"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." (Abigail Adams)
"Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Whatever you are, be a good one." (Abraham Lincoln)
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations." (Adam Smith)
"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing." (Albanian Proverb)
"When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others." (Alain De Botton)
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." (Albert Einstein)
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." (Albert Einstein)
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" (Albert Einstein)
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." (Albert Einstein)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." (Albert Einstein)
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." (Albert Einstein)
"My mind is my laboratory." (Albert Einstein)
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." (Albert Einstein)
"Question everything." (Albert Einstein)
"Reading after a certain time diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." (Albert Einstein)
"Reading after a certain time diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." (Albert Einstein)
"Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality". (Albert Einstein)
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein)
"The only source of knowledge is experience." (Albert Einstein)
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." (Albert Einstein)
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." (Albert Einstein)
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." (Albert Einstein)
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." (Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi)
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
"Don't give up the ship." (American Proverb)
"Dreams are wishes your heart makes." (American Proverb)
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." (Anais Nin)
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." (Anita Roddick)
"My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected." (Anna M. Uhlich)
"A journey begins with a single step." (Anonymous)
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop." (Anonymous)
"Before you get it, you must believe it." (Anonymous)
"Champions are made not born." (Anonymous)
"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." (Anonymous)
"Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about." (Anonymous)
"Don't kill the dream - execute it." (Anonymous)
"Don't rest on your laurels." (Anonymous)
"Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny." (Anonymous)
"Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!" (Anonymous)
"Eat well, sleep well, and take good care of yourself." (Anonymous)
"Everything will be okay at the end, because if it's not okay, it's not the end!" (Anonymous)
"Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second time." (Anonymous)
"Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see." (Anonymous)
"Good things do happen." (Anonymous)
"I don't procrastinate because I am lazy, but because I enjoy the challenge." (Anonymous)
"If unexplored faith stays unexplored, why do we have it?" (Anonymous)
"If you live your dreams, you'll never have to wake up." (Anonymous)
"Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes." (Anonymous)
"Masterpieces are not created overnight." (Anonymous)
"My tastes are simple -I just want the best." (Anonymous)
"Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can't take it. Never say you don't love the person anymore when you can't let go." (Anonymous)
"Setting goals is easy, reaching goals is difficult." (Anonymous)
"Simple concepts are the base for complex concepts." (Anonymous)
"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it." (Anonymous)
"The best defense is attacking" (Anonymous)
"The more you get to know people, the more you begin to love dogs." (Anonymous)
"The more you learn about art, the more you appreciate it." (Anonymous)
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality." (Anonymous)
"There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers." (Anonymous)
"The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you." (Anonymous)
"To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." (Anonymous)
"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did." (Anonymous)
"What you're doing speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying." (Anonymous)
"When Alexander saw the magnificence of his empire, he cried because there were no more worlds to conquer." (Anonymous)
"Wisdom, to me, is not an announce of anything. Wisdom is a question." (Anonymous)
"Wise men learn more from fool's than fool's from the wise." (Anonymous)
"You never know what you have until you lose it." (Anonymous)
"Work never stops but we need to find time to relax and rest because if we don't we just burn our bodies out." (Anonymous)
"Passion is the genesis of genius." (Anthony Robbin)
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world." (Archimedes)
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." (Aristotle)
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Aristotle)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)
"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." (Arnold H. Glasgow)
"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling." (Arthur Brisbane)
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." (Arthur C. Clarke)
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee." (Benjamin Franklin)
"Energy and persistence conquer all things." (Benjamin Franklin)
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other." (Benjamin Franklin)
"There will be plenty of time to sleep when you are dead." (Benjamin Franklin)
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." (Bernard M. Baruch)
"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless." (Bertrand Russell)
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." (Chuck Palahniuk)
"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here." (Bill Gates)
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." (Bill Gates)
"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming." (Brian Williams)
"If you don't want to repeat the past, study it!" (B. Spinoza)
"Every match should be played as a final" (Carlos Alberto Parreira)
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." (Carol Burnett)
"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without." (Cecil B. DeMille)
"As a Canadian, or as an American, or as whatever nationality you are, I don't think it has anything to do with where you're from. It's a responsibility of a human being to get together and be strong and tall and stand up and say, It's going to be OK." (Céline Dion)
"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." (Chinese Proverb)
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. But the second best time is today." (Chinese Proverb)
"You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair." (Chinese Proverb)
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius)
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." (Confucius)
"What you are is God's gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to God." (Danish proverb)
"Follow your own star!" (Dante Alighieri)
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." (Demosthenes)
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." (Denis Diderot)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" (Derek Bok)
"Where facts are few, experts are many." (Donald R. Gannon)
"You can pretend you don't see them, but they can't pretend they're not hungry." (Downtown Rescue Mission, a heart for the homeless)
"No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less." (Edgar Watson Howe)
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." (Edward Gibbon)
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." (Immanuel Kant)
"Use soft words and hard arguments." (English Proverb)
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." (Ezra Pound)
"I would live to study, and not study to live." (Francis Bacon, Sr.)
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
"Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw." (Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, when asked to give advice to young animators)
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." (Galileo Galilei)
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers." (Galileo Galilei)
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." (George Santayana)
"It is better to be alone than in bad company." (George Washington)
"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it." (George Weinberg)
"We are always the same age inside." (Gertrude Stein)
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." (Harry F. Banks)
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." (Hebbel)
"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." (Henry J. Kaiser)
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." (Henry J. Kaiser)
"The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action." (Herbert Spencer)
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
"I feign no hypotheses." (Isaac Newton)
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." (Isaac Newton)
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." (Isaac Newton)
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." (Isaac Newton)
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." (Jack Dempsey)
"As a good leader, you must work more than anyone else." (Jaime Montoya)
"Better baby steps during one life than adult steps during one day." (Jaime Montoya)
"Discipline consists of making a program of the right things that must be done, and then just to do that, without hesitating." (Jaime Montoya)
"Don't change what is giving you good results." (Jaime Montoya)
"Don't expect to get popularity and money first, and then achievement. Focus on achievement, and both popularity and money will automatically come."
"Dreams are power and energy to achieve great things." (Jaime Montoya)
"Dreams without faith are just illusions." (Jaime Montoya)
"Fail the first time and you will fail the second one; don't fail the first time and you will never fail." (Jaime Montoya)
"Feelings are not my best advisers." (Jaime Montoya)
"Five minutes are enough for doing something really great or something really stupid." (Jaime Montoya)
"For me, a computer without Internet is like a car without gasoline." (Jaime Montoya)
"I don't want to be a good one; I want to be an expert." (Jaime Montoya)
"If you are not the number one, you are a loser." (Jaime Montoya)
"I like working alone." (Jaime Montoya)
"I love striving." (Jaime Montoya)
"Inside a great teacher is the heart of an excellent student." (Jaime Montoya)
"Instead of taking decisions, I just establish my priorities." (Jaime Montoya)
"It's needed more faith for being an atheist than for believing in God because nature clearly reveals that God is real." (Jaime Montoya)
"It's not that I'm a slave of work or time, the point is that if I don't use all 24 hours to achieve my dreams, time will make me a slave of failure." (Jaime Montoya)
"It's not that I'm rude or proud; I just have learned to say NO." (Jaime Montoya)
"It's wise to speak as if you are going to be overheard by everybody." (Jaime Montoya)
"Indifference is one of the most powerful tools to kill a relationship." (Jaime Montoya)
"Learning a language is the art of memorizing new words and putting them together correctly." (Jaime Montoya)
"Life is a competition." (Jaime Montoya)
"Lost time is the worst failure of human beings." (Jaime Montoya)
"My dreams are my motivation." (Jaime Montoya)
"Not to know is like being blind." (Jaime Montoya)
"Numbers are everywhere." (Jaime Montoya)
"Problems are opportunities to develop your greatness." (Jaime Montoya)
"Sharing what we have and what we know is the only way to create a great society." (Jaime Montoya)
"Some privileges have an implicit commitment." (Jaime Montoya)
"Sometimes it is obvious that we are going to lose, but we work for losing with honor and as less as possible." (Jaime Montoya)
"Successful people don't waste their time." (Jaime Montoya)
"Mathematics doesn't lie." (Jaime Montoya)
"The Bible is like water, you need it everyday." (Jaime Montoya)
"The best is the one who can do the same but in less time." (Jaime Montoya)
"The faster I go, the stronger my impact is." (Jaime Montoya)
"The more we accept that life has changes, the less we suffer." (Jaime Montoya)
"The more you master a topic, the better your speech is." (Jaime Montoya)
"The more you sell, the cheaper prizes you are able to offer." (Jaime Montoya)
"The only constant for human beings is change." (Jaime Montoya)
"To have faith is not to be blind, but know for sure that what you believe is real." (Jaime Montoya)
"We must not lie, but some truths should not be said." (Jaime Montoya)
"We work on what others started in the past." (Jaime Montoya)
"What you do today determines what you are tomorrow." (Jaime Montoya)
"Writing articles and books is a moral obligation that every genius has." (Jaime Montoya)
"You are supposed to solve problems, not to bring new ones." (Jaime Montoya)
"You can destroy in a minute what you have built with a lot of effort in many years." (Jaime Montoya)
"You deserve to sleep only when you have worked hard." (Jaime Montoya)
"You must be better than 'the best'." (Jaime Montoya)
"Your busy schedule doesn't impress me; I am interested by the fruits of your busy schedule." (Jaime Montoya)
"Your mind is the boss of your feelings." (Jaime Montoya)
"Your priorities tell me everything about you." (Jaime Montoya)
"Your schedule reveals your priorities." (Jaime Montoya)
"Dream as if you'll live forever, and live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean)
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." (James M. Barrie)
"Don't give up the ship" (James Lawrence, the dying command of James Lawrence in 1813 aboard the USS Chesapeake)
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." (James Thurber)
"If you believe everything you read, better not read." (Japanese Proverb)
