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This is the precept by which I have lived: prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes - Hannah Arendt
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best - Benjamin Disraeli
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them - Leo Rosten
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough - Albert Einstein
If the future doesn't excite you, then you are not in the present - Ursula Le Guin
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present - Golda Meir
Human beings are the only animals that trip over the same stone twice -
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today - Abraham Lincoln
You can never plan the future by the past - Edmund Burke
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us - E. M. Forster
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests - Charles Lindbergh
Dreams are necessary to life - Anais Nin
All great achievements require time - Maya Angelou
Patience is the companion of wisdom - Saint Augustine
Each one builds his own faith - 
Start with the man in the mirror. If you are not wheeling to start then who? - 
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - Edmund Hillary
Whatever you're not changing, you're choosing - Laurie Buchanan
It's always too early to quit - Norman Vincent Peale
You will never win if you never begin - Helen Rowland
You can't score if you don't shoot - Glenn Warner
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine - Flip Wilson
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take - Burton W. Kanter
One fails forward toward success - Charles Kettering
Every failure is a step to success - William Whewell
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing - George Bernard Shaw
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years - Henry Moore
Some years you win. Some years you build character - Steve Jobs
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison
When one teaches, two learn - Robert Half
I am still learning - Michelangelo
The less you talk, the more you're listened to - Pauline Phillips
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it - Jean Paul
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep - Walter Scott
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need - Vernon Howard
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants - Joseph Addison
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it - Woodrow Wilson
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength - Richard L. Evans
Doubt is the father of invention - Ambrose Bierce
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will - James Stephens
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer - George S. Patton
Courage is found in unlikely places - J. R. R. Tolkien
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self - Napoleon Hill
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously - Henry Kissinger
Hope is but the dream of those who wake - Matthew Prior
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact - George Eliot
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep - Saul Bellow
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits - Lillian Hellman
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked - Walter Savage Landor
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important - Martin Luther King, Jr.
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too - Helen Hayes
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late - Charles Kingsley
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't - Margaret Thatcher
Never take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway - Sydney J. Harris
Madness as you know is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push - 
Violent delights have violent ends - William Shakespeare
Pleasure does not win over guilt - Friedrich Nietzsche
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out - Edwin Markham
Love the giver more than the gift - Brigham Young
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself - Michel de Montaigne
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself - Andre Gide
You always admire what you really don't understand - Blaise Pascal
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are - Joan Rivers
He who angers you conquers you - Elizabeth Kenny
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - Harry S Truman
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire - Richard M. Nixon
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values - William Inge
War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left - Winston Churchill
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? - William Lloyd Garrison
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook - Oliver Goldsmithr
Hope is the cruelest torture that prevents you from giving up on life entirely - 
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge - William Shakespeare
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone - Gertrude Stein
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only - Samuel Butler
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best - Marilyn Monroe
Do not envy my progress without knowing my sacrifice - 
The one who envies also admires - 
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents - Salvador Dali
Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack - 
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl - Benjamin Jowett
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts - James Joyce
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens - Ellen Glasgow
Sometimes the absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously - Henry Kissinger
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more - Kin Hubbard
Don't think about how to spend less, think about how to earn more - 
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit - Khalil Gibran
Change before you have to - Jack Welch
Who covets more is evermore a slave - Robert Herrick
It’s not who you want to spend friday night with, it’s who you want to spend all day saturday with -
Life is short, life is sweet; life ain't easy, but it's free - Dreamers
An echo in eternity - 
Lights are on but nobody's home - 
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do - Mother Teresa
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight - Phyllis Diller
The first wealth is health - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth - Sophocles
Happiness is good health and a bad memory - Ingrid Bergman
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go - Jim Rohn
Words are but the signs of ideas - Samuel Johnson
Words are but pictures of our thoughts - John Dryden
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination - John Lennon
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision - Edith Wharton
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt - Henry J. Kaiser
I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero - Horace
Fortis fortuna adiuvat (fortune favors the bold) - Turnus
Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar