“I never realized how mediocre the world was until I got involved with some of its supposedly top people.”
— William Krame
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
— Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
— Lao-Tze
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
— Warren Buffett
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
— Babe Ruth
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“Once upon a time, a neighbor whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw the neighbor’s son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.”
— Unknown
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather, become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
— Bill Keane
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.”
— Wordworth
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive.”
