“What a man never has, he never misses” -Dick Proenneke

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stone-cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps 100 times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone on before.” -Jacob Riis

“Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.” – Elvis Presley

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. ” -George Bernard Shaw

“You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you. ” -Dr. Joseph Montague

“Leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks. ” -Dale Carnegie

“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve

“People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.” – Tony Robbins

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin

“You have to be odd to be number one” -Dr. Suess

“Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past. From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts And recycling it for more than it’s worth” – Baz Luhrmann

“We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.” – Peter Thiel

“War is when your Government tells you who the enemy is, Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.” – Guru Laghima

“If love blinds you from seeing the faults of the one you love, then hatred blinds you from seeing the good things in the one you hate.” — Abdul Aziz bin Marzuq

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“War is when your Government tells you who the enemy is, Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.” – Guru Laghima

“If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.” -Penn Jillette

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. -P.J. O’Rourke, writer (b. 1947)”

“Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?” – Sheri Fink

“Narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.” – Sophie Scholl

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses” -Abraham Lincoln

“Every person sees the world in a unique way. When someone dies it is, in a way, the death of an entire world.”

“There is more than one way to skin a cat; from the cat’s perspective it doesn’t matter.” – Andrew Wulf

“We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to.” – Terry Swearingen

“We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to.” – Terry

“Have the courage to make a clean break. If you keep picking at the wound, it won’t heal as effectively and will keep re-opening.” -Andrew W.K.

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E.B. White

“Either you can willingly limit yourself or Nature will limit you. Disease is Nature’s way of forcing you to slow down.” -Dr. Robert Svoboda

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” – Deepak Chopra

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” – Thomas Edison

“We suffer from the disease of haste.” -Dr. Robert Svoboda

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” – Jim Rohn

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Law

“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” – Zen adage

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” – Raylan Givens, Justified

“Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches” – Unknown

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” —Abraham Lincoln

“She had blue skin, and so did he. He kept it hid and so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by–and never knew.” – Shel Silverstein

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

“Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” – Al Capone

“Funny that all of Nixon’s crimes – anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars – are all legal now.” – Bill Maher

“When I come out I have supreme confidence. But I’m scared to death. I’m afraid. I’m afraid of everything. I’m afraid of losing. I’m afraid of being humiliated. But I’m confident. The closer I get to the ring the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident. All during training I’ve been afraid of this man. I think this man might be capable of beating me. I’ve dreamed of him beating me. For that I’ve always stayed afraid of him. The closer I get to the ring the more confident I get. Once I’m in the ring I’m a god. No one could beat me. I walk around the ring but I never take my eyes off my opponent….During the fight I’m supremely confident. I’m making him miss and I’m countering. I’m hitting him to the body; I’m punching him real hard. And I’m punching him, and I’m punching him, and I know he’s gonna take my punches. He goes down, he’s out. I’m victorious. Mike Tyson, greatest fighter that ever lived.” – Mike Tyson

“Now she speaks rapidly. “Do you know *why* you want to program?” He shakes his head. He hasn’t the faintest idea. “For the sheer *joy* of programming!” she cries triumphantly. “The joy of the parent, the artist, the craftsman. “You take a program, born weak and impotent as a dimly-realized solution. You nurture the program and guide it down the right path, building, watching it grow ever stronger. Sometimes you paint with tiny strokes, a keystroke added here, a keystroke changed there.” She sweeps her arm in a wide arc. “And other times you savage whole *blocks* of code, ripping out the program’s very *essence*, then beginning anew. But always building, creating, filling the program with your own personal stamp, your own quirks and nuances. Watching the program grow stronger, patching it when it crashes, until finally it can stand alone — proud, powerful, and perfect. This is the programmer’s finest hour!” Softly at first, then louder, he hears the strains of a Sousa march. “This … this is your canvas! your clay! Go forth and create a masterwork!”” – Hans-Peter Störr

“If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?” – Boonaa Mohammed

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee”

“All men are created equal. Some just work harder in preseason” – Eric Thomas

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” – Stephen Jay Gould

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -Greek Proverb

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas A. Edison

”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” – Ruth E. Renkel

”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” – George S. Patton

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” -Abraham Lincoln

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchill

“A man who wants to lead an orchestra must turn his back to the crowd.” -Max Lucado

“Cold blood, warm heart.” – Bob Berring

“As you get new facts, form new opinions” -Mark Andreas

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and that which it fears.” – James Allen

“My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dogs thinks I am.” – Author Unknown

“Nothing worth celebrating comes easy.” -TCU Baseball

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” – Kernighan’s Law

“Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” – Lou Holtz

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’ ” – Henry Ford

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””- Muhammad Ali

“I’m going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.” – Kobe Bryant

“But lights that burn shortest, are the lights that burn brightest” – Watsky

“I perceive words to be having price tags. I realize that there are some that I cannot afford. Some can cost me a price as high as my peace. A price as high as my family, my bread and butter or even my very life. The trick is to speak within my means.” – Lemogang Maclean

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” -Abraham Lincoln