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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size
of the fight in the dog. " Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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"A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in
a confederacy against him." Frank Lloyd Wright |
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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children
is a few minutes of their time each day." M. Grundler |
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of
honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit
better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed
social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is
selling something." Wesley, "The Princess Bride" |
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who
has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended
us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei |
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is
shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there
is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long
youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion,
it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness."
George Santayana |
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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together
to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather
teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine
de Saint-Exupery |
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live
up to them." Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
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"You can easily judge the character of others by how they
treat those who can do nothing for them or to them." Malcolm
Forbes |
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain |
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks
of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy |
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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and
just as hard to sleep after." Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is
more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated
by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform
at our best." Michael Johnson, world record holder in the
200 meter and 400 meter run |
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without
vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the
world." Joel Barker |
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested
in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other
people interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
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"Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are
doomed to repeat them." George Santayana |
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"If we don't stand up for something, there is a danger we
will fall for anything. We can't do right in one department of
our lives while we are occupied in doing wrong in any other department.
Life is one indivisible whole." Gandhi |
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"One person, with a belief, is a social power equal to ninety-nine
who have only interests." John Stuart Mill |
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"O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet
will make Gods by the dozen!" Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
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"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making
me hate him." Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) |
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"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." Lillian Eichler Watson |
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"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good
thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show
to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or
neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." John Wesley
(1703-1791) |
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"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you
look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you appear
to God, with the idea that God has of you." Miguel de Unamuno
(1864-1937) |
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats
people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people
who can't fight back." Abigail Van Buren (1918-) |
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"The best way to know God is to love many things."
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
"O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted
it." Voltaire [Fran�ois Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) |
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"Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner
(1813-1883) |
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"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human
together." Desmond Tutu (1931-) |
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off
the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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"When in doubt, do the courageous things." Jan Smuts |
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction." Antoine de Saint
Exupery (1900-1944) |
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It
is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
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"The whole of science is nothing more than refinement of
everyday thinking" - Albert Einstein |
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"Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great
ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and kindles a fire."
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)� |
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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal:
my strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) |
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do,
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." George
Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)� |
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"Give to every other human being every right that you claim
for yourself--that is my doctrine." Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved,
what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it
proves false? ...If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you
lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
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"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little
of that." John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
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"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another,
it is the same damn thing over and over." Edna St. Vincent
Millay (1892-1950) |
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
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"He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great."
Herman Melville (1819-1891) |
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all
of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the
people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all
of the time." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether
you are content with your failure." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from
being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard
business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege
of owning yourself." Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where
they are to where they have not been." Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!--I
know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains
from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot
(1819-1880) |
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)� |
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men
with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin
Coolidge (1872-1933) |
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Lord Acton) (1834-1902) |
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"Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room
here on earth." Muhammed Ali (1942-) |
