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A selection of my favourite quotations

This is just a selection of comments and quotes I've come across and found valuable as insights into life and how to live it. I will add to it every so often.

Paul

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door
    Milton Berle

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
   Unknown

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
   Sir James Goldsmith

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom
   General George Patton

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour
   Japanese proverb

If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying about one year ago today.
   E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
   Kurt Lewis

A stumble may prevent a fall
   English proverb

Don't let the b*****ds get you down
   Anon.

The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today
   Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the DM smiles, it's already too late.
   The Elder Wyrm

Feel the Fear - then do it anyway
   (unknown)

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals
   (unknown)

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right
    Henry Ford

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them
   Walt Disney

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently
   Henry Ford

Destiny is a matter of choice - not chance
    Anon

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be
    Unknown

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
    George Bernard Shaw

Quitters never win and winners never quit
    Anon

We are continually faced with great opportunities disguised as insoluble problems
    (Unknown)

We are responsible for our own past mistakes, therefore we control our own future
    Me, actually

If you can change what you really believe about yourself then you will change accordingly
    Austin Osman Spare

What once was can again be, what was not can be!
    Me again!

Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
( He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow )
    Ovid

In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides
( You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself )
    Petronius

Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet
( He who feared he would not succeed sat still )
( For fear of failure, he did nothing )
    Horace