-Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
-Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L’Amour… Read the rest
Peter De Vries Quotations
-I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries… Read the rest
George Washington Quotations
-To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
-Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington… Read the rest
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… Read the rest
Lyman Beecher Quotations
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher… Read the rest
Henri Frederic Amiel Quotations
-Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
-Hope is only the love of life.
-The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he … Read the rest
Emerson Pugh Quotations
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.
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Henry Adams Quotations
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams… Read the rest
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
Mevlana Rumi Quotations
U.G. Krishnamurti Quotations
-Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
U.G. Krishnamurti… Read the rest
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
-We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
-The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the … Read the rest
Harry Stack Sullivan
Throughout our lives opportunities for new integrations and adaptations present themselves.
Harry Stack Sullivan… Read the rest
Franz Kafka Quotations
-A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
-A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
-A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.… Read the rest
Matthew
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For every one that asketh, receiveth;
and he that seeketh, findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.… Read the rest
Doug Larson Quotations
-Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
-The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson… Read the rest
Tim Berners-Lee Quotations
-We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
-Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
-If you use the original … Read the rest
Andrew Carnegie
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie… Read the rest
Ralph Stayer Quotations
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
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Heinz Pagels
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
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Marva Collins Quotations
-Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins… Read the rest
Talmud
The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
Talmud… Read the rest
Francois de Fenelon Quotations
-Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Joseph Persico
Never have so many experienced such intensity of emotions; never had comradeship–a sense of needing and being needed–struck so deeply and bound prior strangers so strongly in a blood brotherhood.
Joseph Persico… Read the rest
Celia Thaxter Quotations
-There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
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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
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
Ralph Charell Quotations
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations
-The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
-Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us; but in respecting something which is above us; … Read the rest
Mario Andretti Quotations
-If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough
-Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain … Read the rest
Muriel Rukeyser Quotations
-I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk … Read the rest
Amy Vanderbilt Quotations
-The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
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Matthew Parris Quotations
-It’s when a leader has to move from ‘Yes we can’ to ‘No you can’t’ that he is tested.
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Joan Chittister
Work is my gift to the world. It is my social fruitfulness. It ties me to my neighbor and binds me to the future. What is the use of living a useful life if I do not also lead a … Read the rest
Deepak Chopra
-This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
-The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-When you live your … Read the rest
Juvenal Quotations
-Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal… Read the rest
Louise Nevelson Quotations
-I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art, it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Pauline Kael … Read the rest
Leon Battista Alberti Quotations
-A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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William Ralph Inge Quotations
-He who will live for others shall have great troubles but they shall seem to him small. He who will live for himself shall have small troubles but they shall seem to him great.
-The command “Be fruitful and multiply” … Read the rest
Arshad Mohammed El-Fky Quotations
-Don’t be a shadow of someone; he will leave you alone when it becomes dark.
-Having a will to be, is more important than having two eyes to see.
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J.K. Rowling Quotations
-It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
-You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
J.K. Rowling… Read the rest
Horace Walpole Quotations
-The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole… Read the rest
Arthur Rubenstein Quotations
Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
Arthur Rubenstein… Read the rest
Walter Pater Quotations
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. Quotations
-I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
-I believe that … 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
Dave Meurer
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer… Read the rest
Epictetus Quotations
-First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
-It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgments, and these I carry with me……These alone are my … Read the rest
Karen Sunde Quotations
-To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde… 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
Sophocles Quotations
-The greatest griefs are the ones we cause ourselves.
-The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
-The end excuses any evil.
-A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles… Read the rest
Abdulrahman Zeitoun Quotations
-You’ve lost your horse and you’re looking for the rope.
Abdulrahman Zeitoun… Read the rest
Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt Quotations
Unesco Quotations
-Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
Unesco’s aim when it was conceived in 1945… Read the rest
Nelson Mandela Quotations
-The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
-Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We … Read the rest
Paramanhansa Yogananda Quotations
Many people excuse their own faults but judge others harshly.
Paramanhansa Yogananda… Read the rest
Brendan Behan Quotations
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan… 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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Maya Angelou Quotations
-If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform a million realities.
-The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
-I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou… Read the rest
Joan Lunden Quotations
-To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow–that is the secret to being happy.
-Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. … Read the rest
Harold Arnold Walter Quotations
-I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to … Read the rest
Thomas Homer-Dixon Quotations
-Three large spoonfuls of crude oil contain about the same amount of energy as eight hours of human manual labour. When we fill our car with gas, we’re pouring into the tank the energy equivalent of about two years of … 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
John Wanamaker
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.
John Wanamaker… Read the rest
Dorothy L. Sayers Quotations
-A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.
-The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy … Read the rest
Stephen Jay Gould Quotations
-The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question.
-In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose … Read the rest
Howard Thurman Quotations
-Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman… Read the rest
Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotations
-When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide … Read the rest
Albert Pike Quotations
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in … Read the rest
Eddie Cantor Quotations
-Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor… Read the rest
John Lyly
After three days, fish and guests stink.
John Lyly… Read the rest
Flannery O’Connor Quotations
-The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O’Connor… Read the rest
Minna Thomas Antrim Quotations
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Charles Swindoll Quotations
-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!
Charles Swindoll… Read the rest
John Steinbeck Quotations
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.
Ulysses S. Grant… Read the rest
Persian Proverbs
I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
Persian Proverbs… Read the rest
Orison Swett Marden Quotations
-This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
-All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal … Read the rest
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotations
John F. Kennedy Quotations
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
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
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
John Muir Quotations
-As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the … Read the rest
Harold B. Walker Quotations
-When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and … Read the rest
Bill Vaughan Quotations
-It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
-If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse … Read the rest
Joseph Addison Quotations
-True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
-A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
-Content thyself to be obscurely good. When … Read the rest
Nikki Giovanni Quotations
-Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
-I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.
Nikki Giovanni… Read the rest
Agatha Christie Quotations
-One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
-I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite … Read the rest
Robert Graves Quotations
-Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
-The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very … Read the rest
Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotations
-I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
-If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez … Read the rest
Peter Ustinov Quotations
-It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
-Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely … Read the rest
Robert Anthony Quotations
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony… Read the rest
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
W. Lee Grant Quotations
-Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
W. Lee Grant… 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
V.S. Naipaul Quotations
-I rather like materialism. The poor need it.
-I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V.S. Naipaul… Read the rest
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