Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
– Napolean Hill

The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.”
– Amelia Earhart

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
–Robert A. Humphrey

To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been.
– Benjamin Franklin

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it.”
– Clifford Sloan

Every artist was first an amateur.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
– George Patton

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
– Alexander Graham Bell

It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.
– Ella Fitzgerald

Small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
– Brian Tracy

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
– Marie Curie

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, ‘there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.’ A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
– Tom Blair

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
– Oscar Wilde

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
– Oscar Wilde

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
– John Kenneth Galbraith

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
– Terry Pratchett

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
– Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
– Mark Twain

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
– Fred Thompson

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
– Max Beerbohm

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
– Russell Baker

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
– Albert Camus

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
– Edward Roscoe Murrow

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
– Hubert Horathio Humphrey

When things go wrong they like to blame the President, and that’s one of the things that Presidents are paid for.”
– John F. Kennedy

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
– Bill Lyon

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
– Bill Cosby

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
– Abba Eban

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
– Dudley Moore