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"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running"
Groucho Marx

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
Albert Einstein

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday"
George Carlin

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosevelt

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can"
Michael Korda

"I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them"
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything"
Herb Gardner

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness"
Malcolm Forbes

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time"
Marilyn Monroe

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax"
Albert Einstein

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"
Benjamin Franklin

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters"
Abigail Van Buren

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try"
Beverly Sills

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost"
George P. Shultz

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind"
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A stumble may prevent a fall"
English Proverb

"To err is human, but it is against company policy"
Ross Perot

"A well-informed employee is the best salesperson a company can have"
Edwin J. Thomas

"The best career advice given to the young is - Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it!"
Katherine Whitehorn

"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end"
Margaret Thatcher

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
Gen. George Patton

"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done"
Michael S. Traylor

"A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness"
Elmer G. Letterman

"It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving"
Robert Ingersoll

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
Confucius

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community"
E. W. Howe

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything"
Theodore Roosevelt

"Disappointment should always be taken as a stimulant, and never viewed as a discouragement"
C. B. Newcomb

"The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively"
Rollo Way

"Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences"
Goethe

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning"
Aristotle Onassis

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks"
Rupert Murdoch

"If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself"
Jacqueline Onassis

"Men are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen"
Epictetus

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one"
Elbert Hubbard

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty"
Mother Teresa

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"
Abraham Lincoln

"Never spend your money before you have it"
Thomas Jefferson

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves"
Carl G. Jung

"We are what we think we are"
Socrates

"Never leave until tomorrow what you can do today"
Benjamin Franklin

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"
Robert Forst

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another"
Walter Elliott

"A crisis is a situation which can either make you or break you. If you react properly to it, it can give you strength, power and wisdom. But, if you react improperly, it can rob you of the skill, control, and ability"
Melvin Powers

"If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?"
George Carlin

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them"
Albert Einstein

"There are two ways of constructing a software program:
one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies;
the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies"
C.A.R. Hoare

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues"
Elizabeth Taylor

"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood"
Louise Beal

"No unmet needs exist, and current unmet needs that are being met will continue to be met"
Transportation Commission on Unmet Needs, California

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"
G.K. Chesterton

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck"
Estee Lauder

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it"
Lou Holtz