Famous Quotes |
| We are twice armed if we fight with faith. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first
forward step in faith. |
Friedrich Von Schlegel |
| It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the
faith that is within him. |
Sydney Smith |
English essayist (1771 - 1845) |
| We must have infinite faith in each
other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Talk unbelief, and you will have
unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. |
Ellen G. White |
| Every tomorrow has two handles. We
can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. |
Author Unknown |
| Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be
depended on. |
John Christian Bovee |
| If a man knows the law, find out,
though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an
elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the
enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people
who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret
cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives
and tens and fifties to his doors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| To get a name can happen but to few;
it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it
will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| Of all the possessions of this life
fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. |
Johann Von Schiller |
| What is fame? The advantage of being
known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little |
Stanislaus |
| Woman is the salvation or the
destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. |
Henri-Frederic Amiel |
| The lack of emotional security of
our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father
and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security
for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of
variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble
bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it
before he was born. |
Pearl S. Buck |
| It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own
family. |
Confucius |
Chinese philosopher & reformer
(551 BC - 479 BC) |
| The family is the nucleus of civilization. |
William James Durant |
| So much of what is best in us is
bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All
other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. |
Haniel Long |
| In every dispute between parent and
child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life
its peculiar hysterical charm. |
Isaac Rosenfeld |
| I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for
such an absurd world. |
Georges Duhamel |
French author (1884 - 1966) |
| I am no more humble than my talents require. |
Oscar Levant |
(1906 - 1972) |
| We are always too busy for our
children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our
personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
US abolitionist & clergyman
(1813 - 1887) |
| Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get
busy. |
Dale Carnegie |
| Men always talk about the most
important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised
by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. |
G. K. Chesterton |
English author & mystery novelist
(1874 - 1936) |
| Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| We have perhaps a natural fear of
ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. |
Eric Hoffer |
(1902 - 1983) |
| What is needed, rather than running
away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about
it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how
to escape from it. |
Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| Most of our obstacles would melt
away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. |
Orison Swett Marden |
(1850 - 1924) |
| Advertising is a valuable economic
factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. |
Sinclair Lewis |
US novelist (1885 - 1951) |
| He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. |
Napoleon |
| The only thing to fear is fear itself. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| Do what you fear and fear disappears. |
David Schwartz |
| In time we hate that which we often fear. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. |
Edward Weeks |
| It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. |
Dale Carnegie |
| To know is not less than to feel. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| I believe that justice is instinct
and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. |
Author Unknown |
| The world is full of fools; and he
who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. |
Boileau |
| Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the
intent. |
Aldous Huxley |
English critic & novelist
(1894 - 1963) |
| He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
French author & moralist (1613
- 1680) |
| If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you
are a fool. |
Author Unknown |
| Forgiveness is the key to happiness. |
A Course In Miracles |
| Little, vicious minds abound with
anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. |
Earl of Chesterfield |
| He that cannot forgive others,
breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. |
Lord Herbert |
| Forgive thyself little, and others much. |
Leighton |
| A wise man will make haste to
forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. |
Rambler |
| Only the brave know how to forgive;
it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. |
Sterne |
| To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to
forgive it of a great mind. |
Tillotson |
| Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has
crushed it. |
Author Unknown |
| Courage is always greatest when
blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust;
and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive any injury. |
Author Unknown |
| There is no one, says another, whom
fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door,
and flies out at the window. |
Montesquieu |
| The bad fortune of the good turns
their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. |
Saadi |
Persian poet (1184 - 1291) |
| Many have been ruined by their
fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little
great. |
Johann Georg Zimmermann |
| There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice
of the nation. |
Joseph Bonaparte |
| The aim of art, the aim of a life
can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under
any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary,
there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the
inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. |
Ilya Ehrenburg |
| Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| You must pay for conformity. All
goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is
alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall
not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the
class of counterfeits. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom. |
Marilyn Ferguson |
| Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. |
Lloyd George |
| Indignation boils my blood at the
thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to
the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and
revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to
maintain, American institutions. |
Arthur Garfield Hays |
| The will of the people is the only
legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| A useful definition of liberty is
obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which
men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. |
Walter Lippman |
| There are only two kinds of freedom
in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces
possessions. |
Anais Nin |
US (French-born) author & diarist
(1903 - 1977) |
| The principle of liberty and
equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for
his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in
the principle of benevolence and love to men. |
John Randolph |
| True individual freedom cannot exist
without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which
dictatorships are made. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| A man is morally free when, in full
possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Freedom, then, lies only in our
innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the
light that lightens all our lives. |
Sri Madhava |
| If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or faraway. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. |
Author Unknown |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of
pleasures. |
Joseph Addison |
English essayist, poet, & politician
(1672 - 1719) |
| Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. |
Janet Long |
| False friendship, like the ivy,
decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. |
Richard Burton |
| True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known
until it is lost. |
C. C. Colton |
| Perhaps the most delightful
friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. |
George Eliot |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. |
Sam Walter Foss |
| A friend should be one in whose
understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its
sincerity. |
Robert Hall |
| Human beings are born into this
little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and
yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow
as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of
inertia. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very
long. |
Robert Lynd |
US sociologist (1892 - 1970) |
| The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the
love of all men. |
John Henry Newman |
| We learn our virtues from our
friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend.
He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of
the reflection. |
Ricther |
| Friends need not agree in everything
or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship
union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less
subject to trouble than marriage is. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Life is to be fortified by many
friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. |
Sydney Smith |
English essayist (1771 - 1845) |
| Man has three friends on whose
company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only
as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go
with him beyond the grave. |
The Talmud |
| One may discover a new side to his
most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more
familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he
would behave then |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| The wise man does not permit himself
to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with
many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. |
Charles Dudley Warner |
US editor & essayist (1829 -
1900) |
| Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. |
Author Unknown |
| The man who has strong opinions and
always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. |
Author Unknown |
| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| Friendship is love with understanding. |
Author Unknown |
| Society expects man to be a passive
social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have
done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of
life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the
unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil
that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction,
melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. |
Abraham Myerson |
| Blessed is the man who has some
congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces
there are in him. |
John Burroughs |
US essayist & naturalist (1837
- 1921) |
| If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that
you should leave your work. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| Your chances of success are directly
proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact
squarely and get out. |
Michael Korda |
| If you do not feel yourself growing
in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found
your place. |
Orison Swett Marden |
(1850 - 1924) |
| Men of the noblest dispositions
think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. |
Barry Duncan |
| All my experience of the world
teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful
side. |
Anna Jameson |
| What seems to be generosity is often
no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
French author & moralist (1613
- 1680) |
| He who gives what he would as
readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. |
Henry Taylor |
| Genius is childhood recaptured. |
Bauldlaire |
| The author of genius does keep till
his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so
much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new
scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and
characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead
of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without
wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the
word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see
"the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two
thousand years ago. |
Dorothea Brande |
| Since when was genius found respectable? |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
English poet (1806 - 1861) |
| As it must not, so genius cannot be
lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
English critic & poet (1772 -
1834) |
| What makes men of genius, or rather,
what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been
said enough. |
Eugene Delacroix |
French Romantic painter (1798 -
1863) |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
Thomas A. Edison |
US inventor (1847 - 1931) |
| A man of genius is privileged only
as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents
obey their children. |
King Edward VIII |
British king 1936 (1894 - 1952) |
| I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| The peril of every fine faculty is
the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows,
the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system
for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| The definition of genius is that it
acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest
power operates unseen. |
William Hazlitt |
English essayist (1778 - 1830) |
| One machine can do the work of fifty
ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
Elbert Hubbard |
US author (1856 - 1915) |
| A genius is the man in whom you are
least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements,
leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly,
because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more
interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his
mind. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| Sometimes, indeed, there is such a
discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent
might not have been better. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| All the means of action - the
shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into
the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
US poet (1807 - 1882) |
| Genius without religion is only a
lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in
darkness. |
Hannah More |
| The only difference between a genius
and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but
even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that
chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which
the peasant has dug up without knowing its value. |
Abbe Guillaume Raynal |
| If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
nail. |
Abraham Maslow |
| Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. |
Josh Billings |
US Humorist (1818 - 1885) |
| When a true genius appears in the
world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
Jonathan Swift |
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist
(1667 - 1745) |
| Genius might well be defined as the
ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark. |
L. B. Walton |
| Let the minor genius go his light
way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks
flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little
children and lays out on a sunny morning. |
W. B. Yeats |
| So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a
genius |
Author Unknown |
| You cannot hold on to anything good.
