So, there you have it. If you have any quotes to add or comments about the ones I've included, email me or goto my form. Thanks!Quotes Collected by Phil
You thought maybe this would be a bunch of famous quotes just listed out? Well, surprise on you! These are quotes I've collected and a bunch of my own thoughts on them.
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"It is the essence of genius to use the simplest ideas." - Charles Peguyy
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison
"There is no great genius without a bit of madness." � Aristotle
"Genius must be born, it can't be taught." - John Dryden
I like to ponder what 'genius' really is...
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." - Baltasar Gracian
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." - James Halliwell
"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"Ours not to reason why // Ours but to do and die." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
I work for the government. In my situation, it is best not to question what is happening. It is best to just do what is requested without any argument. 'Not making waves' is a philosophy I've heard that means you just go along with things. I don't prescibe to this philosophy for most things, but when it comes to my job, I must cower to the Leader.
"It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." - Betty Smith
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent." -Ashleigh Brilliant
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." - Seneca
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Ben Franklin
"We will show the world we can pass this test." - George W. Bush
"Life is too short to be spent frowning." - Nkechi Unamba
"No matter what always reach for the stars, that way, even if you never touch one you grow an inch every time you try." - Raelene Harger
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." - Ann Landers
"Some men use statistics as a drunken man uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." - Virginia Woolf
"Necessity knows no law." - Publilius Syrus
"No great man ever became great by imitation." - Samuel Johnson
"The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose." - Mother Theresa
"Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one." - Mark Twain
"Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven." - Dean Bryson
"If people only spoke when spoken to, no one would ever speak." - Aishah Hargett
"Let no one turn you down because you are young." - Dean Bryson
"Experience is not what happens, but what we do with what happens." - Aldous Huxley
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honour that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." - John Ruskin
I am reminded of that make-up slogan (I think it was Covergirl) that said "Every woman's beautiful, in her own way." We should always look for the good in others, even our enemies. There's got to be something good about everyone � you can find it if you look hard enough.
"The only cure for grief is action." - George Henry Lewes
"Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it..... If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down." -Mary Pickford
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewig
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B." - Fats Domino
I have a bachelor's degree. The letters I could put behind my name, though, don't mean anything. This is one reason why no one puts "BA" behind their name. What matters is not the education itself, but what the person does with the education. It's about wisdom, not academics.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the 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 little 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 the meaning of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." - Margaret Fuller
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." � Buddha
"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara De Angelis
"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." - William Carlos Williams
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." - Pablo Picasso
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." - Abraham Lincoln
"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." - Ann Landers
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them . . . they are a mile away from you and you have their shoes." - Brandy Miller
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - E. M. Forster
"It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally." - Dean Bryson
"To be an outsider is to live outside of the crowd." - E. S. Michael
"I'd rather attempt something giant and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed." - Unknown
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't tell secrets in the corn field because there are a lot of ears." - Melissa Moore
"...Once you've come to a decision, follow through with it and give it your all, so you have no regrets. However...If you're undecided and unsure, stay that way, and follow through with your indecision. Being caught in the middle is the worst." -Babs Kebabs
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." - Sophocles
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" - Emiliano Zapata
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." - Charles Horton Cooley
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"God writes on both sides of the paper. Do not fail to read both sides simply because one side is more difficult to decipher." - H. R. Gordon
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." - John Updike
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo
"I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it." - Boyd Rice
"Play has been man's most useful preoccupation." - Frank Caplan
"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them." - David Borenstein
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by product." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you have a lemon, make lemonade." - Howard Gossage
"All men are born good." � Confucius
"Every guilty person is his own hangman." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Ignorance is the ignoring to change. Intelligence is making the change." - Barbara Padbury
"Don't let the surprises on the second page make you forget those on the first." - H. R. Gordon
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." - Charles Swindoll
"Happiness is getting a haircut every two weeks and watching your neighbor fall off their roof." - Chinese Proverb
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry Kaiser
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Ozzy Osbourne
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." - John Holt
"To measure the man, measure his heart." - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." - Eliel Saarinen
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton
"You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." - Franklin Jones
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope
I'm a pretty firm believer that all people have something divine in them. We have to look for the features and cultivate them.
"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." - Anon.
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." - Anon.
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Love builds bridges where there are none." - R. H. Delaney
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." - Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Erich Fromm
"It's fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
I think of a song sung in one of my favorite animated movies, An American Tale: "Never say never." Disney was a man of dreams. He did things that were impossible to most people because they were not impossible to him.
"A person's probability of success is directly proportional to the belief and execution of their abilities." - Kent Calhoun
"A happy heart comes first, then a happy face." - Lucille Ball
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke
"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you." - Vicki Baum
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." - Abraham Lincoln
"Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is true fulfillment." - Adam Weaks of Midlothian, Virginia
"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down." - Kobi Yamada
"For fast-acting relief try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin
"It doesn't matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something from the floor while you get up." - Avery's Observation
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Man will occasional stumble upon the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on..." - Winston Churchill
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." - Madame Swetchine
"I believe in rainbows and all that. But it's the shade that defines the light." - Tori Amos
"Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on." - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness." - Margaret Miller
"Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G. K. Chesterton
"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." - Pablo Picasso
"I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness." - Aldous Huxley
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." - Russell Green
"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." - Sloan Wilson
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." - Edward Dowden
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read." - Mark Twain
"Deeds, not words shall speak me." - John Fletcher
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written." - Oscar Wilde
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Kennedy
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffet
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