"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

72: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

#71: "Let no man's ghost return to say his training let him down." - (Firefighters' Saying)

#70: "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson

#69: "Comparison is the thief of joy." - Teddy Roosevelt

#68: "Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control." - Steven Barnes

#67: "Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent." - Steve Martin

#66: "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote

#65: "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou

#64: "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

#63: "We will fail when we fail to try." - Rosa Parks

#62: "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron

#61: "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee

#60: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

#59: "Keep your face always toward the sunshine--and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

#58: "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream." - C. S. Lewis

#57: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

#56: "Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

#55: "Bigots aren't wrong about the people they hate, they're wrong about themselves." - Andrew Klavan

#54: "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale

#53: "Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

#52: "Luck is for the ill-prepared." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

#51: "I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

#50: "Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle." - Jon Acuff

#49: “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” - Yoko Ono

#48: “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

#47: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

#46: "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking

#45: "The only dependable thing about the future is uncertainty." - Amarant Coral (FFIX)

#44: "To be forgotten is worse than death." - Freya Crescent (FFIX)

#43: "You don't need a reason to help people." - Zidane Tribal (FFIX)

#42: "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

#41: "I don't care who is doing better than me.  I am doing better than I was last year.  Its me vs me." - Michael B. Jordan

#40: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

#39: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

#38: "If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours." - Dolly Parton

#37: "We are not our best intentions. We are what we do." Amy Dickinsin

#36: "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." Lucille Ball 

#35: "Life is like a bicycle.  To keep your balance, you  must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

#34: "Everything is impossible until somebody does it." - Batman

#33: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

#32: "Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried; but actually, you've been planted." - Christine Caine

#31: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined." - Henry Thoreau

#29: "Do not let what you cannot do interfere what you can do." - John Wooden

#28: "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb

#27: "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

#26: "Embrace uncertainty.  Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later." - Bob Goff

#25: "Its a wonderful thing to be optimistic.  It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman

#24: "A good laugh is sunshine in the house." - William Thackery

#23: "Practice does not make perfect.  Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

#22: "Work smarter... Not harder." - Allen F. Morgenstern (Industrial Engineer, circa 1930s)

#21: "Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

#20: "A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton

#19: "You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do." - Dr. Seuss

#18: "Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." - Ruth Carter Stapleton

#17: "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich

#16: "PT may not be the best thing you can do today, but it is the best thing you can do everyday." - Retired US Army CSM

#15: "A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Anonymous

#14: "Good judgment from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

#13: "Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!" - 1 Peter 3:18 (The Bible, NLT)

#12: "We all struggle with forward motion [...] Taste defeat, then brush your teeth." - Relient K

#11: "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

#10: "In the end, its not the years in your life that count.  Its the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

#9: "Never believe that you can know everything about anything.  But live like its possible." - Skwirls

#8: "And you ask, 'What if I fall?' Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?" - Erin Hanson

#7: "Choose well your words.  They will go marching down the years in the lives you touch." - Wilfred Peterson

#6: "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rogers

#5: "It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop." - Confucius

#4: "When written in Chinese, the word for crisis is composed of two characters.  One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." - JFK

#3: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

#2: "If cauliflower can be pizza, you can do anything." - Anonymous

#1: "In the middle of difficulty... lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein