The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. –Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no secrets to success: Don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence. –Colin Powell
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. –Booker T. Washington
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed. And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying! –Tom Hopkins
There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. –Kurt Hahn
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
“His ignorance is encyclopedic”- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.”- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
“Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.”- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”- Saint Augustine (354-430)
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
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