My favorite quotations

1. When the student is ready, the master appears.
2. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study
3. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit
4. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do
5. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

6. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
7. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

8. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

9. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

10. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln

11. Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet
12. There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
13. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults—Confucius
14. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Alva Edison
15. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard
16. There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

17. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power -Lao-Tzu
18. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. -Jean Baptiste Molière
19. You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.-Sweden proverb
20. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.-China proverb
21. There are two rules on the spiritual path: Begin and Continue. -Sufi saying
22. Every man dies. Not every man lives. -Tim Robbins
23. A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are made for. -John A. Shedd
24. Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert Schuller
25. Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
-Mark Twain