"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if
you just sit there."
--Will Rogers
"When everything has to be right, something isn't."
--Stanislaw Lec
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
--Voltaire
"Nothing in business is so valuable as time."
--John H. Patterson
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
--Erica Jong
"As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man."
--St. John Chrysostom
"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a
dissatisfaction with self."
--Joan Didion
"I am suspicious of guilt in myself and other people: it is
usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own
fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast."
--Lillian Hellman
"The ability to accept responsibility s the measure of the
man."
--Roy L. Smith
"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your
annoying habits are gone!"
--Merrill Markoe
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."
--Victor Kiam
"If you want to do something, do it!"
--Plautus
"Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not
yet?'"
--Norman Douglas
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which
he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
--Helen Rowland
"A man is more complex, infinitely more so, than his
thoughts."
--Paul Valery
"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some
pushing."
--Anon
"True affluence is not needing anything."
--Gary Snyder
"A laugh is a terrible weapon."
--Kate O'Brien
"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not
giants but windmills."
--Miguel de Cervantes (from Don Quixote)
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" --Aesop
"That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra
synchronized with the railings."
--Ann Jellicoe (from The Knack)
"God help those who do not help themselves."
--Wilson Mizener
"Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it."
--Joseph Campbell
"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."
--Thomas Fuller
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
--Toni Morrison
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and
occupation, which give happiness."
--Thomas Jefferson
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
--Kin Hubbard
"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its
possessor."
--John Milton
"A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement."
--Ann Landers
"By-and-by never comes."
--St. Augustine
"Faith is the only known cure for fear."
--Lena K. Sadler