These are some or John Cornetta's favorite and most used quotes
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
“Restriction on free thought and free speech
is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the
one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
- William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"If you are going through hell, just keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. "
- Tony Robbins
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."
- Galileo
"I have sworn on the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson
"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
- Cicero
"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there!"
- George Orwell
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to help’ "
- Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn
"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
- Jim Rohn
"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
- Jim Rohn
"The more you know the less you need to say."
- Jim Rohn
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."
- Jim Rohn
