"Our basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would
give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our
daily life too often as if we take our family for granted." -Paul
Pearshall
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." -Unknown
"The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last." -Moira Rogers
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do." -William Henry Channing
"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period." -Will Smith In 'Pursuit Of Happyness'
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." -Jules Renard
"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions : If I had my life to live over again, I'd do it all the same." -Unknown
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." -Unknown
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me." -Unknown
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never." -Soren Kierkegaard
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murders, and for a time they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always." -Gandhi
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." -Jawaharal Nehru
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"It requires less character to discover the faults of others than it does to tolerate them." -J. Petit Senn
"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction." -Henry Ward Beecher
"Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like." -Unknown
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did." -Sarah Caldwell Quotes
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them." -Orison Swett Marden
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -G. B. Shaw
"The highest form of success... comes... to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -Leo Buscaglia
"Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change. It's the realization that we can." -Shawn Achor
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." -Orison Swett Marden
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity." -Rollo May
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do." -Bob Dylan
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." -Max Lerner
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." -Harvey S. Firestone
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." -Epicurus
"We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way." -Unknown
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you." -Colin Raye
"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are." -Calvin & Hobbes
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb
"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small." -Tim Ferriss
"Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better." -Jim Rohn
"Dream Big. Act Bigger." -Unknown
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." -Unknown
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." -Unknown
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." -Douglas Macarthur
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere
"Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there." -Unknown
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford
"Never take someone for granted, hold every person close to your heart, cause you might wake up one day and realize that you've lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones." -Unknown
"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." -Walter E. Cole
"Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it will crush. Hold it too loose, it will fly away." -Unknown
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -Josiah G. Holland
"Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly." -Unknown
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." -Frank A. Clark
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." -Ray Goforth
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul." -Andre Maurois
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." -Andre Maurois
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…. One step at a time." -Unknown
"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 Gustav Jung
"Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy." -Tim Hansel
"Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid." -Jim Keller
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." -Annie Dillard
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill
"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got." -Unknown
"Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle." -Jack Canfield
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." -Muhammad Ali
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value." -Thomas Paine
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." -Robert Heinlein
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." -John Masons
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." -Arnold H. Glasow
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -Dale Carnegie
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." -Andre Gide
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?." -Sydney J. Harris
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." -Paul Valery
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -Larry Bird
"I'm a river. No matter whatever comes in my way, I will definitely reach the sea." -Anupriyo Mandal
"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page." -Eileen Caddy
"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best." -Harry Emerson Fosdick
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver
"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are." -Unknown
"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile." -Unknown
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." -Jesse Jackson
"You've got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from mistakes, but never regret." -Unknown
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -Pope John Xxiii
"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive--the risk to be alive and express what we really are." -Don Miguel Ruiz
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." -Albert Einstein
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." -Rumi
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I ask not for any crown; But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world; Except the one within." -Louisa May Alcott
"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." -Dale Carnegie
"We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day." -Barbara Johnson
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved." -Barbara Johnson
"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." -Robert H. Schuller
"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am." -Henry Miller
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston S. Churchill
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?." -Siddhartha Gautama
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -Lewis Carroll
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." -Henry Ford
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
"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
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day." -Albert Camus
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." -Albert Camus
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." -Bill Cosby
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." -William Shakespeare
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anaïs Nin
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -A. A. Milne
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." -Malcolm X
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Maya Angelou
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them." -Neale Donald Walsch
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa
"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"The purpose of relationships is not to have another complete you. But to have another with whom to share your completeness." -Neale Donald Walsch
"Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly." -A.A. Milne
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -Oscar Wilde
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." -Pablo Neruda
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." -Mark Twain
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." -A.A. Milne
"When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: 'If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.'." -Albert Einstein
"Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is it is likely to ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it." -Albert Einstein
"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them." -Albert Einstein
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -Albert Einstein
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." -Albert Einstein
"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors." -Mark Twain
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." -Mark Twain
"There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core." -Mark Twain
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
"I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today." -Bill Gates
"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software." -Bill Gates
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft." -Bill Gates
"The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings." -Abdu'l Baha
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." -Abdul Kalam
"The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet." -Abdul Kalam
"Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." -John Luther
"Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, Within my heart, that it may be. A quiet chamber kept for thee." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Justice must never mirror evil, Justice must always be a mirror for Evil so that all may see." -Ahmad Ragab
"Live together like brothers and do business like strangers." -Arabian Proverb
"A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends." -Arabian Proverb
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication." -Michael Faraday
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion.... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." -Yasser Arafat
"That gentlemen prefer blondes is due to the fact that, apparently, pale hair, delicate skin and an infantile expression represent the very apex of frailty which every man longs to violate." -Alexander King
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -." -Alexander Graham Bell
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things." -Anne Sullivan
"The one who loves you will make you weep." -Argentine Proverb
"He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude." -Aristotle
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." -Aristotle
"Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones." -Aristotle
"Adventure is worthwhile." -Aristotle
"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so." -Aristotle
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." -Aristotle
"Beauty is the gift of God." -Aristotle
"The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it." -Arthur Baer
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money." -Arthur Godfrey
"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement." -Benjamin Franklin
"A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty." -Benjamin Franklin
"I believe absence is a great element of charm." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli
"In all thou dost first let thy Prayers ascend, And to the Gods thy Labours first commend, From them implore Success, and hope a prosperous End." -Pythagoras
"Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good." -Pythagoras
"Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants." -Plato
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." -Plato
"Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail." -Richard Friedman
"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry." -Andy Grove
"The sun stands, at midnight, blood-red, on the mountains of the North." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider... Histories make men wise." -Francis Bacon, Sr.
"The face, not the woman is the attraction." -Juvenal
"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable." -Jean De La Fontaine
"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans; Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world." -Edwin Markham
"God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, 'It comes from a hand we love,' and look not so much at the gift as at the heart." -Martin Luther
"Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them." -Henry Fielding
"Whistling to keep myself from being afraid." -John Dryden
"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain." -William R. Alger
"We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse." -E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other, And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise?." -John Milton
"It's a wretched business; To be digging a well; Just as thirst is overcoming you. [Lat., Miserum est opus, Igitur demum fodere puteum, Ubi sitis fauces tenet.]." -Titus Maccius Plautus
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it." -Alexis De Tocqueville
"I bleed Dodger blue, and when I die, I'm going to the Big Dodger in the sky." -Tommy Lasorda
"Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day." -Theodore Parker
"A mans discontent is his worst evill." -George Herbert
"The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another." -Samuel Johnson
"But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices." -Lord Byron
"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." -Chinese Proverb
"Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift." -Kurt Langner
"Business will be either better or worse." -Calvin Coolidge
"Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses; it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas;--converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." -Joseph Addison
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke
"Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office." -William Shakespeare
"I love every bone in their heads." -Eugene O'neill
"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love." -Erich Fromm
"Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers." -Sophocles
"It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered." -Christian Nevell Bovee
"Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency." -Honore De Balzac
"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others." -Edmund Burke
"Every man makes a god of his own desire." -Virgil
"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow." -Jessamyn West
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." -Unknown
"The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last." -Moira Rogers
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do." -William Henry Channing
"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period." -Will Smith In 'Pursuit Of Happyness'
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." -Jules Renard
"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions : If I had my life to live over again, I'd do it all the same." -Unknown
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." -Unknown
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me." -Unknown
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never." -Soren Kierkegaard
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murders, and for a time they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always." -Gandhi
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." -Jawaharal Nehru
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"It requires less character to discover the faults of others than it does to tolerate them." -J. Petit Senn
"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction." -Henry Ward Beecher
"Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like." -Unknown
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did." -Sarah Caldwell Quotes
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them." -Orison Swett Marden
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -G. B. Shaw
"The highest form of success... comes... to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -Leo Buscaglia
"Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change. It's the realization that we can." -Shawn Achor
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." -Orison Swett Marden
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity." -Rollo May
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do." -Bob Dylan
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." -Max Lerner
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." -Harvey S. Firestone
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." -Epicurus
"We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way." -Unknown
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you." -Colin Raye
"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are." -Calvin & Hobbes
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb
"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small." -Tim Ferriss
"Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better." -Jim Rohn
"Dream Big. Act Bigger." -Unknown
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." -Unknown
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." -Unknown
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." -Douglas Macarthur
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere
"Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there." -Unknown
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford
"Never take someone for granted, hold every person close to your heart, cause you might wake up one day and realize that you've lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones." -Unknown
"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." -Walter E. Cole
"Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it will crush. Hold it too loose, it will fly away." -Unknown
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -Josiah G. Holland
"Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly." -Unknown
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." -Frank A. Clark
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." -Ray Goforth
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul." -Andre Maurois
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." -Andre Maurois
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…. One step at a time." -Unknown
"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 Gustav Jung
"Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy." -Tim Hansel
"Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid." -Jim Keller
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." -Annie Dillard
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill
"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got." -Unknown
"Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle." -Jack Canfield
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." -Muhammad Ali
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value." -Thomas Paine
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." -Robert Heinlein
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." -John Masons
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." -Arnold H. Glasow
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -Dale Carnegie
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." -Andre Gide
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?." -Sydney J. Harris
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." -Paul Valery
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -Larry Bird
"I'm a river. No matter whatever comes in my way, I will definitely reach the sea." -Anupriyo Mandal
"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page." -Eileen Caddy
"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best." -Harry Emerson Fosdick
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver
"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are." -Unknown
"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile." -Unknown
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." -Jesse Jackson
"You've got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from mistakes, but never regret." -Unknown
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -Pope John Xxiii
"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive--the risk to be alive and express what we really are." -Don Miguel Ruiz
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." -Albert Einstein
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." -Rumi
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I ask not for any crown; But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world; Except the one within." -Louisa May Alcott
"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." -Dale Carnegie
"We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day." -Barbara Johnson
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved." -Barbara Johnson
"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." -Robert H. Schuller
"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am." -Henry Miller
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston S. Churchill
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?." -Siddhartha Gautama
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -Lewis Carroll
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." -Henry Ford
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
"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
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day." -Albert Camus
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." -Albert Camus
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." -Bill Cosby
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." -William Shakespeare
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anaïs Nin
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -A. A. Milne
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." -Malcolm X
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Maya Angelou
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them." -Neale Donald Walsch
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa
"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf." -Gibran Khalil Gibran
"The purpose of relationships is not to have another complete you. But to have another with whom to share your completeness." -Neale Donald Walsch
"Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly." -A.A. Milne
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -Oscar Wilde
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." -Pablo Neruda
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." -Mark Twain
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." -A.A. Milne
"When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: 'If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.'." -Albert Einstein
"Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is it is likely to ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it." -Albert Einstein
"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them." -Albert Einstein
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -Albert Einstein
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." -Albert Einstein
"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors." -Mark Twain
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." -Mark Twain
"There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core." -Mark Twain
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
"I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today." -Bill Gates
"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software." -Bill Gates
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft." -Bill Gates
"The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings." -Abdu'l Baha
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." -Abdul Kalam
"The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet." -Abdul Kalam
"Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." -John Luther
"Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, Within my heart, that it may be. A quiet chamber kept for thee." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Justice must never mirror evil, Justice must always be a mirror for Evil so that all may see." -Ahmad Ragab
"Live together like brothers and do business like strangers." -Arabian Proverb
"A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends." -Arabian Proverb
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication." -Michael Faraday
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion.... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." -Yasser Arafat
"That gentlemen prefer blondes is due to the fact that, apparently, pale hair, delicate skin and an infantile expression represent the very apex of frailty which every man longs to violate." -Alexander King
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -." -Alexander Graham Bell
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things." -Anne Sullivan
"The one who loves you will make you weep." -Argentine Proverb
"He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude." -Aristotle
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." -Aristotle
"Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones." -Aristotle
"Adventure is worthwhile." -Aristotle
"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so." -Aristotle
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." -Aristotle
"Beauty is the gift of God." -Aristotle
"The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it." -Arthur Baer
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money." -Arthur Godfrey
"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement." -Benjamin Franklin
"A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty." -Benjamin Franklin
"I believe absence is a great element of charm." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli
"In all thou dost first let thy Prayers ascend, And to the Gods thy Labours first commend, From them implore Success, and hope a prosperous End." -Pythagoras
"Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good." -Pythagoras
"Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants." -Plato
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." -Plato
"Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail." -Richard Friedman
"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry." -Andy Grove
"The sun stands, at midnight, blood-red, on the mountains of the North." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider... Histories make men wise." -Francis Bacon, Sr.
"The face, not the woman is the attraction." -Juvenal
"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable." -Jean De La Fontaine
"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans; Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world." -Edwin Markham
"God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, 'It comes from a hand we love,' and look not so much at the gift as at the heart." -Martin Luther
"Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them." -Henry Fielding
"Whistling to keep myself from being afraid." -John Dryden
"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain." -William R. Alger
"We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse." -E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other, And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise?." -John Milton
"It's a wretched business; To be digging a well; Just as thirst is overcoming you. [Lat., Miserum est opus, Igitur demum fodere puteum, Ubi sitis fauces tenet.]." -Titus Maccius Plautus
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it." -Alexis De Tocqueville
"I bleed Dodger blue, and when I die, I'm going to the Big Dodger in the sky." -Tommy Lasorda
"Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day." -Theodore Parker
"A mans discontent is his worst evill." -George Herbert
"The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another." -Samuel Johnson
"But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices." -Lord Byron
"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." -Chinese Proverb
"Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift." -Kurt Langner
"Business will be either better or worse." -Calvin Coolidge
"Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses; it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas;--converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." -Joseph Addison
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke
"Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office." -William Shakespeare
"I love every bone in their heads." -Eugene O'neill
"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love." -Erich Fromm
"Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers." -Sophocles
"It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered." -Christian Nevell Bovee
"Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency." -Honore De Balzac
"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others." -Edmund Burke
"Every man makes a god of his own desire." -Virgil
"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow." -Jessamyn West
