Anger Quotes

• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
  Malcolm X
  

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  Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
  Jim Butcher
  

• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
  Leo Buscaglia
  

• A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
  Garrison Keillor
  

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  Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
  Greg Evans
  

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  Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
  Elizabeth I
  

• 
  Anger is a brief madness.
  Horace
  

• Anger is short-lived madness.
  Horace
  

• For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness
  Albert Einstein
  

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  Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured
  Mark Twain
  

• Anger is only one letter short of danger
  Popular Saying
  

• The angry people are those people who are most afraid
  Dr. Robert Anthon
  

• Anger blows out the lamp of the mind
  Robert Green Ingersoll
  

• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
  Chinese Proverbs
  

• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it
  Seneca
  

• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing
  Will Rogers
  

• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  Seneca.
  

• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  

• Resentment is setting yourself on fire so the smoke will annoy someone.
  Unknown
  

• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
  Albert Einstein
  

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  Marcus Aurelius.
  

• Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
  Thomas Fuller.
  

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  When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
  Thomas Haliburton.
  

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  There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
  St. Francis De Sales.
  

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  Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;you are the one who gets burned.
  Buddh
  

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  People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
  Will Rogers.
  

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  If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
  Sydney J. Harris
  

• He who angers you conquers you.
  Elizabeth Kenny
  

• Anger is one letter short of danger.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

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  If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
  Korean Proverb
  

• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  Barbara De Angelis
  

• Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
  Lyman Abbott
  

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  The practice is always to go back to oneself.
  Thich Nhat Hanh
  

• When a man is wrong and won’t admit is, he always gets angry.
  Thomas Haliburton
  

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  The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  Seneca
  

• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
  Mohandas Gandhi
  

• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
  Henry Ward Beecher
  

• In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
  Emily Giffin
  

• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
  Cherie Carter-Scott
  

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  Marcus Aurelius
  

• There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
  Plato
  

• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
  William Shakespeare
  

• The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.
  Gautama Buddha
  

• Whate'ers begun in anger ends in shame.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

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  If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  Chinese Proverb.
  

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  Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
  Seneca
  

• Resentment is stabbing yourself to get at the person behind you.
  Unknown
  

• He who angers you conquers you.
  Elizabeth Kenny
  

• In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
  Lee Iacocca
  

• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  Maya Angelou
  

• For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
  Dr. Joyce Brothers
  

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
  Buddha
  

• It’s never what people do that makes us angry; it’s what we tell ourselves about what they did.
  Marshall Rosenberg
  

• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
  Will Rogers
  

• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
  William Arthur Ward
  

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  Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
  Ambrose Bierce
  

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  If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
  John Steinbeck
  

• Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
  Marcus Antonius
  

• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  Chinese Proverb.
  

• Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.
  Kazi Sham
  

• No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
  George Jean Nathan
  

• He who angers you conquers you.
  Elizabeth Kenny
  

• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
  John Dryden
  

• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
  Will Rogers.
  

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  If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
  Will Rogers
  

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
  Ambrose Bierce
  

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  Marcus Aurelius
  

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  Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
  Thomas Fuller
  

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  No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
  George Jean Nathan
  

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
  Thomas Mann
  

• The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
  St. Francis De Sales
  

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
  Ambrose Bierce
  

• Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and
  grieved.
  Marcus Antonius
  

• Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
  Sam Brown
  

• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  

• The State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
  John Kenneth Galbraith
  

• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
  Will Rogers
  

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
  Will Rogers
  

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
  Victor Hugo
  

• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
  John F. Kennedy
  

• The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
  David Brin
  

• All movements go too far.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
  Kurt Vonnegut
  

• The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
  Frederick Locker Lampson
  

• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
  Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
  

• Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
  Robert W. Sarnoff
  

• Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
  Honore de Balzac
  

• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
  William Jennings Bryan
  

• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
  Quentin Crisp
  

• There are two types of people those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah,there you are.'
  Frederick L Collins
  

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
  James Russell Lowell
  

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
  Leo Tolstoy
  

• No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
  Jascha Heifetz
  

• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
  John Maynard Keynes
  

• Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  

• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
  Edmund Wilson
  

• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
  Will Rogers
  

• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
  Elbert Hubbard
  

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
  W. Somerset Maugham
  

• When you're through changing, you're through.
  Bruce Barton
  

• The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
  Foster's Law
  

• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
  Lily Tomlin
  

• Good bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
  George Saunders
  

• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
  Robertson Davies
  

• The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  

• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
  Dave Barry
  

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
  Walter Bagehot
  

• There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
  Alice Thomas Ellis
  

• The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
  Clarence Darrow
  

• Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
  Tom Stoppard
  

• Only fools are positive.
  Moe Howard
  

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
  Havelock Ellis
  

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
  Lillian Hellman
  

• No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
  Lily Tomlin
  

• The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
  George F. Will
  

• Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
  Robert Byrne
  

• Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
  Doug Larson
  

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city.
  George Burns
  

• The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
  Dick Werthimer
  

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.
  Jonathan Swift
  

• What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
  Evelyn Waugh
  

• We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
  Judith Martin
  

• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
  Paul Valery
  

• A book of quotations can never be complete.
  Robert M. Hamilton
  

• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
  Henry Ford
  

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing
  Nancy Astor
  

• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
  Soren Kierkegaard
  

• Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
  Frantz Fanon
  

• Blame someone else and get on with your life.
  Alan Woods
  

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
  W. C. Fields
  

• A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
  Daniel Webster
  

• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
  Henrik Tikkanen
  

• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
  O. Henry
  

• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
  Dick Cavett
  

• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
  G. K. Chesterton
  

• Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
  John W. Gardner
  

• Things are only impossible until they're not.
  Jean Luc Picard
  

• The best way out is always through.
  Robert Frost
  

• Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
  Jane Wagner
  

• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
  Arthur Schopenhauer
  

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
  E. F. Schumacher
  

• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
  Sir Frederick G. Banting
  

• Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
  Janet Long
  

• In a mad world only the mad are sane.
  Akira Kurosawa
  

• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
  Joe Ancis
  

• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
  G. K. Chesterton
  

• Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
  Friedrich Nietzsche
  

• The truth is never told during the nine to five hours.
  Hunter S. Thompson
  

• When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
  Anatole France
  

• She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  W. Somerset Maugham
  

• He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
  Rudyard Kipling
  

• The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
  Amanda Cross
  

• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birthas toys.
  Eric Hoffer
  

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
  Seneca
  

• Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
  Hesketh Pearson
  

• Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
  Cullen Hightower
  

• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
  Joseph Conrad
  

• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
  Albert Einstein
  

• It is bad luck to be superstitious.
  Andrew W. Mathis
  

• America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
  Evan Esar
  

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  Will Durant
  

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
  Mark Twain
  

• No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
  Stephen Vizinczey
  

• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln
  

• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
  Arthur Koestler
  

• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident.
  Arthur Schopenhauer
  

• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
  Albert Einstein
  

• To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
  George Orwell
  

• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
  Isaac Newton
  

• Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good
  Samuel Johnson
  

• This book fills a much needed gap.
  Moses Hadas
  

• Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
  Flannery O'Connor
  

• Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
  Russel Lynes
  

• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  GK Chesterton
  

• I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
  Fred Allen
  

• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
  Aldous Huxley
  

• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
  Edward Abbey
  

• Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
  H. Mumford Jones
  

• Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill fated creature is born.
  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
  Eric Hoffer
  

• Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
  John Andrew Holmes
  

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
  Soren Kierkegaard
  

• It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
  Dame Rose Macaulay
  

• What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
  Hansell B. Duckett
  

• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
  George Burns
  

• Silence is the virtue of fools.
  Sir Francis Bacon
  

• Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
  Jules Renard
  

• Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
  Robert Heinlein
  

• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
  Daphne du Maurier
  

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
  Walter Bagehot
  

• The fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
  Robert Graves
  

• Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
  Stephen King
  

• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
  Hermann Hesse
  

• Excellence makes people nervous.
  Shana Alexander
  

• In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is stoned to death.
  Joan D. Vinge
  

• Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
  Peter Ustinov
  

• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  George Santayana
  

• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
  Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
  

• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
  Tom Stoppard
  

• Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
  Edgar Wilson Nye

• A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
  Unknown
  

• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
  Voltaire
  

• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
  Mark Twain
  

• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
  Sophocles
  

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
  Olin Miller
  

• Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
  Carl Sagan
  

• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
  George Christoph Lichtenberg
  

• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
  Henry Kissinger
  

• Adventure is just bad planning.
  Roald Amundsen
  

• Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was Margaret Mitchel
  

• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
  Al Franken
  

• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
  Ernest Hemingway
  

• Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
  HL Mencken
  

• Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
  Robert Anthony
  

• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
  Jane Austen
  

• Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
  Hobart Brown
  

• If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
  Robertson Davies
  

• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness.
  Aldous Huxley
  

• A hypocrite is a person who but who isn't?
  Don Marquis
  

• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
  Mark Twain
  

• No good deed goes unpunished.
  Clare Booth Luce
  

• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
  Bobby Knight
  

• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
  Henry David Thoreau
  

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
  TS Eliot
  

• After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
  George Ade
  

• Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
  Edward Gibbon
  

• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
  Will Rogers
  

• The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
  Larry Hardiman
  

• Speech was given to conceal thought.
  Sir William Osler
  

• Language is the source of misunderstandings.
  Antoine de Saint Exupery
  

• There are only two ways of telling the complete truth anonymously and posthumously.
  Thomas Sowell
  

• Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
  Nick Diamos
  

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
  Upton Sinclair
  

• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
  Douglas Adams
  

• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
  Mignon McLaughlin
  

• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
  George Orwell
  

• An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
  Benjamin Stolberg
  

• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
  P. J. Plauger
  

• Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
  Jean Cocteau
  

• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
  Brendan Gill
  

• The whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
  Umberto Eco
  

• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
  Steven Weinberg
  

• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
  Denis Diderot
  

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
  Carl Becker
  

• Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
  Floyd Dell
  

• Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
  Anonymous
  

• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
  Warren Beatty
  

• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
  Thomas A. Edison
  

• You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
  Cecil Baxter
  

• I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
  Jerome K. Jerome
  

• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
  Franz Kafka
  

• Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
  Bob Wells
  

• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
  Edward Abbey
  

• The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
  Norman Brenner
  

• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.
  Groucho Marx
  

• It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
  Madeleine L'Engle
  

• Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
  Bernard M. Baruch
  

• A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
  Willis Player
  

• A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
  Woodrow Wilson
  

• The world is run by 'C' students.
  Al McGuire
  

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
  PJ O'Rourke
  

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
  Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
  HL Mencken
  

• Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
  Miguel de Cervantes
  

• A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
  Evan Esar
  

• What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
  Cindy Gardner
  

• A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
  Fred Allen
  

• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
  Henry Fielding
  

• For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
  Gloria Borger
  

• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
  Herb Caen
  

• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
  Tom Stoppard
  

• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
  Willa Cather
  

• I am not young enough to know everything.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
  Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  

• Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
  TS Eliot
  

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
  Edith Sitwell
  

• The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
  H. L. Mencken
  

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
  Martin Luther King Jr.
  

• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
  Vic Gold
  

• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
  Mark Twain
  

• The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
  Kin Hubbard
  

• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  Will Durant
  

• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  Michel de Montaigne
  

• In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
  Johann von Neumann
  

• Equations are the devil's sentences.
  Stephen Colbert
  

• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
  Richard Feynman
  

• No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
  Donald Foster
  

• Where facts are few, experts are many.
  Donald R. Gannon
  

• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
  Michael Crichton
  

• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
  Eugene McCarthy
  

• Television is for appearing on not for looking at.
  Noel Coward
  

• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
  Abraham Maslow
  

• Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
  Ken Hakuta
  

• I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
  Terry Pratchett
  

• I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
  Jules Renard
  

• Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
  Woody Allen
  

• If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
  G. K. Chesterton
  

• I'm a born again atheist.
  Gore Vidal
  

• Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
  HL Mencken
  

• A cult is a religion with no political power.
  Tom Wolfe
  

• When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  Thomas A. Edison
  

• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
  Walt Kelly
  

• As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life so Ibecame a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
  M. Cartmill
  

• Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
  Henri Poincare
  

• The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
  Noelie Altito
  

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  Harry S Truman
  

• If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
  Henry J. Tillman
  

• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
  Dan Barker
  

• If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
  Pierre Beaumarchais
  

• All television is children's television.
  Richard P. Adler
  

• Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
  Ann Landers
  

• Television is the first truly democratic culture the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
  Clive Barnes
  

• The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
  John Ciardi
  

• Energy and persistence conquer all things.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive. Planning is the open road to your destination.
  Basil S. Walsh
  

• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.
  Helmut Schmidt
  

• Discipline is remembering what you want.
  David Campbell
  

• A man who is a master of patience is a master of everything else.
  George Savile
  

• Honesty is the best policy.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
  Benjamin Disraeli
  

• People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.
  Earl Nightingale
  

• Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
  Buddha
  

• To win, you have to have the talent and desire. But desire is first.
  Sam Snead
  

• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
  Epictetus
  

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
  Henry David Thoreau
  

• Do the duty which lies nearer to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
  Thomas Carlyle
  

• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
  Buddha
  

• No one knows what he can do till he tries.
  Syrus
  

• Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
  Aristotle
  

• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
  Paul Valery
  

• If you can dream it, you can do it.
  Walt Disney
  

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
  Confucius
  

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• For myself I am an optimist it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• All things are difficult before they are easy.
  Thomas Fuller
  

• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
  Muhammad Ali
  

• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
  Lucille Ball
  

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, „I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
  Plutarch
  

• Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
  Aristotle
  

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
  George Smith Patton, Jr.
  

• Raise your hopes and expectations high enough and you shall touch wings with the divine.
  Celia Mora
  

• You are the product of your own brainstorm.
  Rosemary Konner Steinbaum
  

• Fortune favors the brave.
  Terrence
  

• It is necessary for us to learn from other's mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
  Hyman George Rickover
  

• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
  D. H. Lawrence
  

• There is no failure except in no longer trying.
  Elbert Hubbard
  

• Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
  Jim Rohn
  

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
  Robert Ingersoll
  

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• No pressure, no diamonds.
  Thomas Carlyle
  

• I walk slowly; but I never walk backward.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
  William James
  

• There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
  Peter A. Cohen
  

• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
  Lao Tzu
  

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
  Jim Rohn
  

• We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
  William Booth
  

• We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
  Mahatma Gandhi
  

• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
  Confucius
  

• In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
  William McKinley
  

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
  Marcus Aurelius
  

• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• A jug fills drop by drop.
  Buddha
  

• Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
  Wiliam James
  

• He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

• Know or listen to those who know.
  Baltasar Gracian
  

• All glory comes from daring to begin.
  Eugene F. Ware
  

• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
  Jonathan Winters
  

• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
  Leonardo Da Vinci
  

• In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
  Charles Buxton
  

• You have to be careful about being too careful.
  Beryl Pfizer
  

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
  Albert Einstein
  

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
  Confucius
  

• Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
  Danny Kaye
  

• Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
  Lewis Grizzard
  

• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
  Louisa May Alcott
  

• A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
  Warren Buffett
  

• Success covers a multitude of blunders.
  Bernard Shaw
  

• To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
  Fredrick Douglas
  

• Never mistake motion for action.
  Ernest Hemingway
  

• I am always doing that which I can not do; in order that I may learn how to do it.
  Pablo Picasso
  

• I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that don't work.
  Thomas Edison
  

• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
  Woodrow Wilson
  

• If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
  Abraham Maslow
  

• To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
  Henry J. Heinz
  

• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle
  

• When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• Don't believe that winning is everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win ?
  Lane Kirkland
  

• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
  Geena Davis
  

• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done men who are creative, and inventive.
  Jean Piaget
  

• I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
  Walt Disney
  

• People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
  Lewis Cass
  

• To be prepared is half the victory.
  Miguel de Cervantes
  

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
  Napoleon Bonaparte
  

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• One man with courage makes a majority.
  Andrew Jackson
  

• People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.
  Earl Nightingale
  

• Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
  Buddha
  

• To win, you have to have the talent and desire. But desire is first.
  Sam Snead
  

• Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
  Aristotle
  

• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
  Paul Valery
  

• If you can dream it, you can do it.
  Walt Disney
  

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• One man with courage makes a majority.
  Andrew Jackson
  

• It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
  Aristotle
  

• Raise your hopes and expectations high enough, and you shall touch wings with the divine.
  Celia Mora
  

• You are the product of your own brainstorm.
  Rosemary Konner Steinbaum
  

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path andleave a trail.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
  Robert Ingersoll
  

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• No pressure, no diamonds.
  Thomas Carlyle
  

• I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
  Walt Disney
  

• For myself I am an optimist it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• All things are difficult before they are easy.
  Thomas Fuller
  

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
  Aristotle
  

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
  George Smith Patton, Jr.
  

• It is necessary for us to learn from other's mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
  Hyman George Rickover
  

• He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

• Know or listen to those who know.
  Baltasar Gracian
  

• In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
  Charles Buxton
  

• The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
  Edward Gibbon
  

• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
  Henry J. Heinz
  

• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
  Confucius
  

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
  John Steinbeck
  

• A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
  Warren Buffett
  

• Success covers a multitude of blunders.
  Bernard Shaw
  

• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
  Louisa May Alcott
  

• Do the duty which lies nearer to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
  Thomas Carlyle
  

• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
  Buddha
  

• Never mistake motion for action.
  Ernest Hemingway
  

• I am always doing that which I can not do; in order that I may learn how to do it.
  Pablo Picasso
  

• All glory comes from daring to begin.
  Eugene F. Ware
  

• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
  Jonathan Winters
  

• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo Da Vinci
  

• There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
  Peter A. Cohen
  

• We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear ourcross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
  William Booth
  

• In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
  William McKinley
  

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
  Marcus Aurelius
  

• To be prepared is half the victory.
  Miguel de Cervantes
  

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
  Napoleon Bonaparte
  

• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
  Muhammad Ali
  

• Energy and persistence conquer all things.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive. Planning is the open road to your destination.
  Basil S. Walsh
  

• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.
  Helmut Schmidt
  

• Discipline is remembering what you want.
  David Campbell
  

• Honesty is the best policy.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
  Benjamin Disraeli
  

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
  Confucius
  

• I walk slowly; but I never walk backward.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
  William James
  

• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
  Jim Rohn
  

• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
  Thomas Carlyle
  

• When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
  Fredrick Douglas
  

• Don't believe that winning is everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win ?
  Lane Kirkland
  

• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
  Geena Davis
  

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.
  John W. Gardner
  

• Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
  Danny Kaye
  

• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done men who are creative, and inventive.
  Jean Piaget
  

• We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
  Mahatma Gandhi
  

• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
  Lao Tzu
  

• There is no failure except in no longer trying.
  Elbert Hubbard
  

• Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
  Jim Rohn
  

• Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
  Andrew Carnegie
  

• Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  

• Success is never ending, failure is never final.
  Dr. Robert Schuller
  

• I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it.
  Ted Turner
  

• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
  Emily P. Bissell
  

• Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
  Henry Ford
  

• It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
  John Crowe
  

• You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
  Charles Buxton
  

• Remove failure as an option.
  Joan Lunden
  

• There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
  Peter A. Cohen
  

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
  LesBrown
  

• Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
  Mark Twain
  

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
  Napoleon Hill
  

• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, andlearning from failure.
  Colin Powell
  

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to whatlies within us.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
  Vince Lombardi
  

• To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.
  Bunker Hunt
  

• You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
  Babe Ruth
  

• When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', youfind it simply means to follow through.
  F.W. Nichol
  

• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
  Brian Tracy
  

• If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
  Yogi Berra
  

• Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
  W. Clement Stone
  

• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
  Jonathan Winters
  

• What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
  Danny Thomas
  

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
  Norman Vincent Peale
  

• One man with courage is a majority.
  Andrew Jackson
  

• Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'
  Robert Schuller
  

• I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
  George Patton
  

• One step choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
  Scott Reed
  

• Success is the child of audacity.
  Benjamin Disraeli
  

• Teamwork is the long word for success.
  Jacquelinemae A. Rudd
  

• Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
  Lori Hard
  

• In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  

• Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
  Marcus Washling
  

• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
  Jim Ryun
  

• Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
  T.S. Eliot
  

• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
  Charles F. Kettering
  

• People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
  PeteZafra
  

• No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
  Greg Henry Quinn
  

• Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
  Marie Curie
  

• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
  Denis Waitley
  

• Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
  Stephen Covey
  

• A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
  Alistair Cooke
  

• Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
  Ralph C. Smedley
  

• I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
  John D.Rockefeller
  

• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
  Frank Lloyd Wright
  

• Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
  Plato
  

• You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible.
  Henry Ford
  

• I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.
  Muhammad Ali
  

• The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it.
  John Ruskin
  

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
  LesBrown
  

• What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.
  Donald Keough
  

• 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
  

• Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
  Earl Wilson
  

• It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
  Roger Babson
  

• Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
  Al Bernstein
  

• I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• You must do the very thing you think you cannot do.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
  Dale Carnegie
  

• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
  Claude M. Bristol
  

• The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.
  Thomas Merton
  

• Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• Don't dream it. Be it!
  Richard O'brian
  

• He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Bessie Anderson Stanley
  

• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
  Nora Roberts
  

• The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.
  James Allen
  

• Life is a series of problem solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
  Rick Warren
  

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
  Orison Swett Marden
  

• Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
  Jim Rohn
  

• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
  Ralph Nader
  

• Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
  J.C. Penny
  

• Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
  Charles Lindbergh
  

• If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
  David Ambrose
  

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
  Beverly Sills
  

• I've always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.
  Beverly Sills
  

• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
  Booker T. Washington
  

• Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
  Babe Ruth
  

• You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
  Bertrand Russell
  

• I praise loudly; I blame softly.
  Queen Catherine II
  

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
  Francis Bacon
  

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
  Napoleon Hill
  

• Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.
  George Patton
  

• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Knowledge without follow through is worse than no knowledge.
  Henry Charles Bukowski
  

• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
  Publilius Syrus
  

• Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
  Walt Disney
  

• Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
  Sylvester Stallone
  

• When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right.
  Tony Alfonso
  

• Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.
  Paul J. Meyer
  

• Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
  Frank Scully
  

• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
  Booker T. Washington
  

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• The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
  Benjamin Disraeli
  

• It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.
  Albert Einstein
  

• If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
  John Maxwell
  

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
  Bill Cosby
  

• The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
  Arthur Brisbane
  

• As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.
  Donald Trump
  

• Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
  Robert Collier
  

• No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
  Napoleon Hill
  

• Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?
  Jim Rohn
  

• Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
  Reed Markham
  

• When you're going through hell, keep going.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
  Andrew Carnegie
  

• If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
  William Arthur Ward
  

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good that we oft may win by fearing to attempt.
  William Shakespeare
  

• There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
  Vince Lombardi
  

• 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
  

• Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision.
  Muhammad Ali
  

• It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
  Al Batt
  

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
  Dale Carnegie
  

• To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
  Sister Mary Lauretta
  

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• Never, never, never, never give up.
  Winston Churchill
  

• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
  Henry Ward Beecher
  

• Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
  Walter Anderson
  

• Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
  Ovid
  

• I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.
  Steven Spielberg
  

• Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.
  Sydney Bremer
  

• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
  Confucius
  

• If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
  Henry Kissinger
  

• Man is what he believes.
  Anton Chekhov
  

• Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
  Zig Ziglar
  

• Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
  William A. Ward
  

• I never waste time looking back.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste.
  Henry Ford
  

• You see things and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say Why not?'
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
  Thomas Edison
  

• You must have long range goals to keep from being frustrated by short term failures.
  Bob Bales
  

• Perseverance is a great element of success.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  

• A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
  Wallace D. Wattles
  

• Success demands singleness of purpose.
  Vince Lombardi
  

• A man is but of product of his thought, What he thinks he becomes.
  Mahatma Gandhi
  

• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
  Anthony Robbins
  

• First, say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
  Epictetus
  

• Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
  Walter Brunell
  

• Real wealth equals ideas plus energy.
  Buckminster Fuller
  

• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
  Woodrow Wilson
  

• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
  Lee Iococca
  

• Private victories precede public victories.
  Stephen R. Covey
  

• The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.
  Albert Gray
  

• I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
  Frank Hughes
  

• Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
  Henry Ford
  

• Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
  Richard Bach
  

• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
  Thomas Edison
  

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
  Lao Tse
  

• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
  Zig Ziglar
  

• The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
  William Boetcker
  

• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
  Brian Tracy
  

• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
  Duke Ellington
  

• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
  Goethe
  

• I am a slow walker ... but I never walk backwards.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
  Peter F. Drucker
  

• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
  Elbert Hubbard
  

• A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
  Donald Kircher
  

• He is able who thinks he is able.
  Buddha
  

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
  Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
  

• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
  Kahlil Gibran
  

• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
  Helen Keller
  

• Every exit is an entry somewhere.
  Tom Stoppard
  

• The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
  Ziggy
  

• Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.
  Mark Brunett
  

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give himpower.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• Bluntness is a virtue.
  Allison Ling
  

• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never befound out.
  Thomas B. Macaulay
  

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
  Orison S. Marden
  

• Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
  Charles Sawyer
  

• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
  Mary Kay Ash
  

• A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.
  Author Unknown
  

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• A leader is a dealer of hope.
  Napoleon Bonaparte
  

• Real leaders are ordinary people, with extraordinary determinations
  John Seaman Garns
  

• Leadership is an action, not a position.
  Donald H. McGannon
  

• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
  Walt Kelly
  

• Opportunity has power over all things.
  Sophocles
  

• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• If it exists, it’s possible.
  John P. Grier
  

• A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
  Jules Ormont
  

• 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
  

• If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
  Howard Gossage
  

• Success requires the vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to do.
  Author Unknown
  

• Ambition, confidence, enthusiasm and success are produced by courage, faith, pride,and hard work.
  Harry F. Banks
  

• Success is not a matter of desire, but the product of hard work.
  Jack Barringer
  

• To succeed, one must posses an effective combination of ability, ambition, courage,drive, hard work, integrity, and loyalty.
  Harry F. Banks
  

• Never mind what others do; better than yourself, beat your own record from day to do,and you are a success.
  William J.H. Boetckner
  

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
  Robert Francis Kennedy
  

• It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
  Lowell
  

• Success is that old ABC ability, breaks, and courage.
  Charles Luckman
  

• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
  William Blake
  

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
  Les Brown
  

• You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
  Henry Ford
  

• Character is the real foundation for all worthwhile success
  John Hays Hammond
  

• Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens a sure way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
  John Howe
  

• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
  Elmer G. Letterman
  

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  

• To measure the man, measure his heart.
  Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
  

• The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
  John Holt
  

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
  Anatole France
  

• The best way out is always through.
  Robert Frost
  

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
  Beverly Sills
  

• The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything and it works.
  William Strong
  

• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
  Henry David Thoreau
  

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
  George E. Woodberry
  

• Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
  B.C. Forbes
  

• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
  Sir Winston Churchill
  

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
  Stephen Covey
  

• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
  Max De Pree
  

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  

• In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, andgoes.
  John Erksine
  

• One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
  John Glassgow
  

• The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
  Blaine Lee
  

• The great leaders are like the best conductors they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
  Blaine Lee
  

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
  Walter Lippman
  

• To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
  Andre Malraux
  

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  Francis Bacon
  

• The way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
  Victor Chasles
  

• Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  

• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.
  Henry Ward Beecher
  

• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
  Leo Rosten
  

• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
  Maya Angelou
  

• They never fail who die in a great cause.
  George Gordon Byron
  

• The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
  Philip Caldwell
  

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
  Bill Cosby
  

• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
  Theodore Hesburgh
  

• The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' a leader says, 'Let's go!'
  E.M. Kelly
  

• The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
  Fred A. Manske, Jr.
  

• Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
  Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
  

• No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
  Archibald Wavell
  

• Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
  Bruce Sterling
  

• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
  Winston Churchill
  

• Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
  Peggy Noonan
  

• Love is like a snowmobile racing through the tundra. Then it flips over, pinning you underneath. And then at night, the snow weasels come.
  Matt Groening
  

• Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well...I have others.
  Groucho Marx
  

• The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
  Linus Pauling
  

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
  Charles Mingus
  

• Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
  Duke Ellington
  

• Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
  William Bernbach
  

• A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
  The Talmud
  

• One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
  Chinese proverb
  

• How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
  Carl Jung
  

• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
  Thomas Henry Huxley
  

• Action should culminate in wisdom.
  Bhagavad Gita
  

• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
  Marcus Aurelius
  

• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
  William Blake
  

• Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
  John Milton
  

• Talent is nurtured in solitude; Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
  Goethe
  

• It is with trifles and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
  Schopenhauer
  

• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
  Andre Gide
  

• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
  William James
  

• In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
  Richard Bach
  

• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible.
Patrick Snow

• There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
  Hindu proverb
  

• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
  Douglas Everett
  

• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
  Henry Ford
  

• Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive it isn't.
  Richard Bach
  

• Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
  Henry Van Dyke
  

• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
  David Carradine
  

• It's never too late to be what you might have been.
  George Eliot
  

• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
  Henry Ford
  

• Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
  Emile Coue
  

• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
  William Blake
  

• We tend to get what we expect.
  Norman Vincent Peale
  

• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Seize the day, Carpe Diem.
  Quintus Hortius Flaccus
  

• When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.
  Anonymous
  

• Knowledge itself is power.
  Francis Bacon
  

• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
  David Seabury
  

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
  Thomas Huxley
  

• The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  

• A good goal is like a strenuous exercise, it makes you stretch .
  Mary Kay Ash
  

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
  Moliere
  

• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  

• If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
  Thomas Edison
  

• Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
  Lou Holtz
  

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
  Henry Ford
  

• Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.
  Leo F. Buscaglia
  

• We are new every day.
  Irene Claremont de Castillego
  

• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
  Charles Darwin
  

• The proof of a well trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
  Cicero
  

• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
  Winston Churchill
  

• Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
  James Thurber
  

• What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
  Thomas Crum
  

• You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
  Zig Ziglar
  

• To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
  Bernard Edmonds
  

• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
  Henry Ward Beecher
  

• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
  Joseph Conrad
  

• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew.
  St. Francis De Sales
  

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
  Dale Carnegie
  

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.
  Unknown
  

• Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
  Mark Twain
  

• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  Seneca
  

• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
  Howard Thurman
  

• It is never too late to be what you might have been.
  George Eliot
  

• 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
  

• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us.
  Paul Eldridge
  

• Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
  Henry Ford
  

• Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.
  Spryte Loriano
  

• The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
  Allard Lowenstein
  

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
  John Andrew Holmes
  

• The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
  Mark Twain
  

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head bowings in prayer.
  Sadi
  

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
  Plato
  

• It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
  Spanish Proverb
  

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  Harry Truman
  

• The power of imagination makes us infinite.
  John Muir
  

• As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother?
  Christy Borgeld
  

• The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
  John E. Southard
  

• What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
  Scottish Proverb
  

• Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
  Miles Davis
  

• Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.
  Woody Allen
  

• I am not young enough to know everything.
  James M. Barrie
  

• We are all of us failures … at least, the best of us are.
  James M. Barrie
  

• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
  Cullen Hightower
  

• If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  Chinese proverb
  

• The first duty of love is to listen.
  Paul Tillich
  

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln
  

• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
  G.K. Chesterton
  

• No seed ever sees the flower.
  Zen saying
  

• The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
  John Muir
  John Muir

• Only the brave know how to forgive. A coward never forgives; it is not in his nature.
  Laurence Stern
  

• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
  Jimi Hendrix
  

• A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
  Winston Churchill
  

• What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
  Thomas Sprat
  

• The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
  Thomas Babbington Macaulay
  

• Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  

• How people treat you is their Karma. How you respond is yours.
  Wayne Dyer
  

• It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
  Henry Ward Beecher
  

• Always do what you are afraid to do.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• What is to give light must endure burning.
  Victor Frankl
  

• In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
  Ambrose Bierce
  

• We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
  Rabindranth Tagore
  

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
  Carl Jung
  

• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
  Carl Sagan
  

• Make no mistake, the weeds will win, nature bats last.
  Robert Michael Pyle
  

• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
  Helen Keller
  

• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
  Anne Frank
  

• When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
  Chinese proverb
  

• The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self respect springs.
  Joan Didion
  

