Here's a few more biographies I'd read but forgot to put on my list:
Willie Mays
Matthew Henson (first to the North Pole, with Peary)
Sir Richard Francis Burton (The 19th-century explorer, translator of the Arabian Nights, first non-Arab to journey to Mecca. Not the 20th century actor that married Liz Taylor several times)
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
Wise men don't need advice, and fools won't take it - Ben Franklin
"It's not how you start, it's how you finish."