Quotes

Quotes


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
- Samuel Butler
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
- Michel de Montaigne
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
- Kahlil Gibran
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
- Polybius
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
- Richard Monckton Milnes
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Seneca
Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
- Burmese Saying
In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
- Anonymous
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
- General Douglas MacAuthur
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
- John Churton Collins