1. “The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”
– John Updike
2. “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
-Winston Churchill
3. “Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.”
-Idi Amin
4. "The scariest moment is always just before you start."
— Stephen King
5. “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
–Scottish proverb
6. "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
— Abraham Lincoln
7. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
-Hector Berlioz
8. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
-George Macdonald
9. “They will conquer, but they will not convince.”
-Miguel de Unamuno
10. “Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
-Elie Wiesel
11. “Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands – and goes to work.”
-Carl Sandburg
12. “It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.” -Robert Southey
13. “A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”
-G.K. Chesterton
14. “Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”
- Dinah Shore
15. "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
16. “A permanent state of transition is a man’s most noble condition.”
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
17. “Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
18. “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
-Ronald Reagan
19. “A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
-G.K. Chesterton
20. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.”
-Vince Lombardi
21. “A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
-Albert Einstein
22. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
23. “A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.”
- Polish proverb
24. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
-Hector Berlioz
25. “It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.” -Robert Southey
26."Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)
27. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein
28. "I used to be with “it”, then they changed what “it” was. Now what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me… it will happen to you!”
– Abe Simpson
29. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln
30. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde
31. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis
32. "People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa
33. "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
— J.K. Rowling
34. "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein
35. "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin
36. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
— Dr. Seuss
37. "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain
38. "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)
39. "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV
40. "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi
41 . "If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne
42. "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)
43. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill
44. "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
45. "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
46. "1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
— Kurt Vonnegut
47. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw
48. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi
49. "If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill
50. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis
51. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
52. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius
53. "If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett
54. "Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett
55. "I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
— Augusten Burroughs
56. "All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— St. Francis of Assisi
57. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost
58. "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
59. "Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
60. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela
61. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama
62. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi
63. "Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson
64. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln
65. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
— Alan Bennett
66. "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson
67. "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella
68. Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.
-Theodore Roszak
69. "This too shall pass..."
— King Solomon
70. "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
— J.K. Rowling
71. "Creativity is intelligence having fun."
— Albert Einstein
72. "A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. "
— Arthur Brisbane
73. "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
— Erma Bombeck
74. Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
-Rebecca Richards
75. "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman
76. "Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
— Mark Twain
77."Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein
78. "But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
— Charlotte Brontë
79. "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
— E.E. Cummings
80. "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
— Mark Twain