Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-- H. L. Hunt

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Irish Proverb

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
-- Welsh Proverb

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
-- Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
-- The laws of Manu

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Charity see the need not the cause.
-- German Proverb

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
-- Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal"

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
-- Francis Beaumont

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-- H. L. Hunt

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
-- Charles Dudley Warner, 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
-- Moliere

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
-- Albert Guerard

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Irish Proverb

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A.D.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
-- Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desire creates the power.
-- Raymond Holliwell

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
-- Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
-- Seneca

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
-- Ecclesiastes, Aprocrypha

You're never too old to become younger.
-- Mae West

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
-- Welsh Proverb

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
-- William Butler Yeats

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
-- Mortimer Adler

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
-- Pierre Corneille, 'The Cid,' 1636

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
-- Jonathan Swift

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
-- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
-- Unknown

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
-- Peter Minard

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
-- Michel de Montaigne

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
-- Malayan Proverb

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
-- Mary S. Calderone

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
-- Hesiod

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
-- Ecclesiastes

You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.
-- Plato

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
-- Epictetus

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
-- Immanuel Kant

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
-- Lord Chesterfield

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-- Joseph P. Thompson

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
-- Jim Beggs

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-- Socrates

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
-- Ellen Metcalf

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie

Keep cool and you command everybody.
-- Louis de Saint-Just

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
-- William Ralph Inge

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-- Helen Keller

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
-- Colin Powell

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
-- H. Mathews

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
-- William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
-- H. L. Mencken

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
-- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
-- Lawrence Bixby

What you get is a subset of what you imagine.
-- Anupam Sharma

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
-- Albert Guerard

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
-- Chilo

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
-- Alexander A. Bogomoletz

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
-- Jean Nidetch

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
-- Ward Cleaver

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
-- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
-- Harriet Martineau

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
-- Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

When in doubt, do something.
-- Jerry Langley

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- E E Cummings

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
-- Henry David Thoreau

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden