Never Quit.
Never do the Expected.
Never Rest on your Laurels.
Never Think Great is Good Enough.

NEVER FOLLOW

- Audi

It's Your Chance , TAKE IT!

- Chanel

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

-Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Your limitations are not imposed on you. They are accepted by you.

- Ralph Marston

Robert Frost:

The Road Not Taken (1915)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The longer I live , the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. 
Attitude to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our ATTITUDES .

- Chuck Swindel (Author of Attitude)

Nothing endures but change.

- Heraclitus

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions . Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

Hope is a walking dream .

- Aristotle

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

- Chinese Proverb

To be, or not to be: that is the question ........

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

They should rule who are able to rule best.

- Aristotle

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

Who you are shouts so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what you are saying.

- Emerson

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

- Hector Berlioz

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

- Winston Churchill 

The only permanence in life is change.

-Unknown

I found that the most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and to start saying " I will ."
-David Copperfield

How far would you go if nothing was holding you back? As far as you want.

-US Navy Marketing Campaign

It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

-Tyler Durden

I don't ask for anything I can't handle.

-Ken Sanford

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who doesn't.

-Plutarch

Every time you lose, you die a little; every time you win you're reborn.

-George Allen

Always go with your gut feeling.

-Michael Duffany

If you believe, and you want it enough, NOTHING is impossible.
-David Copperfield?

Life is a journey, not a destination.

-Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-Albert Einstein

Perception is reality.

-Michael Duffany

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

-Socrates

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

-William Shakespeare

Your face is a book , where men may read strange matters.

-William Shakespeare

What's in a name ? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

-William Shakespeare

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

-Plato

[Religion] is the opium of the people.

-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

We carry with us the whole of our past .

-Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Karma and Freedom)

We are every moment making our characters and shaping our destinies.

-Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Karma and Freedom)

The free act is the uncompelled act.

-Schlick

It is the unconscious that determines what the conscious impulse and the conscious action shall be.

-John Hospers (Free Will and Psychoanalysis)

Greater knowledge will give greater possibilities of human control.

-Nancy Holmstrom (Firming up Soft Determinism)

The moral purpose of a man's life is the achievement of his own happiness.

-Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness)

I am not desperate and prefer to be single forever than be married and unhappy.

-Neil Fe.

Passion is everything.

-David Copperfield

Be first.

-Unknown

Less is more.

Less is more.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

-Henry David Thoreau

Love is proving your doubters wrong.

-Michael Jordan

"...When we have lost , we have gained a better understanding of how to proceed ."

-CompHealth's Duke (from an online article "Organizational Shift")

"Brevity is the soul of wit ."

-Film "Wit"

"The acquisition of vocabulary is my only defense."

-Film "Wit"

"My race ... Idly, yet quickly run..."

-Film "Wit" (John Donne is the writer; Sonnet 6)

Death , be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow
And soonest our best men with thee do go
Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppies or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke. Why swellst thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!

-John Donne

Choice ... The problem is choice

-The Matrix Reloaded

Denial is the most predictable of all human choices.

-The Matrix Reloaded

I have dreamt a dream
And now that dream is gone from me.

-The Matrix Reloaded.

To be concluded .

-The Matrix Reloaded.

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Just remember to be foresighted in your stance and use the "The gentle hand to victory."

-Michael Duffany

"Wisdom? It's is not wise
to lift our thoughts too high;
We are human and our time is short."

-The Chorus in Euripides' Bacchae 395-97

"What we do in life echoes in eternity." 

-Gladiator, the movie

Most people are average because they do average things…"

-Unknown

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

–Anthony Robbins

“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”

–Ralph Marston

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.”

-Anonymous

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in the lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.

–Ayn Rand

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best and the old words best of all.”

-Sir Winston Churchill (British politician)

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”

–Sir Winston Churchill

“Strive for excellence, not perfection.”

–H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

–Sir Winston Churchill

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

–Winston Churchill

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps , the end of the beginning.”

–Churchill

“For myself I am an optimist –it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

–Churchill

“Words are cheap.”

"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. [paraphrased]."

-Buddha

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."

–Nike Ad

“The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”

–Izaak Walton

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”

–Andre Gide

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

–Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“If you’re confused, you’re not paying attention.”

–Tom Peters

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.” –Marian Wright Edelman

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

-Winston Churchill

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone." -Audrey Hepburn

“The best way out is always through.”

–Robert Frost

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”

-George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

-Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

-Herbert Kaufman

We do not remember days we remember moments.

-Cesare Pavase

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

-Coria Kent

Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

-Louis L'Armor

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

-Isidore of Seville

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

-Hugh Prather

A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment...He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

-John Brodie

Very few men, properly speaking live at present, but are providing to live another time.

-Jonathon Swift

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

-Marie Beynon Ray

When shall we live if not now?

-M.F.K. Fisher

And if not now, when?

-Talmud

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

-William Feather

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

-Morris West

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

-Philip Gribble

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

-Anon

If Past to Future is on a horizontal line, the present moment is not in time - it is an vertical movement - transcending time.

-Osho

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

-Abraham Maslow

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting any consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

-Ken Keyes, Jr.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments, Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

-Sherwood Anderson

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

-Corita Kent

"Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay
attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already."

- Gautama Buddha

"Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are
fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them."

-Gautama Buddha

"A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a
fool who considers himself wise -- that is what one really calls a fool.

- Gautama Buddha

Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody.

Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

-BUDDHA

Less desire means less pain

-Lama Zopa

Thank you for making my job more difficult, challenges make life exciting.

-Augie Kennedy, Director

The river has no shape, but it takes on the boundaries which it carves out for itself,
so is the mind boundless, until it creates a prison for its own thoughts."

-?

Those who know others are intelligent; those who know themselves have insight.
Those who master others have force; those who master themselves have strength.
Those who know what is enough are wealthy.
Those who persevere have aspiration.
Those who maintain their position endure.
And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

-Self-Mastery from Tao of Power (Dao De Jing) (Passage 33)

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,  without having in my thoughts any occurance of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.

-Emerson from Nature

Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit - In these days friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate

Amor est vitae essentia - Love is the essence of life

Facito aliquid operis, ut te semper diabolus inveniat occupatum - Always do something, so that the devil always finds you occupied

Facilius est multa facere quam diu - It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time.

Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita - Life is too short to dance with ugly women

Brevior saltare cum deformibus viris est vita - Life is too short to dance with ugly men

and...

as usual... my sarcasm:

Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare - Well, if you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you.

Other Latin quotes: http://www.yuni.com/library/latin_1.html