Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards / Søren Kierkegaard
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs / Charlotte Bronte
Never take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway / Sydney J. Harris
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing / George Bernard Shaw
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us / E. M. Forster
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit / Khalil Gibran
Life is short, life is sweet; life ain't easy, but it's free / Dreamers
Dreams are necessary to life / Anais Nin
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on / Havelock Ellis
We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing / Benjamin Franklin
It’s not who you want to spend friday night with, it’s who you want to spend all day saturday with /
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests / Charles Lindbergh
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go / Jim Rohn
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough / Albert Einstein
If the future doesn't excite you, then you are not in the present / Ursula Le Guin
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow / Robert H. Goddard
There is nothing like a dream to create the future / Victor Hugo
You can never plan the future by the past / Edmund Burke
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today / Abraham Lincoln
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it / George Santayana
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present / Golda Meir
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be / Khalil Gibran
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself / Andy Warhol
'Time changes everything...' That’s what people say. It’s not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were /
Whatever you're not changing, you're choosing / Laurie Buchanan
Change before you have to / Jack Welch
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are / Bertolt Brecht
Start with the man in the mirror. If you are not wheeling to start then who? /
Success / keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep / Walter Scott
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need / Vernon Howard
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents / Salvador Dali
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
Every failure is a step to success / William Whewell
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes / Oscar Wilde
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out / Edwin Markham
You will never win if you never begin / Helen Rowland
You can't score if you don't shoot / Glenn Warner
It's always too early to quit / Norman Vincent Peale
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine / Flip Wilson
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take / Burton W. Kanter
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength / Richard L. Evans
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves / Edmund Hillary
All great achievements require time / Maya Angelou
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire / Richard M. Nixon
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it / Woodrow Wilson
That which does not kill us makes us stronger / Friedrich Nietzsche
Some years you win. Some years you build character / Steve Jobs
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them / Washington Irving
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen / Harry S Truman
I am prepared for the worst - but hope for the best / Benjamin Disraeli
This is the precept by which I have lived: prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes / Hannah Arendt
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them / Leo Rosten
I think, therefore I am / Rene Descartes
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are / Paul Tournier
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts / James Joyce
Words are but the signs of ideas / Samuel Johnson
Words are but pictures of our thoughts / John Dryden
Patience is the companion of wisdom / Saint Augustine
Wisdom outweighs any wealth / Sophocles
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
I am still learning / Michelangelo
Each day is the scholar of yesterday / Publilius Syrus
When one teaches, two learn / Robert Half
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values / William Inge
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep / Saul Bellow
The less you talk, the more you're listened to / Pauline Phillips
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact / George Eliot
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination / John Lennon
Hope is but the dream of those who wake / Matthew Prior
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have / H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic / Norman Cousins
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 /
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits / Lillian Hellman
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light / Aristotle Onassis
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer / George S. Patton
Fear is the mother of foresight / Thomas Hardy
Courage is found in unlikely places / J. R. R. Tolkien
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will / James Stephens
Love the giver more than the gift / Brigham Young
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down / Arnold H. Glasow
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are / Joan Rivers
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way / A. C. Benson
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way / Rollo May
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help / Pope Paul VI
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself / Michel de Montaigne
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself / Andre Gide
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best / Marilyn Monroe
Happiness is good health and a bad memory / Ingrid Bergman
The secret of happiness is something to do / John Burroughs
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do / Mother Teresa
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight / Phyllis Diller
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't / Margaret Thatcher
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked / Walter Savage Landor
Who covets more is evermore a slave / Robert Herrick
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants / Joseph Addison
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more / Kin Hubbard
Don't think about how to spend less, think about how to earn more /
The devil knows more because he is old, not because he is the devil /
The devil is in the details /
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop /
He who dines with the devil should have a long spoon /
There’s no winning in a deal with the devil /
The devil knows his own /
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist/
Madness as you know is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push /
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin / Dwight D. Eisenhower
The first wealth is health / Ralph Waldo Emerson
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision / Edith Wharton
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt / Henry J. Kaiser
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self / Napoleon Hill
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously / Henry Kissinger
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy / Carl von Clausewitz
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too / Helen Hayes
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late / Charles Kingsley
Violent delights have violent ends / William Shakespeare
Pleasure does not win over guilt / Friedrich Nietzsche
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever / Napoleon Bonaparte
You always admire what you really don't understand / Blaise Pascal
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting / William Arthur Ward
He who angers you conquers you / Elizabeth Kenny
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
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
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
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens / Ellen Glasgow
Human beings are the only animals that trip over the same stone twice /
Second parts were never good / Miguel de Cervantes
Either move or be moved / Ezra Pound
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years / Henry Moore
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it / Jean Paul
Doubt is the father of invention / Ambrose Bierce
When you doubt, abstain / Ambrose Bierce
An echo in eternity /
Lights are on but nobody's home /
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero / Horace
Fortis fortuna adiuvat (fortune favors the bold) / Turnus
Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) / Julius Caesar