Laurence J. Peter

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and writer

Bob Hope

“I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.”

- Bob Hope, comedian and actor

Helen Keller

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Oscar Wilde

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers, comedian, actor, social commentator

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, developmental critic

James Thurber

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist and author

George S. Patton

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

- George S. Patton, United States Army officer

William E. Gladstone

"Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and laboured a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world."

- William E. Gladstone, former British Prime Minister

Mabel Newcomber

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement"

- Mabel Newcomber

Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I need to be"

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist