Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson (1840 – 1921)

A library is thought in cold storage.

Herbert Samuel (1870 – 1963)

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore (1852 – 1933)

I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran (1882 to 1931)

Knowledge without Action is useless.

Action without Knowledge is foolishness.

Sai Baba – Indian spiritual master

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 to 1790)

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Eugene F. Ware (1841-1911)

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.

William James (1842 – 1910)

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

Correction does much but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1972)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925 – 1968)

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.

Ruth Reichl

Carpe Diem. (Sieze the day)

Horace (65 – 8 BC) Roman lyric poet and satirist

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

James Joyce

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

The difference in winning and losing is most often not quitting.

Walt Disney

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Ray Bradbury

You never fail until you stop trying.

Albert Einstein