When you get into a tight place, and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not hold
on a moment longer, never give up then--for that is just
the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

To express oneself badly is not only a fault as far as
language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
Socrates in Plato's Phaedo 155e

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Most businesses fail from lack of imagination.

Paul Hawken

It is the mucus that binds us.
Ace Ventura

Paranoia means having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Will Rogers

Speak of the wolf and he's at your door.
Romanian proverb

I know but one freedom & that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

Here’s the secret to success...it’s all related to hard work.

Sean Cox

Life is not fair.
John F. Kennedy

My only rule: If you understand something, it's no mystery.
Scott Cairns

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows
himself to be a fool.
Shakespeare

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble
thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney

Flops are a part of life's menu, and I've never been a
girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight
of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fortune doesn't change men: it unmasks them.
Bernard Baruch

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is
that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act.
George Orwell

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man who doesn't stand for something will fall for
anything.
Peter Marshall

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of
having a scoop of
ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I
suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
                                                                       

Eric Hoffer

Only sheep need a shepherd.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
                                   

Woody Allen

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
                                                                   

Jack Handey

If God dropped acid, would he see people?
                        

Steven Wright

Religions change, but beer and wine remain.
            

Anonymous

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H.L. Mencken

Time's fun when you're having flies.
Kermit the Frog

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
                 

Tennessee Williams

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

B.C. Forbes

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he
has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

All big things in this world are done by people who are
naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.
Dr. Frank Richards

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the
heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel

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

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

Miracles happen only to those who believe in them.
French Proverb

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

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own
mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with so many of us is that we
underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a
tendency, it seems, to over complicate our lives and
forget what's important and what's not. We tend to
mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus
on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life
continues to race along in the outside world, we forget
that we have the power to control our lives regardless
of what's going on outside.
Robert Stuberg

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to
seek.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role
he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the
role that destiny assigned to him.
Jan Patocka

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney

The thing you really believe in always happens. And
the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last
mistake.
Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartokower

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
John W. Gardner

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all
things are attainable.

T. F. Buxton

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman (attributed)

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a
stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will
back up to them.
Elbert Hubbard

The end of a thing is it's nature.
Nietzsche

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've gone into thousands of [fortune teller's parlors], and
have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever
told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
NYC detective

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged
truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

Anxiety is fear of one's self.
Wilhem Stekel

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean William R. Inge

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste Barthelemy

As soon as you're born
They make you feel small . . .
John Lennon

Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but
on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed
by man's interference with material conditions.
Gora

In flood time you can see how some tree bend, and
because they bend even their twigs are safe, while
stubborn trees are all torn up roots and all.
Sophocles

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to
be.
Anatole France

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows
where he is going.
David Starr Jordan

All, everything that I understand, I understand only
because I love.
Tolstoy

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot, Choruses from "The Rock"

Everything to excess . . . moderation is for monks.
Robert Heinlein

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

Fear is the mind killer.
Frank Herbert

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary
that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as
possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

Clairvoyant--a person with the power of seeing what is
invisible to her client, namely that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce

I can tell that man has an open mind--I can feel the
breeze from here.
Groucho Marx

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and
the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Henry Huxley

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
Marcus Aurelius

Magic--the art of converting superstition into coin.
Ambrose Bierce

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (attributed)

As you no doubt will have foreseen . . .
--the beginning of a letter written by an editor to the
astrologer she was firing

The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a
benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
Robert Ingersoll

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who
at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worse, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for
curiosity.
Dorothy Parker

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to
bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand
them.
Baruch Spinoza

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive
and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we
have.

Albert Einstein

The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.

Molly Ivins

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.      

Anais Nin

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately about the palpably not true. It's the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

Shakespeare, Hamlet

To pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be
annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly
unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Henry Ford

Don't even think of temporary or sharp advantages.
Don't waste your effort on a thing which ends in a petty
triumph...unless you are satisfied with a life of petty
successes.
John D. Rockefeller

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

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people
falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Always do right; this will gratify some people and
astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare

Things should be explained as simply as possible, but
not any simpler.

Albert Einstein

There is no darkness like ignorance.
Egyptian proverb

If the law’s with you, argue the law. If the facts are with
you, argue the facts. If neither the law nor the facts are
with you, attack a person.

Lawyer’s Adage

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

In certain trying circumstances . . . profanity furnishes a
relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain

It is better to light one candle than to curse the
darkness.
Anonymous

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The World’s Need

A faith that cannot survive collision
with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clarke

Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon

If you can dream—and not make dreams your
master; . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling, In the Neolithic Age

There's no mystery to success. No secret. There is only
determination, and keeping on when everyone else
has run home to mama.
former Texas governor Ann Richards

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning
the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier
they pass with him; but never regards those that are
plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.
Samuel Butler, Characters

Supposing truth is a woman—what then?
Nietzsche

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Shakespeare, Hamlet

A good scam never dies, it is only born again.
Author unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it...
Peter Drucker

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with
superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the
same time subject all claims to knowledge, without
exception, to intense scrutiny. Be aware of human
fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan

A little bit of the truth is indoctrination against the real
thing.
Mohandas Gandhi

Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
Sir Richard Steele

If you lose your sense of humor, it's just not funny
Wavy Gravy
'60s activist, clown and recent Berkeley political
candidate

The Three Stages of
Human Evolution: 1) "We Eat!" 2) "Why Do We Eat?" 3)
"Where Do We Have Lunch?"                                            

Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy"

Three stages of human evolution:
Invent fire.
Invent the wheel.
Move where it's warm!
Jonathan Boyne

The Truth Will Set You Free, but First It Will Piss You
Off.
Bumper sticker by Unity Rev. Chad O'Shea

If you tell the truth, make them laugh, or they'll kill you.
George Bernard Shaw

Astronomy is Looking Up
Bumper sticker

The height of you flight is inversely proportional to the
mass of your ass.
Maxim magazine

Sign at the End of the Universe: Staff Only Beyond This
Point.

Douglas Adams

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,’
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
Shakespeare, Richard III

Maps are useful but never neutral.

Lucy Fellows

The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
Shakespeare, Hamlet

Their need to believe is so strong and so ingrained,
that they refuse to accept any quality and/or quantity of
good evidence. They have adopted a philosophy that
shields them against reality.
“‘Twas Brillig . . . Observations on a Bizarre World”

James Randi, Skeptic

One may smile and smile and be a villain.
Shakespeare, Hamlet

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-
interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the
marvelous is strongly concerned. When they are
involved, require corroborative evidence in exact
proportion to the contravention of probability by the
thing testified.
Thomas Henry Huxley

O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott

“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Emily Dickinson
“Faith” Is a Fine Invention

This is the very coinage of your brain.
Shakespeare, Hamlet

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have
bad dreams.
Shakespeare, Hamlet

Magic, it must be remembered, is an art which
demands collaboration between the artist and his
public.
E.M. Butler, The Myth of the Magus

He who asks questions cannot avoid answers.

Cameroon proverb

No matter where you go, there you are.
Jackie Mason

I'm in! I'm out! I'm in! I'm out!
Jimmy Durante, as he jumps back and forth through a
doorway

The morning is wiser than the evening.

Russian Proverb

If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?
Asked of Jonathan Boyne by a
professed feminist

The significant problems we face today cannot be
solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein

Everybody's looking for strange.
Richard Gere, in American Gigolo

Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up
where we are headed.
Chinese Proverb

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner
invitation without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard

The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Philpotts

The future is not envisioned by think tanks like The
Stanford Research Institute, but through artists,
visionaries, mystics and crazies.
William Irwin Thompson
M.I.T.Cultural and Futures Historian and Lindisfarne
Founder

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery, but to make
the mystery clear.
Robert Aitken Roshi

The next earthquake comes when the last one is
forgotten.
Peruvian saying

In India we feel that the only way through suffering is to
suffer it.
Hindu student, impatient with lippy middle-class
Western psychotherapeutic rationalizations in the
Counseling Psychology program Jonathan Boyne
"suffered" through.

