“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history”
--Abraham Lincoln
"Real difficulties can be overcome. It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. "
-- Theodore N. Vail
"Don't be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin."
-- Grace Hansen
"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime."
-- Steve Maraboli
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
-- William James
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
-- Scott Adams
"Growing old is nothing more than mind over matter; If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
-- Anonymous
"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."
-- Caroline Kennedy
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
-- Mark Twain
"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
-- Thomas J. Watson
"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
-- Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
-- Winston Churchill
"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."
-- Dr Samuel Johnson
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
-- Aristotle
"Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope."
-- Thomas Carlyle
"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be nterrupted by some idiot doing it."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action."
-- Mother Teresa
"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind."
-- Marva Collins
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
-- Abraham Maslow
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium."
-- Norbet Platt
"Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies with those who look to the horizon."
-- Norwegian Proverb
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
-- George Eliot
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
-- Abraham Maslow
"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."
-- Julia Child
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."
-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
-- Harold S. Kushner
"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."
-- Arnold Bennett
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
-- Doug Larson
"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."
-- Alan Alda
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
-- Albert Einstein
"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
-- Alfred Adler
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
-- Bill Bernbach
"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
-- Vince Lombardi
