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This is a little effort by us (Temur Safia & Sadia Aslam) to make a collection of valuable quotes. The quotes in the passage below are collected by various sources including newspapers, magazines, textbooks, novels, books and so on. In most of them the name of their speaker is given. Some of the quotes are under specific headings others without any.
I would like to begin with the prayer of Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, a professor of Applied Christianity at American university,
“God grant me the serenity;
To accept the things I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can;
And the wisdom to know the difference.”
Action
Actions will be judged according to intention.
(Hadith)
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
(Richard Chamber land)
Actions speak louder than words.
(Unknown)
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. (Benjamin Disraeli)
ADVICE
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
(Erica Jong)
ANGER
The man, who gets angry at the right things, with the right people, in the right way, at the right time, and for the right length of time, is commended.
(Aristotle)
The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only he who controls himself when he is angry.
(Hadith)
If one restrains his anger, Allah will keep his punishment from him on the Day of Resurrection.
(Hadith)
Anger spoils faith as aloes spoils honey.
(Hadith)
Anger comes from the devil, the devil was created of fire and fire is extinguished only with water; so when one of you becomes angry he should perform ablution.
(Unknown)
ATTITUDE
Your attitude determines your altitude.
(Unknown)
BOOKS
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
(Voltaire)
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. They are the chosen possession of men.
(Caryle)
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
(Witherspoon)
Books are windows through which the soul looks out.
(Unknown)
CHANGE
Be the change you want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
The birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
(Chinese proverb)
What is necessary to change a person is to change the awareness of himself.
(Abraham H. Maslow)
CHARACTER
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
(Abraham Lincoln)
CHOICE
It’s your own choice that shows what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
(J.K.Rowling)
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
(Gary Collins)
CLEVERNESS
He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened.
(Lao-Izu)
It is no use to be clever. We are all clever here, just try to be kind a little kind.
(Dr. F .J. foakes Jackson)
COURAGE&CONFIDENCE
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
(Winston Churchill)
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
(Mark Twain)
Self-confidence is the first requisite to the great under- takings.
(Samuel Johnson)
He that loses wealth loses much, but he who loses courage loses all.
(Unknown)
Courage is right esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality, which guarantees all others.
(Winston S. Churchill)
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
(Richard L. Evans)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life
You have imagine (Henry DavidThoreau)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place it leads.
(Judy Grahn)
They can, because they think they can.
(Virgil)
Don’t attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
(Stewart e. white)
DEFEAT
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
(Robert H. Schuller)
it is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
(Arthur Calwel)
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
(Theodore Vail)
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
(Moliere)
DIRECT
You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
(Louis Pasteur)
DISCIPLINE
If we don’t discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
(William feather)
EDUCATION
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
(Aristotle)
Education knows no saturation point.
(Thomas J. Watson)
EXPERIENCE
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
(Vernon Law)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
(Barry LePanter)
We are not human beings having spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
(Teilhard de Chardin)
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
(Livy)
FACT
Facts and truth are often cousins, not brothers.
(Edward bunker)
FACT ABOUT MAN
It’s a sign of advancing years when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
(Unknown)
One of the wonder-filled characteristics of human beings is their power to turn a minus into a plus.
(Alfred Adler)
When I was born I was so surprised I couldn’t talk for a year and a half.
(Grace Allen)
We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job.
(William feather)
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
(Swedish Proverb)
There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
(Andrew Carnegie)
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
(W. Somerset Maugham)
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
(Helen Keller)
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
(George Santayana)
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
(Billy bishop)
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
(Francis bacon)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
(Gandhi)
To be somebody, you must last.
(Ruth Gordon)
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy -five.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Guard well thy thoughts, our thoughts are heard in heaven.
(Young)
The young don’t know what age is and the old forget what is youth was.
(Scumus Manus)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
(Winston Churchill)
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
(Brian Tracy)
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.
(Unknown)
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
(Diogenes)
Better to be forgotten than sued.
(Dave weinbaum)
Look before you leap; see before you go.
(Tusser)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
(Oliver We dell Holmes)
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
(T.S. Eliot)
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
(Marry pettibone Poole)
A prudent man is like a pin; his head prevents him from going too far.
(Morris mandel)
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.
(Syrus)
Bore a man who talks when you wish him to listen.
(Bierce)
If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
(Matthew)
The scene changes but the aspiration of men of goodwill persists.
(Vannevar bush)
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
(Andre Maurois)
Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarrel among themselves.
(Daniel Webster)
It is disgraceful to stumble twice against the same stone.
(Greek proverb)
The ultimate measure of the man is not where he stands in moments of comforts, but where he stands at the time of challenge and controversy.
(Martin Luther king Jr)
When a man has put a limit on he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
(Schwab)
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
(Joseph F. Newton)
Man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s the heaven for?
(Robert browning)
Once you say you are going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you.
(John F. Kennedy)
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
(Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
It is easy when we in prosperity give advice to the afflicted.
(Aeschylus)
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober, not to make us sorry but wise.
(Henry ward Beecher)
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
(Victor Hugo)
A long dispute means that both the parties are wrong.
(Voltaire)
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
(Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Another person’s secret is another person’s money: you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.
(E.w. Howe)
We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
(Bryan White)
Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great 0ancestors.
(Tom Snyder)
He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.
(Unknown)
Every man’s positive mental attitude is his own advantage.
(Napolean hill)
FAILURE
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
(Dr. Laurence J. Peter)
A failure establishes only this: that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
(Hoshang N. Akhtar)
To begin to think with purpose is to enter the rank of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
(James Lane Allen)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
(Beverly Sills)
99%of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
(W. Carvel)
Remember the two benefits of failure:first, if you fail, you learn what does not work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach
FAITH
Faith is the continuation of reason.
(William Adams)
FAME
the fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
(La rochefoucauld)
FAULTS
When looking at faults use a mirror not a telescope.
(Yazid Ibrahim)
FEAR
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
(Unknown)
Do not fear mistakes fear only the absence of creative, constructive and corrective responses to these mistakes?
(Rolfe Kerr)
Don’t fear going forward slowly, fear only to stand still.
(Chinese Wisdom)
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
(Carnegie)
Let us never negotiate to fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
(John F Kennedy)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
(Marie Curie)
FOOLS
It is easier to move huge mountains from one place to another than to reform the ignorant fool.
(Hazart Luqman)
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
(Alexander Pope)
Fools look to tomorrow; wise man use tonight.
(Scottish proverb)
FORGIVE
They, who forgive most, shall be most forgiven.
(Bailey)
FRIENDS &FRIENDSHIP
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
(Syrus)
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
(Samuel Johnson)
A joke never gains an enemy, but often loses a friend.
(Unknown)
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
(Unknown)
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must try a hundred.
(Claude Mermet)
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable
(Francine du Plessix)
A faithful friend is a sure shelter. Whoever finds one has found a rear treasure.
(Sacred scripture) Genuine friends are proved by adversity.
(Aesop)
Man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
(Geoffrey Moss)
When two people are friends even water is sweet.
(Czech Proverb)
the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch, swing with, never said a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.
(unknown)
true friendship is a plant of slow growth.
(George Washington)
HOW TO STOP WORING AND START LIVING
If you are in a state of worry than my advice as a good friend would be to read HOW TO STOP WORRINY AND START LIVING by Dale Carnegie. But if you do not have time to do so please do read the following quotes. They are all from the same book. I hope that some of them would be very helpful to you.
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
(Valery)
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
(Thomas Carlyle)
The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
(Sir William Osler)
Take therefore no thought of the morrow (tomorrow) ;for the morrow shall take thought of the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
(Jesus)
Good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous break downs.
(Dale carnegie)
Lead kindly light ........
Keep thou my foot: I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.
(From a church hymn)
When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.
(an army doctor )
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until night fall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really means.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
(Unknown)
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
(Horace)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Why are we such fools-such tragic fools?
(Dale Carnegie)
Life we learn to late, is in living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
(dale carnegie)
Every thing changes except the law of change. You cannot step in the same river twice.
(Heraclitus)
Enjoy the day or Seize the day.
(Old Romans)
This the day which the lord hath made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
(Lowell thomas)
Shut the iron doors on the past and future .
Live in Day-tight Compartments.
(Sir William Osler)
One of the worst feature about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our mind jumps here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we them eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problems.
(Willis H. Carrier)
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in over coming the consequences of any misfortune.
(William James)
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Phychologically it means a release of energy.
(Lin Yutang)
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
(Omar)
If you have a worry problem apply the magic formula by doing these three things:
1. Ask yourself, what is the worst that can possibly happen?
2. Prepare to accept it if you have to.
3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
(Willis H. Carrier)
Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young.
(Dr. Alexis Carrel)
Fear causes worry. Worry makes you tense and nervous and effects the nerves of the your stomach and actually changes the gastric juices of your stomach from normal to abnormal and often leads to stomach ulcers.
(Dr. Gober)
You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.
(Dr. Joseph F.)
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately.
(Plato)
GENIUS
Genius without education is like sliver in the mine.
(Benjamin Franklin)
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
(Lao-Tzu)
GIFTS
The best gifts to give …
To your friend…
Loyalty
To your enemy…
Forgiveness
To your boss…
Service
To a child…
A good example
To your parents…
Gratitude and devotion
To your mate…
Love and faithfulness
To all men and women…
Love
To God …
Your life
(Unkown)
GOOD
perfection
Good is not good, where better is expected.
(Thomas Fuller)
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. He, who knows little, soon repeats it.
(Unknown)
GOSSIP
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who defuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
(George Eliot)
HABITS
He who cultivates bad habits will ever remain sad.
(Hazart Luqman)
Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken.
(Horace Mann)
A healthy attitude is a contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
(Unknown)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
(Aristotle)
Evil isn’t a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
(Joyce Carol Oates)
HAPPINESS
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
(Anon)
Happiness is a cookie; happiness is a cake, only they take to long to bake.
(Unknown)
Smiling wins more friends than frowning.
(Unknown)
If you smile when on one else is around you really mean it.
(Andy Rooney)
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.
(Mark Twain)
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
(George William Curts)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one, which has opened for us.
(Helen Keller)
The grand essentials of happiness are:
Something to do,
Something to love, and
Something to hope for.
(Allen K. Chalmers)
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
(Allen K. Chalmers)
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
(John Stuart mill)
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
(John Stuart Mill)
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
(Rita Mae Brown)
The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. (Sir James M. Barrie)
Many run about happiness like an absent-minded man hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.
(James Sharp)
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
(Joseph Addison)
Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn’t know you left open.
(John Barrymore)
HARDWORK
Hard work and self discipline will get you every where.
(Helen Gurley Brown)
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
(Voltaire)
HATE
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
(Douglas steere)
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you are hating a part of your self.
(Elvis Presley)
HEART
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
(Marquise De Vaunenargues)
Blessed are the hearts which can bend; they shall never be broken.
(J.D. Camus)
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
(Pascal)
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
(Bob Hope)
(J.B. Massieu)
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swims with the stream all the time.
(Linda euerbee)
HELPING
No ones head aches when he is comforting another.
(Indian proverb)
God helps those who help themselves.
(Benjamin Franklin)
God loves to help him who strives to help himself
(Aesvhlus)
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
(Anna Delaney Peale)
HOME
What’s the good of a home, if you are never in it?
(George Grossmith)
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
(Sam Ewing)
When your neighbor’s home is afire, your own property is at stake.
(Horace)
HOPE
Don’t let your hopes run wild:
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
(Francis Bacon)
Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies.
(James Cooper)
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
(Charles A. Beard)
Our lives are like the course of the sun, at the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.
(London-Times-Editorial)
HUMOUR
Humour is the harmony of the heart.
(Douglas Jerrold)
IDEAS
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are not better than dreams.
(Emerson)
Ideas are like beards, men do not have them until they grow up.
(Voltaire)
If you have but a wish, let it be for an idea.
(Percy Sutton)
IMAGINATION
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
(Joubert)
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
(Mark Twain)
IMPOSSIBILITIES
Impossible is a word only to found in the dictionary of fools.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
(John keywood)
INFORMATION
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
(Rutherford D Rogers)
JUSTICE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society, and any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all
(Burke)
the worst of injustice is pretended justice.
(Plato)
KINDNESS
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
(Goethe)
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
(Joseph Joubert)
I prefer you to mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
(Mother Teresa)
One of the most difficult thing to give away is kindness… it is usually returned.
(Cort R. Flint)
kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
(Mark Twain)
KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is the quickest and the safest path to success in any area of life.
(Charles Givens)
Knowledge is strength, knowledge is power, and knowledge is success.
(Unknown)
Knowledge is knowing what we cannot know.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he makes of what he knows.
(J. G. Holland)
Gain knowledge, or teach others. The third way is death.
(Hazrat Muhammad
SAW)
Every Muslim man and woman must get
knowledge (Quran)
LAUGHTER
Laughter is the best remedy for the sick at heart. (Evelyn Beilenson)
Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face.
(Victor Hugo)
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning- up to do afterwards.
(Kurt Vonnegut)
LEARNING
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it way from you.
(B.B.King)
LIBERTY
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
(William Allen white)
the hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
(Sa’di)
LIFE
Life is a four letter word. It begins with a ‘L’ and ends on an ‘E’.
(Safia)
According to Biology no single definition of life has yet been given. But the best way to define life is to compare the characteristics of living and non-living things.
(Safia)
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
(Scott Hamilton)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
(Martin Luther, Jr. King)
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
(George Bernard Shaw)
There are two primary choices in life: to accept condition as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
(Dr. Denis Waitley)
Don’t pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Don’t pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
(Phillips Brooks)
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life, which are the real ones after all.
(Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Life is the flower of which love is the honey.
(Unknown)
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain death.
(Dr. Laurence J. Peter)
Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.
(Chancel)
A simple life is its own reward.
(George Santayana)
Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning.
(John Rockefeller)
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
(Ursula K. Leguin)
Life is 10% what we make it and 90% how we take it.
(Irving Berlin)
Life is like a bicycle. If you stop paddling, you’ll fall down.
(Unknown)
Life is like an ice-cream enjoy it before it melts.
(Unknown) Life is like an onion, you peel off layer after layer, and then you find nothing in it.
(J.H. Hunekar)
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will get it.
(W. Somerset Maugham)
Life is a gamble and winning the highest stakes is most important.
(Aasma Ahmed)
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
(William Ellery Channning)
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
(Charles Buxton)
one crowded hour of glorious life, is worth an age without a name.
(Scott)
LIGHT
Better to light a candle than to cruse the darkness.
(Chinese proverb)
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
(Helen Keller)
LOST
Many things are lost for want of asking.
(English proverb)
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
(Aesop)
LOVE
To love with the spirit is pity, and he who pities most loves most
(Miguel de Unamuno)
Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
True love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never dead, never cold,
From itself never turning.
(Krutch)
(Dr. Karl Menninger)
it hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
(unknown)
the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
(Freidrich Nietzsche)
MAN
A man is what his purpose makes him.
As clothes depend upon figure.
Do not look at his countenance
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit.
(Elbert Hubbard)
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
(Samuel Johnson)
MINDS
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.
(Hyman G. Rickover)
When there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
(Charles F. Kettering)
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
(Earl of Chesterfield)
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
(Unknown)
Minds are like parachutes they only work when open.
(Unknown)
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
(Louis pasture)
Whatever the mind of the man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
(Unknown)
MISCELLANEOUS
What cannot be cured with medicaments is cured
By the knife, what the knife cannot cure
Is cured with searing-iron, and whatever,
This cannot cure must be considered incurable.
(Hippocrates, 5th century B.C.)
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
(Haidth)
Respect your own children and make good their manners.
(Haidth)
By Allah, has regards for your wives and for the female servants.
(Haidth)
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
(Unknown)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
(Unknown)
Interdependence is a higher value than independence.
(Unknown)
Things, which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things, which matter least.
(Goethe)
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
(Spanish Proverb)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
(Tom Stoppard)
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewellery.
(John Lennon)
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
(Lao-Tzu)
Well begun is half done.
(Aristotle)
One can bear grief, but it takes two to be glad.
(Elbert Hubbard)
The most damaging phrase in the language is: it’s always been done that way.
(Rear Admiral Grace Hooper)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. NO machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
(Elbert Hubbard)
Vice stings us even in our pleasure but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
(Colton)
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
(Proverb)
Adversity causes men to break, others to break records.
(William Arthur Ward)
Real communications happen when people feel safe.
(Ken Blanchard)
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
(Wayne Gretzky)
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
(Aesop)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
(Beverly Sills)
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
(Ancient Buddhist Expression)
All cruelty springs from weakness.
(Seneca)
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
(Victor Hugo)
As the purse is emptied (in charity), the heart is filled.
(Victor Hugo)
Keep a cheerful countenance
Banish gloomy care;
Think not that your lot is hard,
Pain is every where.
But the heart that trusts in God,
Shall have plenteous grace;
Putting all your hope in Him,
Keep a cheerful face.
(Marrianne Earninghan)
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
(Southey)
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
(Louisa May Alcott)
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
(Cassius)
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
(St. Augustine)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is good only for wallowing.
(Katherine Mansfield)
A
painting
in a
museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
(Edmond and Jules Goncourt)
To know things as they are is better than to believe things, as they seem.
(Lois G. Forer)
Never try to make anyone like yourself…you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
China is a university from which the scholar never gets a degree.
(Lord Curzon)
Victory had folded its wings almost as soon as they were spread for flight.
(De Gaulle)
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
(Blake)
There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,
When the glow of early thought declines in feeling’s dull decay.
(Bryon)
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
(Shakespeare)
The three pillars of the nation are education, labor and the vote.
(Guiseppe Mazzini)
States are not made, nor patched: They grow: grow slow through centuries of pain.
(John Masefield)
All the glitter is not gold.
(Shakespeare)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
A lie gets half around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
MISSED
For everything you’ve missed, you have gained something else.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
MOTHER
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.
(Ann Taylor)
NATURE
Nature arms each man with some faculty, which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nature is but a name of an effect, whose cause is God.
(William Cowper)
all things bright and beautiful,
all creatures great and small,
all things wise and wonderful,
the Lord God made them all.
(Cecil Frances Alexander)
NECESSITY
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
(Balzac)
OBSERVATION
To know someone is to study oneself in action with another person.
(Bruce Lee)
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
(Louis pasture)
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
(Unknown)
OPINION
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
(Dryden)
OPPORTUNITY
If you don’t hear opportunity knocking, find another door.
(Unknown)
OPTIMISSIVE
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
(Cabell)
PAIN
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
(Laurence Sterne)
PAST
The past is but the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
(L. Thomas Holdcroft)
PESSIMIST
No pessimist ever discovered secrets of the stars, sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to human spirits.
(Helen Keller)
Philosophy
Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever you come across it.
(Hadith)
All philosophy in two words: sustain and abstain.
(Epictetus)
POEMS
Poems are thought as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader’s job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
(Natalie Goberg)
POOR
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
(George Eliot)
POSSIBILITY
I can’t discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is, and what is not possible.
(Henry Ford)
SILENCE
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
(Samuel Butler)
SOULS
The soul should always stand ajar to welcome the ecstatic experience.
(Emily dickenson)
The beautiful souls are universal, open and ready for all things.
(Michael de taigneMon)
Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes.
(Chinese proverb)
charms strike the sight, but merit wins the souls.
(Alexander Pope)
STAGES OF LIFE
Babyhood:
Happy those early days,
When I shined in my angle infancy.
(Vaughan Henry)
Childhood:
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection recalls them to view,
The orchard, the meadow, the deep tingled wildwood,
And every loved spot which my infancy knew.
