You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop
United we stand, divided we fall.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Albert Ellis
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Albert Pike
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Albert Schweitzer
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Well begun is half done.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
We are what we believe we are.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Fortune favors the audacious.
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
