My Quotes Page

Thank you for visiting my quotes page. Sometimes I come across sayings that I really like and I do jot them down for further uses. If you like any quotes I have here, feel free to share them with someone else. In fact that's the thing to do... I have hundreds of quotes but a limited attention span so I will be unable to share my full collection with you. However if there is a particular category of quotes you like, you may mail me to ask for more quotes. Right now due to limited time I shall not categorise the quotes. Do pardon me, I will try my best to do *something* about it. Read on...

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

--Buddha (Siddharta Gautama)



Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great returns.

--Elbert Hubbard



Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

--John MacNoughton



Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

--Robert Greenleaf



Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

--Charles Buxton



Forgiveness is no longer allowing what has happened to poison you.

--H. Norman Wright



It often takes a thousand words soft spoken every day, to bury just the three or four that we didn't mean to say

--Jana Poston



Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

--Ralph Vaull Starr



Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

--Charles Dickens



Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

--Dwight David Esenhower



Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

--General George Patton



It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which more than anything else, will determine its outcome.

--William James



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

--Anonymous



Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson



If we did all the things that we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

--Thomans Edison



The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

--Audrey Hepburn



Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

--John Wooden



The ultimate challenge of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

--Martin Luther King



Many a man had taken the first step. With each additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson



[Be] at peace with God, whatever you perceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your sould. With all its sham, drudgery and broken drems, it is still a beautiful world.

--Max Ehrmann



Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

--William Arthur Ward



There is only one success-- to spend your life in your own way.

--Christopher Morley



Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

--Elbert Hubbard



It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

--Ralph Marston



Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

--Helen Kellar



Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

--George Bernard Shaw



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