Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called, the present.

- Alice Morse Earle

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

-   Malcom Forbes

It's better to wear out than to rust out.

-   Richard Cumberland

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

-   Heywood Hale Broun

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

- Josh Billings

Chance favors a prepared mind.

-   Louis Pasteur

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

-    William J.H. Boetcker

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

- Dale Carnegie

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

-   Tiorio

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

- Max Beerbohm

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

-   Confucius

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

-   Robert J. Donovan

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-   Thomas A. Edison

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

-   William Feather

Failure is success if we learn from it.

-   Malcolm Forbes

How to fail: Try too hard.

-   Malcolm Forbes

He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.

-   Benjamin Franklin

There is no such thing as a good excuse.

- John P. Grier

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

- Paul Newman

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

-   Herbert Bayard Swope

One father is more than a hundred teachers.

-   George Herbert

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

-   Jerry Seinfeld

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

-   Cicero

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

-   Anatole France

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

- Alan Paton

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.

-   Oscar Wilde

He is a good man when fortune makes him better.

-   Thomas Fuller

He who stops being better, stops being good.

-   Oliver Cromwell

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

-   Anatole France

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

- Hugh C. Cameron

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.  But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

-   Chinese Proverb

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

-   Henry L. Doherty

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

- Will Rogers

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W.J. Cameron

To get your ideas across, use small words, big ideas and short sentences.

- John Henry Patterson

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

-   Frank L. Gaines

Never tell a young person that something can not be done. God may have been waiting centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

- Dr. John Andrew Holmes

The most essential feature of man is his improvableness.

- John Fiske

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

-   Ernest Bevin

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

-   George Bernard Shaw

Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more.

- H. Bertram Lewis

Courtesy is the shortest distance between two people.

-   Anonymous

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

-   James Crook

Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.

-   Christopher Morley

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

-   Jules Ormont

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

- John Ray

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

-   Publilius Syrus

The art of conversation lies in listening.

-   Malcolm Forbes

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

- Zeno of Citium

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

-   Ingrid Bergman

No one remembers who came in second.

-   Walter Hagen

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

- Socrates

The best cure for a sluggish mind it to disturb its routine.

-   William H. Danforth

Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it.

-   Henry Ford

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

-   Walter Bagehot

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

-   Frank A. Clark

Applause is the only appreciated interruption.

-   Arnold Glasow

He who praises everybody praises nobody.

-   Samuel Johnson

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

-   Euripides

How to succeed. Try hard enough.

-   Malcom Forbes.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

-   Baltasar Gracian

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

-   William Hazlitt

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

-   Elbert Hubbard

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

-   Italian Proverb

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.

-   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened up your heart.

-   Charles Dickens

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

-   Malcolm Forbes

A man is seldom better than his conversation.

-   German Proverb

Streams of oratory do not always come from mountains of thought.

-   Charles Grant

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

- Don Herold

A man who cannot command his temper should think of being a man of business.

- Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

-   Herbert

Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel certain that they mean something else.

-   Oscar Wilde

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.

-   Joseph Conrad

To be privileged is to be educated, not wealthy.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

Obsessions promote brilliance, but prevent a good night’s sleep.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

Experience is only as valuable as it is applicable.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

In every important decision, there is math involved.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

Unfortunately, Hollywood has evolved to the point where a good movie is defined solely by   how much money it makes.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

The nightly news is televised with the intent to make a profit.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

A man is always happy when he has change in his pocket and a place to go

- Jerry Harris

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

-   Winston Churchill

Everything I own is for sale, it's just a matter of price.

-   Arnold Seastead

It's important to be who you are, but more important to be who you want to be.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

A dark day serves only as a barometer to help us appreciate ordinary days, which are truly wonderful.

-   Bryan R. Seastead

I never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep your own money you have earned but not greed to want to take someone else's money by way of taxation."

-   Thomas Sowell

"What causes poverty?" Nothing.  It's the original state, the default starting point.  The real question is what causes prosperity?

-   Per Bylund