"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may
repay you."
-- Madame de Tencin
"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."
-- Emily Dickinson
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy
faults."
-- Socrates
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you
do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will
reduce the danger by half."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do
that is inconsolable."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them."
-- Robert Henri
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
-- Charles Dudley Warner, "Eleventh Study," Backlog Studies, 1873
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves."
-- Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
-- Barry LePatner
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-- Albert Einstein
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
-- Christopher Morley
"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second,
to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to.
And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
-- John Wayne
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
-- Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and
speech is mightier than all fighting."
-- Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good."
-- Jewish Proverb
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
-- Mae West
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
-- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
-- Winston Churchill
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
-- John Locke
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
-- Aristotle
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
-- Robert Service
"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to
its increase."
-- Epictetus
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
-- Seneca
"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
-- John Lilly
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the
heaviest odds."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its
lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a
brimming mind."
-- Cicero
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability."
-- Cicero
"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself
as he is, might be too heavy to carry."
-- John Lancaster Spalding
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than
to any other talent."
-- Isaac Newton
"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
-- Goethe
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
-- William Hazlitt
"They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness."
-- Louise Erdrich
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's
perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from
yesterday."
-- John Wayne
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to
be alone than in bad company."
-- George Washington
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
-- Marie Curie, letter to her brother, 1894
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in
yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."
-- George E. Woodberry
"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them."
-- Ellis Peters
"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and
labor."
-- Menander of Athens
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests.
They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to
something else."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter
who does it or says it."
-- Malcolm X
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
-- Agnes DeMille
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they
plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
-- Denis Watley
"Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults
and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself
that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?"
-- Thomas a Kempis
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may
repay you."
-- Madame de Tencin
"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
-- Unknown
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert von Szen Gyorgyi
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is,
every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."
-- Sydney Smith
"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."
-- Christina Baldwin
"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."
-- Louis L'Amour, "Bendigo Shafter"
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
-- Robert Service
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have
long taken for granted."
-- Bertrand Russell
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
-- Colette, The Last of Cheri, 1926
"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."
-- Henry George
"Never spend your money before you have it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your
price."
-- Anonymous
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in
considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the
task anew."
-- Saint Francis de Sales
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to
please everybody all the time."
-- Herbert Bayard Swope
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
-- Chinese Proverb
"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."
-- Mark Twain
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
-- George Santayana
"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is
genius."
-- Comte de Buffon
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it
well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
-- Socrates
"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
-- Eleanor Hamilton
"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
-- Anton Chekhov, 1897
"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure."
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
"the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
-- William James