<p>idk if these make me sound like I’m trying too hard, but I really like all of them…</p>
<li><p>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison</p></li>
<li><p>Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill</p></li>
<li><p>Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach</p></li>
<li><p>It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian</p></li>
<li><p>Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein</p></li>
<li><p>It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle</p></li>
<li><p>Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales</p></li>
<li><p>Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill</p></li>
<li><p>We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz,</p></li>
<li><p>I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown</p></li>
<li><p>Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters</p></li>
</ol>
<p>A funny or witty one would be much more memorable. These sound like one of those drab, vaguely optimistic motivational posters hung up in the hallways. Though if I were to pick from those ten I would choose #1 or #3. </p>
<p>By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
<p>see, I know whatever I pick I’ll look back on and be like, “oh that was dumb” but I feel like I’ll feel doubly dumb if I tired to be funny (based on my standards now) :P</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be memorable, per se…just a good one mostly for my friends and teachers to see what I picked</p>
<p>“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” - Henry David Thoreau or
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you” - Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”</p>