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, let us know, and if it inspires us, we will be happy to post it on this page.

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 master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.
- Stephen McCranie

As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance - the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn't lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.
- Marcelo Gleiser

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
- Mark Twain

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

When you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard, someone is getting smarter, and somebody is winning, just remember that.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

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 want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again, fail again, fail better!
- Samuel Beckett

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

Work is more fun than fun.
- Noël Coward

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

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
- David Augsburger

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
-Napoleon Hill

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

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
- Anthony Robbins

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
- Stephen Hawking

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

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

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

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
- Andrew Grove

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
-Unknown

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

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that and then I realized I am somebody.
- Lily Tomlin

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

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk

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

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

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

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

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot

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 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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

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

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.
- Francois de La 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

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
- Betty Smith

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

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

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
- Aristotle

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

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 best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

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

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth.
-Albert Bartlett

Within every difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

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

You know you have achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

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.
- 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

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.
- Aldous Huxley

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

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Seneca

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.
- Albert 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.
- Albert Einstein

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's 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 my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.
- Muhammad Ali

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

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
- Vince Lombardi

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)

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Da Vinci

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

Never memorize something that you can look up.
-Albert Einstein

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Unknown

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus

I firmly believe human beings can accomplish anything they put their minds to. All they need to get started is someone to show them it's possible.
- Terry Hitchcock

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment, in 1977

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in-between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Every failure is a step to success.
- William Whewell

Those who try to outshine others dim their own light. Those who call themselves righteous can't know how wrong they are. Those who boast of their accomplishments diminish the things they have done.
- Lao Tzu

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.
- Bob Ross

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- Jackson Brown

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
- Bill Gates

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
- Muhammad Ali

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
- Vernon Howard

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
- Confucius

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali

To understand is to forgive.
- Blaise Pascal

You reach a point where you don't work for money.
- Walt Disney

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
- Ted Turner

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
- John Wooden

A Warrior Acts, Only a Fool Reacts.
- Peaceful Warrior

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Christopher Columbus

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
- Henrik Ibsen

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
- B Olatunji

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is not the absense of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.
- Richard Branson

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

No matter how bad or slow things go... "You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't even trying."
- Tony Robbins

If you're overwhelmed by thinking of all there is to be done, stop thinking about it so much and start working on it.
- Unknown

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
- Dalai Lama

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
- Bruce Lee

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
- Henry Ford

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
- Michelangelo

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- Walt Disney

If I would have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
- Henry Ford

To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Unknown

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
-C.G. Jung

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it's yourself.
- Brandon Todd

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
- Bill Nye

A flower does not think about competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
- Zen Chi

It's not hard work that burns people out, but rather the feeling that their work doesn't matter - April Wensel

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
- George Halas

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
- Steve Jobs

Only those who risk going too far can discover how far they can really go.
- T.S. Eliot

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
- Dalai Lama

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
- Edwin H. Land

It always seems impossible until it's done.
- Nelson Mandela

Leaders don't force people to follow - they invite them on a journey.
- Charles S. Lauer

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain

You must be prepared to work always without applause.
- Ernest Hemmingway

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.
- Woody Allen

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it along the way.
- Paul Arden

Good is not good when better is expected.
- Vin Scully

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.
-Bob Marley

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
- Dalai Lama

It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.
- George Albert Smith

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
- Confucius

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
- C.S. Lewis

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
- Frank L. Gaines

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
- Stephen Hawking

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution for mankind.
- Horace Mann

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
- Paulo Coelho

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams

Some men see things as they are and say 'why?', I dream of things that never were and say 'why not?'.
- Robert Kennedy

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.
- Henry Ford

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Your idea isn't new. Pick an idea; at least 50 other people have thought of it. Get over your stunning brilliance and realize that execution matters more.
- Mark Fletcher