" Do no small plans. They do not have the magic to bring the blood of the people in ebullition.
They are not realized. Do big plans, puts to you hopeful the highest purposes - and works. "

Daniel Hudson Burnham
If was an US-American town planner and architect.
born 04.09.1846 in Henderson (New York), the USA
died 01.06.1912 in Heidelberg (Baden-Wurttemberg), Germany

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

That is the life what we from it do, it was always, it will always be.

Grandma Moses, actually, Anna Mary Robertson
If was a painter, illustrator and representative of the naive art.
* 07.09.1860 in Greenwich (New York), the USA
† 13.12.1961 in Hoosick Falls (New York), the USA

3 citations of Eduard Mörike

There is no miracle, no omnipotence to undo of events.

One must have always something what one is glad about.

Who stops to become better, has stopped to be good.

Eduard Mörike
If was a German lyricist of the Swabian school, narrators, translators and Protestant priests.
* 08.09.1804 in Ludwigsburg (Baden-Wurttemberg), Germany
† 04.06.1875 in Stuttgart (Baden-Wurttemberg), Germany

Several citations by Sir Winston Churchill :

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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

How about a pair of citations made by George Bush

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates.

Here are some citations from Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

I could counter that with:
"I'd rather be hated for someone I am than loved for someone I'm not"
- Kurt Cobain

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
--- Woody Allen.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. --- Art Spander.

(as we know, there are many people who do not vote. lol)