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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." 
— Charles Dickens
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." 
— Charles Dickens
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." 
— Thomas Edison
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." 
— Thomas Edison
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." 
— Thomas Edison
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." 
— Thomas Edison
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." 
— Charles Dickens
"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." 
— Charles Dickens
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." 
— Thomas Edison
"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." 
— Thomas Edison
"I never did a day's work in my life.  It was all fun." 
— Thomas Edison
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." 
— Thomas Edison
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." 
— Charles Dickens
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." 
— Thomas Edison
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." 
— Thomas Edison
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." 
— Thomas Edison
"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." 
— Charles Dickens
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" 
— Thomas Edison
"We need never be ashamed of our tears." 
— Charles Dickens
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." 
— Thomas Edison
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." 
— Thomas Edison
"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." 
— Thomas Edison
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." 
— Albert Einstein
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." 
— Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." 
— Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." 
— Albert Einstein
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." 
— Albert Einstein
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." 
— Albert Einstein
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." 
— Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." 
— Albert Einstein
"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." 
— Albert Einstein
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." 
— Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." 
— Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." 
— Albert Einstein
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." 
— Albert Einstein
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." 
— Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." 
— Albert Einstein
"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." 
— Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." 
— Albert Einstein
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible." 
— Albert Einstein
"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." 
— Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." 
— Albert Einstein
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over." 
— Warren Buffett
"If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well." 
— Warren Buffett
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." 
— Aesop
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." 
— Aesop
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." 
— Aesop
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." 
— Warren Buffett
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." 
— Aesop
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten." 
— Aesop
"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it." 
— Warren Buffett
"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well." 
— Warren Buffett
"I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable." 
— Warren Buffett
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." 
— Warren Buffett
"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." 
— Warren Buffett
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." 
— Aesop
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters." 
— Aesop
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." 
— Aesop
"I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." 
— Warren Buffett
"Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good." 
— The Buddha
"'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill." 
— The Buddha
"Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another." 
— The Buddha
"Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." 
— The Buddha
"It's a good thing to be satisfied with what one has." 
— The Buddha
"If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across? – The Buddha" 
— The Buddha
"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way." 
— The Buddha
"As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed." 
— The Buddha
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble." 
— The Buddha
"All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill." 
— The Buddha
"May all beings have happy minds." 
— The Buddha
"Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing." 
— The Buddha
"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." 
— The Buddha
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." 
— The Buddha
"Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet." 
— The Buddha
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." 
— The Buddha
"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow." 
— The Buddha
"They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed." 
— The Buddha
"All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind." 
— The Buddha
"Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace." 
— The Buddha
"Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people." 
— The Buddha
"Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win." 
— The Buddha
"The root of suffering is attachment." 
— The Buddha
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." 
— The Buddha
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." 
— The Buddha
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity." 
— The Buddha
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" 
— The Buddha
"Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course." 
— The Buddha
"Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing." 
— The Buddha
"Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it." 
— The Buddha
"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." 
— The Buddha
"I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me." 
— The Buddha
"Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit." 
— The Buddha
"A noble one produces an abundance of merit by having a compassionate mind towards all living beings." 
— The Buddha
"It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse." 
— The Buddha
"Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels." 
— The Buddha
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." 
— The Buddha
"Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings." 
— The Buddha
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." 
— The Buddha
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." 
— The Buddha
"Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!" 
— The Buddha
"A disciplined mind brings happiness." 
— The Buddha
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes." 
— The Buddha
"He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin." 
— The Buddha
"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world." 
— The Buddha
"One should train in deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind—that yield long-lasting happiness." 
— The Buddha
"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth." 
— The Buddha
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." 
— The Buddha
"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." 
— The Buddha
"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." 
— The Buddha
"A wise person should be urgently moved on occasions that make for urgency." 
— The Buddha
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" 
— The Buddha
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." 
— The Buddha
"'As I am, so are they; as they are, so am I.' Comparing others with oneself, do not kill nor cause others to kill." 
— The Buddha
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." 
— The Buddha
"Resolutely train yourself to attain peace." 
— The Buddha
"To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing." 
— The Buddha
"Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering." 
— The Buddha
"Give, even if you only have a little." 
— The Buddha
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." 
— Sandy Koufax
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." 
— Yogi Berra
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." 
— Erma Bombeck
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." 
— Michael Phelps
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." 
— Earl Monroe
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." 
— Bobby Unser
"Never complain and never explain." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." 
— Mike Singletary (basketball)
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure." 
— Eric Liddell
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." 
— Don Marquis
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." 
— Jim Bouton
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." 
— Babe Ruth
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story." 
— Casey Stengel
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." 
— Billie Jean King
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." 
— Elon Musk
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." 
— P. G. Wodehouse
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." 
— Ken Venturi
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, and wear Reebok." 
— Shaquille O'Neal
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." 
— Ralph Marston
"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 H. Aiken
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." 
— Woodrow Wilson
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." 
— Mia Hamm
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." 
— Jeff Bezos
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." 
— Ted Williams
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." 
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." 
— Jack Welch
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." 
— Warren Bennis
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." 
— Laurence J. Peter
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." 
— Colin Powell
"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge." 
— Robert Kiyosaki
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." 
— W. Clement Stone
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." 
— Confucius
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." 
— William James
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." 
— John F. Kennedy
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." 
— John Madden
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." 
— Kyle Chandler
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." 
— Mark Twain
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." 
— John Kenneth Galbraith
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." 
— Hank Aaron
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." 
— Edward Gibbon
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." 
— André Malraux
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." 
— Robert Griffin III
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." 
— Heywood Broun
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." 
— William Blake
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." 
— Sam Walton
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball." 
— Bob Knight
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." 
— Tom Brokaw
"Fans don't boo nobodies." 
— Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." 
— Elon Musk
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." 
— Ayn Rand
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." 
— Niccolò Machiavelli
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." 
— Ambrose Bierce
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." 
— Bob Feller
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." 
— Vince Lombardi
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." 
— Wayne Gretzky
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." 
— Babe Ruth
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." 
— Rogers Hornsby
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." 
— Peter Drucker
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." 
— Dan Gable
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." 
— Michael Jordan
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." 
— Arnold Palmer
"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." 
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." 
— Muhammad Ali
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." 
— George Orwell
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people." 
— Mary Kay Ash
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." 
— Nikos Kazantzakis
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." 
— Winston Churchill
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"History is written by the victors." 
— Winston Churchill
"If you're going through hell, keep going." 
— Winston Churchill
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." 
— Winston Churchill
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean." 
— Alan Watts
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." 
— Alan Watts
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." 
— Winston Churchill
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." 
— Alan Watts
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." 
— Alan Watts
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." 
— Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." 
— Winston Churchill
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on." 
— Alan Watts
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." 
— Winston Churchill
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." 
— Alan Watts
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." 
— Alan Watts
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." 
— Alan Watts
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." 
— Winston Churchill
"I owe my solitude to other people." 
— Alan Watts
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." 
— Winston Churchill
"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax." 
— Alan Watts
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." 
— Winston Churchill
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." 
— Winston Churchill
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." 
— Alan Watts
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." 
— Alan Watts
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." 
— Winston Churchill
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." 
— Alan Watts
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." 
— Winston Churchill
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 
— Winston Churchill
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." 
— Winston Churchill
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." 
— Winston Churchill
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." 
— Winston Churchill
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." 
— Winston Churchill
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself." 
— Alan Watts
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." 
— Alan Watts
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." 
— Alan Watts
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." 
— Alan Watts
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." 
— Winston Churchill
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." 
— Winston Churchill
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." 
— Alan Watts
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." 
— Alan Watts
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." 
— Winston Churchill
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." 
— Winston Churchill
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." 
— Alan Watts
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe." 
— Alan Watts
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." 
— Winston Churchill
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." 
— Henry Ford
"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
"There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do." 
— Amy Poehler
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement." 
— Helmut Schmidt
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." 
— Larry Page
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." 
— Neil Gaiman
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." 
— Confucius
"With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it." 
— Amber Valletta
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." 
— Albert Einstein
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." 
— Winifred Holtby
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things." 
— Edward Everett Hale
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." 
— Carl Jung
"Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you." 
— Julie Morgenstern
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." 
— George Marshall
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." 
— Chanakya
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." 
— Thomas Jefferson
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." 
— Harriet Woods
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." 
— Francis Bacon
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." 
— Francis Bacon
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." 
— Laozi
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." 
— Confucius
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." 
— Ed Cunningham
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." 
