“Fortune befriends the bold.” — Emily Dickinson
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” — Kahlil Gibran
“In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.” — Menander
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” — Bertrand Russell
“A word too much always defeats its purpose.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” — Karl Lagerfeld
“I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.” — Charles M. Schwab
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” — Thomas Edison
“There are as many opinions as there are experts.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The man who says ‘I may be wrong, but… ‘ does not believe there can be any such possibility.” — Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell
“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” — J. Paul Getty
“I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.” — Albert Einstein
“If you are more fortunate than others, it’s better to build a longer table than a taller fence.” — Unknown
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ” — William Hazlitt
“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me… it’s gossip.” — Erma Bombeck
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert G. Ingersoll
“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.” — Zig Ziglar
“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.” — Eric Hoffer
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” — Patrick Young
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.” — Confucius
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” — Flora Whittemore
“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.” — Andrei Sakharov
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Success has always been a great liar.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves on it, and passers-by only see the smoke.” — Vincent van Gogh
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.” — Max Lerner
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Lucy van Pelt cartoon character by Charles Schulz
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.” — Meister Eckhart
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.” — Minna Antrim
“No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.” — Booker T. Washington
“Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.” — Lord Chesterfield
“The most destructive thing I’ve ever done was believe someone else’s opinion of me.” — via the Teal Blue Jay
“Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery – not over nature but of ourselves.” — Rachel Carson
“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it.” — Greg Behrendt
“Nature is never finished.” — Robert Smithson
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” — Jerry West
“Theory is wasted if it is not accompanied by the practical.” — Y. AlGohar
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.” — Jean Rostand