1. A lot of us worry about a problem that, thirty days from now, ain't a problem.
Kenny Stewart
2. Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
3. To achieve perfection in any field, sometimes you must give yourself to it so completely that those around you say you're crazy.
Daisaku Ikeda
4. Religion ought to be a foundation for our daily lives. Religion is not a way of resignation. Neither is it merely mental discipline or a source of mental solace. It is not a search for something vague; even less is it a way to escape reality.
Josei Toda
5. It is fine if your dreams are too big as a youth. In this life, you can accomplish a portion of what you set out to do. If your dreams are too small from the beginning, you will end up achieving nothing, wondering in vain what you have been living for.
Josei Toda
6. There is no limit to what the good man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit.
7. Many forces of inertia keep us where we are, prevent us from moving onto actualizing our potential. Winning over such formidable opposition demands a real commitment on you part.
8. Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone is omnipotent.
9. Anger becomes determination for justice.
Sadness becomes compassion for all life.
Disillusionment and hopelessness becomes clarity and conviction.
10. Pressure comes from within from a fear of failure.
11. Faith is-
To fear nothing
To stand unswayed
The power to surmount whatever the obstacle.
Daisaku Ikeda
12. To reach the port of success, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor.
13. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
14. When something irritates you, think of this: how else would we get pearls.
15. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
16. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
17. It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
18. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
19. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
20. Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking.
H. L. Mencken
21. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
23. The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
24. Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.
last words of Graucho Marx
25. Even the greatest of whales is helpless in the middle of a desert.
26. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leon Tolstoy
27. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is know but to question it.
J. Bronowski, "The Last Ascent of Man"
28. Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
H. Jackson Brown, "P. S. I Love You"
29. Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
30. Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
31. The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Oscar Wilds
32. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynfg jvyy unir cevinpl.
33. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
34. In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mahandas K. Gandhi
35. We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Talmudic Saying
36. Last night I lay on my bed and stared at the stars above and wondered, "Where the hell did the roof go?"
37. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
38. Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
Mark Twain
39. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
40. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
41. Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives fully. Too many people are having "near-life" experiences.
42. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
43. The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
44. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
45. Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer
46. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
47. A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz
48. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie
49. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
50. Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
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