Famous Quotes by Famous People

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Kennedy, John F.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns (1896-1996)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), on his failed attempts to invent the electric bulb.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Golda Meir (1898-1978)

If a man does his best, what else is there?

General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola (1840-1902)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes, mathematician, (1596-1650)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde, author, (1854-1900)

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