Here is a small compendium of wise sayings you may find worthy of adding to your storehouse of treasures:

• Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra
• All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move. - Ben Franklin
• All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. - Edmond Burke
• A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. - Charles Kettering

• Bad-mouthing competition is a reflection on you, not on them. - Anonymous

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
• Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  *Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them. - Peter Reese

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
• Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear. - Dr. Robert Anthony

• Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good things grow. - Anonymous

• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Anonymous
• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo
• It is amazing how much you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry Truman
• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. - Charles Kettering

• Keep yourself happy - and tell your face. - Anonymous
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa

• Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye
• Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. - Anonymous

• Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter Drucker
• Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Winston Churchill
  
• Never confuse motion with action. - Earnest Hemmingway
• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

• Obstacles are the things a person sees when he takes his eye off his goal. - Joseph Cossman
• One should count each day a separate life. - Seneca
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. - James Russell Lowell
• Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. - English Proverb

• Plans get you into things, but you've got to work your way out. - Will Rogers
• Practice is nine-tenths. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

• Sharpen your viewpoint on what's truly important; and keep everything else a blur. - Rachael Snydon
• Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. - Sandra Day O'Connor
• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What's in it for me?” - Brian Tracy

• Talent is wanting something bad enough to work for it. - Anonymous
• The best way to save face is to keep the lower part of it shut. - Nathan Matteson
• The displacement of a little sand can change occasionally the course of deep rivers. - Manuel Gonzalez Prada
• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar
• The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker
• There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The secret to good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and not too often. - Anonymous
• The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. - Larry Eisenberg
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford
• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant
• To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. - John Boroughs
• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides
• We cannot hold a torch to another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Dennis Diedrot
• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live. - Edgar Watson Howe
• What you do everyday should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it? - Don Hutcheson
• Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. - Harry Truman
• When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the image of the first. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Words should be weighed, not counted. - Yiddish Proverb
  *Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. - Sholem Asch

• You know more of the road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. - William Hazlitt
• Your actions are the picture book of your creeds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson