A Chemical Engineer is an
engineer among chemists,
and a chemist among engineers-but more importantly,
a politician between both.
Dr. Hassan Farag
Alexandria University, Egypt
Knowledge is free,
but you must bring
your own container.
What is your motto?
“Progress, not perfection”.
Robert Sabuda
Pop-up book artist
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities
no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is never too late to be
what you might have been.
Eliot
Procrastination is the
fertilizer that makes
difficulties grow.
We are each of us angels
with only one wing.
And we can only fly
embracing each other.
Luciano de Crescenzo
Today is the first day
of the rest of your life.
Lance Armstrong
It takes courage to grow up
and become
who you really are.
ee cummings
The fool wonders,
the wise man asks.
Disraeli
By perseverance,
the snail reached the ark.
C.H. Spurgeon
In the book of life,
the answers are not
in the back.
Charlie Brown
Many of life’s failures
are people who did not realize
how close they were to success
when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls.
The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity.
And you’re keeping all of them in the air.
But one day, you finally come to understand
that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
The other four balls - family, health, friends, and integrity –
are made of glass. If you drop one of these,
it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls,
you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.
James Patterson,
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Far and away
the best prize that life offers
is to work hard
at something worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
No one cares
how much you know
unless they know
how much you care.
If you think you can do a thing,
or cannot do a thing,
in either case you are right.
Henry Ford
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The illiterate of the
century will not be those
who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.
Toffler
Tell yourself,
“I’m not a failure.
I failed at something.”
There’s a big difference.
Erma Bombeck
While one person hesitates
because he feels inferior,
another is busy making mistakes
and becomes superior.
Henry Link
There’s no problem
a good miracle can’t solve.
You gain strength, courage,
and confidence
by every experience
in which you really stop
to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The will to win
is nothing
unless you have
the will to prepare.
I am always doing
that which I cannot do,
in order that I may
learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Do all you can
with what you have
in the time you have
in the place you are.
Nkosi Johnson (1989-2001),
longest surviving child
with AIDS in Africa
Success is not final, failure is
not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Don’t go to the end of a
long line and work your way
to the front. Go somewhere
where there is no line
and start one.
Millard Fuller
Founder of Habitat for Humanity
Man’s mind,
once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original
dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I rise in the morning
torn between a desire
to improve the world
and to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard
to plan the day.
E.B. White
By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
Ben Franklin
What you are
is God’s gift to you.
What you become
is your gift to God.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession
requires avid faith in yourself.
That is why some people with mediocre talent,
but with great inner drive,
go much further than people
with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Fear is static
that prevents me
from hearing my intuition.
Danny Thomas
Any human can make a
mistake; only a fool keeps
making the same mistake.
When you honestly have attempted
your ultimate best, then you have been
successful, in spite of failure.
The people who are really failures
are the people who set their standards so low,
keep the bar at such a safe level,
that they never run the risk of failure.
Robert Schuller
If every morning
you eat one live toad,
nothing worse will happen to you
for the rest of the day.
God put me on earth to
accomplish a certain number of
things. Right now I am so far
behind I will never die.
- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbs
In an avalanche,
no snowflake feels responsible.
Excuses are tools of the incompetent
that build monuments to nothing.
Those who specialize in them
seldom succeed at anything else.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
When everything is going smoothly,
you’re just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
To me, there are three things we all should do every day.
We should do this every day of our lives.
Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day.
Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought.
And number three is, you should have your emotions
moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry,
that's a full day. That's a heck of a day.
You do that seven days a week,
you’re going to have something special.
- Jim Valvano
The future belongs to those
who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into flame
by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to
those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Always do what is right.
This will gratify some people
and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Little by little one travels far.
- Tolkien
It’s a job never started
that takes longest to finish.
- Tolkien
Don’t give up,
don’t ever give up.
- Jim Valvano
Perfectionism is slow death.
If everything were to turn out just like I wanted it to,
I would never experience anything new.
My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes.
When I make a mistake, I experience something unexpected.
Hugh Prather
He who makes no mistakes
makes no progress.
Theodore Roosevelt
Quality is never an accident.
It is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort, intelligent
direction, and skillful execution.
It represents the wise choice
of many alternatives.
Willa A. Foster
Do one thing every day
that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you try something new,
you risk failure.
When you don’t, you ensure it.
We are continually faced by
great opportunities
brilliantly disguised
as insoluble problems.
I am only one,
but I am one.
I can’t do everything,
but I can do something.
And by the grace of God,
what I should do,
and can do,
I will do.
The person who says
it cannot be done
should not interrupt
the person who is doing it.
Good to begin well,
better to end well.
I do the very best I know how:
the very best that I can:
and I mean to keep doing it
to the end.
Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is a gift.
That’s why we call it “the present”.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Promise me you’ll always remember:
you’re braver than you believe,
and stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of
intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn
the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the
betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find
the best in others; to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a
redeemed social condition; to know that even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson