My Favorite Quotes

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
- Seneca the Younger

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes?
- Seneca the Younger

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- John Milton

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

There seemed to be endless obstacles… it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
- Joanna Field

It’s weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
- Joanna Field

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
-Unknown

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
- Henri Bergson

What it takes to win is simple. But it’s not easy.
- Marv Levy

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
-Hermann Hesse

The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- Unknown

Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- Unknown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Unknown

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca the Younger

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
- Unknown

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
-Charles Mingus

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson