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Quotations / Quotes / Maxims

Success

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Author: Angelique Arnauld

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Author: Unknown

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody. - Author: Herbert Bayard Swope

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average. - Author: M. H. Alderson

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. - Author: Henry Ford

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Author: Elmer G. Leterman

Attitude

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree - you can climb it or you can sit on an acorn. - Frank Brown

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. - Author: Unknown

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. - Lawrence D. Bell

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel Borsten

If we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others - for their use and to our detriment. - Audre Lorde

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. - J. Willard Marriott

Living Well

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - James Rogers

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Author: Charles Wadworth

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. - Author: Daniel Borsten

We have no guarantee of tomorrow. If you dream of doing something, start today - Author: Unknown

What we gave, we have: What we spend, we had: What we left, we lost. - From: Epitaph of Earl of Devon

Perspective

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. - John Milton

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - Author: Unknown

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be. - Bill Vaughan

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is ready cash - use it. - Kay Lyons

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory. - Olin Miller

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. - Addison H. Hallo

Humor

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep - Woody Allen

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific - Lily Tomlin

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet. - Franklin P. Jones

The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody's out to get you. Nobody gives a sh_t whether you live or die. There, you feel better now? - Dennis Miller

My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend. - Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be insane. - Herman Hesse

The next time you're feeling down remember... if the world didn't suck we would all fall off. - Author: Unknown

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome

Had there been a computer in 1872, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be almost impossible to clear up all of the manure. - Professor K. William Kapp

If ignorance is so bliss why aren't more people happy? - Unknown

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