"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters."

Margaret Peters (1936- )

"Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love."

Francois de Fenelon (1651-1715)

"One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it."

Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, (1998)

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think that you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Bob Dylan (1941- )

"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)

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

"Nothing in life is promised except death."

Kanye West (1977- )

"Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Scott Adams (1956- )

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

"The beginning is always today."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words."

Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928- )

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

Judy Garland (1922 - 1969)

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."

Golda Meir (1898-1978)

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people."

Victor Borge (1909-2000)

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Theophrastus (370 — about 285 BC )