-Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.… Read the rest
Dan Barker Quotations
Jacinto Benavente Quotations
To admire an artist, you should not know him personally.
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Heart Sutra
Beyond, beyond, totally beyond, perfectly beyond: Awakening ..Yes!
Heart Sutra … Read the rest
Leo J. Burke Quotations
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
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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
William Faulkner Quotations
-I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
-Don’t … Read the rest
H. G. Wells Quotations
-New and stirring ideas are belittled, because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises: ‘Why then are you not taking part in them?’
-The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in … 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
Fuchan Yuan
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity, and courage.
Fuchan Yuan… Read the rest
John Cooper Clarke Quotations
With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it: style slaps you in the face.
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Blaise Pascal Quotations
Ian McEwan Quotations
When this civilization falls, when the Romans, whoever they are this time round, have finally left and the new dark ages begin, this will be one of the first luxuries to go. The old folk crouching by their peat fires … 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.
Chief Seattle… Read the rest
Richard Wolman
By “spiritual” I do not mean the creedal formulations of any faith tradition, as much as I respect those traditions and as helpful as their insights can be. I mean the ancient and abiding human quest for connectedness with something … Read the rest
Bernie Siegel Quotations
-Sometimes I think about how much easier life would be for all of us if when we were born we arrived with a book called A Guide to Life, Love and Health. Of course it would be better not to … Read the rest
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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Georges Jacques Danton Quotations
-We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
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Anne Frank Quotations
-How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank… Read the rest
Lao Tzu Quotations
-The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
-Long ago the land was ruled with a wisdom
Too fine, too deep, to be fully understood
And, since it was beyond man’s full understanding,
Only some of it has … Read the rest
Alfred E. Wiggam Quotations
-A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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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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Hesketh Pearson Quotations
-Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Russell H. Ewing Quotations
-A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or … Read the rest
Norah Phillips
I have found that people are usually much more moved by economics than by morals.
Norah Phillips (1910-92)… Read the rest
Carl Jung Quotations
-Summoned or not, the god will come.
(From the inscription carved above the door of Jung’s house. )
-Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Nobody, as long as he moves about among … Read the rest
Twyla Tharp Quotations
-Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotations
-A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
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Heinz Pagels
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
Heinz Pagels… Read the rest
Immanuel Kant Quotations
-Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant… Read the rest
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
I thank President Bush for his service to our nation as well … Read the rest
P.G. Wodehouse Quotations
-At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
-It is a good rule in life … Read the rest
Jacques Barzun
-An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
-Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is … Read the rest
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
John L. Mason Quotations
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
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Garry Trudeau Quotations
I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.
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Margaret Sanger Quotations
In order to truly live one must put one’s convictions into action.
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John Wooden Quotations
-It’s amazing what you can get done when you don’t care who gets the credit.
-It’s what you learn after you know everything that counts.
-Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you … Read the rest
Thomas Merton Quotations
Larsen & George Quotations
-Nursing Education is still too often characterized by demands for “good girl” behaviour which rewards passivity and is intolerant of assertiveness; the consequences are students who are “less trouble” and who have a high survival rate in bureaucracies.
Larsen & … Read the rest
Michael Kinsley Quotations
-A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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Carl Sandburg Quotations
-What you hold in your mind, manifests itself. Nothing happens unless first a dream.
-I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
-Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and … Read the rest
Leo D. Minnigh
Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas.
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Percy Cerutty Quotations
-Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.
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Graham Sumner Quotations
-Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
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Nellie McClung
Never retreat, never complain, explain or apologize. Get the thing done and let them howl.
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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotations
-Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
-He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
-In the final analysis, the questions of … Read the rest
Jean Houston
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Howard Zinn
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children
Howard Zinn … Read the rest
Stuart’s Law of Retroaction
-It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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Felix E. Schelling
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
Felix E. Schelling … Read the rest
Hugh Elliott Quotations
-Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, … Read the rest
Spanish Proverbs
-If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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Kenneth Burke Quotations
Stories are equipment for living.
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Gordon Moore Quotations
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year … Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, … 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
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.
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Chester Bowles Quotations
-Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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Eric Gibson Quotations
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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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
Maltese saying
Better one word too few than one too many.
Maltese saying… Read the rest
Grant Frazier Quotations
-Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Leona Helmsly Quotations
-I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
Leona Helmsly… Read the rest
Melanie Phillips
The big issue of our times is surely not the absence of a set of common values in a multicultural society. It is rather a battle between people who believe in something and those who believe in nothing: not in … Read the rest
Niko Stumpo Quotations
-Art has never been made while thinking of art.
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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.
Mary Caroline Davies… Read the rest
Dick Werthimer Quotations
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer… Read the rest
Anne Wilson Schaef Quotations
-Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren’t.
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Peter Drucker Quotations
Joseph Cornell
Let my mind become silent,
And my thoughts come to rest.
I want to be
All that is before me.
In self-forgetfulness,
I become everything.
Joseph Cornell… 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.
Angela L. Wozniak… Read the rest
Chris Patten
In politics, as soon as you take a trick in diamonds, you find that hearts have become trumps.
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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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Molire Quotations
-A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
-There’s no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
-The trees … Read the rest
Sabrina Dhawan Quotations
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if you keep sitting on your ass, nothing’s gonna happen. “Only brave warriors fall off their horses in battle. How can kneeling cowards … Read the rest
Samuel Ullman Quotations
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of
rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will,
a quality of the imagination, a vigor … Read the rest
Swami Chidvilasananda
Where is the temple of God? In our heart. Therefore that’s where we have to go and meet Him.
Swami Chidvilasananda… Read the rest
Epicurus
-Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
-If … Read the rest
Stanislaw J. Lec Quotations
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Beryl Markham
-That’s what makes death so hard-unsatisfied curiosity.
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E. M. Forster
One has two duties — to be worried and not to be worried.
E. M. Forster… Read the rest
Grenville Kleiser Quotations
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
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Joseph M. Juran (Dr.) Quotations
Commitment is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
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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
Robert Heilbroner
Lack of time is the new poverty.
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John Eliot Quotations
Otto von Bismarck Quotations
-Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.
-When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
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Indira Gandhi Quotations
-The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
-We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi… Read the rest
Jan Patocka
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
Jan Patocka… Read the rest
Laurel Mellin
You don’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.
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Peter McWilliams Quotations
-Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, … Read the rest
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotations
-Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
Richard Milhous Nixon … 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
Arab Proverbs
-Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
-Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arabian Proverbs… Read the rest
Jean Cocteau Quotations
-The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
-Art produces … 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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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
Vida D. Scudder Quotations
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudder… Read the rest
Ellen Goodman Quotations
-In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Ellen Goodman… Read the rest