• It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices?
  Beverly Adamo
  

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
  Viktor E. Frankl
  

• You’re going to make mistakes in life. It’s what you do after the mistakes that count.
  Brandi Chastain
  

• How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
  Trina Paulus
  

• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  

• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
  Eugene Ionesco
  

• The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  

• In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow and that is likely to hurt.
  Wei Wu Wei
  

• The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
  The Talmud
  

• Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
  H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  

• I’ve been terrified every day of my life but that’s never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do.
  Georgia O’Keefe
  

• Are you being the best you can be, or the worst that has happened to you?
  Brian Vaszily
  

• I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in.
  The Bible
  

• Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
  Barbara Brown Taylor
  

• If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
  Jewish proverb
  

• Everyone is entitled to his or her own incorrect opinion.
  Brian Vaszily
  

• A great many people think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
  David Bohn
  

• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
  William Shakespeare
  

• The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.
  Gottfriend Leibniz
  

• Like a bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
  The Srimad Bhagavatan
  

• Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
  Tim Hansel
  

• In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
  Paul Harvey
  

• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice.
  Mark Twain
  

• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
  Joseph Joubert
  

• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
  John Milton
  

• We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.
  Epictetus
  

• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
  Margaret B. Runbeck
  

• You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.
  Robert Anthony
  

• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...do the thing you think you cannot do.
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• Do I hold on, and how tightly? Do I let go, and how much?
  Brian Vaszily
  

• People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
  Lewis Cass
  

• Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
  James Leo Herlihy
  

• Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
  George Bernard Shaw
  

• The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
  Art Spander
  

• When you’re through learning, you’re through.
  Vernon Law
  

• Fall seven times, stand up eight
  Japanese proverb
  

• An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
  Freya Stark
  

• Death helps us to see what is worth trusting and loving and what is a waste of time.
  J. Neville Ward
  

• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
  Bill Hicks
  

• Be the change you wish to see in the world.
  Gandhi
  

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
  Aristotle
  

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
  Lao Tzu
  

• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
  Art Linkletter
  

• To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
  Joseph Chilton Pearce
  

• Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
  Mark Twain
  

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
  Mahatma Gandhi
  

• If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
  Thomas Edison
  

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
  Kahil Gibran
  

• If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
  Origin Unknown
  

• It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
  W. Mitchell
  

• You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
  Charles Buxton
  

• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
  Origin Unknown
  

• The best things in life are not things.
  Origin Unknown
  

• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
  Bruce Barton
  

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
  Marilyn Vos Savant
  

• Great oaks from little acorns grow
  Proverb
  

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
  Albert Einstein
  

• Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
  Vince Lombardi
  

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
  Vince Lombardi
  

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing
  Albert Schweitzer
  

• From what we get, we can make a living: what we give however makes a life.
  Arthur Ashe
  

• It's never too late to be what you might have been.
  George Eliot
  

• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
  Ann Landers
  

• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
  Muhamed Ali
  

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
  Napolean Hill
  

• Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
  Henry David Thoreau
  

• You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
  Abraham Lincoln
  

• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
  Henry Kaiser
  

• 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
  

• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  

• Get busy living or get busy dying.
  Stephen King
  

• The greater the obstacle the more glory.
  Moliere
  

• Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live
  as though heaven is on earth.
  Satchel Paige
  

• The only gift is a portion of thyself.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
  Thomas Jefferson
  

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

• Little strokes fell great oaks.
  Benjamin Franklin
  

• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
  Anatole France
  

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
  John F. Kennedy
  

• Success seems to be connected with action.Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
  Conrad Hilton
  

• I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
  Anne Frank
  

• Live life with passion.
  Origin Unknown
  

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
  Moliere
  

• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
  Oscar Wilde
  

• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
  Logan Pearsall Smith
  

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
  Gail Sheehy
  

• Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
  Origin Unknown
  

• What you are is God's gift to you: what you become is your gift to God.
  Anthony Dalla Villa
  

• Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! And get busy and find out how to do it
  Theodore Roosevelt
  

• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
  John Keywood
  

• He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
  Chinese Proverb
  

• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
  Albert Schweitzer
  

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
  Thomas Edison
  

• Failing to plan is planning to fail.
  Origin Unknown
  

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
  Samuel Johnson
  

• A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
  Mahatma Gandhi
  

• It's always darkest before the dawn.
  Origin Unknown
  

• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
  John Ruskin
  

• Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
  Frank Outlaw
  

• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
  John Kenneth Galbraith
  

• Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
  Guillaume Apollinaire
  

• He who stops being better stops being good.
  Oliver Cromwell