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)