...After all, all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations.

-- H.L. Mencken on Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are-- if it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong.

-- R.P. Feynman, Unknown , Unknown

...some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 308, 1995

...the very notion of time management is a misnomer. For we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how much time we have; we can only control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how.

-- Alec Mackenzie., The Time Trap. American Management Association., 1990

...this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford, Unknown , Unknown

A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anyone to serve on a committee.

-- Fletcher Knebel, Unknown , Unknown

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A good life lasts for generations.

-- A greeting card. The Borealis Press G-Line, Unknown , 1999.

A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

-- Jackie Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

A little folly now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than an educated family.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Duke Ellington, Unknown , Unknown

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , Unknown

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

-- Walter Lippmann, Unknown , Unknown

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

-- Annie Dillard, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

-- Kurt Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

-- George Patton, Unknown , Unknown

Advancement will come with hard work

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Advice should be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

-- Amelia E. Barr, 1831-1919, All the Days of My Life, 1913

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , born November 30, 1835

All your hard work will soon pay off.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

Always be diplomatic before inserting a knife in your enemy's back.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

-- Lena Horne, in interview, 1985

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

-- John Quincy Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

-- Harold Rosenberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr, Unknown , Unknown

Any idiot can face a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

-- Anton Chekhov, Unknown , Unknown

Anything more dull and commonplace it wouldn't be easy to reproduce.

-- The London Times, on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Unknown , Unknown

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they are yours.

-- Richard Bach, Unknown , Unknown

As too many people forget, the most critical ingredient of success is being there when they want you.

-- Emma Lathen, By Hook or By Crook, Unknown

Aspire to Inspire before you Expire

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

-- Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Line 417, Unknown

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

-- Bette Davis, Mother Goddamn, 1974

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Bad spellers of the world, Untie!

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be different--if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

-- Ed Koch, Unknown , 1996

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Beep beep.

-- Roadrunner, Chuck Jones, Warner Bros cartoon, Unknown

Before enlightenment, there is much carrying of water; after enlightenment, there is much carrying of water.

-- Buddhist saying, Unknown , Unknown

Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed are those who are flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

-- Jonathan Swift, Unknown , Unknown

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

-- Charles Peters, Unknown , Unknown

But if you don't have fun doing this thing, my friend, then it will be the dumbest damned thing you have ever done. I don't mean taking weight off and keeping it off, I mean the crucial matter of gaining control of part of your life. That's what you'd better glory in; otherwise you might as well ask your mother what to do next.

-- Richard Watson, The philosopher's diet: How to loose weight and change the world, Unknown

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Answered, for Lord William Hamilton", 1758

By their fruits you will know them.

-- Matthew 7:16, The Bible, Unknown

Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect.

-- Howard Ogden, Unknown , Unknown

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

-- Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

-- Garrison Keillor, Unknown , Unknown

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , Unknown

Causes of violence: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principles.

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Change is good. You go first.

-- Scott Adams., Dilbert cartoon., Unknown

Church ain't out 'til the fat lady sings.

-- Southern USA Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Coasting only takes you downhill.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

-- Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

-- Leonard Binder, Unknown , born August 20, 1927

Confidence is the mother of incentive.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, May 4, 1995

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-- John Billings, Unknown , 1818-1885

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Contrast the experience of being a middle manager. This is a stock figure of ridicule, but the sociologist Robert Jackall spent years inhabiting the world of corporate managers, conducting interviews, and he poignantly describes the "moral maze" they feel trapped in. Like the mechanic, the manager faces the possibility of disaster at any time. But in his case these disasters feel arbitrary; they are typically a result of corporate restructurings, not of physics. A manager has to make many decisions for which he is accountable. Unlike an entrepreneur with his own business, however, his decisions can be reversed at any time by someone higher up the food chain (and there is always someone higher up the food chain). It's important for your career that these reversals not look like defeats, and more generally you have to spend a lot of time managing what others think of you. Survival depends on a crucial insight: you can't back down from an argument that you initially made in straightforward language, with moral conviction, without seeming to lose your integrity. So managers learn the art of provisional thinking and feeling, expressed in corporate doublespeak, and cultivate a lack of commitment to their own actions. Nothing is set in concrete the way it is when you are, for example, pouring concrete.

-- Matthew B. Crawford, The Case for Working With Your Hands, New York Times, 21 May 2009

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

-- Ambrose Redmoon, Unknown , Unknown

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

-- Robert Heinlein, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it, establish your priorities and go to work.

-- Hunt, Unknown , Unknown

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

-- Gordon Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Defining your criteria for success is easier when you suck. As you get better, it becomes harder. The steps are smaller and smaller.

-- Bode Miller, Olympic skier,, Newsweek interview, p. 44, January 23, 2006

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

-- Bob Rivera & Peter Yates, janitors, Kingswood Regional High., Unknown , 1991

Do not judge others, and God will not judge you...The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.

-- Luke 6:37-38, Unknown , Unknown

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

-- Lyndon Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be hasty; prosperity will knock on your door soon.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be too stupid to be lazy.

-- West Indies proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well.

-- Diane Ackerman, Unknown , Unknown

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-- Howard Aiken., Unknown , Unknown

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the best provision for old age.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

-- Marlon Brando, Unknown , Unknown

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

-- Harry Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence can be attained if you -Care more often than others think wise. -Risk more often than others think is safe. -Dream more often than others think is practical. -Expect more than others think is possible.

-- Janet Cagery, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Facing it, always facing it. That's the way to get through. Face it.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , Unknown

Facing up to your mistakes keeps you from repeating them. Successful people make plenty of mistakes but hardly ever the same one twice.

-- Debra A. Benton, Lions Don't Need to Roar. Warner Books, 1993

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch, 1871-2

Failure is an experience, not an individual.

-- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Unknown

Failure is not the end but is the opportunity to try again.

-- Tommy Phelps, Western Kentucky University student, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-- Truman Capote, Unknown , Unknown

Failures are divided into 2 classes those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

-- John Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, 1886

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take up ranks with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat

-- Theodore Roosevelt., Unknown , Unknown

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying…And suddenly realize I forgot to live.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

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, New York Herald Tribune, April 11, 1957

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love.

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.

-- H. L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For you to be successful sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt

-- Dorothy Parker, "Inventory," Enough Rope, 1927

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen.

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Get your mind set…..Confidence will lead you on.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown

Good sense is the master of human life.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , born December 3, 1857

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Happiness is not a destination…it's a way of life.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Happiness is that state of consciousness that proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

-- Ayn Rand, Unknown , Unknown

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He didn't give a darn who chaired the meeting as long as he took the minutes….with reference to Stalin.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

-- Mae West, Unknown , 1892-1980

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, …Only shooting stars break the mold.

-- Greg Camp of the music group Smash Mouth, song, 'All Star', 1999

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Honor lies in honest toil.

-- Grover Cleveland, Unknown , Unknown

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

-- Vachel Lindsay, Unknown , Unknown

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

-- Coco Chanel, Unknown , Unknown

How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

-- Luke 6:26, Unknown , Unknown

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

-- Stephen Leacock, Unknown , Unknown

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

-- William E. Henley, Unknown , Unknown

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

-- Sir Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

I do everything I set my mind to!...now where did I set my mind?

-- t-shirt slogan, Unknown , Unknown

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

-- Jackie Robinson, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

I don't deserve this award but then I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

-- Jack Benny, Unknown , Unknown

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Bill Cosby, Unknown , Unknown

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.

-- E.B. White, Unknown , Unknown

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

-- Clara Barton, Unknown , Unknown

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

-- B. Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

-- Vita Sackville-West, Unknown , Unknown

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

-- Langston Hughes, Unknown , Unknown

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest of caution.

-- Werner Von Braun, Unknown , Unknown

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot…and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why…I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

-- Sara Teasdale, "Riches," Love Songs, 1917

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

-- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, 1913

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

-- Golda Meir, Unknown , Unknown

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.

-- Dr Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

-- Augusten Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

-- Sarah Louise (Sadie) Delany, Having Our Say, 1992

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public--talent in privacy.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Ms. Magazine, August 1972

I started with nothing and I still have most of it.

-- bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown

I started with nothing…and I still have most of it left.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too…. I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

-- Pearl Cleage, Unknown , Unknown

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Unknown , 1917-1963

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

-- Bessie Delany, Unknown , Unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

-- Glenda Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

I was like probably most of you. I did not graduate Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude, I graduated, Oh Thank You Lordy!

-- Andrew Young, Mayor of Atlanta, Unknown , 1987

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, “This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!”

-- Lewis Mumford, To National Book Awards Committee, 'My Works and Days' Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

I would rather fail in a cause that someday will triumph, than to win in a cause that I know will someday fail.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

-- e e cummings, Unknown , Unknown

I'm very brave generally only today I happen to have a headache.

-- character "Tweedledum" by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

-- John Galsworthy, Unknown , born August 14, 1867

If a free society cannot help the many that are poor; it cannot save the few that are rich.

-- John F. Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

If a government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

-- Gerald Ford, Unknown , Unknown

If a job is worth doing, then get someone in to do it properly.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

-- Marin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

-- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1947

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

-- Ovid, Unknown , Unknown

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

-- Grandma Moses, My Life's History, 1947

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

-- Hal Abelson, Unknown , Unknown

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

-- Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

-- Edward A. Murphy, Jr., Original formulation of "Murphy's Law", Air Force flight safety manuals., 1949

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

-- W.H. Auden, Unknown , Unknown

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

-- Ellen Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

-- Hyman Rickover, Unknown , 1900-1986

If you are made of the right stuff, a hard fall results in a high bounce.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If you cain't bear no crosses, You cain't wear no crown.

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

-- Jean Kerr, Unknown , born July 10, 1923

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

-- George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you don't open your mouth, you don't get fed.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

If you ever think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

-- Anita Roddick, Unknown , 1996

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

-- Jimmy Carter, Unknown , Unknown

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

-- Marcus Garvey, Unknown , Unknown

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

-- Katharine Hepburn, Unknown , Unknown

If you rest, you rust.

-- Helen Hayes, My Life in Three Acts, 1990

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

If you try to clean up a cow patty when it is fresh, you'll get it all over yourself. But wait a few days and it will dry up and you can use it for second base.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you wish to, you will have an opportunity.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If you're not scared to death, you haven't collected enough information.

-- Eileen Mason, Unknown , Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte, Unknown , 1769-1821

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In America, Anyone Can Be President. That's One of the Risks You Take.

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

-- Brian K. Reid, Unknown , Unknown

In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

-- George Crabbe, The Birth of Flattery, Unknown

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

-- John Ruskin, Unknown , Unknown

In politics, the middle way is no way at all.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

-- Gerald Holton, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown

In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box, Unknown

In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

-- Nomi Whalen, Unknown , born 1932

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

-- Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education, Unknown

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

-- Harriet Lerner, Unknown , Unknown

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

-- August Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, Unknown , Unknown

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , Unknown

It is an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

-- John F. Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch, 1871-2

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

-- Andrew W. Mathis, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

-- Elizabeth Kenny, in Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, 1976

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

-- J. Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to start late on the right job than to spend a frustrating and mediocre life in the wrong one.

-- M. T. Harrington, Unknown , 1952

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

-- Dee Hock, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, Unknown , Unknown

It is hard: to forget, to apologize, to save money, to be unselfish, to avoid mistakes, to keep your temper at all times, to think first and act afterwards, to maintain a high standard, to keep on keeping on, to shoulder the blame, to be charitable, to admit error, to take advice, to forgive. But it is right to do these things.

-- 'Newsletter' Newsletter, Unknown , 1994, February

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

-- Agnes Repplier, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- George Eliot, Unknown , Unknown

It is not doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret to happiness.

-- James Barrie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , born November 21, 1694

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

-- Comte D'Artois (later Charles X), proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur", Unknown

It is not strange...to mistake change for process.

