1. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
--Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
2. I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
--Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
3. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
4. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
5. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
--Pete Seeger
6. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
--Abraham Lincoln
7. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
8. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
--Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
9. Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
--Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell
10. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
11. Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
--Walter Anderson
12. You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
--Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
13. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
--G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
14. I do not like to repeat successes; I like to go on to other things.
--Walt Disney
15. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
--Salvador Dali
16. Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. --Dalai Lama
17. There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
--Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), Where the Blue Begins,1922
18. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
--Jim Rohn
20. Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
--Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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