The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.  Health is better than wealth.

Flaubert, French writer John Ray, American naturalis J.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison. American writer J.

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible ". Bonaparte Napoleon Abraham Lincoln -A. Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it . Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance. Genius only means hard-working all ones life. All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right. You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Life is not fair, get used to it. The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. 1 Norman Douglas Franklin Roosevelt Bill Gates Bill Gates Samuel Johnson Mendeleyev R.H. Stoddard Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher -C. Weizmann + G. Eliot I Joshuas Reynolds A. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won"t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.

Bill Gates

Before you were born, your parents weren"t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents" generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they"ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn"t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don"t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Bill Gates

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you"ll end up working for one. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Bill Gates Susan K. Langer Rollo May

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one fine day. The sercet of success is constancy to purpose. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. How much of human life is lost in waiting! Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances.

--Aristotle Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin --Emerson (Leonhard Frand , German novelist) ( L)

The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and indefatigable is of priceless value. We always have time enough, if we will but use it alright. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear.

Charles Robert Darwin

Wolfgang Von Goethe Goethe (1749-1832)

Napoleon I (1769-1821) Mark Twain (1835-1910) Aesop, Fables

Appearances often are deceiving. Every man is the master of his own fortune. Eat to live, but do not live to eat. R.Steels R Socrates

You have to believe in yourself. That s the secret of success.

Charles Chaplin, American actor . C.