have learned these truths - trouble is temporary, time is a tonic, tribulation is a test tube."
- William Arthur Ward
"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."
- Booker T. Washington
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."
- Booker T. Washington
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed."
- Booker T. Washington
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
- Booker T. Washington
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne
"Control your destiny or somebody else will."
- Jack Welsh
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
- Jessamyn West
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- Mae West
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
- Edith Wharton
“There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
- Katherine Whitehorn
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde
"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."
- Oscar Wilde
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
- Oscar Wilde
"I can resist everything except temptation."
- Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
- Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
- Nancy Willard
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
- Tennessee Williams
"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
- Oprah Winfrey
" hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
- Forest Witcraft
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."
- Stevie Wonder
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George E. Woodberry
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
- John Wooden
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"The trick is to grow up without getting old."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
- Virginia Woolf
"Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."
- William Wordsworth
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
- Eva Young
"A person who can't lead and won't follow makes a dandy roadblock."
- Richard Zera
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful."
- Mel Ziegler
"It is not a disgrace to lack a degree, but it is a disgrace not to be educated."
- Zig Ziglar
"People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You might have a heart of gold, but so does a hardboiled egg."
- Zig Ziglar
"The things that count most in life are the things that can't be counted."
- Zig Ziglar
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
- Zig Ziglar
"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck."
- Carl Zuckmeyer
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