“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” — Bobby Knight
“There is always time for another last minute.” — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — Thomas H. Huxley
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine
“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” — Mary Kay Ash
“What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“If you are riding a high horse, there is no way to get off of it gracefully.” — Anonymous
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.” — Ndo Qubein
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.” — C. S. Lewis
“My toughest fight was with my first wife.” — Muhammad Ali
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hāfez
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.” — Adolph Monod
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” — John F. Kennedy
“Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.” — John Harkness
“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. — Barbara Kingsolver
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
“If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it’s having the swans pretend there’s no difference.” — Teena Booth
“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
“In each of us there is a little of all of us.” — Georg Lichtenberg
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” — Tony Robbins
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!” — Tommy Smothers
“If you can’t afford to do something right, then be darn sure you can afford to do it wrong.” — Charlie Nelson
“Imitation can be limitation in disguise.” — Brian Vander Ark
“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.” — Tom Clancy
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.” — George Burns
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” — Winston Churchill
“In the concert of life, no one gets a program.” — Dutch Proverb
“There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.” — Burton Hillis
“Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain
“Because I have know despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.” – Leonard Nimoy
