Inspiring Quotes, Adages, Maxims...

Confidence: "Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life" - John DeWey
Cynic: "The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect." - U.S. Andersen
Enemy: "If we can make the enemy show his position while we are formless, We will be at full force while the enemy is divided" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Engagements: "One who does not know the enemy but knows himself will sometimes be victorious, sometimes meet with defeat. One who knows neither the enemy nor himself will invariably be defeated in every engagement." - Sun Tzu, Chou Dynasty
Failure: "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
False Words: "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil" - Socrates
Fantasy: "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge" - Albert Einstein
Friendship: "A real friend never gets in your way - unless you happen to be on the way down." - Dr Wayne Dyer
Government: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government..." - Thomas Jefferson
Ideas: "The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds" - Mark Twain
Inexact man: "Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man." - Bertrand Russel
Jealousy: "Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead; sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it is only with yourself." - Mary Schmich
Lies: "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister in 1868)
Mistake: "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" - D.Adams
Money and Time: "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Goethe
Pessimist: "A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them." - Leonard Louis Levinson
Privacy: "An authorized person accessing private data records for an illegitimate purpose is as dangerous and wrong as a stranger doing the same thing!" - Computer Privacy
Privacy: "An authorized person accessing private data records for an illegitimate purpose is even more dangerous and wrong than a stranger doing the same thing!" - Habtamu Abie
Reality: "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
Resentment: "Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies." - St. Augustine
Risk: "The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature." - Peter L. Bernstein, Against the gods, 1996
Society: "A society devoid of selfishness is certainly hard to imagine. But a society that glorifies selfishness can be imagined only as cynical and corrupt. My intention is to challenge such a society. Not to deny human nature, but to confront a distorted view of it. I wish to make a plea for a characteristic no less human; we call it engagement. It has to do with responsibility."- by Professor Henry F Mintzberg speaking at the Dean Berry Memorial Lecture, July 5, 2002, source www.insead.fr
Society: "My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity" - Frances Power Cobbe
State: "A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes-will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished" (An 1859 excerpt from John Stuart Mill's work, which Ketema Yifru jotted down in his prison diaries). - Source www.oau-creation.com/Section%20I.htm
Trust: "Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse" - by Sissela Bok, "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life", New York, Patheon Books, 1978
War: "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell