Computer Hope favorite quotes

Below are various quotes that Computer Hope has collected over the years that help inspire us in becoming the best at what we do. We hope that the below quotes will do the same thing for you. If you have a quote that has inspired you, please let us know and if it inspires us, we will be glad to post it.

Without the knowledge you must learn, and in order to learn you must have the information.
- Computer Hope

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
- Gary Comer, founder of Land's End

The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
– Socrates

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
-Cardinal Newman

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
-Clarence Day

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-E E Cummings

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it
-Henry Ford

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathon Swift

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
-Unknown

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: "If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"
-Denis Waitley

There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have.
-Mark Twain

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I will show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Rene Auberjonis

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Stephen Leacock

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
-Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
-Emily Zola J 'accuse

Attitudes are more important than facts.
-Carl Menninger

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet 1664

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent it.
-Socrates

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
-Phil Lout

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
-R A Dickson

Business is simple. Make some stuff and sell it for more than it cost you. There's nothing more to it than that except for a few million details.
- President of International Harvestor

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
- Emmett Fox

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
- John Churton Collins

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
- Orison Swett Marden

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl G Jung

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
- Peter McWilliams

The more I learn, the more I realize what little I know.
- K.C. Freeman

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
- Dr. Melba Colgrove

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
- John Milton

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
- Peter McWilliams

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Angelique Arnauld

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- John Updike

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
- H Ross Perot

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust

I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
- Nathan Hale

Virtue is its own reward.
- Cicero

Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
- Solomon Short

The hours that make us happy make us wise.
- John Mansfield

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
- Mark Twain

Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
- Nashua Cavalier

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson, biologist

Keeping customers is not a matter of lavishing attention upon them in the hope that they will remember your firm. Customers stay with your firm because of the value that is provided.
- customers.com by Patricia B.

The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance.
- Frank Bell

Genius is the ability to evade work by doing something right the first time.
- American Salesman

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
- Midge Decter, American writer.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small,  manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. 
 - Mark Twain

It can only be attributable to human error.
 - HAL 9000

If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
- Unknown

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

By failing to plan, you plan to fail.
- Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines everything we know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
- Albert Einstein

Choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.
- Unknown

They can because they think they can.
- Vergil (BC)

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin

The measure of a person's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- Thomas Macaulay

No, try not, do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
- Duc de Rochefoucauld

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is by saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope

A man's karma is to forever turn the wheel of life towards a better future for all.
-Unknown

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
-John Ruskin

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
-Uknown

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Unknown

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
-Unknown

The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux.
-Unknown

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
-Epictetus

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
-Isaac Asimov

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
-Larry Wall

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-Unknown

Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
-Dr. Seuss

Less is more.
-Andre del Sarto

The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates

It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.
-Scooter

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
-Larry Wall

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

The past is gone, the present is never, and the future is unknown.
-Unknown

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Always do more than is required of you.
- George Patton

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills

Within every difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
- Unknown

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert Heinlein

If you don't ask the right questions, every answer seems wrong.
- Ani DiFranco

All life is problem solving.
- Karl Popper

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
- Albert Einstein

The only way to predict the future is to invent it yourself.
- Alan Kay

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breath more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
-Swedish proverb

There are no pockets in a shroud.
-Gaelic proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
-Chinese Proverb

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. When you're pissed off and angry at them you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they'll almost always impress you.
- Jon Snoddy

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Randy Pausch

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
- Randy Pausch

A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
- Einstein

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao-Tzu

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.
- Randy Pausch

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Einstein

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, its about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
- Randy Pausch

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance.
– Jon Franklin

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Raymond Chandler

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
- Dr. Seuss

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-Unknown

We learn...
10% of what we read.
20% of what we hear.
30% of what we see.
50% of what we see and hear.
70% of what we discuss with others.
80% of what we experience.
95% of what we teach to someone else.
-Unknown

If you travel too fast you have no where else to go.
-Unknown

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
– Isaac Asimov

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
– Linus Torvalds

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
– Stephen Hawking

Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin

Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them.
-Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein

Knowledge is the antidote for fear!
-Steve (Computer Hope visitor)

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim