MACHIAVELLI-

"A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways."

Socrates-

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Aristotle-

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

P. Diddy-

" I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up. "

Oprah Winfrey-

" Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. "

Will Smith-


" You have to hate loosing more than you love winning. "

Steve Maraboli-

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”  

C. JoyBell C-

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”  

Paulo Coelho-

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

Mary Sarton-

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

Pablo Picasso-

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Oscar Wilde-

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Douglas Adams-

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”  

Terry Pratchett-

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

Charles J. Sykes-

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”  

Jane Austen-

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Frank Zappa-

“So many books, so little time.”

Mark Twain-

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Coco Chanel-

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”  

Judy Garland-

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” 

Mark Twain-

" If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. "

Amschel Rothchild-

" Give me control of a nations money supply, and I don't care not who makes it's laws. "

Lao Tzu-

" Those who have knowledge don't predict. Those who predict don't have knowledge. "

Ray Kroc-

" Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

St. Augustine-

" Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth. "

Indira Gandhi-

" My grandfather told me there were 2 kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be the 1st group; there was much less competition. "

Gaius Julius Caesar-

" Men willingly believe what they wish. "

Robert Kiyosaki-

" You have to be smart. The easy days are over."

Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”

Thomas Edison-

" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

Thomas Edison-

" Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. "

Nelson Mandela-

" We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. "

Paulo Coelho-

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”

  

Soren Kierkegaard-

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” 

Edgar Allen Poe-

“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”

 Robert H. Schuller-

" Tough times never last, Tough people do. "



Mark Twain-

 “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

Kurt Vonnegut-

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”

Mother Teresa-

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

Erma Bombeck-

" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. "

Anonymous-

" The efficient person gets the job done right. The effective person gets the right job done. "

Swedish Proverb-

" The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. "

Elbert Hubbard-

" God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. "

JRR Tolkien-

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

Walt Kelly-

" We have met the enemy and he is us. "

Albert Einstein-

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”



 

May Sarton-

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” 



Charles Chaplin-

" A day without laughter is a day wasted. "



Gilda Radner-

" I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. "

Jimi Hendrix-

" I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. "

Wallace D. Wattles-

" You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. "

Spryte Loriano-

" Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what. "

Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee-

" The best way to predict the future is to create it. "