1. If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
2. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
Helen Exley
3. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
4. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
5. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
6. Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward
7. Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
8. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
9. It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
10. I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
11. Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
12. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.
Barry Long
13. If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this forever. Just as we hit the water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
14. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
15. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
16. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
17. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
18. Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott
19. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
20. Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
21. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
22. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
23. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
24. The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca
25. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
27. Without inspiration, the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
28. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
29. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
30. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
