Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? - Frank J.

Giblin II
You are pure potential.
Life is a Daring Adventure. - Helen Keller
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other.
Abraham Lincoln

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping
stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will
come naturally.
David Frost

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most
frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got
enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at

something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn
fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and
smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

David Merrick

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying
truth.
Umberto Eco

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present
moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was
here first.
Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.

Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains
a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't
know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy
the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to
take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only
when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left
after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces,
and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Tillie Olsen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
The present is a point just passed.
David Russell

The time I kill is killing me.

Mason Cooley

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine
how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a

thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain
easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against
the enemy.
Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of
instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime
messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a

thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain
easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against
the enemy.
Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of
instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime
messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Bill Gates

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and
nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create
a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the
top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Bill Gates
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to
be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting
where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will
be moved to act.
Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of
the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool
we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they
can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in
terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of
freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16
years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no
people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be
driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself.
Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think
anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates