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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
— Socrates
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ”
— Henry Ford
“Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
— Colin Powell
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“Always desire to learn something useful.”
— Sophocles
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Character is what you are when no one is looking.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
— Dave Barry
“Gentlemen, my odds for success improve with each attempt.”
— John Nash
“What gets measured gets improved.”
— Robin Sharma
“It isn't what you do, but how you do it.”
— John Wooden
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Friends are thieves of time.”
— Francis Bacon
“SUCCESS all depends on the second letter.”
— Anonymous
“So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.”
— Richard Branson
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”
— Robert Frost
“All you need is love. But a little adventure never hurts, either.”
— Richard Bach
“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”
— Jack Kevorkian
“The enemy is a very good teacher.”
— Dalai Lama

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