Some Of My Favorite Quotes

Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
-Shel Silverstein

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages
to its present state of civilization.
Imagination led Columbus to discover America.
Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination has given us the steam engine,
the telephone the talking-machine, and the automobile,
for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
So I believe that dreams -- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open
and your brain machinery whizzing
--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman
most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
-L. Frank Baum

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Usually Attributed to Chief Seattle but probably actually written by Ted Perry

If you can DREAM it,
you can DO it.
-Walt Disney

Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
-James Dean

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
-Anonymous

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
-Albert Einstein

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-Gandhi

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-Walt Disney

"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 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

Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
-Joseph Campbell

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

People deal too much with the negative,
with what is wrong.. Why not try and see
positive things, to just touch those things
and make them bloom?
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
-Les Brown

A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW
...it will not matter what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...
...but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child.
-Kathy Davis

Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-Anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
-Moliere

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living
at what you love; there is only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer

Do what you can with what you have where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt

You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-Ziggy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak when you're angry,
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-Lawrence J. Peter

What the world needs is some
do-give-a-damn pills.
-William Menninger

Appreciation is a wonderful thing;
it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-Voltaire

Age is of no importance
unless you are a cheese.
-Billie Burke

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE
If children live with criticism,
they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
they learn to fight.
If children live with fear,
they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity,
they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule,
they learn to be shy.
If children live with jealousy,
they learn what envy is.
If children live with shame,
they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with TOLERANCE,
they learn to be PATIENT.
If children live with ENCOURAGEMENT,
they learn to be CONFIDENT.
If children live with PRAISE,
they learn to appreciate.
If children live with APPROVAL,
they learn to BE THEMSELVES.
If children live with ACCEPTANCE,
they learn to find love in the world.
If children live with RECOGNITION,
they learn to have a goal.
If children live with SHARING,
they learn to be GENEROUS.
If children live with HONESTY and FAIRNESS,
they learn what TRUTH and JUSTICE are.
If children live with SECURITY,
they learn to have FAITH in themselves
and in those around them.
If children live with FRIENDLINESS,
they learn that the world is a nice place in which to live.
If children live with SERENITY,
they learn to have PEACE OF MIND.
With what are your children living?
-Dorothy L. Nolte

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
-Beverly Sills

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles;
but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles,
or a string of mould candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion?
The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
-Lydia Maria Child

Unless you choose to do great things with it,
it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,
or how much power you have.
-Oprah Winfrey

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
-Charles Buxton

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds the most discoveries,
is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...
-Isaac Asimov

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day
or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them;
nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
-Woodrow Wilson

There is no point at which you can say,
'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
-Carrie Fisher

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crown-less again shall be king.
-J.R.R. Tolkein

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
-Source Unknown

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway,
THINK BIG.
-Donald Trump

You live longer
once you realize
that any time spent
being unhappy is wasted.
-Ruth E. Renkl

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
-Rita Mae Brown

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
-Queen Victoria

The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
-May B. Smith

I must govern the clock,
not be governed by it.
-Golda Meir

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-The Dalai Lama

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
-Amelia Earhart

Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
-Mary Kay Ash

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
-Lauren Bacall

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement
is accomplished by crushing others.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we call failure is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford

The best things in life aren't things.
-Art Buchwald

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.
-Stacia Tauscher

If we encounter a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he reads.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
-Mignon McLaughlin

It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
-Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground.
"It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out
where the strong man stumbled,
or where a doer of deeds
could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs,
and who comes up short again and again,
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause.
The man who at best knows the triumph
of high achievement and who at worst,
if he fails, fails while daring greatly,
so that his place will never be
with those cold timid souls
who never knew victory or defeat."
-Former US President Theodore Roosevelt
Some see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw

All kids are gifted;
some just open their packages earlier than others.
-Michael Carr

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
-Source Unknown

Think of what a better world it would be if we all THE WHOLE WORLD
had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay
down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our
nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned
up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when
you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
-Robert Fulghum

You've failed many times, although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
R.H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips
before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
A message published in the Wall Street Journal
Copyright 1981
United Technologies Corporation
Hartford, Connecticut 06101
Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-Max L. Forman

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and
want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
-Lee J. Iacocca

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.
Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
-Tim McMahon

Always do right.
This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln

I believe... that every human mind
feels pleasure in doing good to another.
-Thomas Jefferson

I got a simple rule about everybody.
If you don't treat me right....shame on you.
-Louis Armstrong
The best executive is one who has sense enough
to pick good people to do what he wants done,
and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
-Tom Clancy

One ought every day
at least to hear a little song,
read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and,
if it were possible,
to speak a few reasonable words.
-Goethe