Quotes
Quotes
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another. Each of us
owes deepest thanks to those who have kindled this light.
----Albert Schweitzer
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
----Richard Rosen
All 'round the corner there may wait, a new road, or a secret garden gate.
----J.R.R. Tolkien
The possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
----Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
----Ovid
As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.
----M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
----H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning yet never had a
thought.
----Wilson Mizner
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
----William Blake
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
----Joshua Reynolds
You are only what you are when no one is looking.
----Robert C. Edwards
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by
friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
----Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
----Hilaire Belloc
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the
models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are
only extensions of its limbs and senses.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business is like riding a bicycle -- either you keep moving or you fall down.
----Anonymous
You must look into people, as well as at them.
----Lord Chesterfield
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
----William James
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
----Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too
difficult.
----W. Somerset Maugham
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
----Marie Edgeworth
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
----George Santayana
Conform and be dull.
----J. Frank Doble
Joys divided are increased.
----Josiah Gilbert Holland
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
----Francis Bacon
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
----Paul Hoffman
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
----Henry David Thoreau
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh
is a fool.
----George Santayana
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
----Alexander Pope
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
----Oliver Wendell Holmes
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier
to give up than the bad ones.
----W. Somerset Maugham
Ideas are the root of creation.
----Ernest Dimnet
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
----Joseph Joubert
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot
receive great ones.
----Lord Chesterfield
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
----Joseph Conrad
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
----Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
----Oscar Wilde
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
----Confucius
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
----William Makepeace Thackeray
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
----Wilson Mizner
The brighter you are the more you have to learn.
----Don Herold
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
----Booker T. Washington
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the
two are ever united.
----Humboldt
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which
seems.
----Robert Southey
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their
lives into the sting they give.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
----Wilson Mizner
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
----Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
----Francis Bacon
Business is a combination of war and sport.
----Andre Maurois
Character is what you are in the dark.
----Dwight Moody
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A
choice is all that is left him.
----H. Matthews
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down
and you're a Shakespeare.
----George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is genius in homespun.
----Alfred North Whitehead
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger
thing well too.
----Storey
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
----Chinese Proverb
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than
they do.
----Turgenev
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows
cast.
----Henry Ward Beecher
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
----George Bernard Shaw
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to
bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
-- English Proverb
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
All things good to know are difficult to learn.
-- Greek Proverb
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks
he can.
-- Henry Ford
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
--- Ancient Proverb
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as
well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing
people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's
vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's
performance to a higher standard, the building of a
personality beyond its normal limitations.
--Peter Drucker
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time.
--Charles F. Kettering
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on
sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot
make progress without making decisions.
--Jim Rohn
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through
or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and
development of the spirit.
--M. Scott Peck, M.D.
To become an able and successful man in any profession,
three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the
wind the stronger the trees.
--Williard Marriott
The principle goal of education is to create men who are
capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what
other generations have done - men who are creative,
inventive and discoverers.
--Jean Piaget
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
--Napolean Hill
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what
you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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