"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes." (Jawaharlal Nehru)
"Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house." (Jewish Proverb)
"Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." (Jewish Proverb)
"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results." (Johann Sebastian Bach)
"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." (John Churton Collins)
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." (John Locke)
"Where there is no desire, there will be no industry." (John Locke)
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." (John Stuart Mill)
"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much." (John Wayne)
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." (Josh Billings)
"Motivation is what gets you started." (Jym Ryun)
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am grateful to those teachers." (Kahlil Gibran)
"Statistics is the grammar of science." (Karl Pearson)
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." (Ken Hakuta)
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Lao-tzu)
"Never give a child a sword." (Latin Proverb)
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"God sells us all things at the price of labor." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"He who thinks little, errs much." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Learning never exhausts the mind." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Life well spent is long." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Our life is made by the death of others." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Men are valued and known by their words and works." (Lewis Sperry Chafer)
"Chance favors the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)
"Applaud friends, the comedy is over." (Ludwig van Beethoven, said as he was dying)
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." (Mark Twain)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did." (Mark Twain)
"My temptations have been my masters in divinity." (Martin Luther)
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'" (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"A well-defined problem is half solved." (Michael Osborne)
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." (Michelangelo)
"If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole world would be clean." (Mother Teresa)
"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr" (Muhammad)
"A good sketch is better than a long speech." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"A picture is worth a thousand words." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"All men are equal before God: wisdom, talents, and virtue are the only difference between them." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"An army marches on its stomach." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep, I simply close all the drawers and then I am— asleep." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Everything has a limit, even human emotions." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Experience proves that armies are not always sufficient to save a nation; while a nation defended by it's people is ever invincible." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Fanaticism must first be lulled, in order that it may be eradicated." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"He who fights against his country, is a child who would kill his own mother." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"I am never angry when contradicted, I seek to be enlightened." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna" (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"I have been called upon to change the face of the world." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"It is the success which makes great men." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"I was born and made for work." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Speeches pass away, but acts remain." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The aristocracy has the advantage of concentrating the power of Government into less dangerous hands than those of the ignorant multitude." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The heart of a minister should be nowhere but in his head." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There is no greater misfortune for a man than to be governed by his wife: in such case he is neither himself nor his wife, he is a perfect nonentity." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: TIME." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"To seduce a wife from her husband, or a son from his father, are odious acts, unworthy of civilised nations." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Wash your soiled linen in private." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"We are either kings or pawns of men." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"We have many projects in life but little determination." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"We walk faster when we walk alone." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"When you fight, fight as if everything depended on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depended on God." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." (Napoleon Hill)
"After climbing a great hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended." (Nelson Mandela)
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." (Newton Diehl Baker)
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians." (Nicolaus Copernicus)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" (Niels Bohr)
"Fear, the thief of Dreams." (No Fear shirt)
"A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde)
"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius." (Pablo de Sarasate)
"Everything you can imagine is real." (Pablo Picasso)
"I don't paint what I see, I paint what I think" (Pablo Picasso)
"The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him." (Pablo Picasso)
"When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately." (Pablo Picasso)
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." (Patricia Neal)
"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half." (Paul Bryant)
"I cursed the fact I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." (Persian proverb)
"Robin, some people go to church each day. Well, my church is the gym. And each day that's where I go to get blessed." (Peter Urs Bender)
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." (Plato)
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." (Plato)
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." (Publilius Syrus)
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." (Ralph Hodgson)
"Every artist was first an amateur." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that's a genius." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight." (Reggie White)
"Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know." (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." (Rene Descartes)
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." (Richard Bach)
"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen." (Richard M. DeVos)
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." (Richard Moss)
"A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will make you a great Christian." (Rick Warren)
"Anything you do that brings pleasure to God is an act of worship." (Rick Warren)
"Bitterness is the greatest barrier to friendship with God." (Rick Warren)
"Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test." (Rick Warren)
"Don't ever try to argue with the Devil. He's better at arguing than you are, having had thousands of years to practice." (Rick Warren)
"Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better." (Rick Warren)
"Everything that happens to you has spiritual significance." (Rick Warren)
"Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose." (Rick Warren)
"God admits that sometimes he hides his face from us." (Rick Warren)
"God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until you obey them first. Obedience unlocks understanding." (Rick Warren)
"God gives us different passions so that everything he wants done in the world will get done." (Rick Warren)
"God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do." (Rick Warren)
"God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time." (Rick Warren)
"God never wastes anything." (Rick Warren)
"God pleasing worship is deeply emotional and deeply doctrinal. We use both our hearts and our heads." (Rick Warren)
"God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development." (Rick Warren)
"I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone." (Rick Warren)
"If I have no love for others, no desire to serve others, I should question whether Christ is really in my life." (Rick Warren)
"If you want your life to have impact, focus it!" (Rick Warren)
"In resolving conflict, how you say it is as important as what you say." (Rick Warren)
"It is easy to get distracted, because Satan would rather have you do anything besides sharing your faith." (Rick Warren)
"Jesus will give you everything you need to live for him." (Rick Warren)
"Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure." (Rick Warren)
"Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives." (Rick Warren)
"Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God." (Rick Warren)
"Many who claim to believe the Bible "from cover to cover" have never read it from cover to cover." (Rick Warren)
"Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them." (Rick Warren)
"Offering yourself to God is what worship is all about." (Rick Warren)
"People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers." (Rick Warren)
"Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes." (Rick Warren)
"Surrender is best demostrated in obedience and trust." (Rick Warren)
"The battle for sin is won or lost in your mind. Whatever gets your attention will get you." (Rick Warren)
"The best style of worship is the one that most authentically represents your love for God." (Rick Warren)
"The closer you get to Jesus, the less you need to promote yourself." (Rick Warren)
"The Great Commission was given to every follower of Jesus." (Rick Warren)
"The greatest gift you can give someone is your time." (Rick Warren)
"The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be." (Rick Warren)
"The more you become God's friend, the more you will care about the things he cares about." (Rick Warren)
"The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God." (Rick Warren)
"The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act." (Rick Warren)
"Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life." (Rick Warren)
"Your identity is in eternity, and your homeland is heaven." (Rick Warren)
"We become whatever we are committed to." (Rick Warren)
"We think temptation lies around us, but God says it begins within us." (Rick Warren)
"What God wants most from you is a relationship." (Rick Warren)
"What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you." (Rick Warren)
"When you are doing what you love to do, no one has to motivate you." (Rick Warren)
"When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him, you worship him in the deepest way." (Rick Warren)
"When you live in light of eternity, your values change." (Rick Warren)
"While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experience of others." (Rick Warren)
"While we worry about how fast we grow; God is concerned about how strong we grow." (Rick Warren)
"Worship is far more than music." (Rick Warren)
"Your character is essentially the sum of your habits." (Rick Warren)
"Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days." (Rick Warren)
"You were made by God and for God- and until you understand that, life will never make sense." (Rick Warren)
"Adults are nothing more than deteriorated children." (Robin Sharma)
"A lot of people are too busy being busy. Shift from being busy to getting results." (Robin Sharma)
"[...] and thoughts are the ancestors of actions. Right thinking drives right action." (Robin Sharma)
"An unhappy customer yelling at you might seem like a problem. But to a person thinking like a leader, that scenario is also a giant opportunity to improve the organization's processes to ensure that doesn't happen again and to get some feedback that may be used to enhance products and services. So the problem has actually helped to improve the company. Free market research." (Robin Sharma)
"Do anything long enough and you'll get some depth of insight and understanding about it. Then they'll call you a guru." (Robin Sharma)
"Focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genius." (Robin Sharma)
"Good things happen to people who do good things." (Robin Sharma)
"If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting." (Robin Sharma)
"I just read about a little girl who was born without a face. Just two eyes and a mouth. And we worry about traffic being heavy on the way into work." (Robin Sharma)
"Investing in learning and getting your skill to world class is the smartest investment you'll ever make." (Robin Sharma)
"It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early. Their fears are bigger than their faith." (Robin Sharma)
"[...] Makes me think of a story about Pablo Picasso. One day a woman spotted him in the market and pulled out a piece of paper. "Mr. Picasso," she said excitedly, "I'm a big fan. Please, could you do a little drawing for me?" Picasso happily complied and quickly etched out a piece of art for her on the paper provided. He smiled as he handed it back to her, and said, "That will be a million dollars." "But Mr. Picasso, "the flustered woman replied, "it only took you 30 seconds to do this little masterpiece." "My good woman," Picasso laughed, "it took me 30 years to do that masterpiece in 30 seconds."" (Robin Sharma's book, The Greatness Guide)
"One of the things I've learned from NASA is that the space shuttle uses more fuel during the first few minutes after liftoff than it consumes during its entire trip around the globe. Why? Becasue, initially, it needs to overcome the tremendous pull of gravity. But as it does it gets easier to fly. That's a powerful thought to consider. Personal change is a process that can be hardest at the beginning. It doesn't happen in a day or even a week. It takes time to overcome the pull of your old habits. But after four weeks from today your life could be so much better, if you choose. Always give yourself 30 days to install a new habit." (Robin Sharma)
"Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten." (Robin Sharma)
"Setting your goals is a statement that you refuse to be ordinary." (Robin Sharma)
"Show me your schedule and I'll show you what your priorities are." (Robin Sharma)
"The best way to influence others is to lead by example. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your words. Talk really is cheap. Extraordinary human beings live their message. They walk their talk." (Robin Sharma)
"The human brain craves novelty." (Robin Sharma)
"The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions." (Robin Sharma)
"The things that get scheduled are the things that get done." (Robin Sharma)
"To earn more you must learn more. The compensation you receive from your employer will be determined by the value you add. The more you know, the more valuable you become. To earn more, learn more. Out-read your competition, Out-study them. Out-improve them. Out-succeed them." (Robin Sharma)
"Top athletes know that practice is how you get to greatness." (Robin Sharma)
"We can curse the darkness or we can light a candle." (Robin Sharma)
"World-class organizations have a culture that sees problems as opportunities for improvement." (Robin Sharma)
"World-class human beings turn their wounds into wisdom." (Robin Sharma)
"Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book." (Robin Sharma's father)
"Just think of something stupid to say, then don't say it." (Sam Levenson, about the meaning of wisdom)
"Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action." (Samuel Smiles)
"A plan relieves you of the torment of choice." (Saul Bellow)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." (Schopenhauer)
"There's no such thing as bad weather, only improper clothing." (Silke's dad; Silke is a Yahoo! Network Engineer)
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Knowledge is power." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." (Sir Richard Steele)
"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser." (Socrates)
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason." (St. Thomas Aquinas)
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." (Swedish Proverb)
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." (T.E. Lawrence)
"Fortune favors the brave." (Terence)
"Yahoo! was a great idea, but a great idea isn't enough to become a great company; it requires money, and lots of it. But as everyone knows there is no shortage of cash in Silicon Valley..." (The True Story of the Internet - Search Engine War - Discovery Channel)
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder- a waif, a nothing, a no man." (Thomas Carlyle)
"I cannot live without books." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Invention is the mother of necessity." (Thorstein Veblen)
"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked." (Voltaire)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney)
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." (Walt Disney)
"You reach a point where you don't work for money." (Walt Disney)
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." (William Shakespeare)
"Strong reasons make strong actions." (William Shakespeare)
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects." (Will Rogers)
"Words are a bridge on the pit that exist between minds." (W. Lindsay Alexander)
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep." (Yiddish Proverb)
"Complain to one who can help you." (Yugoslav Proverb)