-- Millard Fillmore, Unknown , Unknown

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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, "Citizenship in a Republic", April 23, 1910

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

-- Margaret Bonnano, Unknown , Unknown

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , born December 21, 1892

It is the hope and dreams we have that make us great.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is up to us to change our community by holding ourselves accountable, and the politicians we elect accountable, to making a positive difference in all our communities...Get involved. Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: What have I done today to make this country better?

-- Sam Sanchez, commentary aired on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. and quoted in Feb 15, 1995, The Washington Spectator, Unknown

It is wise to direct your anger toward problems-- not people; to focus your energies on an answer--not excuses.

-- William Arthur Ward, Unknown , Unknown

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

-- Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

-- Walt Disney, Unknown , Unknown

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , Unknown

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

-- Alistair Sim, Time, 1976, August 30

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

-- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Persuasion, 1818

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

-- Jean Nidetch, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

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, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Babe Ruth, Unknown , Unknown

It's hip, hip, hip and away I go!

-- Underdog, NBC cartoon, 1964

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It's not what you call us, but what we answer to that matters.

-- Djuka, Unknown , Unknown

It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong, not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich, not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned, and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

-- Francis Bacon, Sr., Unknown , Unknown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Know thyself.

-- Thales, Unknown , Unknown

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

-- C.G. Jung, Unknown , Unknown

Lack of motivation is sometimes born of lack of achievement.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, April 1., 1995

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

-- Haki R. Madhubuti, Unknown , Unknown

Let us always be open to the miracle of the second chance.

-- Rev. David Stier, Unknown , Unknown

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , 1835-1910

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

-- Annette Funicello, Unknown , Unknown

Life IS a multiple choice test, only we first have to think up the possible choices, of which there are at a large, if not infinite number for each problem, and then we must choose among them.

-- Mike Chejlava, Unknown , Unknown

Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

-- W.C. Handy, Unknown , Unknown

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, Unknown , Unknown

Life never helps the man who will not act.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

Like Olympic medals and tennis tropies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

-- Robert Graves, Unknown , Unknown

Little things affect little minds.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes a free trip around the sun.

-- On a Button., Unknown , Unknown

Lots of people feel they're past the point of no return but they still don't know where they're going.

-- Gilbert, Unknown , Unknown

Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Unknown

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

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , Unknown

May I be no man's enemy, and may I be the friend of that which is eternal and abides. May I never quarrel with those nearest me: and if I do, may I be reconciled quickly. May I love, seek, and attain only that which is good. May I wish for all men's happiness and envy none. May I never rejoice in the ill-fortune of one who has wronged me. May I win no victory that harms either me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are angry with one another. May I, to the extent of my power, give all needful help to my friends and all who are in want. May I never fail a friend who is in danger. When visiting those in grief may I be able by gentle and healing words to soften their pain. May I respect myself. May I always keep tame that which rages within me. May I accustom myself to be gentle, and never be angry with people because of circumstances. May I never discuss who is wicked and what wicked things he has done, but know good men and follow in their footsteps. Amen

-- Prayer by Eusebius, from "A Time of Prayer" pg. 58, 3rd century

Mercy produces courage Frugality produces generosity Humility produces leadership.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Money can buy the most expensive dog in the world but only love can make him wag his tail.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Money talks. Usually it says, "Bend over."

-- Solomon Short, Unknown , Unknown

Most of our future lies ahead.

-- Denny Crum, U of Louisville basketball coach, Unknown , Unknown

Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

-- Indira Ghandi, in Carolyn Warner (ed.) (1992) The Last Word, lived 1917-1984

My greatest satisfaction comes when my students find the success they never thought they could have.

-- Addie Rhodes Lee, Unknown , Unknown

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

-- Charles M. Schultz, Unknown , Unknown

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-- Helen Hayes, Unknown , Unknown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

-- Helen Gurley Brown, Unknown , b. 1922

Natasha: You have plan, dahlink? Boris: Of course I have plan. It never works, but I always have one!

-- Natasha Fatale & Boris Badenov, Jay Ward & Bill Scott cartoon, 1959

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people-- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

-- Barbara Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

-- Gracie Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , born December 21, 1804

Nice guys finish last.

-- Attributed by reporters to Leo Durocher who actually said "The nice guys are all over there. In seventh place.", Unknown , Unknown

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

-- Paul Dickson, Unknown , Unknown

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always serve as a negative example.

-- Arthur Bloch, Unknown , Unknown

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

-- Anna Pavlova, Unknown , Unknown

No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail.

-- Rosalind Welcher, referring to cats., Unknown , Unknown

No one ever has it "all together." That's like trying to eat "once and for all."

-- Marilyn Grey, Unknown , Unknown

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.

-- Faith Ringgold, Ms. Magazine, January 1973

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

-- Billie Holiday, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is quite common. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and Determination alone are the all-powerful elements.

-- Adapted by ? From a quote by Calvin Coolidge, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

-- Napolean Bonaparte, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is worth more than this day.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

-- Dr. Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single life-time; therefore we are saved by hope.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 163, 1952

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

-- Artur Rubinstein, Unknown , Unknown

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

-- Margaret Young., Unknown , Unknown

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

-- Claude Debussy, Unknown , Unknown

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Unknown , Unknown

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

-- Andre Malraux, Unknown , Unknown

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

One man with courage makes a majority.

-- Andrew Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

-- John Wanamaker, Unknown , Unknown

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , Unknown

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

-- Alexander A. Bogomoletz, Unknown , Unknown

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

-- Miguel Unamuno, Unknown , Unknown

Only people who do things make mistakes.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Only the mediocre can always be at their best.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorism, 1905

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

-- N.D. Hillis, Unknown , Unknown

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-- Sun-tzu, Unknown , Unknown

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

-- Shelby Steele, 1991, Unknown

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

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

-- Robert Browning, Unknown , Unknown

Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.

-- William McKinley, Unknown , Unknown

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, Unknown , Unknown

Our problems are mostly behind us-- what we have to do now is fight the solutions.

-- Allen P. Stults, Unknown , born June 13, 1913

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

-- William Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

People fail forward to success.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

People need 1) someone to care for; 2) something to do; 3) something to hope for.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

-- Anne Sullivan, letter in 'Helen Keller, The Story of My Life', Oct. 30, 1887

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, Unknown , Unknown

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

-- Heywood Broun, Unknown , born December 7, 1888

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Unknown , born June 5, 1883

President Lincoln was once taken to task for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them? You should destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln replied, "when I make them my friends?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

-- Pamela Vaull Starr, Unknown , Unknown

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have: it depends solely upon what you think.

-- Dale Carnegie, Unknown , Unknown

Remember the five simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Remember to share good fortune as well as bad with your friends.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

-- Susan Sontag, Unknown , 1983

Resolve, and thou art free.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora (pt. VI, In the Garden), Unknown

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

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Roosters crow. Hens deliver.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

-- Ann Landers, Unknown , Unknown

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

-- Pindar, Unknown , 518-438 B.C.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham J. Heschel, Unknown , Unknown

Shortcuts aren't always.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I'll show you a failure.

-- Thomas Edison., Unknown , Unknown

Since we are all likely to go astray the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, June 5, 2008

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.

-- Kobi Yamada, Unknown , Unknown

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

-- James M. Wallace, Unknown , Unknown

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

-- Carlos Urbizo, Unknown , Unknown

Strategy is better than strength.

-- Hausa Legend, Unknown , Unknown

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, Unknown , Unknown

Success is not to be measured by income but by influence, not by power but by personality, not by capital but by character.

-- Stephen W. Gilman, U. of Wisconsin, Unknown , Unknown

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.

-- Marianne Williamson, Unknown , Unknown

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

-- Robert J. McKain, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

-- Theodore Brameld, Unknown , Unknown

Technology which connects is successful technology.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

-- Ray Bradbury, Unknown , Unknown

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Unknown , Unknown

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-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

-- Jane Wagner, Unknown , Unknown

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

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, Unknown , Unknown

The best imromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

-- Ruth Gordon, Unknown , born October 30, 1896

The best way for a student to get out of difficulty is to go through it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

-- Alfred Adler, Unknown , Unknown

The color of truth is gray.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Unknown , Unknown

The dollar bills the customer gets from the tellers in four banks are the same. What is different are the tellers.

