He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting.
      Queen Victoria, of Gladstone

When one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
      Henry C. Link

Each man's memory is his private literature.
      Aldus Huxley

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
      C. Wright Mills

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
      Henry J. Kaiser

It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
      C.W. Leadbeater

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
      Plutarch

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
      Albert Einstein

Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder, or takes notes - it's impossible.
      Pat Nixon

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
      Samuel Johnson

It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
      Pope John XXII

Never put off til tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
      Mark Twain

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
      Walter Bagehot

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
      Bob Dylan

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
      Washington Irving

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away form, eveyrthing we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
      Henry Miller

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
      Andre Gide

Once can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
      Helen Keller

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
      William James

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
      Rod Steiger

Dignity consists not in posessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
      Aristotle

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it.
      Mark Twain

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
      Oscar Wilde

Service is nothing but love in work clothes.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
      Gore Vidal

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
      Seneca

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
      Queen Victoria

These quotes were loving lifted from several of the books by the late great Peter McWilliams. All of his books are available online for free at http://www.mcwilliams.com/.

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