Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival

Some hackneyed quotes that I liked, these are not forwarded ones but those that I accumulated over time.

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the word to him, and all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (G. Bernard Shaw)
• The irony of life is that it is lived forward but understood backward. (Soren Kierkegaard)
• What I hear, I forget, what I see, I remember, what I do, I understand. (Confucius)
• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. (Roosevelt)
• The minute you settle for less than what you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (M David)
• A pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, an optimist expects the direction to change, the leader adjusts the sails. (William Arthur Ward)
• Education’s purpose is not to fill, but to open an empty mind. (Malcolm Forbes)
• The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Anonymous)
• There’s plenty of room at the top, for those who’re willing to spend the time and effort climbing. (Anonymous)
• The only thing I like about stones that come in my way is that once I pass across them, they automatically become my milestones. (Anonymous)
• The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. (Chinese proverb)
• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open. (Alexander Graham Bell)
• I have not failed; I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. (Thomas Alva Edison)
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
• To err is human, but if the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it. (J. Jenkins)
• The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. (R.W. Emerson)
• God does not require us to win, He only requires us to try (Mother Teresa)
  
• Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival. (W. Edwards Deming)