Editor's picks

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

— Peter Drucker

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”

— Peter Drucker

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

— Peter Drucker

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

— Peter Drucker

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The brain is wider than the sky.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.”

— Emily Dickinson

“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”

— John Dewey

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

— John Dewey

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.”

— Democritus

“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”

— Democritus

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

— Democritus

“Life is just a bowl of pits.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

“I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”

— Aleister Crowley

“In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley

“The higher the building the lower the morals.”

— Noel Coward