-- New Page! --
For the past year or so I've been compiling
tons of great quotes for various reasons - one of which being to add them to my web page.
Since I have some time on my hands (aka..bored in the early morning), I decided to
finally organize and post them. Enjoy!
Life
"Life is not always what one wants
it to be, but to make the
best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy."
--Jennie Jerome Churchill
"We are what we believe we
are."
--Benjamin N. Cardozo
"Don't let other people tell you
what you want."
--Pat Riley
"What we call reality is an
agreement that people have
arrived at to make life more livable."
--Louise Nevelson
"We learn the rope of life by
untying its knots."
--Jean Toomer
"Could we change our attitude, we
should not only see life
differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Life would undergo a change of appearance because we
ourselves had undergone a change of attitude."
--Katherine Mansfield
Always forgive
your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"There
is just one life for each of us: our own." --Euripides
"Nature
arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any
other."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The human
spirit is stronger than anything that can happen
to it."
--George C. Scott
"Happiness is
not the absence of conflict, but the ability to
cope with it."
--Anon.
"We only do
well the things we like doing."
--Colette
"Avoiding
danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
--Helen Keller
"Good luck is
often with the man who doesn't include it in
his plans."
--Anon.
"Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success
achieved."
--Helen Keller
Good judgement
comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
-- Jim Horning
"If you don't
stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
--Michael Evans
“Conscience is the
inner voice that warns us that someone might be
looking.”--H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
-- M. Kathleen Casey
"The education of a
man is never complete until he dies."
--Robert E. Lee
"Worry is as
useless as a handle on a snowball."
--Mitzi Chandler
"Life is like a
game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is
free will."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do." --Jose
Ortega y Gasset
Love
"If love is the answer, could you
please rephrase the question?"
--Lily Tomlin
"Zest
is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest." --Christian
Dior
Friendship
Friendship is the hardest thing in the
world to explain. It's not
something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning
of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
-- Muhammad Ali
The only
way to have a friend is to be one.-Emerson
"I
can trust my friends… These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to
grow."
--Cher
Music
"Music melts all the separate parts
of our bodies together."
--Anais Nin
"It
had never occurred to me before that music and thinking
are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another
way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the
brain."
--George Szell
"Music creates order out of chaos:
for rhythm imposes
unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon
the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the
incongruous."
--Yehudi Menuhin
Society
The trouble with America is that there
are far too many wide-open
spaces surrounded by teeth.
-- Charles Luckman
This country has come to feel the same
when Congress is in session as
when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
"People who drink to drown their
sorrow should be told that
sorrow knows how to swim."
--Ann Landers
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
The word
'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
-- Larry Hardiman
A lie can
travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting
on its shoes.-- Mark Twain
"In
order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion..." --Albert
Camus
"In this
country, when you finish second, no one knows your name." --Frank McGuire
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." --Martina
Navritalova
The Road to
Success
"If you want a place in the sun, you
have to put up with a
few blisters."
--Abigail Van Buren
"The day you take complete
responsibility for yourself, the
day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your
move to the top."
--O. J. Simpson
I don't know the key to success, but the
key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
"A failure is a man who has
blundered, but is not able to
cash in on the experience."
--Elbert Hubbard
"There is no substitute for hard
work."
--Thomas Edison
"It takes a certain
level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly
offered."
--Michael Harrington
"Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeeds. Only
inconsiderate ambition imperils."
--Warren G. Harding
"There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well
take a nap.'"
--Carrie Fisher
"Arriving at
one goal is the starting point to another."
--John Dewey
"The superior
man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only
later." --Confucius
"Each man is
capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts
several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
--Plato
"Show me a
person who has never made a mistake and I'll show
you someone who has never achieved much."
--Joan Collins
"The block of
granite, which was an obstacle in the path of
the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the
strong."
--Thomas Carlyle
"There is no
such thing as a great talent without great will- power."–Balzac
"The only way
to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." --Ginger Rogers
"Success
comes before work only in the dictionary."
--Anon
"Striving for
success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."
--David Bly
"You can't
steal second base and keep one foot on first."
--Anon.
"A winner never
quits and a quitter never wins." --Anon.
Dedication,
Determination, and Dreams
"Any man's life will be filled with
constant and unexpected
encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best
each day."
--Booker T. Washington
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
-- Johann von Schiller
"The impossible is often the
untried."
--Jim Goodwin
"The world is all gates, all
opportunities, strings of
tension waiting to be struck."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of
their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams
can become a reality when we possess a vision that is
characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for
excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be
equal members of society.
-- Janet Jackson
"If you have
a great ambition, take as big a step as possible
in the direction of
fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one,
but trust that it may be
the largest one possible for now."
--Mildred McAfee
"Hope
sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves
the impossible."
--Anon.
Never be
afraid to try something new. Remember: amateurs built the
Ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
"Do
each daily task the best we can; act as tough the eye of
opportunity were always upon us."
--William Feather
"Courage is
fear holding on a minute longer."
--Gen. George S. Patton
"Courage is
the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
--Clare Booth Luce
"The
important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in
your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
--Rene Descartes
The only way to
discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
It's all right
letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
-- Mick Jagger
"When you get
into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not
hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn." ---Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Just don't
give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I
don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald
Whatever you do,
you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your
critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of
the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and
women to win them.-Emerson
Few things are
impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are
performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-- Samuel Johnson
"Experience
tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." --Stan Smith
"When you
have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a
little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
--Isak Dinesen
"In all human
affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the
measure of the result."
