My Favourite Quotations

Quotations on Life
- Soren Kierkegaard
 * Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

- Socrates
 * Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

- Victor Hugo
 * Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Anacreon
 * Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

- Carlyle
 * One life; a little gem of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forevermore.

Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams. - Sophocles
 * For this I see, that we, all we that live,

- John Ruskin
 * Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.

- Sir William Osler
 * We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from, life.

- Socrates
 * The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Richard Steele
 * We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Quotations on Success
- William F. Scholavino
 * The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

- Napoleon Hill
 * Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.

- Charles C. Noble
 * You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated short term failures.

- John Stuart Mill
 * One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests.

- F. Dodson
 * Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

- Brian Tracy
 * Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

- Benjamin Disraeli
 * The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

- Napoleon Hill
 * It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Helen Keller
 * I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.