"The smallest deed is far greater than the grandest intention."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it." --W.C. Fields  

"Sogno all' orizzonte e brindo alla vita..."
("I dream on the horizon and I toast life...." to say...
" I look to the future and I live the day....") -- Ray Campos 

"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." --William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." --Edmund Burke

"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.

"The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory."--Old Chinese Proverb

"No matter how soon you are coming back, close the gate! -- Larry Wilcox

"A good man once gave me some good advice, 'Son', he said, 'don't ever brag about poverty and don't apologize for it: just get rid of it as soon as you can.'" -- US Senator Fred Harris on coming from a poor Oklahoma rural background.

"I'm just like you, only I struck oil" -- Robert S. Kerr

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."--George Orwell

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."--George Orwell

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." --Henry David Thoreau

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" --Linda Ellerbee

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a flame." --unknown

"Education is not the filling of a container, but making the container bigger" -- Larry Wilcox

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." --Leonardo da Vinci

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." --Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable." --Mark Twain

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." --Muhammed Ali

"If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years." --Socrates

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."

"The world is a dangerous place to live in, not because of the people that do evil; but because of the people that stand by and let them do it." --Albert Einstein

"History will be kind to me, for I shall write it." --Sir Winston Churchill

"Our lives are books, written in our own blood on the tattered pages of time." --Ryan K. Miller I

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." --Charles Caleb Colton

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" --Emiliano Zapata

"Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere."

"Integrity: Doing the right thing...even when no one is looking."

"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying." --Merry Browne

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first."

"According to Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. (author of On Death and Dying), the process of moving from awareness to acceptance is marked by the passage through five distinct phases: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure."--Portuguese Proverb

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson

"If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?"

"Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A pint cannot hold a quart. If it is holding the pint it is doing the best it can."

"There are three types of people - the will's the won'ts and the can'ts. The will's accomplish everything, the won'ts won't do anything and the can'ts will not try anything."

"If at first you don't succeed...
~ 23 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book.
~ Michael Jordan's high school basketball team cut him.
~ Richard Hooker's novel, M*A*S*H, was rejected by 21 publishers.
~ Henry Ford went broke five times before succeeding."

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems".

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."

"Volunteer--not so you can build your resume, but so you can build yourself."

"Always remember that you are unique--just like everybody else."

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, you have time to do something about it."

"The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention."

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."

"Wisdom is only granted to those who find it themselves."

"Don't go through life--GROW through life."

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."

"True courage is not the absence of fear; rather it is the taking of action in spite of the fear."

"Our mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open."

"Those who say it cannot be done should get the hell out of the way of those who are doing it."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent."

"Ignore other people's ignorance so that you may discover your own wisdom."

"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."

"Contrary to popular belief, it is not the first impression that is most important. It's the 1 million and first impressions that count. Your ability to have integrity in every area of life is invaluable."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost

"A parrot talks much but flies little." -- Wilbur Wright

"One kind word can warm three winter months." -- Japanese Proverb

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time." -- Josh Billings

"If it's free, it's advice;
If you pay for it, it's counseling;
If you can use either one, it's a miracle!"

"It's not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." - Anonymous

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."  -- Mark Twain

"Let us so endeavor to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -- Mark Twain.

"One never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child"

"Nothing splendid has been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to their circumstances! "

"Our fantasies are the stepping stones to our realities. The better our fantasies, the better our realities can be."

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton

"If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu

"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -- Anonymous

"Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence." -- Chinese proverb.

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- General George S Patton, Jr.

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." -- David Starr Jordan