You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You
cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. |
Robert Collier |
| Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great
rewards. |
Elbert Hubbard |
US author (1856 - 1915) |
| It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the
harvest. |
Orison Swett Marden |
(1850 - 1924) |
| Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap
a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give. |
Anthony Norvell |
| It is bad luck to be superstitious. |
Andrew W. Mathis |
| Our goal can only be reached through
a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other
route to success. |
Stephen A. Brennan |
| Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves. |
Alexander Clark |
| Those who cannot tell what they
desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what
direction we are moving. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| When you determined what you want,
you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it. |
Douglas Lurtan |
| In life, the first thing you must do
is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your
mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. |
Alfred A. Montapert |
| Providence has nothing good or high
in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of
success. |
T. T. Munger |
| What an immense power over the life
is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and
alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
| You, too, can determine what you
want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination. |
Clement Stone |
| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
US abolitionist & clergyman
(1813 - 1887) |
| My religion consists of a humble
admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail
and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a
superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,
forms my idea of God |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| In making up the character of God,
the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much
tribulation. |
Michael Monahan |
| Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. |
Author Unknown |
| Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory. |
Elbert Hubbard |
US author (1856 - 1915) |
| One who is too wise an observer of
the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his
curiosity. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| When of a gossiping circle it was
asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies." |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Irish dramatist & politician
(1751 - 1816) |
| Who gossips to you will gossip about you. |
Turkish |
| Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of
the tongue. |
Author Unknown |
| An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation |
Author Unknown |
| Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind |
Author Unknown |
| To live so that you would not be
ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well |
Author Unknown |
| Great men are true men, the men in
whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men
who are not what they ought to be. |
Henri-Frederic Amiel |
| All great men are gifted with
intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. |
Alexis Carrel |
French biologist & surgeon
(1873 - 1944) |
| The reason why great men meet with
so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune,
his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than
gratitude. |
C. C. Colton |
| The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. |
Confucius |
Chinese philosopher & reformer
(551 BC - 479 BC) |
| No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| The measure of a master is his
success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| The lights of stars that were
extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations
of their personalities. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| There would be no great men if there were no little ones. |
George Herbert |
English clergyman & metaphysical poet
(1593 - 1633) |
| The man who is anybody and who does
anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness,
and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof
of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure
continously without resentment. |
Elbert Hubbard |
US author (1856 - 1915) |
| In our society those who are in
reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. |
Marya Mannes |
| No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no
crown. |
William Penn |
English religious leader and colonist
(1644 - 1718) |
| Democracy is the theory that the
common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| He is not great who is not greatly good. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. |
Author Unknown |
| It is partly to avoid consciousness
of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less
are a reproach. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
| We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. |
Author Unknown |
| Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does
not speak. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
US poet (1807 - 1882) |
| We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. |
R. C. Allen |
| The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without
trials. |
Chinese Proverb |
| I have always believed, and I still
believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into
something of value. |
Hermann Hesse |
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 -
1962) |
| Unquestionably, there is progress.
