Some of My Personal Top Favorites
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright
When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Zen Proverb
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life Winston Churchill
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game. Winston Churchill
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese Proverb
Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. Martin Luther
That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. Ovid
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now." Joseph Ray
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else. Yogi Berra
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. Helen Keller
There is time for everything. Thomas A. Edison
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. Henry David
Thoreau I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. Johnette Neapolitan
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. Heraclitus
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. Richard Cech Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. Gerald J. Simmons
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis
