"You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet."

Macauley, Ed on Excellence
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Lee, Bruce on Expectation
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"The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on Money
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"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on Money
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on Love
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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on Crisis
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

Dewey, John on Thoughts and Thinking
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"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on Happiness
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on Dreams
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on Words
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"Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade."

Bennis, James on Learning
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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on Learning
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on Equality
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"Our last garment is made without pockets."

Proverb, Italian on Death and Dying
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"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

Parkinson, C. Northcote on Procrastination
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on Friends and Friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on Achievement
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Danielson, C. Archie on Ambition
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

Shaw, George Bernard on Population
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Perseverance
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on Parents and Parenting
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"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on Opportunity
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Books - Reading
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on Suicide
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"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment."

Woodberry, George E. on Contentment
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"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell."

Morgan, Robin on Men
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Kettering, Charles F. on Peace
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"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time."

Winfrey, Oprah on Possibilities
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"Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God."

Myers, Cecil on Marriage
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"Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

Nathan, George Jean on Patriotism
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"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on Learning
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Decisions
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Love
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"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on Patience
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"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances."

Soul, Julia on Risk
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