great quotes about success

The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews



Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957



We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal



I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck



Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan, @Wisetree63



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ~Kahlil Gibran



The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes. ~Author Unknown



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe



I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~Paul Newman



Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. ~Daniel Webster



First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray



A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"



Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783



I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ~Lyndon B. Johnson