| Author |
Quotes |
| Virgil | Fortune sides with him who dares. |
| Virgil Thomson | Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. |
| Virginia Ostman | If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed. |
| Vladimir Horowitz | I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
| W Clement Stone | That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. |
| W Clement Stone | Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. |
| W Eugene Smith | Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. |
| W H Auden | We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. |
| W C Fields | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. |
| W Clement Stone | The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. |
| W Edwards Deming | It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. |
| W Somerset Maugham | Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. |
| W Stanley Jevons | Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was. |
| Walt Schmidt | You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. |
| Walter Anderson | Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. |
| Walter Bagehot | A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| Walter Bagehot | Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. |
| Walter Brunell | Failure is the tuition you pay for success. |
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