It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

1. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

2. “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”(Yoda, in The Empire Strikes Back)

3. “I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow”(Woodrow Wilson)

4. A spotless house is the sign of a misspent life!

5. “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right” (Henry Ford)

6. If you aim high at least you won’t shoot yourself in the foot

7. “I have so much to do today, I will have to meditate for twice as long”(Mahatma Gandhi)

8. “Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue”

9. “You can’t teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself” (Galileo)

10. The only person who likes change is a wet baby

11. “When I was 20 I thought my father to be a complete and utter fool... now I am 25, I am amazed how much he has learned in the last 5 years”(Mark Twain)

12. “What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but what you put into those hours”

13. “Live now, procrastinate later” (Robert Holdenfounder of the Happiness Project)

14. “In order to succeed, double your failure rate”(Thomas Watson, founder of IBM)

15. “If you have to eat a frog, don’t spend too long looking at it!” (Mark Twain)

16. Progress not perfection!

17. The nice thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise… rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression”(Sir John Harvey Jones)

18. Unless you clear about your aim, you may be lucky to achieve it!

19. “A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour”

20. If it were a logical world – men would ride side-saddle not women!

21. Some day is not a day of the week!

22. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark”(Howard Ruff)

23. Visions without actions are a dream... But actions without vision are a nightmare!

24. My two-year-old son Cole has a working vocabulary of seven words… two of them are ‘hurry’ and ‘go’(Tracie Reveal,Electronic Data Systems)

25. Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it todayyou can do it again tomorrow

26. “Eighty percent of life is just showing up”(Woody Allen)

27. “When you want what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done”

28. “A deadline is a negative inspiration… Still, it’s better than no inspiration”(Rita Mae Brown)

29. “Planning is an unnatural process… it is much more fun to do something!”(Sir John Harvey Jones)

30. “Vision without action is just dreaming... action without vision just passes the time…

31. “Vision without action is just dreaming... action without vision just passes the time… Vision – plus action – can change the world” (Joel Barker)

32. “We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way” (John Holt)

33. A vision is important because if you don’t stand for something you can fall over anything

34. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

35. “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump bump, bump, on the back of his headbehind Christopher Robin… it is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way… …if only he could stop bumping for a minute and think of it”

36. “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump bump, bump, on the back of his headbehind Christopher Robin… it is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way… …if only he could stop bumping for a minute and think of it”

37. “The mind is like a parachute: it only works when it is open”

38. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” (Chinese proverb)

39. If there were no difficulties, there would be no triumphs.

40. “Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you, you must acquire it’”(Sudie Back)

41. “Learning is not compulsory…neither is survival”(W Edward Fleming)

42. “I never let my schooling interfere with my education” (Mark Twain)

43. “A mind stretched by learning never regains its original dimensions” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

44. Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge – others only gargle.

45. “Men learn while they teach”(Seneca)

46. “I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught”(Churchill)

47. Man learns little from success, but much from failure (Arabic proverb)

48. “If you think education is expensive – try ignorance” (Derek Bok, Harvard)

49. You are what you learn

50. Some people learn from experience. Some people never recover from it!