I have gathered this collection of quotes from various classes at school, books I’ve read, email sent to me and web pages I’ve seen.  I try hard to site the author when possible.  Enjoy.

 

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

 

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting. - unknown

 

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. - unknown

 

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill. - unknown

 

The heights reached and kept by great men were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,were toiling upward in the night. - Thomas S. Monson

 

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - unknown

 

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more. - Cowper

 

Health is not simply the absence of sickness. – Hannah Green

 

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller

 

If you want to be happy with the house you’ve built, you’ve got to be in charge during the construction. - Keith Lowry

 

I asked somebody…after they had expressed frustration with their job, “Why are you working there?”  Their reply…”Well…they had an opening…” – Keith Lowry

 

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I have dreams, of course…”  Then they put the box away…It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, “How good or bad am I?”  That’s where courage comes in. – Erma Bombeck

 

Half of our lives is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. – Will Rogers

 

By definition…reaching a goal means doing something new…leaving comfort zones for new frontiers. – Hyrum Smith

 

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer

 

If I melt dry ice can I take a bath without getting wet? – Steven Wright

 

A person with a watch knows what times it is.  Some one with two watches is never sure. – Segal’s Law

 

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. – Unknown

 

Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

 

I know not with what weapons world war III will be fought.  But world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein

 

Many students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment. – Sidney Harris

 

To love what we do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun? – Katharine Graham

 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can be great. – Mark Twain

 

Your daily agendas must be goal driven.  If not, a task driven agenda will perpetuate. – Glen Crider

 

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Unknown

 

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have – so spend it wisely. – Kay Lyons

 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising each time we fall. – Confucius

 

Your reaction to failure is more important than whether you have or not.  You must come back fighting. – Karen Waddell

 

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. – Lord Jeffery

 

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

 

A person who has not done half his day’s work by 10:00 runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. – Emily Bronte

 

The most important thing about goals is having one. – Geoffrey F. Abert

 

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.  Autograph your work with excellence. – Jessica Guidobono

 

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles

 

It is not fair to ask others what you are not willing to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

I passionately hate the idea of being ‘with it,’ I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. – Orson Welles

 

I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. – Helen Keller

 

Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result.  Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. – Jesse Jackson

 

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. – Unknown

 

There are only two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know. – Unknown

 

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. – Lily Tomlin

 

All of us are always going to do better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today! – Unknown

 

You find the key to success under the alarm clock. – Benjamin Franklin

 

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. – Agnes Repplier

 

Responsibility equals the price of greatness. – Winston Churchill

 

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. – Stephen R. Covey

 

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – Don Marquis

 

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. – Henry Ford

 

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. – Unknown

 

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down and the other is pulling up. – Booker T. Washington

 

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Worhol

 

When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have. – Kathleen A. Sutton

 

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity…you can’t sit back and wait. – Ellen Metcalf

 

If you treat people right, they will treat you right – ninety percent of the time. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte

 

The bad thing about experience is that it teaches you the stuff you don’t want to know. – Unknown

 

Sure, there’s no “i” in team, but there is an “m” and an “e”. - Kevin Meyers

 

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. – William Shakespeare

 

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for you life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey

 

A government is like fire: a handy servant, but a dangerous master. – George Washington

 

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. – Arlo Guthrie

 

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams, Creator of Dilbert

 

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. – Sir Isaac Newton

 

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. – Mohandas K. Ghandi

 

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not. – Hannah Whitall Smith

 

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington

 

Lord grant that I might always aspire to do more than I can accomplish. – Michelangelo

 

Personality is an African jungle without boundaries. – Psychologist Henry Murray

 

My books are water. Those of the great geniuses are wine.  Everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

 

Once America desired money, now the fall and worship it. – Mark Twain about the Gilded Age

 

Man – a creature made at the end of a week’s work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

 

The thing always to remember is that you must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

If we are wrong, justice is a lie. – Martin Luther King Jr, at Montgomery

 

My feets is tired but my soul is rested. – black woman during bus boycott of the civil rights movement

 

The tragedy of Birmingham is not what bad people did, but that good people did nothing. – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

You never ask questions when God’s on your side. – Bob Dylan

 

Coming Events cast their shadows before. – Campbell

 

Colors have the silliest, happiest or the most serious personalities. - Unknown

 

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. – Mizner

 

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about others. – Woolf

 

You can never stop trying to purify yourself, improve yourself, strengthen yourself and cultivate the sacred that is inside you. – Deng Ming- Dao

 

Child’s letter to God:

            Dear Mr. God,

            How do you feel about people who don’t believe in you? Somebody else wants to know.

                        Neil

 

People who listen have different needs than people who read. – Jones

 

Hawk doesn’t think during the hunt.  One must instinctively do what is correct. – Tao

 

It is only our minds that convince ourselves that we must do something. – Tao

 

Some look fierce, but are mild.  Some seem timid but are vicious. – Unknown

 

A warrior will have many opponents in a lifetime, but the ultimate opponent is the warrior’s own self. – Tao

 

The only way to influence people for the better is through your personal example. – Easwaran

 

Geese keep a perfect distance between them to establish a dynamic equilibrium; so I, too, must fit in with the day’s intervals and events. – Ming-Dao

 

The most powerful ascent of man is his skill to do some things well and then better and better. – Bronowski

 

We should remember the innocent in life – the delicate, the beautiful.  A butterfly lives for the day. – Tao

 

As long as we value comfort in our effort, we cannot value spiritual quest. – Ming-Dao

 

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well, for all serious daring starts within. – Eudora Welty

 

Express yourself; that is meaning. – Tao

 

Misinterpretation is a perennial problem.  A dozen eyewitnesses to the same event cannot agree on a single account. – Tao

 

Whosoever saves time shall lose it. – Easwaran

 

Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist.  Nothing is at least sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Emerson

 

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends on our ordering of daily detail. – Tao

 

There’s nothing to fear if you have nothing to fear. – Unknown

 

A moving door hinge never corrodes.  Flowing water never grows stagnant.  Even in the autumn of your life, you cannot give up growth.  If you do, you only invite decline. – Tao

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

 

If you act surreptitiously, you tend to cause people to doubt your trustworthiness. – Allen

 

No matter what kind of person you are, you will attract something to yourself.  One of the major ways to control what comes to you is to refine your substance. – Tao

 

We all abhor ignorance: Ignorance confuses us.  It makes us miserable.  With clarity we have equanimity. – Tao

 

When young things are soft, when old things are brittle. Stretching – both literally and metaphorically – is a necessary part of life. – Tao

 

Frequently we are more worried about getting caught than about what is right.  If you are worried about getting caught maybe you are already in a position that is less than honest.  Let your fear of getting caught be a warning to do right. – Genesis 27:11-2

 

A woman’s duty: to look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes, to have an ideal, to speak and act in defiance of convention. – Margaret Sawyer

 

The reason we get sick is so that we can let some one take care of us.  If we don’t have anyone to care for us it is because we wouldn’t allow anyone to.  – Unknown

 

The secret heart is devotion’s temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not unaccepted. – Hannah Moore

 

Trials and tribulations build up walls in front of faces made of stone.  Yet we stand strong enough to break the walls down, to journey on. – W. Morris, Tim Kelley & Bob Robinson

 

Religion must be strong through college - liberal classes will try to shake up your beliefs. – Unknown

 

Saratonen – produced to keep you healthy; acquired by listening or feeling something pleasant.  A soothing voice helps to keep you healthy. – Unknown

 

My fear is my only courage. – Unknown

 

You can’t run away from a realization once it hits you. – John Steinbeck

 

A little learning is a dangerous thing. – Alexander Pope

 

Where is the wisdom you have lost in knowledge? – T.S. Eliot

 

Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. – T.S. Eliot

 

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. – George Bernard Shaw

 

I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for he isn’t fit to live. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill

 

You may tie my hands with chains and chain my feet with shackles and put me in a dark prison, but you cannot enslave my thinking for it is free like a breeze. – Booker T. Washington

 

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

 

He who has never hoped can never despair. – George Bernard Shaw

 

I and all the public know what all school children learn, those to whom evil is done do evil in return. – Unknown

 

Honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. – Don Marquis

 

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience. – Don Marquis

 

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is… - A.E. Housman

 

Women in love are less ashamed than men, they have less to be ashamed of. – A. Bierce

 

Women are meant to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

 

One does not fall into love; one grows into love and love grows in him. – Karl Mininger

 

You gave me the key to your heart my love, then why did you make me knock? – Lord Byron

 

There’s God’s plan and there’s your plan, and your plan doesn’t matter. – David Geffin, Producer

 

Poverty of any kind need not be a deterrent if you know how to utilize the wealth you possess. – Tao

 

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. – Proverbs 10

 

Books must be read as deliberately as they were written. – Thoreau

 

Confidence: the feeling I had before I understood the situation. – Unknown

 

What does it truly matter what we lack, when what we have is not used up? – Albert Camus

 

It isn’t the speed with which we do our work, but the quality of time that makes life an accomplishment. – A Cherokee Saying

 

A good swordsman is seldom seen with a sword. – Tao

 

Help others for all the times you have been ignored. – Tao

 

What is close at hand must first appear at the horizon. – Ming Dao

 

Maturity only comes from the threat of mortality.  Success only comes from the threat of failure. – Tao

 

Common courtesy is not so common. – Unknown

 

Outside is form, inside is thought, deepest is soul. – Tao

 

Success is a bright sun that obscures and makes ridiculously unimportant all the shadowy flecks of failure. – Unknown

 

If you live to be a hundred, I want to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. – Winnie the Pooh

 

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.  Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.  Walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

 

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. – Unknown

 

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them. – Unknown

 

Either you control your attitude or it controls you. – Unknown

 

Just because some one doesn’t love you the way you want them to, this doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. – Unknown

 

Our backgrounds and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. – Unknown

 

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.  A real friend asks why you took so long to call. – Unknown

 

A simple friend when, visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself. – Unknown