-I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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Wernher von Braun Quotations
-Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
-I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Thomas Merton Quotations
Caroline K. Simon Quotations
-Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
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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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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotations
-Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
-So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
-To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
-We … Read the rest
George S. Patton Quotations
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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John C. Maxwell Quotations
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This … Read the rest
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
Jacob Getlar Smith Quotations
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
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David Hume Quotations
-I believe that no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping.
-A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual … Read the rest
Herm Albright Quotations
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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Harry Stack Sullivan
Throughout our lives opportunities for new integrations and adaptations present themselves.
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Zen Sayings
-If you understand, things are just as they are… If you do not understand, things are just as they are….
-To get rid of your passions is not Nirvana; to look upon them as no matter of yours, that is … Read the rest
Max Frisch Quotations
-Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotations
-Telling the truth … is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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Esther Dyson Quotations
-The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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David Lloyd George Quotations
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.
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Adlai Stevenson Quotations
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Jean Shinoda Bolen Quotations
-I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
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Frank Zappa Quotations
-Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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Eddie Rickenbacker Quotations
-Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
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Barack Obama Quotations
-A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
-Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible … Read the rest
Helen Keller Quotations
-Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience … Read the rest
Sylvia Plath Quotations
-There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
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Laurence Boldt Quotations
André Dubus Quotations
Emil Zatopek Quotations
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me … Read the rest
Henry C. Fownes Quotations
A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost.
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Barbara Hall Quotations
-The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
-Justice … Read the rest
Peyton Conway March
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
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Bill Cosby Quotations
-Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Christiane Northrup Quotations
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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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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William Hazlitt Quotations
-We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
-When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
-Man is the only animal … Read the rest
Antoine Bourdelle
The secret of art is love.
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Adam Smith Quotations
-The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another… some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none … Read the rest
Charlotte Bronte Quotations
-He who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
-A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
-Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which … Read the rest
Robert Redford
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
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Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations
-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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Irwin Corey
If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.
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Phillip C. McGraw Quotations
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
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John Norley Quotations
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
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E. O. Wilson Quotations
-Human nature is a hodgepodge of special genetic adaptations to an environment largely vanished, the world of the Ice-Age hunter gatherer.
-A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price … Read the rest
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.
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Margaret Cho Quotations
-I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
-Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
-Success is meaningless … Read the rest
Felix E. Schelling
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
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Martin Luther Quotations
Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position … Read the rest
Edmond Rostand Quotations
Eric Gibson Quotations
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Og Mandino Quotations
-You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life; You were made with a purpose.
-I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are … Read the rest
Euripides Quotations
-Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
-Authority is never without hate.
-The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
-The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth … Read the rest
Jennifer Louden Quotations
-I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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Michael Frayn
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there is nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.”
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Bridget Fisher
Dr. David M. Burns Quotations
-Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
-Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t … Read the rest
C. Archie Danielson
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Elizabeth Taylor Quotations
-It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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Jane Austen Quotations
-Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
-I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that … Read the rest
Vida D. Scudder Quotations
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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Guillaume Apollinaire Quotations
-Come to the edge, he said. They said we are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came and he gently pushed them off, and they flew.
-Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness … Read the rest
Jessamyn West Quotations
-It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels lovable.
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Iris Murdoch Quotations
Heather Armstrong Quotations
-He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.
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Tennessee Williams Quotations
-Hell is yourself, and the only redemption is when you put yourself aside to feel deeply for another person.
-Success and failure are equally disastrous.
-A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that … Read the rest
George Best Quotations
-I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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Matthew Arnold Quotations
-Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses all misery.
-Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
-The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Leonardo da Vinci Quotations
-I am never weary of being useful…in serving others I cannot do enough.
-To enjoy–to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason
-The time will come when men such as I will look upon the … Read the rest
Langston Hughes Quotations
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards all torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor —
Bare.
But all the time
I’se … Read the rest
Marquis de Condorcet Quotations
-Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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John Gaule
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
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James Madison Quotations
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Quotations
Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every byway, every path you know.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream!
A dream that will need
all the love you can give,
Every … Read the rest
David M. Ogilvy Quotations
-In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a … Read the rest
Albert Camus Quotations
-In the midst of winter I found within me an invincible summer.
-To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
-Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
-Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life … Read the rest
Jason Fried Quotations
Patanjali
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, … Read the rest
Elmer Davis Quotations
-The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.
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Jerry Gillies Quotations
-Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
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Scottish Proverbs
-Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
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Arthur Miller Quotations
-The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
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Abdulrahman Zeitoun Quotations
-You’ve lost your horse and you’re looking for the rope.
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Raul Seixas Quotations
-A dream that we dream alone is just but a dream, but a dream that we dream together becomes reality.
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Celia Thaxter Quotations
-There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer Quotations
Aldous Huxley Quotations
-The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, … Read the rest
Carlos Seleme Quotations
-History is written by the victors, not the vanquished.
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Jane Wagner Quotations
-All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
-The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Virgil Quotations
-Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
-I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
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James Howell Quotations
Respect a man, he will do the more.
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Jeanne Moreau Quotations
I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
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Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Wilhelm Busch Quotations
-It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.
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Rudyard Kipling Quotations
If
-If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait … Read the rest
John W. Gardner Quotations
-Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
-We are continually faced … Read the rest
Phillips Brooks Quotations
-A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
-Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we … Read the rest
Edith Wharton Quotations
-If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
-There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. … Read the rest
Martha Brooks Quotations
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
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