SOME GREAT WORDS: PART I

1. "A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon

2. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

3. "Don't serve time, make time serve you." - Willie Sutton

4. "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." - Unknown

5. "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There's no other definition of it." - F.S. Fitzgerald

6. "He knows nothing, he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." - George Bernard Shaw

7. "We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas Edison

8. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

9. "The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost

10. "Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them." – Unknown

11. "A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure." - Anonymous

12. "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." - Margaret Fuller

13. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

14. "Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life." - Confucius

15. "Who is a wise man? He who learns from all men." - The Talmud

16. "Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning." - Bergen Evans

17. "You have to think big to be big." - Claude M. Bristol

18. "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Winston Churchill

19. "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." - Pearl S. Buck

20. "How little do they see what is, who frame their judgements upon that which seems." - Robert Southey

21. "Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance." - Leo Buscaglia

22. "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." - C.W. Ceram

23. "Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you." - Tom Hopkins

24. "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

25. "Right or wrong, the customer is always right." - Marshall Field

26. "Who has not served cannot command." - John Florio

27. "The ultimate security is your understanding of reality." - H. Stanley Judd

28. "Only the insecure strive for security." - Wayne Dyer

29. "Stability is not immobility." - Klemmens Von Metternich

30. "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." - Rudyard Kipling

31. "There's a way to do it better...find it." - Thomas A. Edison

32. "Do what you fear and fear disappears." - David Joseph Schwartz

33. "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." - John Dryden

34. "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." - Sophocles

35. "There is no right way to do something wrong." - Unknown

36. "To know is to control." - Scott Reed

37. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

38. "Do the thing which you think you cannot do”- Unknown.

39. "Success...seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

40. "Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society." – Confucius

41. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

42. "It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." - Sondra Anice Barnes

43. "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.” Eric Hoffer

44. "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo

45. "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." – Voltaire

46. "There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." - Robert Half

47. "Success is never final, and failure is never fatal; it's courage that counts." – Unknown

48. "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." - Richard Lovelace 
49.  "Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick Wilcox
50.  "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." – Unknown