Galileo Galilei

 We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. 

- Galileo Galilei

Dolly Parton

 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Dolly Parton

Thomas Jefferson

 When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Saint Augustine

 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. 

- Saint Augustine

Clarence Darrow

 The trouble with law is lawyers. 

- Clarence Darrow

George Carlin

 If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. 

- George Carlin

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Julie Andrews

 Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Julie Andrews

Denis Waitley

 Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

- Denis Waitley

Ayn Rand

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

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