I have a right not to know.
Actions speak louder than words.
Jonathan Boyne's father's antidote for pop-psychology
self-indulgence (as in his Psych Counseling Program)
and meaningless info-overload (as in the media and
web).

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Jonathan Boyne's Irish father

There are no grownups.
Guru on mountaintop to seeker asking the mystery of
life.

I still feel the same inside...
Jonathan Boyne's mother
On aging, in the wise perplexity of holy innocence

I thought I was a puffin.
One of the Queen of England's Royal Guards,
describing an LSD experience while on duty.

People are donuts!
Jonathan Boyne
While experiencing the central no-self, beyond and
within the toroid-shaped (donut-shaped) time/space/
electromagnetic field/self (this shape is archetypal, as
in the shape of the universe, star formation, planetary
magnetic fields, atmospheric flow patterns, auras, red
blood cells, atoms and atomic particles, etc).

Give me a glazed!
Kenneth Paolini
Fellow consciousness researcher

Are we serving donuts in another solar system?
Zippy the Pinhead cartoon, tapping a "man-on-the-
street" earthling on the shoulder (on the wall of the
pantry at Napa State Psychiatric Hospital, where we
served donuts and eggnog nightly).

Out on the edge where it's flat.
Firesign Theatre

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd
his day with work, but will saunter to his task
surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Henry David Thoreau

One New York girl was able to sell 40,000 boxes of Girl
Scout cookies, with a 90% close ratio . She begins her
pitch by begging each prospect to buy two $75.00
tickets to a charity ball or a worthy cause. She really
puts on the pressure. When the prospect demurs, she
plaintively asks, "Well, then, could you at least buy a box of Girl Scout cookies?

They are only $2.00."
Anthony Robbins

A horse, a horse. My kingdom for a horse.
Richard III

The secret of success is to be ready for opportunity
when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.
Muslim saying

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

George F. Will

Dream big, dare to fail
Norman Vaughan--at 88 summited Mt. Vaughan in
Antarctica

Do or do not. There is no try.
Jedi Master Yoda

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Pogo

A crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a
pitcher, which he saw at a distance. But when he came
up to it, he found the water so low that with all his
stooping and straining he was unable to reach it.
Thereupon he tried to break the pitcher; then to
overturn it; but his strength was not sufficient to do
either. At last, seeing some small pebbles at hand, he
dropped a great many of them, one by one, into the
pitcher, and so raised the water to the brim, and
quenched his thirst. Skill and patience will succeed
where force fails. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Aesop's Fables

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Proverbs

If people want what you are selling, you'll get rich.
Dale Calvert

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying
away small stones.
Chinese proverb

You have no more right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without producing
it.

Bernard Shaw

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Samuel Johnson, The Idler

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we
wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
Henri Poincare

“Once upon a time,” she answered, “people thought fire
was of the gods. We thought the stars were Heaven.
Then we made fire for ourselves and went to the stars.
We learned there’s no true alchemy, no ‘magic’ that
can’t be mastered eventually, but just science we
haven’t figured out yet.”

Captain Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, The Captain’s Table
Diane Carey

Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god.
Emperor Vespasian

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, Discourses

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

It is easier to keep up than to catch up.
Leo D. Bardsley

Money is like an arm or a leg--use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Branch Cabell

Success is not measured by the heights on attains, but
by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.
Booker T. Washington

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else
choose it for you.

A mistake at least proves somebody stopped talking
long enough to do something.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if
you just stand there.
Arthur Godfrey

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated,
and disciplined.
Henry Emerson Fosdick

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."...You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something to
hope for.
Joseph Addison

The only thing more costly than education is ignorance.

