"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
Ancient Chinese proverb
"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck."
Don Shula
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isacc Asimov
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
David Rockefeller
"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."
Muhammad Ali
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
Tallulah Bankhead
"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
Erasmus
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy
"People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well."
Joe Gibbs
"People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears."
Alexandra Shaffer
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
Plato
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than events."
Vince Lombardi
"The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
Sigmund Freud
"Success is aiming for the stars, because if you fall short, you are going to land on the moon, and there are not too many people on the moon now, are there?"
Amy Van Dyken
"Don't make decisions because they are the easiest, the cheapest, or the most popular. Make your decision because it's right."
Theodore Hesburgh
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
Max Beerbohm
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe
"All progress requires change. But not all change is progress."
John Wooden
"You've always got to be aware of why you don't win, otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again."
Layne Beachley
"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts."
William Hazlitt
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."
Lily Tomlin
"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise."
Mary Kay Ash
"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."
Marie Curie
"Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next."
Lynn Sherr
"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us."
Francois La Rochefoucauld
"I will tell you the secret of getting rich on Wall Street: You try to be greedy when others are fearful and you try to be very fearful when others are greedy."
Warren Buffett
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: It's called an eraser."
Arnold Palmer
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"You can't measure success if you have never failed."
Steffi Graf
"Stubbornness is a virtue if you're right. It's only a character flaw if you're wrong."
Chuck Noll
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
Bill Walton
"Failure isn't a crime. Failure to learn from failure is the crime."
Walter Wriston
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
Thomas Edison
"I used to be the sorest loser, but I've learned that type of attitude prevents you from getting anything out of a defeat."
Hillary Wolf
"If you hire the best people and leave them alone, you don't need to hire very many."
Thomas S. Murphy
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else."
Will Rogers
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
Samuel Goldwyn
"Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability."
Marla Runyan
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
Rene Descartes
"The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together."
Lisa Fernandez
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
Samuel Goldwyn,
"If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business."
Bertie Charles Forbes
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
Sir Philip Sidney
"I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
Julia Roberts as Shelby Eatenton Latcherie in "Steel Magnolias"
"Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself."
Shannon Miller
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."
Jerry Seinfeld
"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson
"You've always got to put the past behind you before you can move on."
Tom Hanks
"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life."
Chris Evert
"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."
Erma Bombeck
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
Elbert Hubbard
"Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
Jim Murray
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"If you win through bad sportsmanship, that's no real victory."
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
Gracie Allen
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle."
Joe Paterno
"He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs."
Torvald Gahlin
"The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Thomas Carlyle
"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
Ann Landers
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
Billie Jean King
"In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is, the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it."
Billy Crystal
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
George S. Patton Jr.
"Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
Paul Newman
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Wooden,
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
Dave Barry,
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
Andrew Carnegie,
"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg
"Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far."
Jean Cocteau
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Franklin P. Jones
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
Johann W. von Goethe
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay"
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
Howard Aiken
"You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once."
Polish proverb
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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening."
Franklin P. Jones
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Champions keep playing until they get it right."
Billie Jean King
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Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
Robert F. Kennedy
You can observe a lot just by watching."
Yogi Berra
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
William Blake
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
Albert Einstein
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln
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"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."<<<<<>>>>>
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life.""I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
Horace Greeley
"Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge."
Gordon W. Allpor
"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
Sophocles
"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
Leigh Hunt
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Sydney J. Harris
"Don't put the fate of your business in the delusions of economists."
Peter Drucker
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
Nicholas Murray Butler
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"History is the science of what never happens twice."
Paul Valery
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good deed by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away
Elvis Presley
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"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy."
Nelson Mandela
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"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
Christopher Reeve, Actor and Speaker
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"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but throught it all i still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing
Agatha Christie
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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
John Updike
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"Fairness is what justice really is."
Potter Stewart
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"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
Martina Navratilova
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"One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs."
Mireille Guiliano
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"In victory be not proud; in defeat be not depressed."
Chinese Proverb
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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
Tristan Tzara