If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.John D. Rockefeller
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.Henry David Thoreau
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.Henry David Thoreau
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.Bill Gates
I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'Muhammad Ali
