A collection of my favorite pithy quotes
Paul Marciano, author: "Carrots and Sticks Don't Work."
www.PaulMarciano.com   email: Paul@PaulMarciano.com 

1. 1. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. ~George S. Patton
   2. A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other. ~M.C.
      Richards
   3. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ~James Crook
   4. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.  ~William James
   5. Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige
   6. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ~Buddha
   7. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller
   8. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~Albert Einstein
   9. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves. ~Mahatma Gandhi
   10. Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. ~J.C. Watts
   11. Control your destiny or someone else will. ~Jack Welch
   12. Create your life, don’t let it create you. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   13. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. ~Abraham Lincoln
   14. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
   15. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  ~John Wooden
   16. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda
   17. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
   18. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. ~Janis Joplin
   19. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
   20. Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost
   21. Don't find fault, find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
   22. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
   23. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ~John Wooden
   24. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ~George S. Patton
   25. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers
   26. Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
   27. Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try. ~Anonymous
   28. Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
   29. Failure is the path of least persistence. ~Anonymous
   30. Faith is believing in spite of the evidence and then watching the evidence change. ~Jim Wallis
   31. Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Anonymous
   32. Fear regret more than failure. ~Taryn Rose
   33. Feelings are not your friends. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   34. Few people are successful unless other people want them to be. ~Charlie Brown
   35. Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
       ~Charles A. Dana
   36. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' ~John Greenleaf Whittier
   37. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~Confucius
   38. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas Edison
   39. Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. ~Henry Ford
   40. Give me a place to stand and I will move the world. ~Archimedes
   41. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau
   42. Good leaders must first become good servants. ~Robert Greenleaf
   43. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson
   44. Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus Hare
   45. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. ~Tim Notke
   46. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~Muhammad Ali
   47. Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach
   48. Hope is believing in spite of the evidence and then watching the evidence change. ~Rev. Jim Wallis
   49. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles
   50. Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg
   51. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ~Satchel Paige
   52. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. ~Helen Keller
   53. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage
   54. I couldn't wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters
   55. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be. ~Abraham Lincoln
   56. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln
   57. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ~Henry Ford
   58. I would rather make my name than inherit it. ~W.M. Thackeray
   59. If at first you do succeed, try something harder. ~Ann Landers
   60. If I has asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ~ Henry Ford
   61. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax. ~Abraham Lincoln
   62. If I know what love is, It is because of you. ~Herman Hesse
   63. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Anonymous
   64. If there is no wind, row. ~Japanese proverb
   65. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. ~Walt Disney
   66. If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else. ~Yogi Berra
   67. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ~Henry Ford
   68. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. ~H. Jackson Brown
   69. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~Robert Frost
   70. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~Pablo Picasso
   71. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. ~Confucius
   72. It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ~Helen Keller
   73. It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ~Martin Van Buren
   74. It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks . . . ~Helen Keller
   75. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare they are difficult. ~Seneca
   76. It isn't whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. ~Vince Lombardi
   77. It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts. ~Brian White
   78. It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
   79. Life beats the life out of us. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   80. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw
   81. Love not what you are but only what you may become. ~Miguel de Cervantes
   82. Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ~Robert Greenleaf
   83. Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood
   84. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
   85. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ~ Henry Ford
   86. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~Henry Ford
   87. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ~Abraham Lincoln
   88. My life is my message. ~Mahatma Ghandi
   89. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
   90. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ~Napoleon
   91. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. ~Jesse Jackson
   92. No one knows what he can do till he tries. ~Publilius Syrus
   93. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. ~George Halas
   94. Nothing endures but change. Heractilus
   95. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
   96. Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ~Victor Hugo
   97. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take the eye off the goal. ~ Henry Ford
   98. Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve
   99. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ~Helen Keller
   100. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy
   101. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Confucius
   102. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams
   103. Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine
   104. People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. ~John C. Maxwell
   105. Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox
   106. Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~Confucius
   107. Saying it so doesn’t make it so. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   108. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.  ~Mohammed Ali
   109. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars. ~Jill McLemore
   110. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
   111. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~General George Patton
   112. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  ~William Feather
   113. Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are. ~Houssaye
   114. Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand. ~Chinese Proverb
   115. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James
   116. The best way to create the future is to invent it. ~Allan Kay
   117. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ~Carl Rogers
   118. The difference between something and nothing is everything. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   119. The future depends on what we do in the present. ~Mahatma Gandhi
   120. The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali
   121. The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go. ~Egyptian proverb
   122. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. ~Calvin Coolidge
   123. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
   124. The only things in life you regret, are the risks that you didn't take. ~Anonymous
   125. The only way around is through. ~Robert Frost
   126. The principles you live by create the world you live in. ~Blaine Lee
   127. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ~Arthur H. Prince
   128. The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind. ~Henry David Thoreau
   129. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Sally Berger
   130. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. ~John D. Rockefeller
   131. The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. ~Dennis Green
   132. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~W.M. Lewis
   133. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~Samuel Johnson
   134. The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
   135. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
   136. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
   137. There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. ~Henry Ford
   138. There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. ~Richard Nelson
   139. Things that change quickly change back quickly. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   140. Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ~Goethe
   141. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard
   142. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm Forbes
   143. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
   144. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.  ~Dr. Seuss
   145. Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~Napoleon Hill
   146. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. ~William Osler
   147. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  ~Winston Churchill
   148. We need men who can dream of things that never were. ~John F. Kennedy
   149. We’ll either find a way or make a way. ~Hannibal
   150. We’re not retreating – we are advancing in another direction. ~Douglas MacArthur
   151. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. ~Albert Camus
   152. What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
   153. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
   154. What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike
   155. What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. ~Theodore Roethke
   156. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John Lubbock
   157. What you believe, you can achieve. ~Mary Kay Ash
   158. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Zig Ziglar
   159. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. ~Michael Landon
   160. When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. ~Aeschylus
   161. When it comes to the journey of life, be the conductor – not a passenger. ~Dr. Paul Marciano
   162. When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. ~Abraham Maslow
   163. When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." ~ Anonymous
   164. When you’re 95% done, you’re halfway there. ~Alan E. Kazdin
   165. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
   166. Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
   167. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan
   168. Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. ~Anonymous
   169. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. ~Jim Rohn
   170. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford
   171. You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. ~Henry Ford
   172. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ~Beverly Sills
   173. You must do the very thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt