-In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
-I do not believe Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart … Read the rest
Randy K. Milholland Quotations
-In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Quotations
-Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
-Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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Daniel Boorstin Quotations
-Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
-The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
-Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.… Read the rest
Edwin Schlossberg Quotations
-The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg… Read the rest
Simon Cohen Quotations
The probation service have found out that there are two types of person appearing before the courts — those who have problems and those who are problems.
Simon Cohen (in Magistrate, June 1983)… Read the rest
Horace Quotations
-Dare to be wise: begin! Those who postpone the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide forever.
-He is almost always … Read the rest
W.S. Gilbert
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
W.S. Gilbert… Read the rest
Carolyn Heilbrun Quotations
-The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Heilbrun… Read the rest
Thomas Browne Quotations
-Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
-There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
-Be charitable before wealth makes thee … Read the rest
Suzanne Lafollette Quotations
-There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
-Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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Nelson Henderson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson… Read the rest
Stanley Kubrick Quotations
-Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end.
Stanley Kubrick… Read the rest
Han Suyin
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
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Bliss Carman
-I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-Indifference may not wreck a man’s life … Read the rest
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotations
-Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put … Read the rest
Stephen Covey Quotations
-Never in my 25 years of leadership training has there been a time when principles and pragmatism have converged as completely as they do today.
-My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I … Read the rest
Ana M Guzman
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
Ana M Guzman… Read the rest
Malcolm X Quotations
-Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.
Malcolm X… Read the rest
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotations
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer Quotations
-Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Max Ehrmann Quotations
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember
what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to the … Read the rest
Gordon R. Dickson Quotations
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson … Read the rest
William Bridges Quotations
-Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
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Frank Herbert Quotations
-The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert… Read the rest
Monty Python
And now for something completely different.
Monty Python… Read the rest
John Millington Synge
‘A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,’ he said, ‘for he will be going out on a day he shouldn’t. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded … Read the rest
Erma Bombeck Quotations
-If I had my life to live over:
I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn … Read the rest
Seth MacFarlane Quotations
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Seth MacFarlane… Read the rest
Charlotte Whitton Quotations
-Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton… Read the rest
Ken Keyes Jr. Quotations
-A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes Jr.… Read the rest
Reverend Charles Stephens Quotations
We ought never to consider that any stage of life is the final stage. There is always the possibility of something new and creative just around the corner.
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Dorothy Parker Quotations
-If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
-I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
-If you want to know what … Read the rest
Fran Lebowitz Quotations
-I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
-Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
-Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career … Read the rest
Douglas Yates Quotations
-People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Quotations
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her … Read the rest
Clarence Budington Kelland
My father did not tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland… Read the rest
Robert H. Schuller (Dr.) Quotations
-Every burden is a blessing.
-What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller (Dr.)… Read the rest
Steven Weinberg Quotations
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg… Read the rest
Herman Melville Quotations
Edward R. Murrow Quotations
-Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
-When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be … Read the rest
Marianne Williamson Quotations
Charlotte-Catherine Quotations
-The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
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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… Read the rest
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotations
-To be what you are, and to become what you are capable of becoming, is the only purpose in life.
-Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other … Read the rest
Robert McKee
-For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of (the writer) is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure.
-A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence … Read the rest
Edmond Rostand Quotations
Barbara Billingsley Quotations
-Some people think she was weakish … but I don’t. She was the love in that family. She set a good example for what a wife could be.
-Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last … Read the rest
Charles De Gaulle Quotations
-How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
-The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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George Jean Nathan Quotations
-Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Stanislaw J. Lec Quotations
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanislaw J. Lec… Read the rest
Susan Glasee
I can’t think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn’t help, just a little bit.
Susan Glasee… Read the rest
Diego Marchi Quotations
-In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
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Clement Atlee Quotations
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee… Read the rest
Angela L. Wozniak Quotations
-I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
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John Heider
-When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are.
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James Blunt Quotations
“No Bravery”
There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he’s been … Read the rest
Robert W. Sarnoff Quotations
-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff… Read the rest
Jonas Salk Quotations
-I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
-It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, … Read the rest
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotations
-There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
-Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. … Read the rest
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotations
-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-I never guess. It is a capital … Read the rest
James Carr Quotations
I don’t have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.
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Harry Moyle Tippett Quotations
-The Pilgrims came to America not to accumulate riches but to worship God, and the greatest wealth they left unborn generations was their heroic example of sacrifice that their souls might be free.
Harry Moyle Tippett… Read the rest
Mary Caroline Davies Quotations
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
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D. T. Suzuki Quotations
-The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine creativity.
-Zen makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; … Read the rest
Gail Sheehy Quotations
-The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Albert Schweitzer Quotations
-No one must shut his eyes and regard as non-existent the sufferings of which he spares himself the sight.
-Let no one regard as light the burden of his responsibility.
-Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust … Read the rest
Antonio Machado Quotations
Kenneth Burke Quotations
Stories are equipment for living.
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Wislawa Szymborska
The world is never ready for the birth of a child.
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J. A. C. Brown
Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do … Read the rest
Meladee McCarty Quotations
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.… Read the rest
Archibald MacLeish Quotations
-The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence … Read the rest
Cecil Baxter Quotations
-You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotations
Doc Searls Quotations
-We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Doc Searls… Read the rest
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotations
-Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco… Read the rest
Robert Browning Quotations
-Ah, but a man’s reach must exceed his grasp,
Or, what’s a heaven for?
-What’s the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth –
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Robert Browning… Read the rest
James Allen Quotations
-The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
-The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream.
-You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen… Read the rest
David Gergen
A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
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François Mitterand
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.
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Charles Mingus Quotations
-Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird–that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace–making the complicated simple, awesomely simple–that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus… Read the rest
Twyla Tharp Quotations
-Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Price Cobb Quotations
-Some days you’re a bug, some days you’re a windshield.
Price Cobb… Read the rest
Sinclair Lewis Quotations
-People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
-When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Sinclair Lewis… Read the rest
George W. Bush Quotations
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotations
What we do belongs to what we are, and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke… Read the rest
Ikkyu
I’d like to offer something to help you but in the zen school we don’t have a single thing!
Ikkyu … Read the rest
Fred Allen Quotations
-A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen… Read the rest
Robert Heilbroner
Lack of time is the new poverty.
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Christopher Hitchens Quotations
The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle … Read the rest
John Berry Quotations
-The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry… Read the rest
Tallulah Bankhead Quotations
-I’m as pure as the driven slush.
-Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead… Read the rest
Freya Madeline Stark Quotations
-There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark… Read the rest
Lucille Ball Quotations
-The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball… Read the rest
Heywood Brown
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
Heywood Brown… Read the rest
Maxine Hong Kingston Quotations
-The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston… Read the rest
Brendan Francis Quotations
-If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
-People who ask our advice almost never take … Read the rest