My Favorite Sayings - yes, there are quite a few

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"Hard work wins over talent when talent doesn't work hard." - seen on a T-shirt

"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."

Work as if you don’t need the money…Love as though you’ve never been hurt…Dance as if no one is watching!!

"It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey." Wilfred Thesiger

"Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy." Liu Shahe

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns (1896-1996)

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc)

"In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision." Warren Bennis

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977)

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patton (1885-1945)

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." - Lewis Perelman

"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." - Bill Wulf

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Most success comes from ignoring the obvious." - Trevor Holdsworth