There are some who want to get rid of their past. who. if
they could, would begin all over again,...but you must
learn,...that the only way to get rid of your past is to get
a future out of it.
Phillips Brooks

The true measure of a man is to be measured by the
objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius

We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle

I have not failed 10,000 times, I have successfully
found 10,000 ways that will not work.
Thomas Edison

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of
masters.
Nathaniel Emmons

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves.
Ranier Maria Rilke

Out of the strain of the Doing. Into the peace of the
Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
Harvest Home 1910

You must do what you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn By Living 1960

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept
anything but the very best, you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham

Get up offa that thang!
James Brown

I feel good!
James Brown

Pour yourself a cup of ambition.
Jan White-Ruhe

Just do it!
Nike mantra

Seek first to understand and then seek to be
understood.
Stephen Covey

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come
from miles around to watch you burn.
John Wesley

Simplicity is evidence of the most advanced teaching.
Emily Cady

There are two kinds of people. People who believe
they can and people who believe they can't. Both are
right. Make a decision to believe you can.
Mark Yarnell

The life blood of your business is new blood.
John Kall

Some succeed because they are destined to; most
succeed because they are determined to.
Anatole France

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

I am a great believer in "Luck." The harder I work the
more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Schiller, Don Carlos

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to

the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the
swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible
surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

Great goals are never by following the line of least
persistence.
William Arthur Ward

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you
esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone
than in bad company.
George Washington

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one
day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Temper is what gets most of us in trouble. Pride is what
keeps there.
Unknown

Commitment is making up your mind to do something
no matter what comes up.
Bill Foster

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out
of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

During a very busy life I have often asked, "How did
you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple: It
is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye

Winners look for ways to win while losers look for
excuses.
Carl Mays

No one's ever gonna try to tackle you if you're not
carrying the ball
Tim McGraw

We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Playing small serves no one.

Nelson Mandela

Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with
superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the
same time subject all claims to knowledge, without
exception, to intense scrutiny. Be aware of human
fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan

The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.
Molly Ivins

Here's the secret to success...it's all related to hard
work.
Sean Cox

"Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is
one elementary truth, that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, the Providence moves, too.
Goethe

We are what we are because we have first imagined it.
Donald Curtis

Do the things you fear to do and keep on doing them...
that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered
to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Procrastination is the fear if success. People
procrastinate because they are afraid of the success
that they know will result if the move ahead now.
Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with
it, it is much easier to procrastinate live on the
"someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley

Start to accept failure as a normal part of the process of
exploring your world, make note of its lessons and then
move on.

T. Greening & D. Hobson

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

There are only two ways to fail in your dreams:

1.   Never start

2. Stop

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Antonio Machado, Juan de Mairena

It is only the first bottle that is expensive.

French proverb

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions. We
sow our actions, and we reap our habits. We sow our
habits, and we reap our character. We sow our
character, and we reap our destiny!
Anonymous

Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
Muhammed Ali

I wasted my time, and now time doth waste me.
Richard II Shakespeare

The Chinese have a saying" A Man Is Rich Who Has
Enough."

If I sound frustrated, it's because I am. To paraphrase
the good Judge, please don't pee on my leg and tell me
it's raining.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be
understood.
Marie Curie

Friends, take heart, banish all fear.
One day who knows? we will
look back even on these
things and laugh.
Aeneid, Book One

The world has plenty of go-getters; what the world
needs is go-givers.
Jordan Young

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must first set yourself on fire.
Fred Shero

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

When door is shut, another opens.
Miguel Cervantes

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the
shade.
Tom Peters

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
Spanish Proverb

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Peter Drucker

Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your
altitude.
Zig Ziglar

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody
helps you.
Wilma Rudolph

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for
putting one foot in front of the other.
M.C. Richards

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

To promote cooperation: people tend to resist that
which is forced upon them. People tend to support that
which they help to create.
Vince Pfaff

The achievements of an organization are the result of
the combined effort of each individual.
Vincent T . Lombardi

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we
are.
Anais Nin

Even iron will bend if you heat it.
Beryl Bender Birch

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their
minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you.
Anonymous

It's an impossible situation, but it has possibilities.
Samuel Goldwyn

If you do not ask, the answer is always no.
Owen Laughlin

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
Anonymous

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Steve Smith
Amdahl Corporation

Many a man aims at nothing--and hits it with
remarkable precision.

