QUOTES

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

--Herbert V. Prochnow

 

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

--Sam Rayburn

 

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

--Colin Powell

 

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

--John McCain

 

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

--Waylon Jennings

 

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.  It is disastrous to confuse them.

--Madeleine L'Engle

 

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

--John M. Clark

 

Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

--Denis Waitley

 

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes.  After that, you better know something.

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

--John Gray

 

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

--Marilyn vos Savant

 

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

--Unknown; often attributed to a Doug Larson

 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

--William James

 

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

--Logan Pearsall Smith

 

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys.

--William Arthur Ward

 

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

--Beca Lewis Allen

 

Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren't sure what they're arguing about.

--O. A. Battista

 

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

--Al Bernstein

 

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

--Sam Ewing

 

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

--Matthew Trump

 

If a thing goes without saying—let it.

--Jacob Braude

 

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

--Hermann Hesse

 

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

--Barry Neil Kaufman

 

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him.  It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

--Joseph Sobran

 

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

--Vince Lombardi

 

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

--Tom Clancy

 

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

--Sam Ewing

 

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light-not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

--Beryl Markham

 

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

--Max Lucado

 

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million people for something you're not.

--Albert Brooks

 

Some people make headlines while others make history.

--Philip Elmer-DeWitt

 

Disregard the immaterial and perfect the few things one does best.

--Vince Lombardi

 

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

--David McCullough

 

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

--Will Smith

 

Successful people are very lucky.  Just ask any failure.

--Michael Levine

 

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

--Michael D. Eisner

 

Anyone can make a mistake.  A fool insists on repeating it.

--Robertine Maynard (Physicist)

 

Mistakes are a fact of life.  It is the response to the error that counts.

--Nikki Giovanni

 

A man of genius makes no mistakes.  His errors are the portals of discovery.

--James Joyce

 

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.

--Arthur Koestler

 

We are never prepared for what we expect.

--James A. Michener

 

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

--William Arthur Ward

 

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

--Amitai Etzioni

 

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

--Catherine Deneuve

 

Never take counsel of your fears.

--General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

 

True power is knowing that you can, but you don't.

--Juliet Alicia Jarvis

 

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by ending it today.

--Abraham Lincoln

 

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

 

Leadership is the key to victory.

--Niccolo Machiavelli

 

There is no such thing as a fair fight.

--SEAL Commander Tim L. Bosiljevac

 

Never fight a battle when nothing is gained by winning.

--General George S. Patton

 

Fortune favors the bold.

--Julius Caesar

 

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

--Marilyn Moats Kennedy

 

When confronted with a challenge, immediately take the offensive.

--Theodore Roosevelt

 

You’ve got to be willing to give up good to get great.

--Kenny Rogers

 

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

--Tommy Lasorda

 

To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

--Tom Robbins

 

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.

--Ronald Reagan

 

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

--Bern Williams

 

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

--Michael Landon

 

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

--Ronald Reagan

 

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

--Richard Corliss

 

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

--Peter Drucker

 

There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible and wrong.

--H. L. Mencken

 

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

--Beverly Sills

 

We may pass violets looking for roses.  We may pass contentment looking for victory.

--Bern Williams

 

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.  Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

--Louis L'Amour

 

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

--Muhammad Ali

 

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.

--Lyman Bryson

 

Live your life so that if someone says “Be yourself,” it’s good advice.

--Robert Orben

 

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

--Andy Rooney

 

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