The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. ~ Isaac Disraeli

 

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility
for his own education.
~ John Carolus S.J.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. 
~ Harvey Mackay

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
~ Henry Ford

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~ Confucius

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~ Thomas A. Bennett

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
~ Henry Ford

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey is the reward.
~ Chinese Proverb

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
~ Albert Einstein