I'll start. Add some if you like. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.†B.B King "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt "Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." -Life "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." Harry S. Truman "President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003." Conan O'Brien "It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov`s dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds." Thomas Sowell "The secret of being boring is to say everything." Voltaire (1694 - 1778) "When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks." Bob Dylan "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring." Chuck Palahniuk "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P. Jones "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." David M. Ogilvy "Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." David Rockefeller "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal? Laura Preble "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." Mike Ditka "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill "Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." Benjamin Franklin "The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour." Kathryn L. Nelson "Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." Mary Hirsch ...
I like that one. It makes sense to me because when we think about our selves, at least in a selfish vain way, we are prone to discredit ourselves, which devalues the way we think about ourselves. With self criticism we are bound to be less productive with our work, which seems to cause less success.
I still think one of my favorites is: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." Basho