The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
- Longfellow (1807-1882)

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Max Lucado

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
- Longfellow (1819-1892)

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.
- Alistair Cooke

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
- Italian Proverb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Emerson

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Don't discourage other man's plans unless you have a better one to offer.
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Albert Einstein
- The important thing is not to stop questioning
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV; with sticks and stones.
- It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
- The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- Francis Scott Fitgerald(1896-1940, writer)

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin (At signing of Declaration of Independence, 7-4-1776)

"Groucho" Julius Henry Marx(1895-1977, comedian)
- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.
- Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato (c.428BC-348BC, philosopher)