1) “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” — Roger Babson

2) “A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” — Pearl Bailey

3) “Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.” — Buddha

4) “Whatever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” — Edmund Burke

5) “Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind.” – William S. Burroughs

6) “Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” — Confucius

7) “Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.” — Thomas Carlyle

8) “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” — Frederick Douglass

9) “What gets measured, gets managed.” — Peter Drucker

10) “Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.” — Harlan Ellison

11) “If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.” — Epictetus

12) “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

13) “He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.” — Edgar R. Fiedler

14) “Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” — Viktor E. Frankl

15) “Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” — Arthur Freed

16) “Action expresses priorities.” — Mahatma Gandhi

17) “I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” — Edward Gibbon

18) “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini

19) “The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.” — Darren Hardy

20) “I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

21) “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

22) “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” — C.G. Jung

23) “No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.” — Juvenal

24) “Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

25) “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

26) “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther