Good Quotations by Famous People:
“Defeat is not final when you fall down. It is final when
you refuse to get up.” Unknown
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last
mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly
Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a
visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the
consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called
insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either
might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster,
and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth
has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is
interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who
has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity
has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift
is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a
review
"The full use of your powers along lines of
excellence."
- definition of
"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost
be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to
his orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento,
when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served
afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650),
"Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you
are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to
it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in
bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that
it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching
should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++
makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into
theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by
fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything
about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that
I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot
hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called
cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called
'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to
earn."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in
vain."
- Friedrich von Schiller
(1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a
mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to
it."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when
asked what is his favorite song
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon
arriving at U.S.
customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between
education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it
must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment'
is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was
'committed'."
- unknown
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake
a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any
'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of
their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of
the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others,
whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to
laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously
improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is
prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong
them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion
dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon
way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver
(1864-1943)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build
the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to
demonstrate my perfect right."
- Frederick (II) the Great
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say,
abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of
time."
- Vince Lombardi
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"A friendship founded on business is better than a
business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion
is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already
found truth without it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly
considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an
enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret
it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them
on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who
can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Person that values its privileges above its principles
soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969),
Inaugural Address, January
20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at
the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the
sensation I have while working."
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"There's a limit to how many times you can read how
great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."
- Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is
than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character
if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe,
and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the
transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you
must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it,
than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three
times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in
"Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong
romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're
yours."
- Richard Bach
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an
opera."
- James Stephens (1882-1950)
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you
bore people they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance."
- Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my
silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with
fear -- that engendered religion."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not
going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a
compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many
ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial,
1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also
gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up
anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If
this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading
honors on your head."
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real
genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be
looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this
handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch
where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when
asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then
they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Luck is the residue of design."
- Branch Rickey - former owner of
the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you
walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they
do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"My advice to you is getting married: if you find a
good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the
answer but wish we didn't"
- Erica Jong (1942-)
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show
you a man."
- Erica Jong (1942-)
"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
feel."
- Maya Angelou (1928-)
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in
me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you
are."
- Gore Vidal
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology
has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else
knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing
suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be
polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no
heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no
brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it
crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"When I am working on a problem I never think about
beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as
to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in
poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on
patience."
- W.B. Prescott
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing
random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."
- chessmaster Savielly
Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Grove gives and Gates takes away."
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of
Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with
software demands
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous
breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of
explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design;
one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and
the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not
simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle
(1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit
trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"Three o'clock
is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can
only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also
stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody,
come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
(1884-1980)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his
enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their
names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Logic is in the eye of the logician."
- Gloria Steinem
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to
live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than
speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll
waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it
down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be
fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"In the end, everything is a gag."
- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk
about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're
going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever
known."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
- Mae West (1892-1980)
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and
three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin
"University politics are vicious precisely because the
stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be
witty."
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world
would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the
same."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but
to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that
cooking."
- Katherine Cebrian
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here'
written all over it."
- Steven Wright
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of
an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned
at leisure."
- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
"I have read your book and much like it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university
stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the
end."
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is
sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try
the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you
don't have to."
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
"Vote early and vote often."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this
one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good
example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
(citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you
can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new
clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is
lighting."
- Gloria Leonard
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and
less able man."
- Professor Scott Elledge on his
retirement from Cornell
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of
the richest people in America.
If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are some experiences in life which should not be
demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms
Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
- Revelation 6:8
"Attention to health is life's
greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nietzsche was stupid and
abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I'm not going to get into the
ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they
take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist,
Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an
idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron
Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but
try finding a plumber on Sunday."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank
(1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise
in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of
their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a
flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."
- Richard J. Ferris, president of
United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have
sex or appear on television."
- Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve
immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not
dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that
everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my
conscience will be judgment enough for me."
- Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to
good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest
form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will
gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's
plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books
people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James
(1882-1941)
"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made
plausible."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"It is better to be quotable
than to be honest."
- Tom Stoppard
"Being on the tightrope is
living; everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda
"Opportunities multiply as
they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
"A scholar who cherishes the
love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the
future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for
action."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I contend that we are both
atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why
you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
(1901-1971)
"Hell is paved with good
samaritans."
- William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I
see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so
humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Silence is argument carried
out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara
(1928-1967)
"Well done is better than well
said."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he
isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Heav'n hath no rage like love
to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"A husband is what is left of
the lover after the nerve has been extracted."
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
"Learning is what most adults
will do for a living in the 21st century."
- Lewis Perelman
"Dogma is the sacrifice of
wisdom to consistency."
- Lewis Perelman
"Sometimes it is not enough to
do our best; we must do what is required."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The man who goes alone can
start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is
ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer
"Ask her to wait a moment - I
am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855),
while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"A pessimist sees the
difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think there is a world
market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956),
Chairman of IBM, 1943
"I think it would be a good
idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when
asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for
the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"I'm not a member of any
organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"If stupidity got us into this
mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"The backbone of surprise is
fusing speed with secrecy."
- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
"Democracy does not guarantee
equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol
"There is no reason anyone
would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman
and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"The concept is interesting
and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible."
- A Yale University management
professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear
actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder
of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound,
and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the
Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be
invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of
Patents, 1899
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat saves a
gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather
have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA
Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most
words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this.
Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa
(1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist
ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"The difference between
fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"It's not the size of the dog
in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is better to be feared
than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527),
"The Prince"
"Whatever is begun in anger
ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The President has kept all of
the promises he intended to keep."
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking
on Larry King Live
"We're going to turn this team
around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to
the Dallas Mavericks
"Half this game is ninety percent
mental."
- Yogi Berra
"There is only one nature -
the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural
one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity
to comprehend the whole."
- Bill Wulf
"There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"He has all the virtues I
dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Write drunk; edit
sober."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I criticize by creation - not
by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Love is friendship set on
fire."
- Jeremy Taylor
"God gave men both a penis and
a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same
time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the
Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose,
is jail inmate."
- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski,
when asked in court what his current profession was
"Woman was God's second
mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't
even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon
reading a young physicist's paper
"For centuries, theologians
have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the
laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly
unworthy."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Every normal man must be
tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin
slitting throats."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Now, now my good man, this is
no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his
deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"Fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"He would make a lovely
corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I've just learned about his
illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he
walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than
it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A poem is never finished,
only abandoned."
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"We are not retreating - we
are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field,
which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father
of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille
pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when
asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also
recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so
dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to
help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he
was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them
design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need
of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to
Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I choose a block of marble
and chop off whatever I don't need."
- Francois-Auguste Rodin
(1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"The man who does not read
good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important
than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Research is what I'm doing
when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two tragedies
in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to
live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Quotes by Famous Personalities Angelina Jolie Quotes -
"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't
done it. That breaks my heart."
Quotes By Famous PersonalitiesBono Quotes - "When the
story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could,
and it was more than anyone could have imagined."
Quotes by Famous PersonalitiesSandy Forster, successful
prosperity mentor, quotes "I believe that if we are conditioned into
believing something is true, then that’s what will happen." See more
quotes by Sandy Forster.
Quotes by Famous Personalities Tony Robbins - As Tony
Robbins Quotes, Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity,
and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. See more quotes.
Quotes by Famous Personalities Oprah Winfrey Quotes - Passion
is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Zig Ziglar QuotesSelf Help Author Zig Ziglar Quotes -
"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
“Whatever the mind can conceive, and
believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
"You are the Michelangelo of
your own life. The David you are sculpting is you." Joe Vitale
"Do not bother just to be better
than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner
"Happiness is not in the mere
possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of
creative effort." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The very essence of leadership is
that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
Theodore M. Hesburgh
"If you judge people, you have no
time to love them." Mother Teresa
"You make a living by what you get,
but you make a life by what you give."
"We are the music-makers, and we
are the dreamers of dreams." Willie Wonka
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The best inspirational quotes on happiness. Take a closer look at these
happiness quotes and find the one that makes you happiest!
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness
without action." Benjamin Disraeli
"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient." Aristotle
"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself
and others." Buddha
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy
of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia. I was sweaty, and my hair
was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a
lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt
beautiful." Angelina Jolie
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be
happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or
things."
"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for." Allan K. Chalmers
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy
mind." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the
other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of
darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced
by sadness." Carl Jung
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
George Sand
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and
our expectations." Edward de Bono
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all
different and yet the same." Anne Frank
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others
feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and
peace." The Dalai Lama
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even
if you're not part of their happiness." Julia Roberts
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Happiness Quotes:
The best leadership quotes and
leadership sayings. Want to be inspired by the leadership of another? One of
our quotes on leadership will truly inspire.
Grace Hopper... "If it's a good
idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get
permission."
"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotes on Leadership
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when
people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader
who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We
did it ourselves." Lao-Tzu Leadership Quotes
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
crowd." James Crook Quotes about Leadership
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was
the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in
their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." John
Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Leadership
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will
pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." St. Augustine Quotes About Leadership
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" Benjamin
Disraeli Leadership Quotations
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to
apologize than it is to get permission." Admiral Grace Hopper
"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying
to lead -- and find no one there." Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes on
Leadership
"It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be
something, but to be someone." Coco
Chanel Quotes About Leadership
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want
done because he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower Leadership Quotations
"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." Karen Kaiser
Clark
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes." Lewis Grizzard
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop
the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." Elaine Agather
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You
can't blow an uncertain trumpet." Theodore M. Hesburgh
Leadership
Quotations:
"What you cannot enforce, do not command." Sophocles
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted
with the important matters." Albert Einstein
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you
cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
"You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get
somewhere, and in the process, you’ve come to believe that getting there must
be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if
you’re not getting to joy, then you’ve gotten nowhere. Joy is really where
you’re going." Abraham Hicks Leadership Quotes
On this page of our site, you'll find amazing famous
spiritual quotes to inspire, motivate and teach life lessons along the way.
Quotes and spiritual sayings to enlighten you and make you think.
SPIRITUAL QUOTES
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in
progress." Dan Brown
"God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do
it." Mother Teresa
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace
and gratitude." Denis Waitley
"He who is filled with love is filled with God himself." Saint Augustine
"I don't believe that anything happens without a reason. I don't
believe it. And in order to believe "That is the truth, " you have to
believe it in all circumstances." Oprah Winfrey
"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against
anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the
world." Deepak Chopra
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother
Teresa
"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not
wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day" Albert Camus's
spiritual quote
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for,
great enough to die for." Dag Hammerskjold Spiritual Quotes
"So I say, if you are going to take responsibility for your life, then
you have to take it all forms." Oprah Winfrey
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart
suffers."
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live
in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha Deepak Chopra
"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of
our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access
to an infinity of choices." Deepak Chopra
"You have been oriented that you
must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you’ve come to
believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your
purpose. And we say, but if you’re not getting to joy, then you’ve gotten
nowhere. Joy is really where you’re going." Abraham Hicks on Spiritual
Quotes
When we think of giving quotes one of the first that
comes to my mind is, "Give and you shall receive." These, and other,
famous giving quotes are the basis of this entire website.
I hope you find strength from one of the best life quotes and these many other
famous inspirational quotes.
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa
"Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it
will be opened to you." Jesus
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes
it permanent." Marilyn Vos Savant
"For it is in giving that we receive." St. Francis of Assisi
"Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose." Unknown
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than
you need." Kahlil Gibran
"Give light and people will find their own way." Unknown
"God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege
to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is
wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of
this agency." Unknown
"Go-Givers will become the best go-getters." Unknown
"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire
your own charity in giving me that for a home." Emily Bronte
"I didn't want them to give their power away to me, either. I don't
like to call it teaching. I like to call it sharing what I have learned."
Shirley Maclaine
"I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I
don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the
community." Paul Newman
"I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing
and alive, are the great givers." Mark Victor Hansen
"If you continually give, you will continually have." Unknown
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no
offense." Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzo
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzo
"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults
about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a
little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better those that I am striving
for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a
little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the
brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of
me." Unknown
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing." Unknown
"Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in
exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?" Paul
Newman
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you
generously consent to share them." William Blake
"You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back
from a place you've never been." Unknown
"You give before you get." Napoleon Hill
"You make a living by what you get,
but you make a life by what you give." Unknown
Faith quotes including
quotes from famous personalities meant to inspire and dare the soul to go
beyond what the eyes can see.
Faith Quotes
"Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times
for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand
times more ready to give than we are to receive." Meister Eckhart
"As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith
is being suddenly revitalized." Robert Schuller
"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's
everything in between that makes it all worth living." Sandra Bullock in
"Hope Floats"
"Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it
best, and you live it best, by holding it with very open hands." Less
O'Donavan
Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to. From the
movie, "Miracle On 34th
Street"
"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
William Newton Clark
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted
in spite of your changing moods” C.S. Lewis “God, grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr "I would rather err
on the side of faith than on the side of doubt." Robert Schuller
"Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't
see the future, yet you know it will come; you can't see the air, yet you
continue to breathe." Claire London
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and
belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember
all things are possible for those who believe.” Gail Devers "There are
only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle. . . the
other is as if everything is." Albert Einstein
“When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know and are about to
drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things
will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to
fly” Patrick Overton "Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all
things are possible." Sir William Osler
"Worry looks around, sorry looks
back, Faith looks up." Unknown
Looking for the best quotes of life? Our quotes of life are
worth repeating. You'll find quotes on life that inspire and take your breath
away. Many of these life quotes were contributed by our readers. I love reading
through them. Please enjoy...
Quotes of Life
"Great minds..discuss ideas. Average minds... discuss events. Small
minds... discuss people ."
"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life
emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,...that is your success."
Henry David Thoreau
I enjoy that life quote... greet the day and night with joy. You should try it!
"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" - Napoleon Bonaparte.
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to
be a liar, But never I doubt love." William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Live without pursuing glory, wealth, or power, but anonymously, enjoying
little things like food and the company of friends. It is impossible to live a
pleasant life without living wisely, well, and justly, agreeing neither to harm
nor be harmed, and if one does live wisely, well, and justly, one will almost
certainly have a pleasant life." - Epicurus of Samos
"Courage or fear, kindness or anger, love or greed: We are who we let
ourselves become." S. Fair
"Be careful of your thoughts, they become words. Be careful of your words,
they become actions. Be careful of your actions, they become habits. Be careful
of your habits, they become your character. Be careful of your character, it becomes
your destiny." -unknown author
Quotes of life...
"God does not play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein .
Submitted by Scott who states: Life is chaotic and deterministic. You are where
you are because of all the small things that have happened over the last 4
billion years. Imagine all of the little things that conspired to put you right
here, right now.
"By love and by study." One of contributors says this is a
translation of an old latin quote. She says she loves it because it means to use
your heart and your brain together to get through life.
"I walk many times into the pleasant fields of the holy scriptures,
where I pluck up the goodly herbs of sentences, so that, having tasted their
sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of this miserable life."
Elizabeth I
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." Oscar
Wilde
Quotes of life...
"Things do not happen, things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy
"An elder Cherokee chief took his grandchildren into the forest and sat
them down and said to them, "A fight is going on inside me. This is a
terrible fight and it is a fight between two wolves. One wolf is the wolf of
fear, anger, arrogance and greed. The other wolf is the wolf of courage,
kindness, humility and love." The children were very quiet and listening
to their grandfather with both their ears. He then said to them, "This
same fight between the two wolves that is going on inside of me is going on
inside of you, and inside every person." They thought about it for a
minute and then one child asked the chief, "Grandfather, which wolf will
win the fight?" He said quietly, "The one you feed." A Native
American Legend
"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes
should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same
hands." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Sometimes things which at the
moment may be perceived as obstacles--
and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks--can in the long run
result in some good end which would not have occurred
if it had not been for the obstacle."
Steve Allen
"I'm not afraid of
storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"Affliction comes to us not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry,
but wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us,
as the night refreshes day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough
enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is
multiplied a thousand-fold."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The things in life we call
obstacles are mostly the experiences
we find ourselves unable or unwilling to welcome."
Christina Feldman
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The
struggles within
yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's
at."
Jesse Owens
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to
give."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Most people are about as happy as they make their mind up to
be."
Abraham Lincoln
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth
plants something in his soul."
Thomas
Merton
"Give light and people will find the way."
Ella
Baker
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice
with him."
Jim
Elliot
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it
is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is
more important than any other."
Abraham
Lincoln
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham
Lincoln
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed
in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
Winston
Churchill
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston
Churchill
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same
tree."
Albert
Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new."
Albert
Einstein
"Sometimes things which at the
moment may be perceived as obstacles--
and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks--can in the long run
result in some good end which would not have occurred
if it had not been for the obstacle."
Steve
Allen
"I'm not afraid of
storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"The
things in life we call obstacles are mostly the experiences
we find ourselves unable or unwilling to welcome."
Christina Feldman
"One
who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses
the only strength which can overcome adversity."
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The
struggles within
yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's
at."
Jesse Owens
Dinesh C Sharma
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“Whatever
the mind can conceive, and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
