Sophocles

 Always desire to learn something useful.

- Sophocles

Confucius

 By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

Robert Louis Stevenson

 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Ambrose Bierce

 History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. 

- Ambrose Bierce

John Kennedy

 With all due respect, I am against dumb. 

- John Kennedy

Stella McCartney

 Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count. 

- Stella McCartney

Heraclitus

 Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. 

- Heraclitus

Bob Newhart

 I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

- Bob Newhart

Chuck Yeager

 If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

- Chuck Yeager

Jeff Bezos

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

- Jeff Bezos

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

- Amelia Earhart

Aristotle

Change in all things is sweet.

- Aristotle

Vincent Van Gogh

  I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Betty White

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

- Betty White

George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

- George Burns

Joel Osteen

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

- Joel Osteen

John Galliano

 

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a. 

- John Galliano

Oscar Levant

 I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. 

- Oscar Levant

Henry Mancini

 Success is not usually easy or fast. 

- Henry Mancini

Albert Schweitzer

 An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. 

- Albert Schweitzer

Mark Twain

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. 

- Mark Twain