Thomas Jefferson-

" Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. ACT! Action will delineate and define you. "

Swami Sivananda-

" Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. "

William James-

" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "

Zelda Fitzgerald-

" Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. "

Mark Twain-

" Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. "

Mark Twain-

" A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. "

A. A. Milne-

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

William Shakespeare-

" They do not love that do not show their love. "

Henry James-

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

Don Marquis-

" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "

William James-

" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "

Harvey S. Firestone-

" If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. "

Henry Ward Beecher-

" Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. "

Francis Beaumont-

" You are no better than you should be. "

William James-

" Belief creates the actual fact. "

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach-

" Conquer, but don't triumph. "

Brian Tracy-

" Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. "

William Somerset Maugham-

" Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. "

Tom Peters-

" If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. "

David Joseph Schwartz-

" How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. "

W. Clement Stone-

" Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. "

Aristotle-

" Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. "

Anatole France-

" If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. "

Jean Ingelow-

" I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. "

Richie Ashburn-

" I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. "

Confucius-

" By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. "

Plato-

" A good decision is based on knowledge not on numbers. "

Socrates-

" False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the sould with evil. "

Charles Kendall Adams-

" No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. "

Augustus Hare-

" Nothing is farther than earth from  heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. "

Jack Benny-

" If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. "

William Hazlitt-

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

Victor Hugo-

" Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. "

Virgil-

" Endure the present, and watch for better things. "

Robert Fripp-

" A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. "

Ambrose Bierce-

" Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. "

Torquato Tasso-

" Any time not spent on love is wasted. "

George Bernanos-

" A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. "

Horace Mann-

" A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. "

Tom Wolfe-

" Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. "

Euripides-

" The good and the wise lead quiet lives. "

Aldous Huxley-

" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "

Benjamin Disraeli-

" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness. "

Tom Robbins-

" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "

George Eliot-

" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "

Jimi Hendrix-

" I try to use my music to move these people to act. "

Thomas A Edison-

" There is no substitute for hard work. "

Abraham Lincoln-

" He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. " 

Voltaire-

" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

George Bernard Shaw-

" I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. "

John Stuart Mill-

" All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. "

Thomas Mann-

" It's love, not reason, that is stronger than death. "

Gustave Flaubert-

" Read in order to live. "

Winston Churchill-

" We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. "

Thomas Fuller-

" Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. "

Virgil Thomson-

" I don't go around regretting things that don't happen. "

Napoleon Hill-

"  Action is the real measure of intelligence. "

Sue Murphy-

" Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. "

Abraham Lincoln-

"  As our case is new, we must think and act anew. "

Henry James-

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

Tom Clancy-

" The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. "

Thomas Aquinas-

"  The things that we love tell us what we are. "

Martin Luther King Jr-

"  A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. "

Bertolt Brecht-

" Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson-

" All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make the better. "

Max Lucado-

"  A man who wants to lead the orchastra must turn his back on the crowd. "

Rupert Brooke-

"  A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the tears. "

Henry Ford-

" When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. "

Stendhal-

"  The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.  "

Confucius-

"  Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.  "

Claudius-

"  To do no evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.  "

Benjamin Disraeli-

"  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.  "

Mahatma Gandhi-

"  Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  "

Albert Einstein-

" Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former."

Victor Hugo-

" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "

Robert Orben-

"  Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.  "

Albert Einstein-

"  I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  "

Pablo Picasso-

" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.  "

Elias Canetti-

"  All things one has forgetten scream for help in dreams.  "

Jack Kerouac-

"  All human beings are also dream beings.  Dreaming ties all mankind together.  "

Elbert Hubbard-

"  The love we give away

is the only love we keep. "

Victor Hugo-

"  A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. "

Jim Carey-

"  Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.  "