The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Close scrutiny will show that most
"crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. |
Dr. Maxwell Maltz |
| When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat
you, or you defeat it. |
Rosilind Russell |
| It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our
preaching. |
Saint Francis Of Assisi |
Italian monk & saint (1181 -
1226) |
| Examples is more forcible than
precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. |
Robert Cecil |
| The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. |
Lee Iacocca |
US automobile businessman (1924
- ) |
| The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the
example. |
Robert Hall |
| So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the
whole world. |
Immanuel Kant |
German philosopher (1724 - 1804) |
| The conscience of children is formed
by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they
breathe. |
Ricther |
| Alexander received more bravery of
mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. |
Sir Philip Sidney |
English poet, politician, & soldier
(1554 - 1586) |
| People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. |
Author Unknown |
| Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American
public. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as
well as quoting. |
Author Unknown |
| Children are natural mimics; they
act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners. |
Author Unknown |
| Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an
officer. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Guilt upon the conscience, like rust
upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very
heart and substance of the metal. |
South |
| The guilty catch themselves. |
Author Unknown |
| Habits - the only reason they
persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of
satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned
in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. |
Juliene Berk |
| Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man
himself. |
Evenus |
| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| The phrases that men hear or repeat
continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| Consciousness is a phase of mental
life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes
to spoil our performance. |
W. R. Inge |
| If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you
would end by believing it. |
Horace Mann |
US educator (1796 - 1859) |
| How people keep correcting us when
we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are
tools to help us through life. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| In early childhood you may lay the
foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach
them right habits then, and their future life is safe. |
Mrs. Sigourney |
| Our repeated failure to fully act as
we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time
release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost
insuperable. |
Thomas Troward |
| As a twig is bent the tree inclines. |
Virgil |
Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) |
| Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. |
Author Unknown |
| To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be
happy. |
Henri-Frederic Amiel |
| The really happy man never laughs -
seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -
and the happy are not over strung. |
Prof. F. A. P. Aveling |
| The whole world is in revolt. Soon
there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the
King of Diamonds. |
King Farouk of Egypt, 1948 |
king of Egypt 1936-1952 (1920 -
1965) |
| It is inaccurate to say that I hate
everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever
ineligible for public office. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses
the whole attention. |
E. F. Benson |
| But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the
life he leads. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not
trying to impress other birds and horses. |
Dale Carnegie |
| There is this difference between
happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest,
is generally the greatest fool. |
C. C. Colton |
| The happiness of most people we know
is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. |
Ernest Dimnet |
| Happiness is like manna; it is to be
gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of
ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a
Heaven, at our very door. |
Tyron Edwards |
| Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting
some on yourself. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| One of the indictments of
civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. |
William Feather |
(1908 - 1976) |
| Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you
have money or not. |
Jerry Gellis |
| You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you
really need. |
Vernon Howard |
| He is rich who owes nothing. |
Hungarian |
| Happiness comes of the capacity to
feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. |
Storm Jameson |
| Many persons have the wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose. |
Helen Keller |
US blind & deaf educator (1880
- 1968) |
| Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. |
Nikolaus Lenus |
| Remember that happiness is as
contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
Belgian dramatist, essayist, & poet
(1862 - 1949) |
| Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. |
John Stuart Mill |
English economist & philosopher
(1806 - 1873) |
| If one only wished to be happy, this
could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we
believe others to be happier than they are. |
Montesquieu |
| If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. |
Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675 |
English mathematician & physicist
(1642 - 1727) |
| The happiest people are those who
think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good
music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the
happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they
are the cause of happiness in others. |
William Lyon Phelps |
| Philosophers should consider the
fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace
it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the
fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy,
while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private
initiative. |
Karl Popper |
| We are more interested in making
others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
French author & moralist (1613
- 1680) |
| If there were in the world today any
large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| Happiness is the only sanction of
life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Lead the life that will make you
kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. |
Charles M. Schwab |
| Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. |
Booth Tarkington |
US novelist (1869 - 1946) |
| Happiness cannot be traveled to,
owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and
gratitude. |
Denis Waitley |
| Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they
already have. |
Author Unknown |
| If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. |
Author Unknown |
| Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. |
Author Unknown |
| Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind
them. |
Sir Thomas Browne |
(1605 - 1682) |
| When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our
enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. |
Dale Carnegie |
| Hatred - The anger of the weak. |
Alphonse Daulet |
| He that fears your presence will hate you absence. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian
(1608 - 1661) |
| We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred. |
Basil W. Maturin |
| Hatred of enemies is easier and more
intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at
large no great good is to be expected. |
Lord Bertrand Russell |
| It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my
reasons for them! |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. |
Tacitus |
| Hate pollutes the mind. |
Author Unknown |
| Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at
whom you throw it. |
Author Unknown |
| If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find
ourselves. |
Author Unknown |
| The healthy, the strong individual,
is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. |
Rona Barrett |
| One of the most appalling comments
on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and
mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of
accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those
people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if
they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the
morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight
compartments. |
Dale Carnegie |
| The building of a perfect body
crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race. |
Dio Lewis |
| What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of
health. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| A bodily disease which we look upon
as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
US author (1804 - 1864) |
| Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the
exercises walking is the best. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| The more I work with the body,
keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given
"disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational
demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. |
Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell |
| All excess is ill, but drunkenness
is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,
lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. |
William Penn |
English religious leader and colonist
(1644 - 1718) |
| The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air,
easy labor, and little care. |
Sir Philip Sidney |
English poet, politician, & soldier
(1554 - 1586) |
| Must be out-of-doors enough to get
experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless
life |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Look to your health; and if you have
it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy;
therefore value it, and be thankful for it. |
Izaak Walton |
English biographer & fishing author
(1593 - 1683) |
| Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. |
Author Unknown |
| To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle. |
Author Unknown |
| At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do
not cease to be insipid. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| A patient going to a doctor for his
first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"<br>"Only the village
druggist," was the answer.<br>"And what sort of foolish
advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and
manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.<br>"Oh,"
replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come
and see you." |
Author Unknown |
| "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought,
"he told me to come and see you." |
Author Unknown |
| It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary. |
Author Unknown |
| For my part, I consider that it will
be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| A page of history is worth a pound of logic. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| It was a grand trait of the old
Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty. |
Advance |
| Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| Nothing more completely baffles one
who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel
with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel
with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and
address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is
neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. |
C. C. Colton |
| That which is won ill, will never
wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways
of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. |
M. Henry |
| Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? |
Sidney Madwed |
| The honest man must be a perpetual
renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself
perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable,
renascent errors. |
Charles Peguy |
| We must make the world honest before
we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| I hope I shall possess firmness and
virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. |
George Washington |
First president of US (1732 -
1799) |
| The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong
wine to him that hath a fever. |
Plutarch |
Greek biographer & moralist
(46 AD - 120 AD) |
| Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on
Lincoln. |
Bruce Barton |
| There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. |
Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977 |
US computer engineer & industrialist
(1926 - ) |
| Hope is both the earliest and the
most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where
confidence is wounded, trust impaired. |
Erik H. Erikson |
| My country owes me nothing. It gave
me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service
and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without
inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. |
Herbert Hoover |
US mining engineer & politician
(1874 - 1964) |
| Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. |
Johnson |
| Hope is the companion of power, and
mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. |
Samuel Smiles |
| Drinking without being thirsty and
making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. |
Beaumarchis |
| Nature is trying very hard to make
us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment |
R. Buckminster Fuller |
US architect & engineer (1895
- 1983) |
| The man of power is ruined by power,
the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. |
Hermann Hesse |
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 -
1962) |
| Human nature is not of itself vicious. |
Thomas Paine |
US patriot & political philosopher
(1737 - 1809) |
| Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein |
US administrator & astrophysicist
(1904 - 1967) |
| It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on
the inside. |
Author Unknown |
| It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore
it. |
Author Unknown |
| Too many people confine their
exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job,
sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. |
Author Unknown |
| Being reproached for giving to an
unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity." |
Johnson |
| It is no great thing to be humble
when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. |
Saint Bernard |
French abbot & saint (1090 -
1153) |
| If thou desire the love of God and
man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where
neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. |
Francis Quarles |
English poet (1592 - 1644) |
| True humor springs not more from the
head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles,
which lie far deeper. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| The essence of all jokes, of all
comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed,
at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking
of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we
call laughter. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Good humor is a paradox. The
unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. |
Helitzer |
| Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. |
W. C. Fields |
US actor (1880 - 1946) |
| Unless a man or woman has
experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the
ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited. |
Helen Luke |
| He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze. |
Dave Preston |
| It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of
gravity, and gravity of humor. |
Shaftesbury |
| Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. |
Author Unknown |
| Imagination was given man to
compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
Author Unknown |
| Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor. |
Author Unknown |
| Hypocrisy can afford to be
magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. |
Edmund Burke |
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) |
| No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| False face must hide what the false heart doth know. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| The computing field is always in need of new cliches. |
Alan Perlis |
| Ideals are like stars; you will not
succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your
guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. |
Carl Schurz |
US (German-born) general & politician
(1829 - 1906) |
| It is useless to send armies against ideas. |
Georg Brandes |
| There is only one way in which a
person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition
in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not
previously aware. |
Francis A. Carter |
| Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Russian novelist (1821 - 1881) |
| We are prisoners of ideas. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Men who accomplish great things in
the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. |
Charles Fillmore |
| Whenever I hear people talking about
"liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should
never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so
that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place
for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| A new and valid idea is worth more
than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of
revelation. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| The thinker dies, but his thoughts
are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. |
William Lippmann |
| It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. |
Klemens Von Metternich |
| A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea. |
Jules Renard |
(1864 - 1910) |
| There is nothing in the world more
powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. |
James Roy Smith |
| Ideas are the factors that lift
civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. |
Bishop Vincent |
| "What made the deepest
impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when
you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara,
the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me
most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the
characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water
come from?" |
Author Unknown |
| Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. |
Author Unknown |
| In idleness there is a perpetual despair. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| Idleness is an inlet to disorder,
and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. |
Jeremy Collier |
| Sloth makes all things difficult,
but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while
laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the
hours that counts. |
Sidney Madwed |
| Rather do what is nothing in the
purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the
fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the
self-made sepulcher of a living man. |
Francis Quarles |
English poet (1592 - 1644) |
| Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform
thine own. |
Smart |
| To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
Scottish author (1850 - 1894) |
| It is better to be a beggar than
ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity. |
Aristippus |
| By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least. |
Gay |
| Ignorance, when voluntary, is
criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. |
Johnson |
| Nothing is so good for an ignorant
man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. |
Saadi |
Persian poet (1184 - 1291) |
| To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. |
Jeremy Taylor |
English prelate (1613 - 1667) |
| In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. |
Pliny the Elder |
Roman scholar & scientist (23
AD - 79 AD) |
| What is now proved was only once imagined. |
Blake |
| The great successful men of the
world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing
that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there,
altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. |
Robert Collier |
| We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. |
Donald Curtis |
| Five thousand balloons, capable of
raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to
cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending
from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief
before a force could be brought together to repel them? |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| First comes thought; then
organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will
observe, is in your imagination. |
Napoleon Hill |
| All the works of man have their
origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| Study the situation thoroughly, go
over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from
each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead. |
Dr. Maxwell Maltz |
| It is not that the child lives in a
world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which
makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? |
Cesare Pavese |
Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 - 1950) |
| The entrepreneur is essentially a
visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. |
Robert L Schwartz |
| Where a calculator on the ENIAC is
equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. |
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949 |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| The faculty of imagination is the
great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind
scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with,
it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present
condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the
pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this
faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the
brutes. |
Dugald Stewart |
| We can gradually grow into any
condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those
conditions. |
Thomas Troward |
| I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having
a mental workshop. |
Jack Youngblood |
| Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of
reason. |
Author Unknown |
| It is by imitation, far more than by
precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly.
This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives. |
Edmund Burke |
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) |
| I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of
others. |
Greville |
| It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions
and actions of others. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones;
it therefore makes slaves. |
Vinet |
| Whoever is out of patience is out of
possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. |
Sir Francis Bacon |
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) |
| There are two main human sins from
which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from
Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps
there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were
expelled, because of impatience they do not return. |
Franz Kafka |
Austrian (Czechoslovakian-born) author
(1883 - 1924) |
| It is only imperfection that
complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. |
Francois Fenelon |
| It is not a lucky word, this name
"impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. |
Napoleon |
| Judge of thine improvement, not by
what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian
(1608 - 1661) |
| A true history of human events would
show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of
which we so much boast. |
Albert Cooper |
| Everything without tells the
individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. |
X. Doudan |
| Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. |
James Goldsmith |
| One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| God has so made the mind of man that
a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. |
Wilberforce |
| The great thing is the start - to
see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him
for nothing. |
Robert Collier |
| Create a definite plan for carrying
out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. |
Napoleon Hill |
| To be always intending to live a new
life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another
till he be starved and destroyed. |
Sir Walter Scott |
Scottish author & novelist
(1771 - 1832) |
| The worst thing one can do is not to
try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could
have materialized - never knowing. |
David Viscott |
| If you had the seeds of pestilence
in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply
to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared
with which mere language and persuasion are feeble. |
Horace Bushnell |
| He who wishes to exert a useful
influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to
the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise
temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| The influence of individual character extends from generation to
generation. |
Macleod |
| The words that a father speaks to
his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard
at the end, and by posterity. |
Ricther |
| Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. |
Edmund Burke |
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) |
| It is better to obey the mysterious
direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much
reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else. |
H. M. Tomlinson |
| Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is
right and stick to it. |
George Eliot |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| In all things preserve integrity;
and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and
disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the
ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other
rewards. |
Barbara Paley |
| God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given
us, on this side of the grave. |
Sir Francis Bacon |
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) |
| It is the mind that makes the body
rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the
extrasensory perception of reality. |
Alexis Carrel |
French biologist & surgeon
(1873 - 1944) |
| The mind can assert anything and
pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there,
then I accept. |
D. H. Lawrence |
English novelist (1885 - 1930) |
| In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In
practice, there is. |
Chuck Reid |
| Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and
loading them with guesses. |
Author Unknown |
| Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others. |
Alexandre Dumas |
French dramatist & novelist
(1802 - 1870) |
| Jealousy would be far less torturous
if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. |
Paul Eldridge |
| In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
French author & moralist (1613
- 1680) |
| We find greatest joy, not in
getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and
holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a
higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better
to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who
lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life
itself. |
R. J. Baughan |
| We ask God to forgive us for our
evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness. |
R. W. Dale |
| Joy is not a thing, it is in us. |
Charles Wagner |
| It is one of the beautiful
compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself. |
Bailey |
| The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of
gore. |
Lord Byron |
English poet & satirist (1788
- 1824) |
| Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. |
W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels" |
US actor (1880 - 1946) |
| Humanity has advanced, when it has
advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious,
and immature. |
Tom Robbins |
US novelist (1936 - ) |
| Tenderness and kindness are not
signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown
away. |
Sir Arthur Helps |
| One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those
who are kind. |
Malayan Proverb |
| My feeling is that there is nothing
in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. |
Olive Schreiner |
| Friendship is a living thing that
lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. |
Author Unknown |
| Real knowledge, like everything else
of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be
prayed for. |
Thomas Arnold |
| Learning is acquired by reading
books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and
studying all the various facets of them. |
Lord Chesterfield |
(1694 - 1773) |
| Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. |
Will Durant |
US historian (1885 - 1981) |
| What is not fully understood is not possessed. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| Knowledge always desires increase;
it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it. |
Johnson |
| It is not so important to know
everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know. |
Hannah More |
| Accurate knowledge is the basis of
correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. |
Charles Simmons |
| Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be
known. |
Edwin P. Whipple |
| Words are the leaves of the tree of
language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. |
Field Marshall John French |
| Every year, if not every day, we
have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| Poetry cannot be translated; and,
therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could
have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the
beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which
it was originally written, we learn the language. |
Johnson |
| Grammar and logic free language from
being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered
name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. |
Rosenstock-Huessy |
| We are armed with language adequate
to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge,
Providence, - what are they? |
Author Unknown |
| Laughter, while it lasts, slackens
and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the
soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human
nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how
often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our
spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to
grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. |
Joseph Addison |
English essayist, poet, & politician
(1672 - 1719) |
| We sometimes laugh from ear to ear,
but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. |
Chazal |
| Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of
decency. |
Quintilian |
Roman rhetorician |
| Life does not cease to be funny when
people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| A good laugh is sunshine in a house. |
Author Unknown |
| When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people
are. |
Author Unknown |
| Foolish men imagine that because
judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is
many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as
life, it is sure as death. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right |
Gypsy Proverb |
| We find it hard to apply the
knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without
reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing
others as wholly black or white. |
Eric Hoffer |
(1902 - 1983) |
| It has been said that man is a
rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| Judgment is forced upon us by experience. |
Johnson |
| Because the results are expressed in
numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a
pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure.
Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an
exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. |
Walter Lippmann |
US author & journalist (1889 -
1974) |
| It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet
each believes his own. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of
other men. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments
upon that which seems. |
Robert Southey |
English poet (1774 - 1843) |
| The term "learning
disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological
condition for which no one can be held
particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental
retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or
improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the
part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to
have around. |
U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children |
| One look around us ought to show
that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind. |
Author Unknown |
| No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of
the righteous. |
Author Unknown |
| Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break. |
Author Unknown |
| The whole problem with the world is
that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| There are no office hours for leaders. |
Cardinal James Gibbons |
| A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying
responsibilities. |
Jules Ormont |
| The best leader is the one who has
the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. |
Author Unknown |
| Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their
minds. |
Author Unknown |
| Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of
learning. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British politician (1804 - 1881) |
| Till a man can judge whether they be
truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may
be little knowing. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| Ignorance of all things is an evil
neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by
a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little
worldings enjoy. |
Edward Young |
English poet (1683 - 1765) |
| Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of
time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. |
Author Unknown |
| Falsehood is never so successful as
when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no
watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. |
C. C. Colton |
| Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. |
John Russell |
| Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. |
Hasidic Saying |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of
lying. |
Michel de Montaigne |
French essayist (1533 - 1592) |
| Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a
sign of truth. |
Blaise Pascal |
French mathematician, physicist
(1623 - 1662) |
| Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of
being. |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| A liar begins with making falsehood
appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. |
William Shenstone |
| The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie. |
Author Unknown |
| A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one. |
Author Unknown |
| It is easier to believe a lie that
one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. |
Author Unknown |
| All of the books in the world
contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have
equal value. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his
soul, the director of his life. |
James Allen |
| I am convinced that the world is not
a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place
here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to
intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage
prevail. |
Charles A. Beard |
| Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. |
John Burroughs |
US essayist & naturalist (1837
- 1921) |
| If, after all, men cannot always
make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| How small a portion of our life it
is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to
things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more
occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in
vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time. |
C. C. Colton |
| The journey is difficult, immerse.
We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we
hunger to know. |
Loren Eiseley |
| The life of man is the true romance,
which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Sooner of later that which is now
life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| It is of interest to note that while
some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been
reported to have learned dolphinese. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| Life does not count by years. Some
suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. |
Augusta Jane Evans |
| Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character,
and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our
marching onward. |
Henry Ford |
US automobile industrialist (1863
- 1947) |
| Viewed from the summit of reason,
all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography
in advance. |
Abraham J. Heschel |
| To live is to function. That is all there is in living. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| He that embarks on the voyage of
life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their
passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. |
Johnson |
| Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
Soren Kierkegaard |
Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) |
| The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor
hand well. |
H. T. Leslie |
| But the fact that some geniuses were
laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at
Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo
the Clown. |
Carl Sagan |
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996) |
| Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at
the end? |
Madame de Maintenon |
| Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest. |
Wilson Mizner |
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) |
| Life is easier to take than you
think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. |
Kathleen Norris |
| I exhort you also to take part in
the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Life was meant to be lived, and
curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
Hyman G. Rickover |
| There is no wealth but life. |
John Ruskin |
English critic, essayist, & reformer
(1819 - 1900) |
| That life is worth living is the
most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| I will govern my life and thoughts
as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my
neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies
are open? |
Seneca |
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
| The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be
like Him. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| However mean your life is, meet it
and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I
also keep handy. |
W. C. Fields |
US actor (1880 - 1946) |
| He is not dead who departs from life
with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. |
Tieck |
| We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
US architect (1869 - 1959) |
| The average person living to age 70
has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun. |
Author Unknown |
| After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances
that complicate it. |
Author Unknown |
| Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live
for. |
Author Unknown |
| No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. |
Author Unknown |
| Life is too short to be taken seriously. |
Author Unknown |
| Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British politician (1804 - 1881) |
| So when you are listening to
somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being
conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. |
Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. |
J. W. Schopf |
| To be listened to is, generally
speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have
been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when
confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the
freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered
these conditions, he becomes frigthened. |
Robert C. Murphy |
| A good listener tries to understand
what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know
exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. |
Kenneth A. Wells |
| Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should
be listening. |
Author Unknown |
| The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head
affirmatively but says nothing. |
Author Unknown |
| Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking
to be done. |
Persian |
| Americans become unhappy and vicious
because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems
to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen
our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. |
Philip Saltier |
| There is a law that man should love
his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait;
but if he does not learn it he must perish. |
Alfred Adler |
Austrian psychiatrist & psychologist
(1870 - 1937) |
| The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love
only one. |
Honore De Balzac |
French realist novelist (1799 -
1850) |
| Young love is a flame; very pretty,
often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals,
deep-burning, unquenchable. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
US abolitionist & clergyman
(1813 - 1887) |
| Anything will give up its secrets if
you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up
their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they
give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. |
George Washington Carver |
| Love is an alliance of friendship
and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. |
C. C. Colton |
