Just a rundown.

So today I'm going to look up and give a brief description of everyone I have quoted.
Much more fun than doing my History homework...
So from oldest to newest:

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
John Keats : English romantic poet.

"A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."
Steve Prefontane: Only one of the greatest runners of all time...

"Hope the best, expect the worst, life's a play and we are unrehearsed."
Dr. Suess: Um, amazing book writer?!

"May you live all the days of your life."
Johnathan Swift: Satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet. In one of his essays, he writes that that the Irish should eat their own children. Oh, the irony.

"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability too climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
Einstein: You know who Einstein is.

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds are concerned with the ordinary."
Blaise Pascal: Frenchman. Mathematician, inventor,  physicist, writer and philosopher.

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Professional b-baller.

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps: Won a crap-ton of medals during the Olympics. Crazy good swimmer.

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson: Past prez... You know, the declaration of independence and stuff?

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Dean Acheson: An American lawyer.

"Be obscure clearly."
E. B. White: Elwyn Brooks White, wrote for the New York Times.

"If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail."
Steve Prefontaine: Second quote by him.

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan: Professional b-baller.

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
Elbert Hubbard: American writer, artist, publisher, and philosopher.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost: Famous poet.

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne: He is a sports author, novelist, and journalist.

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
Claire Danes: Actress

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."
Anne Roiphe: American writer and journalist. Feminist.

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
Thomas Fuller: Writer and historian.

"Failure is success if we learn from it."
Malcolm Forbes: Publisher of Forbes magazine.

"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."
Emil Zatopek: Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
Jean-Paul Sartre: French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Don Marquis: Humorist and journalist.

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein: ...

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Oscar Wilde: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Irish writer and poet.

"Life is wasted on the living."
Douglas Adams: Writer. Wrote 'Life, The Universe and Everything' and other books.

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
Les Brown: Guitars, anyone?


Anyways, cherrio!