-- Stanley Marcus, Unknown , Unknown

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

-- Joe Girard, Unknown , Unknown

The essential thing is not what I do but the significance that I attach to what I do. Once that happens, nothing is ordinary any more, and the most trivial reality is transfigured and takes on a divine and eternal dimension.

-- Boulad, All in Grace, Unknown

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

-- Carl Sagan., Unknown , Unknown

The first ninety percent of the task takes ten percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

-- Ninety-ninety rule of project schedules, Unknown , Unknown

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

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

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

-- Gloria Steinem, b. 1934, Time, 1992

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

-- Robert Anton Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

The geek shall inherit the earth.

-- E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for the Internet Age, Unknown

The gods help them that help themselves.

-- Aesop, Unknown , Unknown

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

-- Winston Churchill, Sir, Unknown , 1874-1965

The greatest of all inventors is accident.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

-- Vince Lombardi, Unknown , Unknown

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

-- Mary Barnett Gilson, What's Past Is Prologue, 1940

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

-- Madame de Stael, Unknown , Unknown

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Unknown , Unknown

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

-- Elbert Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W. C. Mager, Unknown , Unknown

The measure of love is to love without measure.

-- St. Francis de Sales, Unknown , Unknown

The most important questions in life are unanswerable--but approachable.

-- Jamie McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

-- J. Arthur Thomson, Unknown , Unknown

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

-- Roland Merullo, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 14, 2002

The Old Pro…Often Wrong…Never in Doubt

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is whether it goes in or not.

-- Charles Barkley, Unknown , Unknown

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

-- Helen Gurley Brown, in Carolyn Warner (ed.,) (1992). The Last Word, b. 1922

The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.

-- Often misattributed. Origins are unknown. There is an old Southern saying, "Church ain't out 'til the fat lady sings.", Unknown , Unknown

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

The price of greatness is responsibility.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

The pursuit of the truth shall set you free--even if you never catch up with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

-- James Galway, Centrepiece, 2003

The race may not be to the swift nor victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

-- Damon Runyon, Unknown , born October 4, 1884

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

-- Shirley Hufstedler, Unknown , Unknown

The road to success is always under construction.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

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, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

-- Pearl S. Buck, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of the universe is this: the universe doesn’t care. That part of the job is yours.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

-- Bill Clinton, Newsweek, p. 52, January 23, 2006

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-- Carl Jung, Unknown , Unknown

The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

-- Doug Larson, Unknown , Unknown

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

-- Pat Cross, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

-- Alexander Calder, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

-- Lily Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with doing something right the first time, is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

-- Edgar A. Shoaff, Unknown , Unknown

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it--right or wrong--may be given.

-- Susanne K. Langer, Unknown , Unknown

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

-- Linus Pauling, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

-- Arthur Twining Hadley, Unknown , 1903

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick, Unknown , Unknown

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

-- William Howard Taft, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- David Starr Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

The worst kind of poverty is ignorance.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There are no limits to the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from experience.

-- Novak and Gowin, Unknown , 1984

There are three things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third.

-- John F. Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

There are three ways to handle change. You can fight it and die; accept it and survive; or, lead it and prosper.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.

-- Mary Lowry, Pacific Sun;, November 15, 1985

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

There is a 4-word formula for success that applies equally well to organizations or individuals--make yourself useful.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

-- Poor Richard’s Almanac, Unknown , Unknown

There is no achievement without goals.

-- Robert J. McKain, Unknown , Unknown

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , 1928

There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.

-- Douglas MacArthur, Unknown , Unknown

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. One can find meaning in life in three different ways: by creating a work or doing a deed; by experiencing something or encountering someone; and by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering. We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation. I bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

-- Viktor E. Frankl, who survived Auschwitz and 3 other Nazi concentration camps, Unknown , Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America

-- Bill Clinton, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life your own way.

-- Christopher Morley, Unknown , Unknown

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

-- Sylvia Plath, Unknown , Unknown

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

-- Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown