Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost part of your life.

Michael Leboeuf

Students gain lasting self-confidence not by being protected from failure but by learning they can survive it.

Tony Wagner

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Plutarch (1st century A.D.) 

Invention is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My only strength lies in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur 1822–1895

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.

William Blake (1757-1827)

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Anonymous

Just don’t give up trying what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996)

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Anonymous

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

Luck favours the mind that is prepared.

Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895)

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Akio Morita

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Charles Franklin Kettering 1876-1958

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 1887)

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

Juma Ikangaa

The future will depend on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.

Ben Hogan (1912 – 1997)

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

William Bruce Cameron

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions. Never know too much to learn something new.

Og Mandino (1923 – 1996)