Here are some of my favorite quotes that I have come across over my 22 year of living:
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." - Aristotle
"The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness..." -Thomas Edison
"You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve" - Nikolas Tesla
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." - Socrates
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." - John Wooden (Hall of Fame UCLA basketball coach)
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like
art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that
give value to survival." - C.S. Lewis
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Vince Lambardi (Hall of Fame NFL coach of the Green Bay Packers)
"You can learn a lot from a dummy." - My own father
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it" - Nelson Mandela
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln (hmmmm.....)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt
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