Anonymous

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Man has always two reasons for the things he does:
1) The logical reason, and
2) The real reason.
Anonymous

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by
what we give.
Anonymous

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity,
and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of
possibilities; and then to treat them as probabilities.
Bovee

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante

A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better
than a perfect plan executed next week.
General Patton

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt
discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison

I see the past as only a positive challenge to the future.
Stevland Morris

There is a certain Zen-like calm that comes over me
when I have money in the bank.
Tom Robbins

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say
you cannot do.
Anonymous

He who is outside the door has already a large part of
the journey behind him.
Dutch proverb

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on
after the others have let go.
William Feather

Let him who wants to move and convince others be first
moved and convinced himself.
Thomas Carlyle

I would rather see a crooked furrow than a field
unplowed.
Paul Jewkes

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Robert Browning

You are not here to make a living. You are here in order
to enable the world to live more amply, with greater
vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement, You
are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish
yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

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

We should all be concerned about the future because
we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Franklin Kettering

Playing small serves no one.
Nelson Mandela

It is better to light one candle than to curse the
darkness.
Anonymous

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The
second is to look things in the face and know them for
what they are.
Marcus Aurelius

The whole point of life is to really live, to expand your
horizons. Every person owes it to himself to develop to
the point where he can be financially free so he can
turn his mind to higher and better things. When you
reach a point where you don't have to worry about
money, your mind is free to make a difference in the
world.
Brian Tracy

He who asks questions cannot avoid answers.
Cameroon proverb

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out
of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn

Maps are useful but never neutral.
Lucy Fellows

I missed 100% of the shots I never took.
Wayne Gretzky
Hockey star

What you're doing screams so loudly that I can't hear a
word you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To attain excellence you must care more than others
think is wise; risk more than others think is safe; and
dream more than others think is practical.
Anonymous

Whatever it is you're avoiding the most is probably
where you should spend the majority of your time
Greg Stewart

The same level of thinking that has gotten us where we
are won't get us where we want to go.
Anthony Robbins

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will;
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent.
Theodore Roosevelt

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.
Dresden James

The sad thing about doing your taxes is when you
realize all you have to show for a whole year of activity
is a shoebox full of receipts.
Jerry Seinfeld

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look
at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker

The money vein is tender. People say health is more
important than money but that's only when they're sick.

Muriel Siebert, first woman to own a seat on the New
York Stock Exchange

If one advances in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who thinks money will make him happy hasn't
got money. Happy is harder than money.
David Geffen

The best piece of financial advice I've ever been given
is to manage my money for the long term.
Bridget Macaskill, CEO, Oppenheimer funds, Inc.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

To me, nothing is more interesting, cool or sexy than
the yield curve.
Jonathan Hoenig, Host, Capitalist Pig radio program

Life is short and so is money.
Bertolt Brecht

Spend within your means. You can have all the money
in the world, but if you spend more than what you have,
you're screwed.
Jerry Yang, Cofounder, Yahoo! Inc.

The world is not the way they tell you it is.
Adam Smith

Fortune favors the prepared mind
Peter Drucker

Born to see, meant to look.
Peter Drucker

While you're reading this, we're thinking about how our
competitors are plotting to take the food from our
children's mouths.
Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg by Bloomberg

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

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is
strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Bryne

What we sow or plant in the soil will come back to us in
exact kind. It's impossible to sow corn and get a crop of
wheat, but we entirely disregard this law when it comes
to mental sowing.
Orison Swett Marden

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George F. Will

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day,
and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide
him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not
be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

The secret to success is a constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

If you fill your mind with coins from your purse, your
mind will fill your purse with coins.
Benjamin Franklin

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay

Results, Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know
several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if
you just stand there.
Will Rogers

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching
them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the
desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and
following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz

There's only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes.
William James

If you learn only methods you'll be forever tied to those
methods. However, if you learn the principles behind
those methods, you'll be free to devise your own
methods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am convinced that it's of primordial importance to
learn more every year than the year before. After all,
what is education but a process by which a person
begins to learn how to learn?
Sir Peter Ustinov

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

Education should prepare people not just to earn a
living but to love a life, a creative, humane and
sensitive life.
Charles Silberman

Most businesses fail from lack of imagination.
Paul Hawken

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,