inspirational quotes for success

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth



Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. ~John Morley



Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White, One Man's Meat, 1943



I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet



All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature



The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris



It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete



Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ~Richard Nixon



Truism: a statement the truth of which is obvious or well known and whose utterance, therefore, seems superfluous; an undoubted or self-evident truth, especially one too obvious for mention.



For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ~John Gardner



One man's crappy software is another man's full time job. ~Jessica Gaston



There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ~Anton Chekhov



The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb



A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867



I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day. ~Ken Travous



My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare



The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn



Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber



Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb



History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. ~Jacob Burckhardt