"He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey" 

Japanese Proverb

"A bad system will beat a good person anytime"

William Deming

"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you "

Larry Kersten

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship"

Saint Francis de Sales

"Before you learn to manage other people, learn how to organize yourself"

Unknown author

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe