Favorite Quotes

If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax.

– Abraham Lincoln          

The man with a new idea is a crank… until the idea succeeds.

– Mark Twain          

If you want a happy ending… that depends on where you stop your story.

–  Orson Welles          

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

– Thomas Edison          

Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

– Frederick Wilcox          

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

– Henry David Thoreau          

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.

– John Quincy Adams          

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success.

– William Saroyan