Here are my favorite quotes, numbered only for easier reference:

1. Each place has its own advantages – heaven for the climate, and hell for the society. – Mark Twain
2. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
3. When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson
4. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson
5. It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than think yourself into a new way of acting.
6. One of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals to meet their behavior.
7. Does a bear shit in the wood and wipe his ass with a fluffy white rabbit? – Tupac Shakur
8. Risk is brewed from an equal dose or two ingredients – probabilities and consequences. – Paul Slovic
9. And this, too, shall pass away.
10. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.
11. Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything. – G.K. Chesterton
12. Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
13. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough! – Jim Rohn
15. I’d rather feel the pain than nothing at all.
16. Shoot for the sun. If you fall short you’ll still be one of the stars.
17. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most that we can hope for is excellence. – Carl Jung
18. The three Rs – reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic – are no longer enough. We must add the three C’s – computing, critical thinking, and capacity for change. – Fred Gluck
19. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. – Karl Weich
20. When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear.
21. If you want different results do something different.
22. You must change what you do to change how you are doing.
23. The pain of discipline weighs ounces whereas the pain of regret weighs tons.
24. I am a question with no answer.
25. The only place where a dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Dr. Robert H. Schuller
26. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. – William Shakespeare
27. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
28. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Nelson Mandela
29. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
30. Those who know do not tell; those who tell do not know.
31. Tiny differences now turn into huge differences later.
32. If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got.
33. The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.
34. The harder I work the luckier I get.
35. Becoming number one is only the beginning of the journey.
36. The most certain way to ensure failure in this world of our is to try to please everyone.
37. The more you know the more you know you don’t know.
38. Oh Lord, please help me to forgive those who sin differently than I.
39. Victimism gives your future away.
40. To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
41. We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we are.
42. The key is balance.
43. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
44. A shot in the glass is better than one in the ass.
45. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
46. Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
47. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
48. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
49. We should not let success go to our heads, or our failures go to our hearts.
50. We don’t stop playing because we grow older, we grow older because we stop playing.
51. The joy people experience when they are breathing is no match for the distress they experience when they are drowning.
52. Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.
53. You don’t know what you don’t know.
54. A person is smart; people are not.
55. Success is on the far side of failure.
56. If you see someone without a smile give them yours.
57. I did things I would have called another girl a whore for doing.
58. Chivalry is benevolent sexism.
59. She was a deliciously filthy woman.
60. It ain’t considered a crime unless they catch you.
61. I have a wife, two kids, and a girlfriend to support.
62. Having sex with a condom is like playing the piano with gloves.
63. Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. – Jonathan Swift
64. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille
65. It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
66. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
67. Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
68. Act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande
69. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. – Jim Rohn
70. He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
71. Real power has to do with one’s ability to influence the hearts and minds of others. – The Dalai Lama
72. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, swear. – Mark Twain
73. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. – Thomas Jefferson
74. Disappointment results from the removal of illusion. – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
75. A time comes when silence is betrayal. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
76. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. – Balthasar Gracian
77. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. – Sacha Guitry
78. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac
79. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
80. He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings. – David Guterson
81. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie
82. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. – Abraham Lincoln
83. The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. – Friedrich Nietzsche
84. Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only means you’re two steps ahead. – Fannie Flagg
85. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. Be who you are and say what you feel cause people who mind don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
87. There are two ways of spreading light — to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
88. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. – Frank Tyger
89. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham
90. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
91. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein
92. Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they’re much less than the consequences of selling your soul. – Carly Fiorina
93. When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. – Emile Durkheim
94. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
95. We must become the change we seek in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi
96. Lying makes a problem a part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. – Rick Pitino
97. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. – William J. H. Boetcker
98. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out. – Dee Hock
99. Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
100. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke
101. If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others’ opinion of us, or the success of some project we’re involved in, sooner or later we’re bound to be battered by life’s inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity. – The Dalai Lama
102. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance. – William Faulkner
103. You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. – Walt Whitman
104. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot
105. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Teilhad de Chardin
106. My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved. – Leon Cooperman
107. It’s not rocket surgery. – Kevin Brubaker
108. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche
109. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. – Mohandas Gandhi
110. Sometimes silence can seem so loud. – Robert Kelly
111. Don’t do anything you can pay your way out of.
112. In revenge and in love woman is more barbarious than man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
113. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too. – H.L. Mencken
114. Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
115. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. – Christopher Morley
116. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. – Chad A. Gamble
117. Woman was God’s second mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
118. It’s only by being forced to question our beliefs that we can be certain they’re right.
119. Don’t take fear for an answer.
120. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not.
