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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
—Hannah More

Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. The value of science remains unsung by singers: you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The less routine the more life.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (American Teacher)

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do—if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the foot of the cradle.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

If you want to become the kind of person that any company would kill to have as an employee, you need to be the kind of employee that’s really picky about who you align with.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
—Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch Catholic Humanist)

Giving advice makes the recipient feel less efficacious, so weigh that against the benefit your advice will likely yield.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy—and when he talks about a nonscientific matter, he will sound as naive as anyone untrained in the matter.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The madman thinks the rest of the world crazy.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
—Colin Powell (American Military Leader)

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
—Jane Austen (English Novelist)

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
—Stephen King (American Novelist)

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child’s head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; no one who holds the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)

We learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions.
—Peter Senge (American Management Consultant)

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare to appear is work and promise of food and wages.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
—George Washington (American Head of State)

Little friends may prove great friends.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
—Theodore Hesburgh (American Catholic Educator)

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
—Bernard Malamud (American Novelist)

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
—Pamela Hansford Johnson (English Novelist)

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
—Bruno Bettelheim (Austrian-born American Psychologist)

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
—Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian Monk)

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
—Barbara Bush (American First Lady)

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
—Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Film Producer)

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
—Harvey Fierstein (American Actor)