Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ― Confucius

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I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. — Estée Lauder

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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

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I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. ― Robert Greene

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love… — Marcus Aurelius

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