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“Motivation is the electrical power that activates the engine of success.” -Remez Sasson

“You generally hear that what a man doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him, but in business what a man doesn’t know does hurt.” -E. St. Elmo Lewis

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” -Samuel Butler

“In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Makepeace Thackeray

“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.” -Francis Crawford

“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -Cyril Northcote Parkinson

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” -Ursula K. LeGuin

“Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does” -Richard Exely

“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.” -Joseph Addison

“You write a hit the same way you write a flop.” -Alan J. Lerner

“Habit is the nursery of errors.” -Victor Hugo

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” -Benjamin Franklin

“A good education is another name for happiness.” -Ann Plato

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” -Benjamin Franklin

“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.” -Edward Young

“Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.” -F. M. Hubbard

“Abortion is a question of choice.” -Robert Casey

“Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.” -Clifton Paul Fadiman

“Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.” -Andrew Carnegie

“There are no office hours for leaders.” -Cardinal James Gibbons

“Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Deep, abiding joy is available to anyone who learns the secret of pursuing every task with energy and dedication, as though it were a calling.” -Thomas Kinkade

“‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” -Abraham Lincoln

“At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)” -Victor Hugo

“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.” -F. W. Nichol

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” -Marlene Dietrich

“A life lived with integrity even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” -Denis Waitley

“There�s no thrill in easy sailing … but there IS satisfaction that�s mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you�d never make.” -Spirella

“You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.” -Anonymous

“Today a reader–tomorrow a leader.” -W. Fusselman

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.” -Helen Keller

“The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.” -Bill Clinton

“Look at frustration as a positive thing. It is the frustration that drives you to improve.” -John Lyons

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” -William Ernest Henley

“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.” -Tom Chappel

“Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.” -Adrienne Gisoff

“Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.” -Vivian Baxter

“The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist takes only your skin. ” -Mark Twain

“An ounce of discretion is worth more than a pound of knowledge.” -Italian Proverb

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” -Lewis B. Smedes

“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.” -Voltaire

“He who sings frightens away his ills.” -Miguel de Cervantes

“Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.” -Henry C. Blinn

“He who steals once is always a thief” -Spanish proverb

“Dig where the gold isunless you just need some exercise.” -John M. Capozzi

“He knows the universe and does not know himself.” -Jean De La Fontaine

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.” -Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

“The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.” -Confucius

“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” -Mary Kay Ash

“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous – Calvin” -Bill Watterson

“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” -Dinah Shore

“The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” -Helen Hayes

“Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. ” -Unknown

“What a privilege it is to be an American!” -Thomas Starr King

“I don’t like work even when someone else does it.” -Mark Twain

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” -Ray Bradbury

“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” -Hannah Green

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” -Louis

“I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” -Aristotle

“You give your best not because you need to impress people. You give your best because that’s the only way to enjoy your work.” -Andrew Matthews

“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.” -Epictetus

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. ” -Scott Adams

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” -Tom Stoppard

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” -Buckminster Fuller

“I’ve written to the bank and told them if they send me any more nasty letters I shall take my overdraft elsewhere. ” -Jed Larson

“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.” -Robert A. Heinlein

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. – Notebook, 1898” -Mark Twain

“Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.” -Rose Elizabeth Bird

“Good, better, best never let it rest, until your good is better than your best. ” -Unknown

“Get enthusiastic and excited about your dreams. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. ” -Denis Waitley

“Develop the habit of changing your habits.” -Unknown

“Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.” -American Indian Proverb

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” -Judith Viorst

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.” -Aeschylus

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” -Steven Wright

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides

“Repetition is the mother of skill.” -Unknown

“Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it�s the middle that counts the most.” -Unknown

“Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.” -Katherine Anne Porter

“We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)” -Albert Einstein

“Nobody ever died of laughter.” -Max Beerbohm

“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.” -Joseph Conrad

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” -Colin Wilson

“Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.” -Christine Lane

“War – hard apprenticeship of freedom.” -Edward Everett Hale

“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” -Fred Allen

“When in doubt, punt” -John Heisman

“Quality is never an accident.” -Willa A. Foster

“Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. ” -Anthony Robbins

“Where there are friends there is wealth.” -Titus Maccius Plautus

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.” -Mark Twain

“Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.” -Claud Cockburn

“There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” -J. Paul Getty

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” -Charles Mingu

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even … without any hope of doing it well.” -Oliver Herford

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” -Arthur C. Clarke