Quotes

"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope."
-Aristotle-

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
-Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
-Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
-Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
-Aristotle

Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work.
-Aristotle

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
-Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

We are what we repeatedly do.
-Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
-Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics

The gods too are fond of a joke.
-Aristotle

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
-Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.
-Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
-Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
-Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

All men by nature desire knowledge.
-Aristotle, Metaphysics

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
-Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Education is the best provision for old age.
-Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
-Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
- Aurelius Marcus Antoninus, Meditations

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Aurelius Marcus Antoninus, Meditations

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Aurelius Marcus Antoninus, Meditations

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Aurelius Marcus Antoninus, Meditations

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Aurelius Marcus Antoninus, Meditations

"You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning."
-Adams Jane

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
- Adler Alfred

"The truth is often a tremble weapon of aggression, it is possible to lie, even to murder, with the truth."
- Alder Alfred

" The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
-Anonymous-

"I have never learned anything from anyone who agreed with me."
-Anonymous-

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today"
-Anonymous-

"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
-Archibald Wavell

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
~Angelou Maya

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark."
-Ancient Zen saying

"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."
-Alger William Rounseville

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
~Aikman Leo

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."
-Arabic Parable

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
~Ash Mary Kay

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"To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak."
-Baptiste Jean Massillon

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
~Berry Mary Frances

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
~ Bertrand Russell

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
~ Buddha

"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying."
-Browne Merry

"Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
~Buscaglia Leo

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.”
~Bevan Aneurin

"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
-Bergen Evans Baldwin

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."
~Bennett Arnold

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
~Bird Larry

"Don't tell me that my security comes from somebody else! Tell me I'm responsible. Tell me security is a by-product of the gift I give of my skill and my learning and my love in the world. Tell me security comes from an idea given time and care. I claim this for my truth ... give me ideas, and let me take it from there!"
~Bach Richard

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
~Bertrand Russell

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill."
~Braude Jacob M.

"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world."
~Burroughs John

"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."
~Bombec Erma

"I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go."
-Bettger Frank

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
~Bueller Ferris / Ferris Bueller's Day Of

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
-Buffet Warren

"Truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
-Blake William -

"A truth that's told with a bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
-Blake William

"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell tortures of the inward hell."
-Byron Lord

"A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
-Butler Samuel

"Toleration is good for all. or it is good for none."
-Burke Edmund

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
-Balwin James

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"The way of a superior man is three-fold; virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear."
-Confucius

I may have the gift of inspired preaching.
I may have all the knowledge and understand all secrets.
I may have all the faith needed to move mountains
But if I have not love I am nothing.
I may give away everything I own and even give up my body to be burned
But if I have no love, this does me no good.
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
Love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable;
Love does not keep a record of wrongs;
Love is not happy with evil but is happy with the truth.
Love never gives up; and its faith hope and patience never fail.
-1 Cor 13

"Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
-Cobain Kurt

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."
-Catt Carrie Chapman

"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."
~ Cyrus Curtis

"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."
~Cameron Julia

"Life is not what you expect. It's what you don't expect that makes life worth living."
~Cairns Lauren

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our
great hope lies in developing what is good."
~Coolidge Calvin

"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."
-Commager Henry Steele

"If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way."
~Chinmayananda Swamy

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."
~ Carnegie Dale

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
~Cohen Leonard

"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount."
-Chinese Proverb

"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."
-Chinese Proverb

"He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes."
-Chinese Proverb

"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
-Conrad Joseph

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. That block of granite is often nothing more than a decision."
~Carlyle Thomas

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes."
-Cato

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
-Claudis Appius

"To be nobody-but-myself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
-Cummings E.E.

