Words

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou (1928-)

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

- W.B. Prescott

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The average person thinks he isn't."

- Father Larry Lorenzoni

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)