Quotes

These are quotes that I never tire of reading. Some are funny, some serious, some provoke thought, and others inspire. Please take the time to read each and every one of them; and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. ~Elizabeth


"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." --Will Rogers

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon."--Susan Ertz

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."--Albert Einstein

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."--Timothy Leary

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."--Unknown

"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."--Jerome K. Jerome

"Live every day of your life so you can look anyone in the eye and tell them to go to hell."--Unknown

"Nobody wants justice."--Alan Dershowitz

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."--Fran Lebowitz

"Death is just a distant rumor to the young."--Andy Rooney

"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."--Lena Horn

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."--Nancy Reagan

"Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long."--Ogden Nash

"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."--Ashanti Proverb

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."--John Patrick

"It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them."--Thomas Wilson

"Never mistake motion for action."--Ernest Hemingway

"Oh, what lies there are in kisses!"--Heinrich Heine

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."--Benjamine Franklin

"To have just one person come to you with tears in their eyes and thank you for the hope, wisdom, and leadership that changed their life, is the highest compliment and paycheck you will ever receive. And to think that the government hasn't taxed it yet."--Cheryl Dunham's husband

"If you are wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.''--Halverson

"The only person you need to prove anything to Is yourself."--David Gethings

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."--Abraham Lincoln

"I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."--Syrus

"It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity alway finds friends."--Euripedes

"Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you."--Alcott

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."--Alfred Adler

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason."--Richard Trench

"Like everything metaphysical, the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the doiminion of the great."--Edmund Burke

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."--John S. Mill

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."--Ralph W. Emerson

"We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us."--F. W. Bareham

"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials."--Unknown

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."--Doris Mortman

"Keeping your eyes on the heavens~ And your feet upon the floor Eyes on the sky can open any door."--Von Ra, "Eyes On The Sky"

"Lost time is never found again."--Benjamin Franklin

"'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give some people. I am free of all prejudices; I hate everyone equally."--W.C. Fields

"A wise man changes his mind; a fool never."--Unknown

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."--Unknown

"If they could put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all?"--Unknown

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..."--Francis Bacon

"No truer word, save God's was ever spoken,/Than that the largest heart is soonest broken."--Walter Savage

"Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one."--W.C. Fields

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."--David Wolf

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else."--Will Rogers

"In America, anyone can become president. It is one of the risks you take."--Adlai Stevenson

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."--Peter Drucker

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."--Albert Einstein

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."--Woody Allen

"Money is a good servant but a bad master."--French Proverb

"If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles."--Benjamin Franklin

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."--Helen Keller

"I don't know the key to success; but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."--Bill Cosby

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."--Albert Einstein

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."--JFK

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."--Vince Lombardi

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."--Benjamin Franklin

"I do not wish to be Everything to Everyone, But I do wish to be Something to Someone."--Javan

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy."--Henry Ford

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."--MLK

"It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life."--Benjamin E. Mays

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."--Booker T. Washington

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."--Harvey Fierstein

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."--Chinese Proverb

"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path and don't worry about the darkness for that is when stars shine the brightest."--Unknown

"Reputation is what you do when people are looking. Character is what you do when people aren't looking."--Unknown

"You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how little they did."--Unknown

"I know that God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."--David Viscott

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."--Anonymous

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."--Unknown

"Failures are divided into two classes- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."--John Charles Salak

"I will pay more for the ability to deal with other people than for any other ability under the sun."--Unknown

"Love is a friendship that is set on fire."--Unknown

"The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent."--Jean Paul Richter

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."--Paramanhansa Yogananda

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."--Albert Einstein

"I'd rather be happy than right, anyday."--Unknown

"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."--Thomas Jefferson

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorence of them."--Titus Livius Livy

"You got to dance like nobody else are watching"
"Dream like you will live forever"
"Live like you're going to die tomorrow"
"And love like it is never gonna hurt"--James Dean

"Discipline is remembering what you want."--David Campbell

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."--George Washington

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."--Abraham Lincoln

"When all the odds are against me I prove them wrong, When all else fails I succeed, When all else ceases to live I Breathe, When all turns to ashes from it I rise, So it doesn't matter what you throw at me or what you do, I am, I do, that's all that matters."--Heather Griggs

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."--Abba Eban

"If you want a place in the sun, prepare to put up with a few blisters."--Abigail Van Buren

"Say the Best; Think the Rest."--Sandy Fuentes

"Silence is argument carried on by other means."--Ernest "che" Guevara

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truely endless."--Mother Teresa

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."--Unknown

"One does not make friends. One recognizes them."--Garth Henrichs

"I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!"--Spaceballs (Dark Helmet)

"No one turns a new leaf with a mind that is littered."--Von Ra, "Eyes On The Sky"

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."--Anthony Robbins

"World records are only borrowed."--Unknown

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."--Cyril Connolly

"Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path."--Unknown

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."--David Frost

"A person who leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."--Unknown

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorence."--Confucius

"I think that there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."--Theodore Roosevelt

"Friends are born, not made."--Adams

"There is that speaketh like the piercing of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health."--Solomon

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."--Aesop

"Of all the people you will know in your life, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life; you are the only solution."--Anonymous

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is worry. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."--Albert Einstein

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."--William Lyon Phellps

"There are few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking."--Mary Lowry

"Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."--Elbert Hubbard

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."--Benjamine Franklin

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."--Carl W. Buechner

"If at first you don't succeed, point and click again."--Ricky Lankford

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."--Jesse Jackson

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."--Adolf Hitler

"Too many people are willing to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved."--Unknown

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."--Oscar Wilde

"No one can make you inferior without your consent."--Unknown

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."--Roger Crawford

"The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people."--Ashanti Proverb

"It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich."--Olga Korbut

"Revenge is often lke biting a dog because the dog bit you."--Austin O'Malley

"Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel."--Unknown

"Here's to woman! would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."--Ambrose Bierce

"I do not believe that nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face."--Francis Thompson

"The fewer the desires, the more peace."--Thomas Wilson

"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"--Percy Bysshe Shelley

"A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It seems that all the average fellow needs to make him take a chance is a warning."--Kin Hubbard

"Morality is always higher than the law and we connot forget this ever."--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"We clamour for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence."--Unknown

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead."--Oscar Wilde

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."--Edgar Watson Howe

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."--Naploeon I

"We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."--Jonathan Swift

"If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it."--William Penn

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you can get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."--Margaret Thatcher

"Everyone must row with the oars he has."--English Proverb

"In giving advice, seek to help, not to please your friend."--Solon

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."--Charles Lamb

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."--J. Macdonald

"Our bodies are where we stay. Our souls are what we are."--Cecil Baxter

"A bore is someone who, when you ask how he is, tells you."--Variously Ascribed

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."--The old man in the sea, Ernest Hemingway

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition."--Cesare Pavese

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."--E.B. White

"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."--Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you can't convince them confuse them."--Harry S. Truman

"Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."--William Jennings Bryan

"Success is the greatest revenge."--Unknown

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."--Benjamine Franklin

"They who feel no shame in doing what is obviously wrong, are the most shameful of all."--Unknown

"If you are not living on the edge, you take up too much room."--Native American Saying

"A friend is someone who knows you as you are
understands where you've been,
and still invites you to grow."--Unknown

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."--Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."--Unknown

"Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead
Just walk beside me
and be my friend."--Unknown

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."--Keshavan Nair

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."--E.E. Cummings

"Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet, someone SURVIVED."--Unknown

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to be silent and be called a fool than to speak and remove all doubt!"--Anonymous

"We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances we face."--Roger Crawford

"It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right."--Chen Fawn Meng

"Never hold on because you are afraid to let go."--Sarah Smith

"A true friend never gets in your way Unless you happen to be going down."--Robert Edwards

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."--Shakespeare

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."--Abraham Lincoln

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."--Walt Whitman

"A lot of people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."--Brownlow

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."--E.B. White

"Unselfish and nobel actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls."--Thames

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."--Erich Fromm

"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, He is a fool- shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple- teach him;He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep- wake him; He who knows an knows he knows, He is wise- follow him."--Arabian

"A man must keep his friendships in constant repair."--Samuel Johnson

"Genius is more often in a cracked pot than a whole one."--E.B. White

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

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