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.....)