Favorite Quotes

Smarter men than I had challenges and experiences in their lives. From those, they learned a lesson. They managed to take that lesson and distill into a compact piece of wisdom. Below are 10 of my favorites.

• “Chance favors the prepared mind” –Louis Pasteur
• “All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward” –Ellen Glasgow
• “Think you can, think you can’t; either way, you’ll be right” –Henry Ford
• “The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his” –General George S. Patton
• “Fortune and Love favor the brave” –Ovid
• “The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions” –Confucius
• “The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind” –William James
• “Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery, Today is a gift – that’s why it’s called the Present” –Unknown
• “The way to develop self confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you” –William Jennings Bryan
• “To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are” –Anon