All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Trust one who has gone through it.

—Unknown

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

—Unknown

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

—Unknown

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

—Unknown

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

—Unknown

Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Samuel Butler

I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

—Ogden Nash

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

—Barbara Hall