A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein, attributed

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Steve Ross

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Jonathan Edwards

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

J. J. Abrams

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Thomas L. Holdcroft

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Ernest Hemingway

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Caleb Colton