Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

• Johann von Goethe

The probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.

• Unknown

I know the price of success - dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

• Frank Lloyd Wright

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

• Albert Einstein

Genius is eternal patience.

• Michelangelo

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

• Somerset Maugham

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

• Jonas Salk

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

• Alan Kay

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

• Henry Ford

To decide or not to decide is a decision. To fail to decide is a failure.

• George Patton

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.

• Mary Kay Ash

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

• James Barrie. Peter Pan

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

• Albert Einstein

Half your life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

• Will Rogers

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

• Michelangelo

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

• Charles Darwin

Circumstances? I make circumstances.

• Napoleon Boneparte

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

• Winston Churchill

My interest is in the future, because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

• Charles Kettering

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

• William Jennings Bryant

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

• Thomas Jefferson

Leadership: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

• Theodore Roosevelt

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

• Will Rogers

Talent is what you possess - genius is what possesses you.

• M. Cawley

The price of greatness is responsibility.

• Winston Churchill

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

• William Shakespeare

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make the all yourself.

• Sam Levenson

Ideals are like stars, you will not success in touching them with your hands, but like seafaring men on the waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

• Carl Schurz

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced themselves and enriched the world.

• John F. Kennedy

Crank - a man with a new idea until it succeeds.

Visionary - ditto, after it succeeds.

• Mark Twain

Frequently, greatness is measured not by doing extraordinary things, but ordinary things extraordinarily well.

• J. Garner

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

• Shakespeare

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes I have trouble doing it.

• Tallulah Bankhead

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

• Marcel Proust

This is not a stress to bear but an excitement to share.

• Margaret Bingham

Life, it turns out, is not a struggle; it's a wiggle.

• LIFE 101

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

• Arthur C. Clarke

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

• Duke Ellington

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

• Walter Bagehot

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

• German Proverb

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.

• Henry Ford

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

• Lord Chesterfield

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

• Aristotle

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

• B.F. Skinner

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

• Josh Billings

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

• John Locke

Anyone can build something that works when it works. But it’s how it works when it doesn’t work that counts.”

• Nebel’s Law, Larry Nebel, CEO, United Electronics Printers, Inc.

The budget must be balanced, government indebtedness must be reduced, the arrogant authorities must be moderated and controlled, people should learn to work again instead of living off the public dole.

• Marcus Cicero, who lived from 106 to 43 BC.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

• Henry David Thoreau

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in the me.”

• Henry Ford

“You don't get to choose how you going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!”

• Joan Baez

“The world is divided into two classes; those who believe the incredible, and those who do the impossible.”

• Oscar Wilde

“An ugly patch is nicer than a beautiful hole.”

• Japanese Proverb

“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

• Alfred Adler

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”

• Betty Ford

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

• Albert Einstein

“You can't hold them and down without staying down with him.”

• Booker T. Washington