"YOU MUST KNOW" QUOTES

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.- T.S. Eliot

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
- Anthony Storr

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Unknown

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't loaf and invite inspiration.
Light out after it with a club.
- Jack London

Trust your hopes, not your fears.
- David Mahoney

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
- Frank L. Gaines

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm Forbes

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
- Tobias George Smollett

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Sallust

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
- George F. Tilton

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

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
- Carl Jung

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- English Proverb

Carpe diem.
- Latin Proverb, meaning Seize the day

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
- Victor Hugo

Those who would attain any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
- Bayard Taylor

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them.
- Thomas A. Kempis

For us physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion.
- Albert Einstein

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. 
- Stephen W. Hawking

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Mahatma Gandhi

All mankind are my brethren; to do good is my religion. 
- Thomas Paine

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, and not as they are said to be.
- George Bernard Shaw

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- Albert Einstein

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
- Albert Einstein

If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher, from Star Trek

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin D'Israeli

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

If you want to be original, question all truths handed down to you.
- Niles Eldridge

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Wiliam Butler Yeats

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
- Voltaire

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed true.- Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Benjamin Franklin

Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space. -Democritus, 460 B.C.

Be led by reason.
- Greek Proverb

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill

Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Gyorgyi

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole France

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei

Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self.
- Jean Riboud

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried.
- Frank Tyger

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
- Christopher Wren, 1632 – 1723

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandi

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started....the fate of humanity is in his hands.
- Abraham Lincoln

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
- Jesse Lee Bennett

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
- Cicero

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Emerson

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, the dunces are all against him.
- Jonathan Swift

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Michael Corleone, in The Godfather

To live life effectively is to live with adequate information.
- Norbert Weiner

Logic is the art of making the truth prevail.
- La Bruyere

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
- Charles W. Eliot

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lipman

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Success Quotes.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Corneille

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.-Thomas Jefferson

There is no success without hardship.
- Sophocles

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
- Aristotle

Trying will do anything in this world.
- Theocritus

If you wish to be out front
Then act as if you were behind.
- Lao-Tzu

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.
- Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.
- William Longgood

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.- Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing succeeds so well as success.
- Prince de Talleyrand

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

The whole secret to a successful life it to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
- Henry Ford

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. 
- Theodore T. Munger

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
- De Maistre

Motivation Quotes

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz

Pursue worthy aims.
- Anna Cummins

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
- Charles F. Kettering

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
- Arabian Proverb

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

We make our own fortunes and call them fate.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean

The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Justice O. W. Holmes

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Harold R. McAlindon - quotes on leadership

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
- Winston Churchill

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefor, is not an act but a habit. 
- Aristotle

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu

There are no gains without pains.
- Adlai Stevenson

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Proberbs & Time Quotes

If you have but an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?- Lord Chesterfield

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.- Dante

To comprehend a man's life it is necessary to know not merely what he does, but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.
- John Hall Gladstone

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.- Francis Quarles

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
- Richard Steele

He who begins many things finishes but few.- German Proverb

Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it...you cannot do everything.
- Phillip Brooks

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
- Chinese Proverb

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. - Thomas Fuller

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful, but avoid all unnecessary actions.
- Benjamin Franklin