"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" - Horace
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes" - Hannah Arendt
"If the future doesn't excite you, then you are not in the present" - Ursula Le Guin
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough" - Albert Einstein
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present" - Golda Meir
"You can never plan the future by the past" - Edmund Burke
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests" - Charles Lindbergh
"Each one builds his own faith" - 
"Start with the man in the mirror. If you are not wheeling to start then who?" - 
"You will never win if you never begin" - Helen Rowland
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" - Edmund Hillary
"All great achievements require time" - Maya Angelou
"Patience is the companion of wisdom" - Saint Augustine
"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep" - Walter Scott
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" - Thomas A. Edison
"One fails forward toward success" - Charles Kettering
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact" - George Eliot
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need" - Vernon Howard
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it" - Jean Paul
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it" - Woodrow Wilson
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength" - Richard L. Evans
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will" - James Stephens
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self" - Napoleon Hill
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously" - Henry Kissinger
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer" - George S. Patton
"Hope is but the dream of those who wake" - Matthew Prior
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep" - Saul Bellow
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits" - Lillian Hellman
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked" - Walter Savage Landor
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Never take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway" - Sydney J. Harris
"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too" - Helen Hayes
"Madness as you know is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push" - 
"Violent delights have violent ends" - William Shakespeare
"Pleasure does not win over guilt" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Doubt is the father of invention" - Ambrose Bierce
"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself" - Michel de Montaigne
"You always admire what you really don't understand" - Blaise Pascal
"He who angers you conquers you" - Elizabeth Kenny
"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are" - Joan Rivers
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best" - Benjamin Disraeli
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" - Harry S Truman
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire" - Richard M. Nixon
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values" - William Inge
"War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left" - Winston Churchill
"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?" - William Lloyd Garrison
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook" - Oliver Goldsmithr
"Hope is the cruelest torture that prevents you from giving up on life entirely" - 
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge" - William Shakespeare
"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone" - Gertrude Stein
"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only" - Samuel Butler
"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best" - Marilyn Monroe
"Do not envy my progress without knowing my sacrifice" - 
"The one who envies also admires" - 
"Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack" - 
"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl" - Benjamin Jowett
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts" - James Joyce
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens" - Ellen Glasgow
"Sometimes the absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously" - Henry Kissinger
"Don't think about how to spend less, think about how to earn more" - 
"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more" - Kin Hubbard
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
"Fortune favors the bold" - Turnus
"Veni, vidi, vici" - Julius Caesar
"You can't score if you don't shoot" - Glenn Warner
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take" - Burton W. Kanter
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit" - Khalil Gibran
"Change before you have to" - Jack Welch
"Life is short, life is sweet; life ain't easy, but it's free" - Dreamers
"An echo in eternity" - 
"Lights are on but nobody's home" - 
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight" - Phyllis Diller
"The first wealth is health" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go" - Jim Rohn
"Words are but the signs of ideas" - Samuel Johnson
"Words are but pictures of our thoughts" - John Dryden
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I think, therefore I am" - Rene Descartes
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision" - Edith Wharton