— Jean de La Bruyère
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." 
— Swami Vivekananda
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." 
— Epictetus
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." 
— Albert Einstein
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." 
— M. Scott Peck
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." 
— John F. Kennedy
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." 
— Mortimer J. Adler
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." 
— Edith Wharton
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." 
— William Shakespeare
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." 
— Richard Bach
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." 
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." 
— Seneca the Younger
"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?" 
— David Bader
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." 
— Will Rogers
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else." 
— Jean François Paul de Gondi
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." 
— Laozi
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." 
— Margaret Mead
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." 
— Ansel Adams
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." 
— Napoleon Hill
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." 
— Denis Waitley
"Nothing will work unless you do." 
— Maya Angelou
"The beginning is always today." 
— Mary Wollstonecraft
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." 
— Maya Angelou
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." 
— Frank Abagnale
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." 
— William Blake
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way." 
— Morihei Ueshiba
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"One should not hurt others if one loves oneself." 
— The Buddha
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum." 
— Holly Near
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." 
— Cicero
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." 
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
"What worries you masters you." 
— Haddon Robinson
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" 
— Confucius
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." 
— Henri Bergson
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." 
— Harriet Tubman
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." 
— Karl Menninger
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." 
— Judy Collins
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." 
— Kenji Miyazawa
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." 
— Mark Twain
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." 
— The Buddha
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." 
— Epicurus
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." 
— Andy Rooney
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." 
— Democritus
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." 
— Torquato Tasso
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." 
— Leo Tolstoy
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." 
— Arthur Conan Doyle
"Our distrust is very expensive." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." 
— Hubert Humphrey
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." 
— Henri Bergson
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." 
— Dalai Lama
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." 
— Douglas MacArthur
"Study the past, if you would divine the future." 
— Confucius
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." 
— Confucius
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." 
— Marilyn Monroe
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." 
— William C. Menninger
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness are at an all-time high. We must course-correct." 
— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." 
— Edward Everett Hale
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." 
— Lisa Alther
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." 
— Leo Buscaglia
"Love is a serious mental disease." 
— Plato
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." 
— Pat Riley
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there." 
— Richard Bach
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." 
— Jerome
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." 
— Will Durant
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." 
— Babe Ruth
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." 
— Willa Cather
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." 
— Paramahansa Yogananda
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." 
— Tony Blair
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." 
— Rachel Carson
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." 
— Bodhidharma
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life." 
— James Freeman Clarke
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." 
— Ralph Marston
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." 
— Albert Einstein
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." 
— Bruce Lee
"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel." 
— Marcia Fudge
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." 
— Hanya Yanagihara
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." 
— Napoleon
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." 
— Laurence J. Peter
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." 
— Basil of Caesarea
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." 
— Pema Chödrön
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." 
— Francis de Sales
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." 
— Napoleon Hill
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." 
— Michelangelo
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." 
— François de La Rochefoucauld
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." 
— Michel de Montaigne
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." 
— Nelson Mandela
"If you want to go east, don't go west." 
— Ramakrishna
"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." 
— Sam Ewing
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares." 
— Henri Nouwen
"You teach best what you most need to learn." 
— Richard Bach
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." 
— Edwin Markham
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." 
— Peter Drucker
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." 
— Richard Whately
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." 
— Woody Allen
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." 
— The Buddha
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." 
— Confucius
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." 
— Nargis Fakhri
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you." 
— Janet Jackson
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." 
— Publilius Syrus
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 
— Aristotle
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." 
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." 
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." 
— Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." 
— René Descartes
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." 
— Laurence J. Peter
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." 
— Frederick Douglass
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all." 
— Erasmus
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." 
— Booker T. Washington
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." 
— Tony Robbins
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." 
— Bernard Shaw
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." 
— Carlos Castaneda
"The cautious seldom err." 
— Confucius
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." 
— Calvin Coolidge
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself." 
— Napoleon Hill
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" 
— W. Clement Stone
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." 
— Plato
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." 
— Tony Robbins
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." 
— Dalai Lama
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." 
— George Washington
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." 
— Albert Camus
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." 
— Michael Jordan
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." 
— Barack Obama
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him." 
— Laozi
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part." 
— Christopher Reeve
"Never mistake motion for action." 
— Ernest Hemingway
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." 
— Robert Schuller
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." 
— John Lennon