"Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor."

-- African proverb

"First we make our habits, then our habits make us."

-- Charles C. Noble

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish
for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less
challenges, wish for more wisdom."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today
is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

-- B. Olatunji

"The past does not define you, the present does."

-- Jillian Michaels

"Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well.
What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and
that's better."

-- George Edward Woodberry

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone
else does and thinking something different."

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"A leader leads by example not by force."

-- Sun Tzu

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says
to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when
he says, 'I am a failure.'

-- S.I. Hayakawa

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot
down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway."

-- Kent M. Keith

"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture,
which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do
not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek
in it the ideals of the future."

-- Jose Incenerios

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that
I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which
neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this
everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these
depths."

-- Groucho Marx

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its
victim."

-- Richard Bach

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose
their worth."

-- Chuck Norris

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a
could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be
a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a
might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-- Milton Berle

"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us
rich."

-- Henry Ward Beecher