"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
- Henry David Thoreau
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain
"Age merely shows what children we remain."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
- Samuel Johnson
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
- Albert Einstein
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
- Victor Hugo
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire
"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
- Samuel Butler
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
- Bertrand Russell
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
- Albert Camus
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
- Gertrude Stein
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
- Henry Miller
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
- Josh Billings
"Youth has no age."
- Pablo Picasso
"You must look into people as well as at them."
- Lord Chesterfield
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Edward Woodberry
"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed."
- Corita Kent
"Memory is the personal journalism of the soul."
- Richard Schickel
"You create your opportunities by asking for them."
- Shakti Gawain
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
- B. F. Skinner
"Memory is more indelible than ink."
- Anita Loos
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
- Irving Berlin
"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
- Paul Harvey
"Patience is the art of hoping."
- Luc de Clapier
"Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."
- Simon Travaglia
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
- Demosthenes
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
- Amelia Earhart
"Good government is good politics."
- Richard J. Daley
"The more you can dream, the more you can do."
- Michael Korda
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
- Kurt Cobain
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
- Babe Ruth
"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
- George Will
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
- Rene Descartes
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela
"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
- John Wooden
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
- George S. Patton
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Dreams are necessary to life."
- Anais Nin
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi
"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
- Laurence J. Peter
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Aesop
"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
- Paul Engle
"The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are."
- Paul Tournier
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
- A. J. Liebling
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
- Michael Crichton
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie
"You cannot get ahead while you are getting even."
- Dick Armey
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
- Stephen Covey
"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining."
- Barbara Sher
"Be who you are and be that well."
- Saint Francis de Sales
"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
- Jack Kerouac
"When you are through changing, you are through."
- Bruce Barton
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
- Horace Walpole
"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."
- Frank B. Kellogg
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
- Lou Holtz
"Ideas shape the course of history."
- John Maynard Keynes
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
- Herbert Hoover
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
- Charles Kettering
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
- Robert H. Schuller
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
- William Penn
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke
"Life is half spent before we know what it is."
- George Herbert
"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."
- Jean Rostand
"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
- Calvin Coolidge
"Fate loves the fearless."
- James Russell Lowell
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
- Stewart Udall
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
- Plautus
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onassis
"The less you know, the more you believe."
- Bono
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
- William Christopher Handy
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Gandhi
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Lec
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
- Dalai Lama
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler
"At times I think and at times I am."
- Paul Valery
"Genius is eternal patience."
- Michelangelo
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
- Douglas Horton
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
- Henry A. Kissinger
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
- Muhammad Ali
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
- Euripides
"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
- Bo Bennett
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- Saint Augustine
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
- Thomas Huxley
"They succeed, because they think they can."
- Virgil
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
- John Ruskin
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- John N. Mitchell
"The precondition to freedom is security."
- Rand Beers
"First thoughts are not always the best."
- Vittorio Alfieri
"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
- Arnold H. Glasow
"Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake."
- Robert Half
"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
- Bobby Knight
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
- Jacob Bronowski
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