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"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."
-Durant Will

"Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity."
-Durant Will

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
-De Montaigne Michael

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
-Dunham David

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard and not seen."
~Da Vinci Leonardo

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
-Dimnet Ernest

"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen."
-Dame Rebecca West

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
~Disney Walt

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Einstein Albert

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Einstein Albert

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Einstein Albert

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Einstein Albert

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Einstein Albert

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Einstein Albert

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Einstein Albert

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
- Einstein Albert

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Einstein Albert

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Einstein Albert

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Einstein Albert

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Einstein Albert

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Einstein Albert

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Einstein Albert

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Einstein Albert

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Einstein Albert

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Einstein Albert

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Einstein Albert

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
- Einstein Albert

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. "
-Einstein Albert

"For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it. Arrows of hate have been shot at me, too; but they never hit me, because somehow they belong to another world, with which I have no connection whatsoever."
-Einstein Albert

"I Still struggle with the same problem as ten years ago. I succeed in small matters but the real goal remains unattainable, even though it sometimes seems palpably close. It is hard and yet rewarding, hard because the goal is beyond my powers, but rewarding because it makes one immune to the distractions of everyday life."
-Einstein Albert

"God is subtle but He is not malicious."
-Einstein Albert

"God does not play dice with the universe."
-Einstein Albert

"Did God have any choice in creating the universe?"
-Einstein Albert

"You and me, though mortal, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[because] we never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born."
-Einstein Albert

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
-Emerson Ralph Waldo

"Therefore be at peace with your god, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life. Keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken Dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy."
~ Ehr Max

"Paint a portrait of life to be proud of that could not be sold for all the money on earth. Hang that portrait in your mind and understand its ever presence. Reflect on every brush stroke that makes all the mountains, valleys, and rivers and skies the most beautiful in the land. Share your portrait with others but beware their brushes. Select only those whose brush will add to the beauty and structure of your masterpiece."
~Ensor Chris

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."
~Emerson Ralph Waldo

"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit."
-Emerson Ralph Waldo

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"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."
-Glasgow Ellen

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Gandhi Mahatma

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Gandhi Mahatma

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Gandhi Mahatma

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Gandhi Mahatma

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Gandhi Mahatma, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Gandhi Mahatma

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Gandhi Mahatma

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Gandhi Mahatma

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- Gandhi Mahatma

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Gandhi Mahatma

I think it would be a good idea.
- Gandhi Mahatma, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within."
-Gandhi Mahatma

"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated.... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality."
-Glasgow Ellen

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
~Gibran Kahlil

"I once heard a learned man say 'Every evil has its remedy, except folly.' To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Jesus healed the blind, the halt, the palsied and the leprous. But the fool he could not cure."
~Gibran Kahlil

"Happiness, at best, is an illusory goal. It is not a destination; it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving, living."
~Ginott Haim

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
-Rabbi Gordon Julins

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galilei Galileo

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galilei Galileo

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galilei Galileo

"The human mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open."
-Gropius Walter

"Charity looks at the need and not at the cause."
-German proverb

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
~Gandalf the Grey / The Fellowship of the Ring

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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration."
-Hazlitt William

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
~Harris Sydney J.

"Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure."
~Harris Sydney J.

"Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms."
-Huxley Aldous

"It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today."
~Hastings Robert J.

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!"
~Hoffman Barbara

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
~Hemingway Mary

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"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."
-Keller Helen

"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"
-Keller Helen

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~Keller Helen

"To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration."
-Krishnamurti Jiddu

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
-Konda Michael

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
-Kaiser Henry

"Don't be discouraged by failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
~Keats John

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Kant Immanuel

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King, Jr

"I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. .No matter what, God wants us to be happy. He doesn't want us to be sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"
-Kennedy Rose

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
-Kennedy John F.

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~Kingsley Charles

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"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
~Miller Warren

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~ Mother Teresa

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
~ Mother Teresa

"Let us make one point... that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile ... Smile at each other, make time for each other."
~ Mother Teresa

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
~Mansfield Katherine

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
~Marden Orison S.

