famous quotes on success

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson



It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. ~Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World



Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin



Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. ~George Bernard Shaw



My life is my message. ~Mahatma Ghandi



Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown



I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, "Officer of the Day," original airdate 24 September 1974, written by Laurence Marks, directed by Hy Averback



We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson



Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. ~Andrew Carnegie



Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ~Edgar Allan Poe



If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? ~Art Hoppe



When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. ~Lenore Coffee



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick



May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. ~Author Unknown



Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif