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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
A single day is enough to make us a little larger. - Paul Klee, 1879-1940
Love truth, and pardon error. - Voltaire, 1694-1778
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. - Tryon Edwards, 1809-1894
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan, 1941-?
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. - Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. - Herodotus, 484 BC-430 BC
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. - Katherine Mansfield, 1888-1923
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964
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. - Saint Francis de Sales, 1567-1622
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham, 1846-1912
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot, 1713-1784
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka, 1883- 1924
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. - John Hay, 1838-1905
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. - Andre Gide, 1869-1951
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand, 1804-1876
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron, 1788-1824
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. - Norman Thomas, 1884-1968
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson, 1630-1694
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. - Sir Wilfred Grenfell, 1865-1940
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille, 1881-1959
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - Ben Jonson, 1572-1637
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard, 1882-1945
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. - Hyman Rickover, 1900-1986
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West, 1892-1983
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce, 1882-1941
The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides, 484 BC-406 BC
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890-1973
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol, 1928-1987
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. - Francis Thompson, 1859-1907
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1988
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington, 1732-1802
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. - Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French Mathematician/Physicist/Theologian
It is never too late to be who you might have been. - George Eliot, 1819-1880, English Novelist
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish Dramatist/Novelist/Poet
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States
Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian Painter and Sculptor
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. - Bernard M. Baruch, 1870-1965, American Financier and Statesman
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher and Author
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English Politician and Author
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. - Spanish Proverb
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Roman Emperor and Philosopher
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. - Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, American Humanitarian and Former First Lady of the United States
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet and Novelist
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. - R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983, American Architect and Engineer
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Author and Philosopher
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist and Statesman
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States