A Chemical Engineer is an engineer among chemists, and a chemist among engineers- but more importantly, a politician between both.

Dr. Hassan Farag Alexandria University, Egypt

Knowledge is free, but you must bring your own container.

What is your motto? “Progress, not perfection”.

Robert Sabuda Pop-up book artist

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Eliot

Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grow.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

Luciano de Crescenzo

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Lance Armstrong

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

ee cummings

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Disraeli

By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.

C.H. Spurgeon

In the book of life, the answers are not in the back.

Charlie Brown

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

Thomas Edison

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls.

The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, and integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life

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James Patterson

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Far and away the best prize that life offers is to work hard at something worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

No one cares how much you know unless they know how much you care.

If you think you can do a thing, or cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.

Henry Ford

The illiterate of the 21 st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Toffler

Tell yourself, “I’m not a failure. I failed at something.” There’s a big difference.

Erma Bombeck

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becomes superior.

Henry Link

There’s no problem a good miracle can’t solve.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The will to win is nothing unless you have the will to prepare.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.

Nkosi Johnson (1989-2001), longest surviving child with AIDS in Africa

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts .

Winston Churchill

Don’t go to the end of a long line and work your way to the front. Go somewhere where there is no line and start one.

Millard Fuller Founder of Habitat for Humanity

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and to enjoy the world.

This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Ben Franklin

What you are is God’s gift to you.

What you become is your gift to God.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Danny Thomas

Any human can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same mistake.

When you honestly have attempted your ultimate best, then you have been successful, in spite of failure. The people who are really failures are the people who set their standards so low, keep the bar at such a safe level, that they never run the risk of failure.

Robert Schuller

If every morning you eat one live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die.

- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbs

In an avalanche, no snowflake feels responsible.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent that build monuments to nothing. Those who specialize in them seldom succeed at anything else.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When everything is going smoothly, you’re just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.

- Jim Valvano

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

- Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

Always do what is right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- Mark Twain

Little by little one travels far.

- Tolkien

It’s a job never started that takes longest to finish.

- Tolkien

Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.

- Jim Valvano

Perfectionism is slow death. If everything were to turn out just like I wanted it to, I would never experience anything new. My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake, I experience something unexpected.

Hugh Prather

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Willa A. Foster

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you try something new, you risk failure. When you don’t, you ensure it.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. And by the grace of God, what I should do, and can do, I will do.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Good to begin well, better to end well.

I do the very best I know how: the very best that I can: and I mean to keep doing it to the end .

Abraham Lincoln

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That’s why we call it “the present”.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Christopher Robin to Pooh

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson