Just some Great Quotes
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
-Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
-Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-Christopher Reeve
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
One of the main reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself. I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek.
-Neil Strauss
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
-Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience
-John Gruber, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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 are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
-Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
-William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
-Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Knowledge is power.
-Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
You always pass failure on the way to success.
-Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-Beverly Sills (1929 - )
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
-Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
-Eugene S. Wilson
The computer is a moron.
-Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
-Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
-George Iles
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
-George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
-W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-Patricia Neal
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
-Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
High thoughts must have high language.
-Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
-Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
-John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Never give advice unless asked.
-German Proverb
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
-Gore Vidal (1925 - )
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
-Joe Martin, Porterfield
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
-Tommy Cooper
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
-Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The wisest men follow their own direction.
-Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
-Woody Allen
Kobo Abe, the Japanese writer, once said that all his work is about the same thing: It’s that one of the biggest problems of modern living is that we are made for a tribal existence, and people are still not used to the idea of encountering a stranger who is not an enemy.
As I was not smarter than most people, I was willing to work harder than most. I was prepared to examine conventional wisdom. If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.
-Jim Rogers