Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison,

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Ellen Metcalf

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur (

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
Richard M. Nixon

wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon,

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles F. Kettering

Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen

Go Fuck Yourself
-lensman

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
American Indian Proverb

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb