Frank Leahy Quotations

-Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

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John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotations

-Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. John Henry Cardinal Newman

J. Bartlett Brebner Quotations

-Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. J. Bartlett Brebner

Nic Marks Quotations

Five Ways to well-being: 1. Connect Invest your time in your loved ones, in your friends, family and acquaintances. Meet people. Talk to them. Understand how they improve your life, and also how you improve theirs. Knowing that you mean something to someone can be one of the most powerful positive forces in the world. [...]

H. P. Lovecraft Quotations

-The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft

Storm Jameson Quotations

-Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

Dennis Potter Quotations

-We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. Dennis Potter

Cory Doctorow Quotations

-Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal. Cory Doctorow

Quintilian Quotations

-When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Quintilian

Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations

-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan

Menander Quotations

-He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander

Paul Dudley White Quotations

-A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. Paul Dudley White

Abdulrahman Zeitoun Quotations

-You’ve lost your horse and you’re looking for the rope. Abdulrahman Zeitoun

Kirby Larson Quotations

-It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. Kirby Larson

Anwar el-Sadat Quotations

-I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. Anwar el-Sadat

E. V. Lucas Quotations

-I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas

Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations

-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. Robert W. Sarnoff

Aaron Copland Quotations

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Aaron Copland

Jesse Stuart Quotations

-Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. Jesse Stuart

George McDonald Quotations

-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George McDonald

Charles DuBois Quotations

-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois

Russell Baker Quotations

-People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker

Ralph Waldo Trine Quotations

-There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine

Stanley Kunitz Quotations

-What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz

Pema Chodron Quotations

-It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Henry James Quotations

-True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one self. But the point is not only to get out – you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand. Henry James

Spike Milligan Quotations

-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind. Spike Milligan

William Ernest Henley Quotations

Invictus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath [...]

Warren Bennis Quotations

-Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren Bennis

Matt Groening Quotations

-Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening

James Hilton Quotations

-Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does. James Hilton

Robert Lynd Quotations

-There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd

Elisa Camahort Quotations

-The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality. Elisa Camahort

Barbara Mikkelson Quotations

-Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it’s often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. Barbara Mikkelson

Jane Caminos Quotations

-A waist is a terrible thing to mind. Jane Caminos

Scottish Proverbs

-Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverbs

Anita Roddick Quotations

-If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Anita Roddick

Nancy Spain Quotations

-There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. Nancy Spain

Dalton Camp Quotations

-Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp

Marya Mannes Quotations

-Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. Marya Mannes

Raymond Lindquist Quotations

-Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

Doc Searls Quotations

-We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players. Doc Searls

Charles Kuralt Quotations

-Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt

Moses Ibn Ezra Quotations

-Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. Moses Ibn Ezra

Mignon McLaughlin Quotations

-A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

Charles M. Schulz Quotations

-Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”/ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” Charles M. Schulz

Jeffrey Zaslow Quotations

-Researchers say women’s friendships are face to face: They talk, cry together, share secrets. Men’s friendships are side by side: We play golf. We go to football games. Jeffrey Zaslow

Roberto Benigni Quotations

-It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. Roberto Benigni

Flannery O’Connor Quotations

-The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O’Connor

Robert Southey Quotations

-If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. -What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Robert Southey

Brenda Ueland Quotations

-So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland

Elie Wiesel Quotations

-Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel

James M. Barrie Quotations

-Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie

Louise Nevelson Quotations

-I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. Louise Nevelson

Ellen Goodman Quotations

-In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen Goodman

Alfred E. Wiggam Quotations

-A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam

Rabino Nilton Bonder Quotations

-Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this world’s marvels. Rabino Nilton Bonder

R. J. Baughan Quotations

-We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are…Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get [...]

Nancy Astor Quotations

-The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor

Robert Heinlein Quotations

-Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you–if you don’t play, you can’t win. -A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Robert Heinlein

Charles Mackay Quotations

-Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay

Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotations

-We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. Gamal Abdel Nasser

Madeleine L’Engle Quotations

-When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. Madeleine L’Engle

Plutarch Quotations

-What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch

Heather Armstrong Quotations

-He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it. Heather Armstrong

David Peterson Quotations

-If you don’t know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. David Peterson

Henry George Quotations

-Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Henry George

Alice Hoffman Quotations

-When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Alice Hoffman

Maria Irene Fornes Quotations

-When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity. Maria Irene Fornes

Ben Stein Quotations

-I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human. Ben Stein

Marcus Brigstocke Quotations

-Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. Marcus Brigstocke

William Bridges Quotations

-Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. William Bridges

Jessamyn West Quotations

-It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels lovable. Jessamyn West

Andy Warhol Quotations

-They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol

Al Franken Quotations

-It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. Al Franken

Natalie Goldberg Quotations

-Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Natalie Goldberg

Christina Baldwin Quotations

-How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. Christina Baldwin

Elizabeth I Quotations

-All my possessions for a moment of time. Elizabeth I

Thomas Wolfe Quotations

-If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe

Anna Freud Quotations

-I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud

Lu Xun Quotations

-Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. Lu Xun

Bill Hicks Quotations

-It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes [...]

Peggy Noonan Quotations

-Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try. Peggy Noonan

Tom Morris Quotations

-The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. Tom Morris

Thomas K. Mattingly II Quotations

-It’s very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. Thomas K. Mattingly II

C. P. Snow Quotations

-When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. C. P. Snow

Richard Steele (Sir) Quotations

-Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. Sir Richard Steele

Laura Schlessinger Quotations

-Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. Laura Schlessinger

Phil Knight Quotations

-Play by the rules, but be ferocious. Phil Knight

Gail Godwin Quotations

-Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotations

-Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having. Margaret Lee Runbeck

L. Frank Baum Quotations

-Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe [...]

Robin Williams Quotations

-You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams

Hodding Carter Quotations

-Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. Hodding Carter

Colin Marshall (Sir) Quotations

-The customer doesn’t expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. Sir Colin Marshall

Denis Diderot Quotations

-The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. -Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

Jack Handey Quotations

-I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. Jack Handey

E.W. Howe Quotations

-Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. E.W. Howe

Alexander Graham Bell Quotations

-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–persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon [...]

Pliny the Younger Quotations

-Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. Pliny the Younger

Herbert Victor Prochnow Quotations

-A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. Herbert Victor Prochnow

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