“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
“The face of tyranny is always mild at first.” — Jean Racine
“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.” — Evelyn Waugh
“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don’t notice where we happen to be.”
— Dan Gutman
“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Arrogance is all about trying to prove yourself. Confidence is about improving yourself.” — Sean Stephenson
“We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.” — Doc Searls
“It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” — Corrie Ten Boom
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill
“I’m getting older in a world that’s very different.” — Billy Bob Thornton
“Everyone wants loyalty, consistency and somebody who won’t quit. But what many forget is that to get that person, you have to be that person.” — Unknown
“Dad taught me everything I know; unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows”. — Al Unser Jr.
“Destiny is not created by the shoes you wear, but by the steps you take.” — Unknown
“The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.” — Jacques Bossuet
“I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.” — Voltaire
“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” — Arnold Glasow
“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” — William Ruckelshaus
“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.” — John Milton
“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.” — Bill Gates
“Every day, do something to move the ball forward.” — Jayne Atkinson
“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.” — John Bingham
“If the environment were a bank it would have been saved by now.” — Bernie Sanders
“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.” — Oprah Winfrey