Since childhood, I have accumulated quotations and continue to add to their number.

Here are a few you may not have encountered before.

o “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

o “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

o “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Bernard M. Baruch

o “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” Virginia Satir

o “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt

o “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde

o “This above all: to thine own self be true. Thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare (Polonius, Hamlet)

o “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill

o “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Milton Berle

o “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” Plato

o “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” Albert Einstein

o “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost

o “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower

o “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” Alexander the Great

o “The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Thucydides

o “The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.” Colin Powell

o “A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways… I want to create passion in my own life and with those I care for. I want to feel, experience and live every emotion. I will suffer through the bad for the heights of the good.” Pat Tillman, football star who joined the Army Rangers after 9/11 and was killed in action in Afghanistan

o “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

o “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” Colonel David Hackworth

o “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell

o “Every battle is won or lost before it is fought.” Sun Tzu

o “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” Julius Caesar

o “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” William Tecumseh Sherman

o “They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!” USMC General Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller

o “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

o “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain

o “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison

o “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire