Famous quotes

I have never in my life learned ...

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. (Dudley Field Malone)

If the facts don't fit the theory, ...

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. (Albert Einstein)

The trouble with not having a goal ...

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend all your life running up and down the field and never score. (Bill Copeland)

It is never too late ...

It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

All our dreams can come true ...

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)

Great minds discuss ideas. ...

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

If opportunity doesn't knock ...

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. (Milton Berle)

An eye for eye only ends ...

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (M.K. Gandhi)

Ask not what you country can do for you ...

Ask not what you country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy)

I haven't failed. ...

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)

It is the mark of an educated mind ...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)

It wasn't raining ...

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. (Howard Ruff)

It's not whether you get knocked down, ...

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. (Vince Lombardi)

Keep you friends close ...

Keep you friends close and your enemies closer. (Sun-Tzu)

Logic will get you from A to B. ...

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein)

Never leave that till tomorrow ...

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Benjamin Franklin)

Be not afraid of greatness. ...

Be not afraid of greatness. Some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon 'em. (William Shakespeare)

That which doesn't kill us ...

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The quickest way to double your money ...

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. (Will Rogers)

Even if you're on the right track, ...

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

Try not to become a man of success ...

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

If you have built castles in the air, ...

If you have built castles in the
air, you work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau)

Inspiration and genius ...

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. (Victor Hugo)

To find what you seek in the road of life, ...

To find what you seek in the road
of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone
unturned." (Edward Bulwer Lytton)

If you would create something, ...

If you would create something, you must be something. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Every artist was ...

Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The more difficulties one has to encounter, ...

The more difficulties one has to
encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in
inspiration his life will be. (Horace Bushnell)

Life has no smooth road for any of us; ...

Life has no smooth road for any of
us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness
stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep
ways to the stars, fulfills itself. (W.C. Doane)

Experience is the child of thought, ...

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. ...

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. (Orison Swett Marden)

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse ...

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? (Gerorge Eliot)

No great man ever complains of ...

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Men do less than they ought, ...

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. (Thomas Carlyle)

Let thy words ...

Let thy words be few. (Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom)

Happy are those who dream dreams and ...

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Leon J. Suenes)

The power of imagination ...

The power of imagination makes us infinite. (John Muir)

First say to yourself what you would be; ...

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Epictetus)

You miss 100% of the shots ...

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. (Wayne Gretzky)