Ayn Rand

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

- Ayn Rand

Peter Drucker

 Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. 

- Peter Drucker

Henry Rollins

 I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. 

- Henry Rollins

Alexander Graham Bell

 A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. 

- Alexander Graham Bell

Henny Youngman

 I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. 

- Henny Youngman

John W. Gardner

 The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. 

- John W. Gardner

Harvey Mackay

 When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. 

- Harvey Mackay

Samuel Goldwyn

 A hospital is no place to be sick. 

- Samuel Goldwyn

Richard Bach

 The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. 

- Richard Bach

Aldous Huxley

 Maybe this world is another planet's hell. 

- Aldous Huxley

C. S. Lewis

 We are what we believe we are. 

- C. S. Lewis

George Orwell

 Liberal: a power worshipper without power. 

- George Orwell

Mark Twain

 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 

- Mark Twain

Bhumibol Adulyadej

 A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. 

- Bhumibol Adulyadej

Tony Dorsett

 To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. 

- Tony Dorsett