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No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa, 1888-1960
Character is what you think in the dark. - Dwight L. Moody, 1837-1899
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton, 1885-1945
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - Epictetus, 55 AD- 135 AD
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry, 1736-1799
For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior, 1664-1721
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus, 55 AD- 135 AD
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance. - Owen Feltham, 1602-1668
Silence is often advantageous. - Menander, 342 BC - 291 BC
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. - Hosea Ballou, 1771-1852
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. - Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD- 180 AD
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD- 180 AD
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. - Epictetus, 55 AD-135 AD
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. - Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer, 1343-1400
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror. - Novalis, 1772-1801
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. - Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. - George Eliot, 1819-1880
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - George Herman "Babe" Ruth, 1895-1948
We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight. - Juvenal, 55 AD-127 AD
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras, circa 570 BC-495 BC
The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for. - Thomas Chalmers, 1780-1847
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface. - Hippolyte Taine, 1828-1893
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton, 1885-1945
To reach a port, we must sail--Sail, not tie at anchor--Sail, not drift. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. - Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful. - Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner, 1897-1962
The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir, 1838-1914
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1796-1865
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James, 1842-1910
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. - Cornelius Nepos, 100 B.C.-24 B.C.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. - Menander, 342 BC - 291 BC
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock, 1858-1901
A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin, 1809-1882
Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make is what the people call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. - Alexander Hamilton, 1755-1804
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. - Washington Irving, 1783-1859
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement -- these are the martial virtues which must command success. - Austin Phelps, 1820-1890
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray, 1811-1863
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen. - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs, 1955-2001
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon, 1928-2012
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman, 1889-1970
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell, 1847-1922
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery, 1871-1945
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - John B. Gough, 1817-1886
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. - Richard Monckton Milnes, 1809-1885
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. - Plutarch, 46-120 AD
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. - Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. - Democritus, 460 BC-370 BC
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1819-1881