1. You don't get what you want. You get what you negotiate. - Harvey Mackay
2. The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. - Stendhal
3. Knowing what to do tells you nothing about what happens in your head when you try to do it. - Morgan Housel
4. History never repeats itself; man does. - Voltaire
5. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
7. Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. - Blaise Pascal
8. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance, when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
9. The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. - Mignon McLaughlin
10. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith, Economist
11. There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. - Lawrence Lessig
12. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle
13. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca
14. Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. - Robert King Merton
15. I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management. - E.B. White
16. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Picasso
17. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.- Epictetus
18. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
-Sarah Kendzior
19. What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy. -Yahia Lababid
21. No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. - Miguel de Cervantes
22. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. - Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel Laurette
23. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. - Gore Vidal, writer
24. It's said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. - David Brin, scientist and science fiction author
25. He who has a why can endure any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche
26. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate
27. When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. - Lin Yutang, writer and translator
28. Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist
29. The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. -Vince Lombardi
30. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.- Chuck Close
31. Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.- Nido Qubein
32. Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale
33. War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. - Karl Kraus
34. I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. - Duke Ellington
35. Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. - Jerry Rice
36. Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.
- Robert Kiyosaki
37. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C. Link
38. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change. - Richard Bach
39. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails - Arthur Ward
40. Life is measured by inches
By steps taken one at a time
Not by the height of the peak we seek
But each little rise we climb.
41. When duty comes knocking at your door
Welcome him in, for if you bid him wait
He will depart, only to come once more
And several other duties to your door.
42. If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. - Emily Bronte
43. The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. - Robert Green Ingersoll
44. If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas Alva Edison
45. There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
- Ogden Nash
46. We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. - John Buchan
47. Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful. - Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist
48. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional – Anthony Robbins
49. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
50. To be playful and serious at the same time is possible, and it defines the ideal mental condition. - John Dewey, philosopher and educator
