Daniel Hudson Burnham, Chicago Architect
-- Johannn von Goethe
'It is never too late to be what we might have been.'
-- George Eliot
'Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.'
-- Mary C. Crowley
'No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.'
-- John Wanamaker
'The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.'
-- John Burroughs
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.'
-- Thomas Carlyle
'The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore
they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation
after generation.'
-- Pearl S. Buck
'Don't be humble. You're not that great.'
--- Golda Meir
'Few things are harder to put up with than
the annoyance of a good example.'
--- Mark Twain
'I envy people who drink. At least they know
what to blame everything on.'
--- Oscar Levant
''The secret to staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age.'
--- Lucille Ball
'Old age is like everything else, to make
a success of it you got to start young.'
--- Fred Astaire
'You know your children are growing up when
they stop asking where they came from and
refuse to tell you where they're going.'
--- P. O'Brien
'You know who must be very secure in their
masculinity? Male ladybugs.'
--- Jay Leno
'I want to know why, if men rule the world,
they don't stop wearing neckties.'
--- Linda Ellerbee'
'I'd like to live like a poor man,
only with lots of money.'
--- Pablo Picasso
'I hate housework! You make the beds,
you do the dishes - and six months later
you have to start all over again.'
--- Joan Rivers
Philip Humbert
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the
absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
-- Peter Drucker
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost. Now put foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to be what we might have been.
-- George Eliot
"Once you know that what you think about expands, you start
getting real careful about what you think about."
-- Wayne Dyer
"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives."
-- Annie Dillard
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a
big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can
make which, over time, add up to big differences that we
often cannot foresee."
-- Marian Wright Edelman
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of
it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an
alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw, American Television Journalist
'If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.'
-- Walt Disney
'A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan
and a deadline.'
-- Harvey Mackay
'It only takes one person to change your life - you.'
-- Ruth Casey
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the
absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
-- Peter Drucker
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost. Now put foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to be what we might have been.
-- George Eliot
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it
flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
-- "William James
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
-- Thomas A. Edison
"Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw