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
~ Mead Margaret

"The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear."
-Meany George

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."
-Marbury Elisabeth

"There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
-McLeish Archibald

"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenges or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."
~Mandino Og

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
-Mencken H.L.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Nietzsche Friedrich

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Nietzsche Friedrich "On Reading and Writing"

Only sick music makes money today.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Nietzsche Friedrich

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
-Nash Ogden

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"The books that help the most are those which make you think the most."
-Parker Theodore

"In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind."
-Pasteur Louis

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
~Priestly J.B.

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."
~Powell Colin

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
-Pesis Jeff

“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”
~ Peter Laurence J.

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
-Picasso Pablo

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.
~ Peale Norman Vincent

"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again."
-Paton Alan

"Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness. You must furnish your mind with interesting thoughts and ideas. For an empty mind seeks pleasure as a substitute for happiness."
~ Phelps William Lyons (paraphrased)

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To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."
~ Rohn Jim

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
~ Rohn Jim

"Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others."
~ Rohn Jim

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change."
~ Rohn Jim

"The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human
potential and stretch yourself to the limit."
~ Rohn Jim

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot."
~ Roosevelt Eleanor

"Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him `forever' when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks."
-Rowland Helen

"If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. ... The guarantee of continuity is quality."
-Rickenbacker Eddie

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"Anger is never without and argument, but seldom with a good one."
-Savile George

"To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it."
-Syrus Pubililins

"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-Sala George

"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
-Seneca

"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
-Sarnoff David

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
~ Starr Pamela Vaull

"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
-Spenser Edmund

"Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost."
-Sandburg Carl

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
~ Shaw George Bernard

"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die."
-Steeves Tim

"Possibilities are not important. It is what happens that actually matters."
~ Sisson Philip

"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
- Skinner Cornelia Otis

"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."
- Sand George

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
~ Schurz C.

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
-Thoreau Henry David

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Thoreau Henry David

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Twain Mark

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."
-Twain Mark

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Twain Mark

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-Mark Twain

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm."
~Truman Henry

"Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Tolstoy Leo

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Success is to stand in the presence of God unashamed.
-Author Unknown

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-Author Unknown

"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily."
- Author Unknown

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll."
~ Author Unknown

"Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with."
~ Author Unknown

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
~ Author Unknown

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
~ Author Unknown"

"Happiness is not found at the end of the road, it is experienced along the way. So take not for granted each moment of your life and you will find a reason to be happy each day. Don't worry so much about tomorrow that you forget to live today."
~ Author Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
~Author Unknown

"The world has a lot of love around, just so few vessels to put it in."
~ Author Unknown

"Don't walk behind me I will not lead, don't walk in front of me I will not follow, just walk beside me and be my friend."
-Author Unknown

"Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain."
~ Author Unknown

"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when not feeling it.
I believe in God even when He is silent."
~ Author Unknown

"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."
~ Author Unknown

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."
~ Author Unknown

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
~ Author Unknown

"It is better to lose one minute, than to lose your life in one minute."
~ Author Unknown

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
~ Author Unknown

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.“
~ Author Unknown

"Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with."
~ Author Unknown

"As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others."
-Author Unknown

"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."
-Author Unknown

"I believe that none of us ever fails at anything. Every time we create something we are successful at creation. However, we do make some poor choices about what we create."
~ Author Unknown

"Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with."
Author Unknown

"Assume anyone you meet is decent, thoughtful, and worthy of your time. You'll be right about most people, and the rest deserve a chance to rise to your expectations."
~ Author Unknown

"Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."
-Unknown

"When you were born, everyone around you was smiling and you were crying. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying."
~Author Unknown

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"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
~ Ward William Arthur

"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."
~ Warner Carolyn

"Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression."
~ Wilbertforce Bertrand

“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
-Walton Izaak

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
~ Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
~ Oscar Wilde

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Man alone can enslave man."
-Weil Simone

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
-Washington George Carver