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“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” -Doug Floyd
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Eliot
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -Lewis Carroll
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” -Winston Churchill
“If you’re going through Hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
-Phyllis Diller
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence upon society.” -Mark Twain
“Successful people never worry about what other people are doing.” -Anonymous
“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.” -Mark Twain
“To hold a pen is to be at war.” -Voltaire
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” -Albert Einstein
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” -Oscar Wilde
“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -Margaret Mead
“There are 3 rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; or you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” -C.S. Lewis
““A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” -Miles Kington
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” -Peter Drucker
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” -Winston Churchill
“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool, she means it.” -Archibald Alexander
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” -William James
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -Oscar Wilde
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” -Mark Twain
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” -Henry J. Kaiser
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -Henry David Thoreau
“As a general rule, it’s good to avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.” -Robert Brault
“The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.” -Irish Proverb
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” -Pablo Picasso
“Practice like you’ve never won, but play like you’ve never lost.” -Unknown
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -Christopher Morley
“He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.” -Erica Jong
“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.” -Pablo Coelho
“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead—and find no one there.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” -George Burns
‘If con is the opposite of pro, then isn’t Congress the opposite of progress?’ -Jon Stewart
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” -Erica Jong