(Samuel Woodworth)
Adulthood:
When I was one and-twenty
I heard a wise men say,
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearl away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.
But I was only one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me
(A. E. Housman)
Old age:
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
(W.B.Yeats)
There is always a child in every old man.
(Unknown)
the old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
(Oscar Wilde)
STARS
The stars shine down
And watch us live
Our little lives
And weep for us
(Monet nodlehs)
SUCCESS
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can.
(Michael Korda)
Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
(Wayne Gretzky)
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
(William Edward Hickson)
It is a rough road that leads to the height of greatness.
(Seneca)
Fundamental are the key to success.
(Anthony Robbins)
If you want to succeed, you have to forge new paths and avoid borrowed ones that promise success.
(John Rockefeller)
Remember the ABC’s of success: Ability; Break; Courage.
(Geoffrey moss)
Success makes life easier, it doesn’t make living easier.
(Bruce Springsteen)
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
(Mary Kay)
If you find it in your heart to care for some body else, you will have succeeded.
(Maya Angelou)
success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
(Reggie Leach)
there is only one success- to spend your life in your own way.
(Christopher Morley)
success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract PEOPLE TO YOUR CAUSE .
(Jeff Herman)
patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
(Napolean Hill)
TEACH
to teach is to learn twice.
(Joseph Jonbert)
TIME
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
(Hector Berlioz)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
(Laertius Diogenes)
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
(Unknown)
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
(Ethel Barrymore)
Much can be done in those little shreds and patches of time which everyday produces and which most people throw away.
(Charles Colten)
tolerance&patience
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
(Dalai Lama)
He that can have patience can have what he wishes.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three, all they have had, all they have now and they expect to have.
(Edward Eerell Hale)
Patience is a necessary ingredient of a genius.
(Disraeli)
Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it hard save for the humbled minded, who knows that they will have to meet their Lord, and that unto Him they are returning.
(Quranic Verse)
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
(St. Augustine)
treatment
Be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down.
(Wilson Mizner)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Geoethe)
TRUTH
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now always.
(Albert Schweitzer)
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
(Charles W. Eliot)
TRUST
Trust yourself you know more than you think you do.
(Benjamin Spock, MD)
Trust (people), and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show them selves great.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
VISION
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
(Jonathan Swift)
vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
(Japanese Proverb)
WAR
War is enemy of peace.
(Temur Aslam)
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war .
War is the science of destruction.
(John Abbott)
WINNER
Winners always have a plan, losers always have an excuse.
(Geoffrey Moss)
WISE/WISDOM
A learned person is not one who gives the right answers; it is the one who asks the right questions.
(Claude Levi-Strauss)
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
(Cervantes)
wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
(H.G.Bohn)
WORDS
Listen twice as much as you speak.
(Rolfe Kerr)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are endless.
(Mother Teresa)
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.
(Barry Neil Kaufman)
a careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; an untimely word may lead to stress; a loving word may heal and bless.
(unknown)
WORLD
One must inevitably leave this world neither the luxuries nor the hardship of this life are everlasting.
(Hazart Luqman)
There is no real excellence in all this world, which can be separated from right living.
(David Starr Jordan)
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things …I am tempted to think …there are no little things.
(Bruce Barton)
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, heart to love and hands to gather it ourselves.
(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
(Anonymous)
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
(O.W.Holmes)
The world is a scene of changes, to be constant in nature was inconstancy.
(Cowley)
The world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or rapidity.
(President Charles de Gaulle)
WORRY
Do not worry. If you worry you’ll get a wrinkle. So, why don’t you smile and get a dimple.
(Unknown)
WRITING
There are thousands ways to write, and each is as good as the other if it fits you, if you are any good.
(Lillian Hellman)
Writing takes so much determination you would do it on
A rock in the middle of the ocean, if you had to.
(Erica Jong)
You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word one stone at a time, underneath a full moon.
(Kate Braverman)
Think of every thing you write as material you can always use later. Don’t be afraid to just because you love something.
(Amy Hempel)
YOUTH
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
(Frank Kafka)