Quotations

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

--Frances Willard

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

--Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

--Abraham Lincoln

"Procrastination of vital tasks is a close relative of incompetence, and a handmaiden of inefficiency."

--R. Alex MacKenzie

"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."

--Patricia Swerda

"I find I'm luckier when I work harder."

--Dr. Benton Cooley

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talen will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."

--Calvin Coolidge

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."

--Catherine Aird

"Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do...within the limits of his comprehension."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Youth is the time for dreams; the trick is, when you get older, not to forget them."

--James Ramsey Ulman

"A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large."

--Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

--Jerry Seinfeld

"History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time."

--Blackie Sherrod

"A window of opportunity won't open itself."

--Dave Weinbaum

"How can you say luck and chance are the same thing" Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards."

--Amy Tan

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

--Edward Young

"It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned."

--Frank A. Clark

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward."

--Baltasar Gracian