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I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. - John Keats, 1795-1821
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. - Seneca, 4 BC-AD 65
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. - Madame Du Deffand, 1697-1780
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck, 1905-1956
God ever works with those who work with will. - Aeschylus, 525-456 BC
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. - Jean Paul Richter, 1763-1825
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol, 1813-1900
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. - Polybius, 200–118 BC
Not to know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. - John Milton, 1608-1674
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust, 1871-1922
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962
If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. - John B. Gough, 1817-1886
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. - Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888
If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts. - Frederic Farrar, 1831-1903
The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William Buell Sprague, 1795-1876
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Be silent, or say something better than silence. - Pythagoras, circa 570 BC-495 BC
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
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. - Josh Billings, 1818-1885
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier, 1855-1950
Awareness is not an achievement. It's a lifestyle. - Ariel and Shya Kane
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive? - Thomas Hood, 1799-1845
Make use of time, let not advantage slip. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. - Mao Zedong, 1893-1976
No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it. - Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word that raises us above ourselves. - Arthur P. Stanley, 1815-1881
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. - Victor Chasles, 1798-1873
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. - Lucan, 9 AD-65 AD
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hippocrates, 460 BC-370 BC
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck, 1905-1956
Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. - William Thackeray, 1811-1863
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander, 342 BC-291 BC
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - El Amir Abdelkader, 1808-1883
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry, 1736-1799
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. - John C. Geikie, 1824-1898
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836-1907
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington, 1732-1799
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful. - Horace, 65 BC- 8 BC
Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach, 1812-1882
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. - Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC
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
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. - George Dana Boardman, 1801-1831
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life. - Samuel Butler, 1835-1902
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. - Karl Menninger, 1893-1990
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice -- keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. - Noah Porter, 1811-1892
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. - William Croswell Doane, 1832-1913
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. - Thomas Edwards, 1837-1900
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. - Thomas Hood, 1799-1845
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. - Nichiren Daishonin, 1222-1282
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1021-1058
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus, 460 BC-370 BC
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. - Menander, 342 BC-291 BC