I always wanted to be somebody,
but I should have been more specific.


Lily Tomlin

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles Noble

The Golden rule is that there are no golden rules.


George Bernard Shaw

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

He who has never hoped can never despair.


George Bernard Shaw

Ideas will not keep.
Something must be done about them.


Alfred North Whitehead

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.

Estee Lauder

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


Victor Hugo

Imagination is more important than knowledge.


Albert Einstein

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labour of an infinity of experience.

Jacques Maritian

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.


C. D. Jackson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

The ancestor of every action is a thought.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a prepared mind.


Louis Pasteur

Victory belongs to the most persevering.


Napoleon Boneparte

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Michael de Saint-Pierre

There are no hopeless situations in life; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Booth Luce

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad,
you have a good chance of being a prophet.


Isaac Singer

Do not sweat the small stuff.
It is all small stuff.


Anthony Robbins

Do not tell me this a difficult problem.
If it were not difficult it would not be a problem.


Ed Koch

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

R. A. Dickson