If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson… Read the rest
Richard R. Grant Quotations
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
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Henry Miller Quotations
-What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
-Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of … Read the rest
Oprah Winfrey Quotations
-Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
-Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.… Read the rest
Frank Gaines Quotations
-Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
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Nicholas Butler
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Christian Gellert
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
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George C. Marshall Quotations
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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Frances Hutcheson Quotations
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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James M. Barrie Quotations
-Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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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.
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Linda Berdoll Quotations
-Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.
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C. W. Ceran Quotations
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
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Jeffrey Rowland Quotations
-We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the … Read the rest
Stella Terrill Mann Quotations
-Desire, ask, believe, receive.
-Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
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Robert Fritz
-At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
-The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. … 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?
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Albert Guerard Quotations
-Doubt ’til thou canst doubt no more…doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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Albert Ellis Quotations
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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George Matthew Adams Quotations
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up … Read the rest
John Donne
-No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory … Read the rest
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotations
When I look back on my life what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; … Read the rest
Han Suyin
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
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Swedish Proverbs
-Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
-Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
-Eyes … Read the rest
Walter Schirra Quotations
Mostly it’s lousy out there. It’s a hostile environment, and it’s trying to kill you. You sit in a flying Thermos bottle.
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Enid Starkie Quotations
Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
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Demosthenes Quotations
-Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Clementine Paddleford Quotations
-Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
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William Feather Quotations
-The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
-One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
-Setting a good example … Read the rest
L. C. Thurow Quotations
-A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
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John Perry Barlow Quotations
-But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
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Sean O’Casey Quotations
Work! Labour … the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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Tom Thompson Quotations
-No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
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General Douglas MacArthur Quotations
-I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a … Read the rest
Baltasar Gracian Quotations
-The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
-All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has … Read the rest
Henry C. Fownes Quotations
A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost.
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Walker Percy Quotations
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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The Koran
-God changes not what is within people until people change what is in themselves.
-When you die, God will call upon you to account for all the permitted pleasures you did not enjoy while on earth.
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Ulysses S. Grant Quotations
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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Cardinal Richelieu Quotations
Leniency gives rise to the ultimately necessary exercise of a degree of cruelty which could have been avoided by the employment of an efficacious punishment at an earlier time.”
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Ray Bradbury Quotations
-We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
-You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
-I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always … Read the rest
Ann Radcliffe Quotations
-The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
-One act of beneficence, one act of … Read the rest
Linus Pauling Quotations
-The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
-Science is the search for truth–it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponents, to do harm to others. We need … Read the rest
Ernest Hemingway Quotations
-F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different from you and me.”
Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”
-Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-All good books are alike in that they are truer than if … Read the rest
Erica Jong Quotations
-And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotations
-As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out.
-It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right … Read the rest
Stephen S. Wise Quotations
-Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
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Charles Darwin Quotations
-A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
-Animals, whom we have made our slaves, … Read the rest
John Dryden Quotations
-A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
–Happy the man
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I … Read the rest
Rush W. Dozier Jr.
Through understanding fear we understand ourselves.
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George Harrison Quotations
I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, “You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because … Read the rest
Georges Jacques Danton Quotations
-We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
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Clarence Darrow Quotations
-I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
-Chase after truth like hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
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Frank (Kin) Hubbard Quotations
-The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations
-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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Miroslav Holub Quotations
-Life is about trying without winning. That is why humanity developed the instinct for sport.
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Homer Simpson
Kids, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I’m not listening.
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Horace Mann Quotations
-Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
-Be ashamed to die until … Read the rest
J. Bartlett Brebner Quotations
-Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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Johann von Neumann Quotations
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
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Edward Gibbon Quotations
-History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
-Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
-All that … Read the rest
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotations
-What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
-Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or great evil without bringing about more of the same on the … Read the rest
William Somerset Maugham Quotations
-She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
-It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your … Read the rest
Mataemon Iso
Approach the moment with the idea that you’re in the fight to the finish.
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John Abrams Quotations
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
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Gillespie Magee Quotations
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled … Read the rest
Hugh White Quotations
-When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your … Read the rest
Chief Seattle Quottions
-Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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Yousef Karsh
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by “vanity” only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with … Read the rest
Peter McArthur Quotations
Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.
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Louise Hart Quotations
Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you’re lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you’re important helps you to make a difference to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you’re valuable and … Read the rest
Joan Baez Quotations
-The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
-Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Alan Watts
Rigid people feel some basic disgust with wiggles. They want to get things straight. But who can straighten out water? Water is the essence of life.
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Graham Sumner Quotations
-Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations
-You are here to enjoy an original relationship with the universe.
-This world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.
-Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or … Read the rest
Richard P. Feynman Quotations
-I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
-The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
-For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public … Read the rest
Roald Amundsen Quotations
Adventure is just bad planning.
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Buddha Quotations
-The Noble Eightfold Path: Right Views, Right Thoughts, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration….
-Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-Without health … Read the rest
Carl Linnaeus Quotations
No science in the world is more elevated, more necessary and more useful than economics.
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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
Joyce Maynard Quotations
A good home must be made, not bought.
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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
Charles de Montesquieu Quotations
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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George Washington Carver Quotations
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Golo Mann Quotations
-Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and time again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Henry J. Kaiser Quotations
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
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Anne Tyler Quotations
I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotations
-God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
-An ignorance of means may minister
To greatness,
but an ignorance of aims
Make it impossible to be great at all.
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John Cage Quotations
-The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
-I can’t understand why people are frightened of new … Read the rest
Tyron Edwards Quotations
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotations
-If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?
Some cost a passing bell;
Some a light sigh,
That shakes from Life’s fresh crown
Only a rose-leaf down.
If there were dreams to sell,
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Edward Abbey Quotations
-A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-The tragedy of modern … Read the rest
Ben Azai Quotations
-Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
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Albert Michelson Quotations
My greatest challenge is to attempt the impossible.
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Nelson Henderson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Charles Dickens Quotations
-This is a world of action, and not for moping and groaning in.
-No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-“At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up … Read the rest
Vernon Sanders Law Quotations
-Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
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Gerald Jampolsky Quotations
-Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
-Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
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Henry Ford Quotations
-If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.
-No one is apathetic except those in pursuit of someone else’s goals.
-When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
-Obstacles are those frightful … Read the rest