"act as if it were impossible to fail"
--Dorothea Brande
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
--T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
--Joseph Conrad
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it."
--William Hazlitt
"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt."
--Barbara Walters
"The thing we fear we bring to pass."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Fortune favors the audacious."
--Erasmus
"Living well is the best revenge."
--George Herbert
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
--Marcus Aurelius
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
--James B. Conant
"All the while thou studiest revenge, thou art tearing thine own wound open."
--Thomas Fuller
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless."
--Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"Parents can only give advice or put [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
--Anne Frank
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
--Flip Wilson
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."
--Goethe
"Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done."
--Julia Louise Woodruff
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Wake up with a smile and go after life . . .. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."
--Joe Knapp
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
--Edmund Burke
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
--Blasie Pascal
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
--Richard Steele
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
--Katharine Graham
"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from."
--W. G. Benham
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
--Henry David Thoreau
". . . in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."
--Francis Bacon
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."
--Beverly Sills
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
--James Thurber
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back."
--Mary McCarthy
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
--Carrie Snow
"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
--Ella Baker
