My Favorite Quotes

“Happy are those who dream dreams and than are willing to pay the price to make dreams come true."

“Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who act.”

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

“The race does not go to the swift or the strong but to those who endureth until the end.”

“If you can DREAM it, you can DO it!”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

"The human mind doesn't take a person where they should go, but where it is they want to be; no matter how unethical or unmoral the position."

“What do all men with power want?...more power.”

"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got."

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW -- What A Ride!”

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”

“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

“Learn what is true in order to do what is right” is the summing up of the whole duty of man…

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

“I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And, because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Know thyself.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”

“Teaching is like being a parent over, and over, and over.”

“Practice is the best of all instructors.”

"A good teacher … better than a barrowful of books.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?”

“I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.”

“Things are not always what they seem.”

“Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.”

“No matter how you slice it, it’s still baloney.”

“You have to study a great deal to know a little.”

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”

“I Want What I Want When I Want It.”

“… The integrity of the whole society is undermined if financial information is misrepresented, or if it isn’t accurate or understandable. Because we live in a market society—and increasingly, the world does—unless the markets can be trusted, then you have widespread corruption … and a market economy that doesn’t function.”

"The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams."

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"Computers and technology have change things in unintended ways. Now instead of just being able to work anywhere, you are expected to work everywhere."

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

"If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes."

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

"If you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds."

"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

"I wish none of this had happened."

"So do all that have lived to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."

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

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow may never come. Today is a gift from above which is why we call it the present."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"How would I like to be remembered? To be remembered at all would be pretty special to me."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“Knowledge itself is power.”

“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

"Only the educated are free."

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”

“What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.”

"Education is a social process. . . Education is growth. . . Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means. The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.”

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old."

""Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

"The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory in whatever his field of endeavor or in his personal life. The spirit and the will to win and the will to excel, these are the things that endure, and these are the qualities that are important."

"The difference between ordeal and adventure is attitude."

"Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

"It's a mentality called right equals forward motion and wrong is anyone who get in my way. You see we used to endorse character and integrity, but today the business ethic that reigns is achievement. And whenever you estalish that the worth of someone is based on what they can do and not on who they are, you have created the environment for fraud."

"Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

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