The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Mark Twain

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

- Herman Melville

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

- Johnny Carson

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas Edison

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

- Chris Gardner

If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.

- Mike Ditka

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

- Humphry Davy

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

- Michael Faraday

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

- Steve Maraboli

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

- Oscar Wilde

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

- Dolly Parton

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

- Woody Allen