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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
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang, 1920-1990
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles. - Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931
Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible. - George Leonard, 1923-2010
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence, c. 190 BC-159 BC
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christian Nestell Bovee, 1820-1904
Many can argue - not many converse. - Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917
Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it. - Virgil, 70 BC-19 BC
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus, 56 AD-117 AD
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. - C. W. Wendte, 1844-1931
A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them. - William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. - Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. - Seneca, 4 BC-AD 65
He either fears his fate too much, or his deserts are small, who dares not put it to the touch to gain or lose it all. - Marquis of Montrose, 1612-1650
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. - Berthold Auerbach, 1812-1882
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao Tzu, 604 B.C.-531 B.C.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. - Charles Henry Parkhurst, 1842-1933
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond, 1855-1936
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845
Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. - Roger L'Estrange, 1616-1704
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. - Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824
We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. - John Churton Collins, 1848-1908
The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. - Kabir, 1440-1518
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
Fractures well cured make us more strong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. - Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
The soul of conversation is sympathy. - Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford, 1863-1947
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.