“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” – Franklin Jones

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it himself.” Galileo Galilei

“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.” – George H. Lewes

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg W. F. Hegel

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” – Henry Ford

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” – Henry Mencken

“To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.” – Hugh Prather

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James Froude

“A man needs self-acceptance or he can’t live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can’t live with him.” – James Pike

“Be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down.” – Jimmy Durante

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” – John F. Kennedy

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a creditable reputation, character.” – John Rockefeller