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Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. - Grace Hopper, 1906-1992
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1956
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. - James Lane Allen, 1849-1925
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole. - Marie Dressler, 1868-1934
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of eternity. - Jerome K. Jerome, 1859-1927
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance. - Gustavus Swift, 1839-1903
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. - Marie Ebner Eschenbach, 1830-1916
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss. - Plato, 427 BC- 347 BC
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss. - Plato, 427 BC- 347 BC
A bold onset is half the battle. - Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807-1882
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great, 1729-1796
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford, 1863-1947
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence, 1888-1935
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night. - Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder, 1744-1803
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome. - William James, 1842-1910
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope, 1882-1958
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. - Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success. - Madame de Maintenon, 1635-1719
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair, 1953-present
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. - Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success. - Madame de Maintenon, 1635-1719
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair, 1953-present
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. - Seneca, 4 BC-AD 65
The less men think, the more they talk. - Montesquieu, 1689-1755
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. - Frank William Taussig, 1859-1940
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last. - William Barrett, 1913-1992
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. - Marie Curie, 1867-1934
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. - John Churton Collins, 1848-1908
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - Denis Diderot, 1713-1784
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904
It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep. - Charles Austin Bates, 1866-1936
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last. - William Barrett, 1913-1992
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. - Sophocles, 496 BC-406 BC
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank, 1929-1945
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. - George S. Patton, 1885-1945
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning, 1812-1889
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. - Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859
The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho, 1947-present
The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost, 1874-1963
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller, 1880-1968
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. - Jeremy Collier, 1650-1726
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny. For what could more aptly fit your needs? - Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD- 180 AD
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. - Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1819-1881
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave. - Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Sir T. F. Buxton, 1786-1845
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906-2001
All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things. - Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. - Lee Iacocca, 1924-present
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippman, 1889-1974
All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things. - Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC
Take all the swift advantage of the hours. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath, 1943-present
Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers, 1879-1935
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. - Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.
The hand that follows intellect can achieve. - Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. - Erastus Wiman, 1834-1904
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott, 1771-1832
Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson, 1865-1943
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung, 1875-1961
It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter, 1836-1917
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
In all things that you do, consider the end. - Solon, 638 BC-538BC