Think Tank Journal Topics
500 word entry…
Author Memorable Quotes
Will Rogers “Even if you‟re on the right track, you‟ll get run over if you just
sit there.”
Marlene Dietrich “It is the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter.”
Earl Wilson “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what
you‟ve been taking.”
Diane Sawyer “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute
for paying attention.”
Charles Schwab “The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from
what the average man is.”
Phyllis Diller “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like
shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”
Georgia O‟Keefe “To create one‟s own world takes courage.”
Ronald Reagan “What‟s important is that one strives to achieve a goal.”
Bob Hope “Flying? I‟ve been to almost as many places as my luggage!”
Ella Wilcox “There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and
overcome.”
Lucille Ball “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to
come by.”
Henry James “It‟s time to start living the life we‟ve imagined.”
Pearl Bailey “You can never find yourself until you face the truth.”
Muhammad Ali “The man who has mo imagination has no wings.”
Earnest Hemingway “Courage is grace under pressure.”
Eddie Richenbucker “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things
through – then follow through.”
Mike Ditka “You are never a loser until you quit trying.”
Lauren Bacall “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
Jimmy Conners “The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you
are too old to take advantage of it.”
Malcolm Forbes “Advice: It‟s more fun to give than to receive.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Light tomorrow with today.”
Benjamin Franklin “Well done is better than well said.”
Thomas Edison “There‟s a better way to do it. Find it!”
Kim Hubbard “Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny.”
Dag Hammarskjold “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But
what we put into it is ours.”
Henry Thoreau “We made ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
Winston Churchill „The price of greatness is responsibility.”
George Eliot “It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
Groucho Marx “Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson „Every man believes that he has greater possibility.”
Mel Brooks “you‟re always a little disappointing in person because you can‟t
be the edited essence of yourself.”
Muhammad Ali “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If
you‟re not pretend you are.”
Duke Ellington “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Flip Wilson “Funny is an attitude.”
Barbara Walters “Trust your gut.”
Jane Auston “One man‟s way may be as good as another, but we all like our
own best.”
Woody Allen “It‟s not that I‟m afraid to die, I just don‟t want to be there when
it happens.”
Ella Wilcox “Trust in your own untried capacity.”
Any Rooney “The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books –
how not to eat what you‟ve just learned to cook.”
Yogi Berra “Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there
are any mice out there.”
Sophia Loren “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
Sam Levenson “Insanity is hereditary – you get it from your children.”
Julia Child “Life itself is the proper binge..”
Irving Berlin “The toughest thing about success is that you‟ve got to keep on
being a success.”
Charles Kettering “Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”
Golda Meir „Nothing in life just happens. You have to have the stamina to
meet the obstacles and overcome them.”
Mark Twain “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born a the
age of 80 and gradually approach 18.”
Mother Teresa “We can do no great things – only small things with great love.”
Anonymous “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of
yourself as a success.”
R. G. Ingersoll “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat
without losing heart.”
Dolly Parton “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with
the rain.”
Tom Landry “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will
go about achieving it and staying with the plan.”
Billy Wilder “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Peter Drucker “Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a
courageous decision.”