You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
* Warren Buffett

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Morse had one, and he did all right.
* Kirk Douglas

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
* Simone de Beauvoir

All good things come to those who wait.
* English Proverb

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
* Edmund Burke

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
* William Cowper

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
* Marianne Williamson

A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
* Ambrose Bierce

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
* Bernard Malamud

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
* Barbara Bush

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
* Samuel Goldwyn

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
* Richard Feynman

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
* Helen Keller

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
* Frank Zappa

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
* Bruno Bettelheim

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
* Harvey Fierstein

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I’m writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
* Isaac Asimov

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
* Pamela Hansford Johnson

A wise person should pursue knowledge and wealth as if he was to live young forever. He should practice moral principles as if death has grabbed him by his hair.
* Hitopadesha

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
* Philip Roth

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
* Stephen King

If you have a clearly good idea, to avoid getting talked out of it, get input only on how to better execute it.
* Marty Nemko

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don’t get it, prune.
* Tom Peters

Pray to God, but row for the shore.
* Russian Proverb

If you desire to do something pleasing to me, then desist from hunting forever! The poor poor beasts of the forest, being … dull of intellect, are worthy of pity for this very reason.
* The Jataka Tales

A thought that does not result in action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
* Georges Bernanos

Silence is music to a wise man.
* Turkish Proverb

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of a dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
* Barbara Kingsolver

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
* Ronald Reagan

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
* Lou Reed

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
* Octave Mirbeau

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
* G. K. Chesterton

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
* Philip K. Dick

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery — courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
* James Harvey Robinson

It’s the ride that counts.
* Brad Feld

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The lion is ashamed, it’s true, when he hunts with the fox.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
* Jonathan Swift

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
* Simone de Beauvoir

The longing for certainty … is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
* C. S. Lewis

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
* George Washington Carver

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
* Abraham Lincoln

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
* George Bernard Shaw

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
* Oliver Goldsmith

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
* Charlie Chaplin

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
* Napoleon Hill

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
* Abraham Lincoln

This, too, shall pass.
* William Shakespeare

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
* John Wesley

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now — unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
* Ken Keyes, Jr.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
* William Faulkner

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
* Clint Eastwood

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
* Albert Camus

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
* Bill Maher

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
* Blaise Pascal

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
* D. H. Lawrence

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
* Oprah Winfrey

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
* Edgar Degas

It’s sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest; it’s equally hard to make choices about where you don’t invest and what you eliminate.
* Anne M. Mulcahy

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
* Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
* Julien Offray de La Mettrie

I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
* Linus Pauling

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
* Ronald Reagan

When people screw up, give them a second chance.
* Richard Branson

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
* D. T. Suzuki

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
* Malaysian Proverb

It is our mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds.
* Swami Vivekananda

We made too many wrong mistakes.
* Yogi Berra

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature — that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
* F. L. Lucas

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
* Booker T. Washington

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
* Mohandas K. Gandhi

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
* G. K. Chesterton

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
* Joseph Addison Light

Ugliness creates bitterness. Ugliness is an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try to change that.
* Lady Bird Johnson

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
* The 14th Dalai Lama

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
* Henry Adams

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
* Pablo Picasso

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
* Carl Reiner

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
* Jawaharlal Nehru

It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
* J. K. Rowling

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
* Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
* Bertolt Brecht

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
* Jawaharlal Nehru

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
* Chinese Proverb

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear… no one except myself can appreciate how I have to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
* Harry Houdini

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
* Walt Whitman