-- James Lane Allen
"If we cannot
do what we will, we must will what we can."
--Yiddish proverb
"It is never too
late to be what you might have been."
--George Eliot
"The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct
action."
--William Burnham
"Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us
through them."
--Brendan Francis
He/She Said
That?!?
You
can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
-- Ronald Reagan
"I have
offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have." --Leonardo
da Vinci
"My life has
been nothing but a failure." --Claude Monet
"When I
examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of
fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." --Albert Einstein
Time
"We must use time as a tool, not as
a crutch."
--John F. Kennedy
"Time is a fixed income and, as with
any income, the real
problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within
our daily allotment."
--Margaret B. Johnstone
Know the true value of time; snatch,
seize, and enjoy every moment of
it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till
tomorrow what you can do today.
-- Lord Chesterfield
I must govern the clock, not be governed
by it.
-- Golda Meir
"The time is always right to do what
is right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Every second
is of infinite value." --Goethe
"Cease to inquire
what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." --Horace
History is the
version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
"Whether it's
the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."
--Art Buchwald
"With the past, I
have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The crisis
of today is the joke of tomorrow."
--H. G. Wells
Nothing is a waste
of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Rodin
Optimism/Belief
in Self
"Self-confidence is the first
requisite to great
undertakings."
--Samuel Johnson
"We have to dare to be ourselves,
however frightening or
strange that self may prove to be."
--May Sarton
"Optimism is the faith that leads to
achievement. Nothing can
be done without hope or confidence."
--Helen Keller
"We
should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
--John
F. Kennedy
"It
is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
--Andre
Gide
"Be
a friend to thyself, and others will be so to."
--Thomas Fuller
"Love yourself first and everything falls into line."
--Lucille Ball
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it
one cannot be friends with anyone else."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be a first rate version of
yourself, not a second rate
version of someone else."
--Judy Garland
"Man is what he believes."
--Anton Chekhov
"Our
entire life--consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."
--Jean Anouilh
Growth
begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."
--Jean Vanier
"Most
folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." --Abraham Lincoln
"Regret
is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing
in."
--Katherine Mansfield
Lessons and
Words to Live By
"A closed mouth gathers no
feet."
--Anon.
After eating an entire
bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started
roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The
moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
-- Will Rogers
There's two theories to
arguin' with a woman. Neither one works.
-- Will Rogers
There are three kinds of
men. The one that learns by reading. The few
who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the
electric fence for themselves.
-- Will Rogers
Never miss a good chance
to shut up.
-- Will Rogers
It is easier to stay out
than get out.
-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"The squeaky wheel
doesn't always get greased; it often gets
replaced."
--John Peers
"Make sure you have
finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
--Dorothy Sarnoff
Just because something
doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't
mean it's useless.
-- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Nothing ever goes away.
-- Barry Commoner
"To do
two things at once is to do neither."
--Publius Syrus
"Don't ever
slam a door; you might want to go back."
--Don Herold
"The real art
of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid
the wrong thing at the tempting moment." --Dorothy Nevill
"Fear to let
fall a drop and you spill a lot." --Malay
proverb
"The most valuable
of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."--Thomas Jefferson
"Forgive your
enemies, but never forget their names."
--John F. Kennedy
"From a fallen
tree, make kindling."
--Spanish proverb
"Putting off
an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard
think makes it impossible."
--George C. Lorimer
"The healthy
and strong individual is the one who asks for
help when he needs it."
--Rona Barrett
"Do not blame
anybody for your mistakes and failures."
--Bernard M. Baruch
Just For
Laughs and Everything Else
It seemed the
world was divided into good and bad people. The good
ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking
hours much more.
-- Woody Allen
An author is a fool who,
not content with boring those he lives with,
insists on boring future generations.
-- Charles de Montesquieu
Ahhh. A man with a
sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him
before he cuts himself.
-- Peter da Silva
In science one tries to
tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
The two most
abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison
Politicians and diapers
have one thing in common. They should both
be changed regularly and for the same reason.
The surest sign that
intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The most exciting
phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
-- Isaac Asimov
The human mind treats a
new idea the same way the body treats a
strange protein; it rejects it.
-- P. B. Medawar
"My advice to
you is not to inquire why or whither but just
enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate – that's my
philosophy."
--Thornton Wilder (from The Skin of Our Teeth)
"If there were no
schools to take the children away from home
part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with
mothers."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"In real
life, I assure you, there is no such thing as
algebra."
--Fran Lebowitz
"When a man points
a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at
himself."
--Louis Nizer
A computer lets
you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-- Mitch Ratcliffe
It is not
necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Caron de Beaumarchais
"Advice is what we
ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't."
--Erica Jong
"When nobody around
you measures up, it's time to check your
yardstick."
--Bill Lemly
"When dealing with
the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
-- Hermann Hesse
Education is a
progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-- Will Durant
A compromise is
the art of dividing a cake in such a way that
everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
-- Ludwig Erhard
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
-- Unknown
