Quotes To Stimulate Your Thoughts 5a
1. If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra
2. When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
3. There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
4. I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.
Firdtjof Nansen
5. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
7. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
8. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
9. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
10. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
11. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cech
12. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
13. We don't live in a world of reality,
we live in a world of perceptions.
Gerald J. Simmons
14. Value friendship for what there is in it,
not for what can be gotten out of it.
H. Clay Trumbull
15. A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero
16. Friendship needs no words--it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
17. We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
Aristotle
18. You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get people interested in you.
Arnold Bennett
19. Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
20. Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant,
and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
21. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
22. Go often to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.
Unknown
24. The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
25. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
26. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
27. Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
28. To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
29. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
30. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
31. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
32. Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
33. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
34. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru
35. Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller
36. Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
37. Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown
38. 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 been opened for us.
Helen Keller
39. The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus
40. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Elbert Hubbard
41. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Unknown
42. The whole secret of a succesful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
43. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
44. We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, and not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw
45. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
46. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
47. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats
48. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
49. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Gyorgyi
50. If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
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