121. I may not come when you call, but I’m always on time.
122. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
123. Don’t lose the greatest thing that ever happen to you because you’re scared.
124. Jealousy is a form of insanity.
125. Son, don’t let anyone laugh at you.
126. This envelope contains your part of the profits from the work which you did that you were not paid to do.
127. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
128. Do not look where you fell, but look where you slipped.
129. Nothing is permanent except change. – Napoleon Hill
130. You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you. – Napoleon Hill
131. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself. – Robert Louis Stevenson
132. We all need to learn a lesson from Crayons. Some are sharp, some have weird names, and they are all kinds of colors. But in the end, they all have to learn to live in the same box. – Nick Meno
133. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass. – Napoleon Hill
134. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
135. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
136. Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned. – Emily Dickinson
137. An officer should never apologize to his men; also, an officer should never be guilty of an act for which his sense of justice tells him he should apologize. – Napoleon Hill
138. Begin now, not tomorrow, not the next week, but today, to seize the moment and make this day count. Remember, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. – Ellen Kreidman
139. The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed. – William Gibson
140. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they will render different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. – Rev. Jesse Jackson
141. Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others.
142. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it’s the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear. – Chris Gardner
143. Do not be daunted by the enormity of the World’s grief. Do justly now. Walk humbly now. Love mercy now. We are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to abandon it.
144. The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese.
145. Boredom is worse than Poverty.
146. Management is the production of acceptable results withing known constraints and conditions. Leadership is about changing the order.
147. There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things. – Niccolò Machiavelli
148. Women inspire us to do great things, then prevent us from doing them.
149. Although success in our pursuits is difficult, remembering why we chose these pursuits and finding the strength to continue the pursuit is easy.
150. Merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded. – Booker T. Washington
151. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
152. Is it worse to have something you don’t want or to want something you don’t have?
153. When you look in the mirror do you like what you see?
154. What do you see when you close your eyes?
155. If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is not point in having principles. – Marvin Bower
156. Two is better than one only if the two can act as one.
157. If you think I offended you, you are wrong because you will know when I have offended you.
158. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
159. Kids won’t care about what you teach until they know you care.
160. Satisfaction is the death of desire.
161. If you make mistakes, people will think you are stupid.
162. Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
163. Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man.
164. Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas A. Edison
165. Do not prolong something you cannot prevent.
166. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
167. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are, right now.
168. To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune. – Mr. Miyagi
169. Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow. – Peter F. Drucker
170. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
171. I used to have morals, now I have standards.
172. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
173. Better late than never, but never late is better. – Drake
174. The exception does not prove the rule. – Mark Suster
175. Be you, but be the you you like.
176. Trust is Character, Competence & Empowerment.
177. People are greater than things, actions are greater than words, and wholes are greater than parts.
178. Fight as if you’re right, listen as if you’re wrong.
179. To me the future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved.
180. Pursue Excellence and Ignore Success.
181. Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. – Jon Postel
182. Don’t make perfect the enemy of the good.
183. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
184. Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.
185. The real test of genius is not knowing best from worst, but knowing best from second best.
186. Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
187. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
188. It’s okay to not be okay.
189. Life doesn’t get better by going faster.
190. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence Peter
191. Success comes from exploiting your strengths, not minimizing your weaknesses.
192. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the World are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs
193. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. – Steve Jobs
194. Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
195. There ain’t nothing wrong with being wrong, unless you are too proud to admit it.
196. There is one thing that can push a man more than fear. Destiny.
197. A round of golf is about 4 miles, but the winner is determined by inches.
198. Push yourself. Don’t push your luck.
199. The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.
200. The biggest competitive advantage is to do the right thing at the worst time.
201. A frustrated employee is a greater threat than a merely unhappy one.
202. The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa and that begins by being among them.
203. Effort requires no talent.
204. It’s natural for complexity to increase as things evolve.
205. Men never appreciate the women they pay for.
206. If you don’t want to go to Plan B, have a good Plan A.
207. There are so many things that one person won’t remember and another will never forget.
208. Don’t play the game if you aren’t willing to lose.
209. Don’t play the game if you aren’t trying to win.
210. Figure out why people don’t come.
211. Figure out why people don’t come back.
212. For a moment I forgot, and I wish that moment lasted forever.
213. I’m haunted by perfection.
214. The difference between a dream and a wish is what you do today.
215. You don’t need to convince us the system needs fixing, we know that, you need to convince us you have a better option.
216. I had a trophy made for participation. It reads “for excellence in showing up.” – Jason Calacanis