Quotes
Here are some of my favorite quotes, loosely categorized. I’ll update it on a regular basis.
| Arts | Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Arts | Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. | Mary Kay Ash |
| Arts | When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner. | Halle Berry |
| Arts | I shut my eyes in order to see. | Paul Gauguin |
| Arts | My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. | Ashleigh Brilliant |
| Arts | You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. | Mark Twain |
| Arts | A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. | Thomas Mann |
| Arts | Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. | William Congreve |
| Arts | If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. | Logan P. Smith |
| Arts | Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Arts | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. | Pablo Picasso |
| Arts | The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.  | Tom Clancy |
| Arts | Everyone is an artist. | Joseph Beuys |
| Arts | Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. | Anon. |
| Arts | A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. | Maya Angelou |
| Arts | Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. | Stella Adler |
| Arts | The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. | Edwin Schlossberg |
| Arts | What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Arts | Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. | William Blake |
| Arts | Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. | A.J. Reb Materi |
| Arts | Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. | Jonathan Swift |
| Arts | Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world | Albert Einstein |
| Arts | I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. | Pablo Picasso |
| Attitude | Go out on a limb… That’s where the fruit is. | Will Rogers |
| Attitude | It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. | W.C. Fields |
| Attitude | Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. | William Arthur Ward |
| Attitude | There is nothing greater than enthusiasm. | Henry Moore |
| Attitude | Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. | Michael Josephson |
| Attitude | Less is more. | Mies van der Rohe |
| Attitude | When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. | Chinese Proverb |
| Attitude | Trust, but verify. | Ronald Reagan |
| Attitude | The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | William James |
| Attitude | Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. | Soren Kierkegaard |
| Attitude | Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. | L. Thomas Holdcroft |
| Attitude | Sarcasm: That’s the salt in the daily stew of life that makes it tasty. | Roz Hayes |
| Attitude | To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. | Robert Pirsig |
| Attitude | Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. | Jean Paul Richter |
| Attitude | What we see depends mainly on what we look for. | John Lubbock |
| Attitude | Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. | John Ruskin |
| Attitude | Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. | Nelson DeMille |
| Attitude | The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. | Bertrand Russell |
| Attitude | Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. | Marilyn Vos Savant |
| Attitude | Each moment is a place you’ve never been. | Mark Strand |
| Attitude | People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they don’t want it. | Mark Twain |
| Attitude | Beggars cannot be choosers. | English Proverb |
| Attitude | Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. | Ambrose Bierce |
| Attitude | I know that God won’t give me more trouble than I can handle … but sometimes I wish he wouldn’t trust me so much. | Mother Theresa |
| Attitude | Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. | Albert Einstein |
| Attitude | Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. | Irving Berlin |
| Attitude | Holding on to a grievance gives the wrongdoer a way to hurt us again and again. | Michael Josephson |
| Attitude | They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days. | Garrison Keillor |
| Attitude | Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. | Native American Proverb |
| Attitude | For every minute you’re angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. | Anon. |
| Attitude | I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| Attitude | Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. | John Wicker |
| Attitude | Never miss a good chance to shut up. | Will Rogers |
| Attitude | What is now proved was once only imagined. | William Blake |
| Attitude | Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. | Glen Beaman |
| Attitude | Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. | Oscar Wilde |
| Attitude | We don’t remember days or years, we remember moments. | Anon. |
| Attitude | A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. | Herm Albright |
| Attitude | When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. | Lao Tzu |
| Attitude | Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | Aldous Huxley |
| Attitude | He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. | Dutch Proverb |
| Attitude | The world belongs to the energetic. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Attitude | If we don’t change direction, we’ll end up where we’re headed. | Chinese Proverb |
| Attitude | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Attitude | There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing | Maya Angelou |
| Attitude | Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. | Plato |
| Attitude | If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. | Eric Bentley |
| Attitude | If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. | Jennifer Jones |
| Attitude | Don’t let your sorrow come higher than your knees. | Swedish Proverb |
| Attitude | As is our confidence, so is our capacity. | William Hazlitt |
| Attitude | Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. | Mark Twain |
| Attitude | There are always flowers for those who want to see them. | Henri Matisse |
| Attitude | I’m not small, I’m space-efficient. | Rachael Leigh Cook |
| Attitude | Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. | Golda Meir |
| Attitude | Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. | Scottish proverb |
| Attitude | Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. | Doug Larson |
| Attitude | My enthusiasms . . . constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. | E. M. Cioran |
| Attitude | In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins. | Chinese Proverb |
| Attitude | Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. | Chinese Proverb |
| Attitude | Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. | Wendell Johnson |
| Attitude | If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. | Chinese Proverb |
| Attitude | A stumble may prevent a fall. | Thomas Fuller |
| Attitude | The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. | Samuel Butler |
| Attitude | Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | Andre Gide |
| Attitude | Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. | Confucius |
| Attitude | I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. | Alice Walker |
| Attitude | Men who never get carried away should be. | Malcolm S. Forbes |
| Attitude | Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Attitude | Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. | Chuangtzu |
| Attitude | Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by. | Anon. |
| Attitude | If you’re being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. | Anon. |
| Attitude | The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. | Anon. |
| Attitude | Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? | Anon. |
| Attitude | Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em. | Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II: 5 |
| Attitude | One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: “To rise above the little things.” | John Burroughs |
| Attitude | I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to. | Anon. |
| Attitude | It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. | P. D. James |
| Attitude | It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. | Annie Gottlier |
| Attitude | Envy sees the sea but not the rocks. | Russian Proverb |
| Attitude | Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right. | Anthony J. D’Angelo |
| Be Yourself | Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. | Dr. Seuss |
| Be Yourself | All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. | Cyril Connolly |
| Be Yourself | If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. | Logan P. Smith |
| Be Yourself | The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. | Brian Tracy |
| Be Yourself | The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. | Rita Mae Brown |
| Be Yourself | Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. | D.H. Lawrence |
| Be Yourself | Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right | Kirt Herbert Adler |
| Be Yourself | What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Be Yourself | Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve. | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Be Yourself | What you see in yourself is what you see in the world. | Afghani proverb |
| Be Yourself | Dress a goat in silk and it’s still a goat. | Celtic Proverb |
| Be Yourself | To be great is to be misunderstood. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Be Yourself | Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. | Margaret Mead |
| Be Yourself | A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. | Kim Chernin |
| Be Yourself | A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. | Chinese Proverb |
| Be Yourself | We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies? | Edward Young |
| Be Yourself | The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. | Roy Smith |
| Be Yourself | As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. | English Proverb |
| Be Yourself | He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. | Lao-tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 600 B.C.) |
| Be Yourself | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | Albert Einstein |
| Be Yourself | I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -which is: Try to please everybody. | Herbert Bayard Swope |
| Be Yourself | Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic. | Rosalind Russell |
| Be Yourself | Deliberate often – decide once. | Latin Proverb |
| Be Yourself | It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. | Roy Disney |
| Be Yourself | What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Be Yourself | You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. | Napoleon Hill |
| Be Yourself | When you’re honest, you can’t be boring. | Stephanie Klein |
| Be Yourself | Self assurance is two thirds of success. | Gaelic Proverb |
| Character | I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. | Plutarch |
| Character | It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. | Oscar Wilde |
| Character | We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. | Will Rogers |
| Character | If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved | J. Russel Lynes |
| Character | We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. | Anaïs Nin |
| Character | Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. | Paul Vixie |
| Character | He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| Character | The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. | Duguet |
| Character | As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. | Marian Anderson |
| Character | Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. | Pearl Buck |
| Character | Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. | Chinese Proverb |
| Character | When someone says, ‘It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing’, it’s the money. | Kin Hubbard |
| Character | One does evil enough when one does nothing good. | German Proverb |
| Character | When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate. | Addison Whithecomb |
| Character | He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Character | Our history is not our destiny. | Alan Cohen |
| Character | I’ve made the maps of the bad places I’ve been, so if I go there again I can get out. | Carrie Fisher |
| Character | You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. | Winston Churchill |
| Character | Be the change you wish to see in the world. | Anon. |
| Character | What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. | Louis L. Mann |
| Character | There is only one moral, as there is only one geometry. | Voltaire |
| Character | Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. | Oscar Wilde |
| Character | Life is like walking through snow. Every step shows. |
Jess Lair |
| Character | A computer is almost human – except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer. | Anon. |
| Character | Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. | Spanish Proverb |
| Character | Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. | Mark Twain |
| Character | Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. | Robert Brault |
| Character | Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. | Elizabeth Bibesco |
| Character | It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. | Warren Buffet |
| Character | Character is higher than intellect. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character | Never ruin an apology with an excuse. | Kimberly Johnson |
| Character | Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Character | Be careful how you live your life. You may be the only bible some person ever reads. | W.J. James |
| Character | Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Character | Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be counted. | Albert Einstein |
| Character | Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. | Mark Twain |
| Character | Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it. | Lewis Carroll |
| Character | What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character | Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right. | Mario Cuomo |
| Character | You can’t undo the past…but you can certainly not repeat it. | Bruce Willis |
| Character | Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. | Anon. |
| Character | Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak. | Epictetus |
| Character | The time is always right to do what is right. | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Character | Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. | Napoleon |
| Character | Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. | Thomas Hardy |
| Character | The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. | Greg Anderson |
| Character | Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character | To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. | Eva Young |
| Character | Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. | Jacqueline Bisset |
| Character | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Character | A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. | Elbert Hubbard |
| Character | A good sword is the one left in its scabbard. | Japanese Proverb |
| Character | If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. | Michael Evans |
| Character | Men prone to tears are good. | Greek Proverb |
| Character | A good garden may have some weeds. | Thomas Fuller |
| Character | Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. | Confucius |
| Character | A little help is better than a lot of pity. | Celtic Proverb |
| Character | Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. | David Star Jordan |
| Character | Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. | Kamran Hamid |
| Character | If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks. | Yiddish Proverb |
| Character | My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. | Anon. |
| Character | If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. | Asian Proverb |
| Character | Presence is more than just being there. | Malcolm S. Forbes |
| Character | A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. | Greek Proverb |
| Character | The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. | Henry Boye |
| Character | You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. | James D. Miles |
| Character | The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. | Jane Addams |
| Character | Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. | Jimmy Durante |
| Character | Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. | Ralph Charell |
| Character | It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. | Tom Brokaw |
| Character | Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. | Leo Buscaglia |
| Character | Distance tests a horse’s strength; time reveals a man’s character. | Chinese Proverb |
| Character | If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. | Catherine Aird |
| Character | Nobody wins unless everybody wins. | Bruce Springsteen |
| Character | If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Character | Integrity has no need of rules. | Albert Camus |
| Character | We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path, without brightening our own. | Ben Sweetland |
| Character | He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. | Charron |
| Character | There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. | Edith Wharton |
| Character | Honor is better than honors. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Character | The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. | Samuel Johnson |
| Character | God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. | Anon. |
| Character | A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as lesser men take to discover what will pay. | Confucius |
| Character | When you blame others, you give up your power to change. | Anon. |
| Character | The line between good and evil lies in the center of every human heart. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Character | The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. | Anon. |
| Character | This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Character | The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. | Socrates |
| Character | Who lies with dogs shall rise up with fleas. | Latin Proverb |
| Character | Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. | Dr. Seuss |
| Character | Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. | Will Rogers |
| Character | Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that somebody may be looking. | H.L. Mencken |
| Character | Honesty is the best policy. | English Proverb |
| Character | Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. | American Proverb |
| Character | One can resist the invasion of armies, but not the invasion of ideas. | Victor Hugo |
| Character | Truth will be out. | Latin Proverb |
| Character | Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. | Chinese Proverb |
| Character | Where does the ant die except in sugar. | Malayan Proverb |
| Character | Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. | Sam Ewing |
| Character | Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. | Arthur Freed |
| Character | What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character | Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. | Albert Camus |
| Character | A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular. | Adlai Stevenson |
| Character | One “no” averts seventy evils. | Indian Proverb |
| Character | Justice is truth in action. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Character | If you change your mind, you can change your life. | William James |
| Character | Yes and No are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them. | Michael Josephson |
| Character | The fastest way to ruin your life is to live for today at the cost of tomorrow. | Michael Josephson |
| Character | There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. | Goethe |
| Character | If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. | Chinese Proverb |
| Character | How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. | William Shakespeare |
| Character | Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. | Alphonse Karr |
| Character | I don`t let my mouth say nothin` my head can`t stand. | Louis Armstrong |
| Character | There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. | Elie Wiesel |
| Character | The more a man knows, the more he forgives. | Catherine the Great |
| Character | A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world. | Muhammad |
| Character | Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Character | Do not judge others until you have stood in their place. | Hillel |
| Character | Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Character | Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. | George Washington |
| Character | The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. | Somerset Maugham |
| Character | This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. | William Lyon Phelps |
| Character | Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, they send forth a ripple of hope. | Robert F. Kennedy |
| Character | This above all, to thine own self be true. | William Shakespeare |
| Character | Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. | Emily Post |
| Character | Compassion is the basis of morality. | Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Character | He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. | Francis Bacon |
| Character | One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. | Alexander Chase |
| Character | It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Character | Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Character | To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. | Confucius |
| Character | Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. | Louis D. Brandeis |
| Character | You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Character | The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Character | Character is much easier kept than recovered. | Thomas Paine |
| Character | Rules cannot substitute for character. | Alan Greenspan |
| Character | What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. | Seneca |
| Character | Who you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you say. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character | You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. | Eldridge Cleaver |
| Character | Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. | Edith Hamilton |
| Character | The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. | William Dean Howells |
| Character | Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. | Booker T. Washington |
| Character | Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. | Gladys Browyn Stern |
| Character | Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. | Erica Jong |
| Character | Ask advice only of your equals. | Danish Proverb |
| Character | There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. | French Proverb |
| Character | You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Character | The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. | Anne Frank |
| Character | If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. | Mark Twain |
| Character | Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for therights of all who are destitute. | Proverbs 31:8 |
| Character | I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. | Frederick Douglass |
| Character | It’s never too late to be what you might have been. | George Eliot |
| Character | We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give. | Douglas M. Lawson |
| Character | Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable. | Nigerian saying |
| Character | Goodness is the only investment that never fails. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Courage & Optimism | Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. | Anon. |
| Courage & Optimism | Life’s problems wouldn’t be called `hurdles’ if there wasn’t a way to get over them. | Anon. |
| Courage & Optimism | Courage… is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. | Harper Lee |
| Courage & Optimism | The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. | Nelson Boswell |
| Courage & Optimism | Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul – and sings the tune without words, and never stops – at all. | Emily Dickinson |
| Courage & Optimism | Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| Courage & Optimism | Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. | Allophones Karr |
| Courage & Optimism | The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. | Ayn Rand |
| Courage & Optimism | Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count. | Kin Hubbard |
| Courage & Optimism | People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. | Harvey Mackay |
| Courage & Optimism | This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. | Elmer Davis |
| Courage & Optimism | Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. | Byrd Baggett |
| Courage & Optimism | Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. | Albert Einstein |
| Courage & Optimism | Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them | Vincent McNabb |
| Courage & Optimism | When you are getting rained on, wash your hair. | Korean Proverb |
| Courage & Optimism | If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm. | Frank Lane |
| Courage & Optimism | There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself. | Thomas L. Masson |
| Courage & Optimism | Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | W. W. Ziege |
| Courage & Optimism | What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? | Dr. Robert Schuller |
| Courage & Optimism | If you don’t ask, you don’t get. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Courage & Optimism | I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. | E. B. White, author |
| Courage & Optimism | Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. | J. E. B. Stuart |
| Courage & Optimism | Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. | Dan Rather |
| Courage & Optimism | Each day provides its own gifts. | American Proverb |
| Courage & Optimism | Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. | Robert Schuller |
| Courage & Optimism | Against change of fortune set a brave heart. | French Proverb |
| Courage & Optimism | New day – new destiny. | Bulgarian Proverb |
| Courage & Optimism | If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito. | African Proverb |
| Courage & Optimism | Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done. | Benjamin Morrell |
| Courage & Optimism | Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | Carl Hermann Voss |
| Courage & Optimism | Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. | Carl Sagan |
| Courage & Optimism | Optimism is an intellectual choice. | Diana Schneider |
| Courage & Optimism | I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. | Daniel Boone |
| Courage & Optimism | To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. | Confucius |
| Education | Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world | Albert Einstein |
| Education | It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. | Aristotle |
| Education | The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. | John A. Simone, Jr. |
| Education | Wear the old coat and buy the new book. | Austin Phelps |
| Education | Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. | Sir Claus Moser |
| Education | The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Education | Don`t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Education | The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. | Mark Twain |
| Education | Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. | Sandra Carey |
| Education | Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. | Aldous Huxley |
| Education | A wise man thinks all that he says. A fool says all that he thinks. | Church bulletin board |
| Education | I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Education | Ask a question and you’re a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you’re a fool for the rest of your life. | Chinese Proverb |
| Education | When I was a kid, we walked 10 miles to school every day, sometimes in the rain or snow. Man, did we feel stupid when we found out there was a bus. | Brian Auten (US comedian) |
| Education | You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | Ray Bradbury |
| Education | You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it for himself. | Galileo Galilei |
| Education | Not everything that is good is fun and not everything that is fun is good. | Michael Josephson |
| Education | I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Education | A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Education | A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Education | The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. | Andrew Ross |
| Education | The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. | Bishop Mandell Creighton |
| Education | Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child | Ron Wild |
| Education | You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. | Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |
| Education | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. | Henry Ford |
| Education | Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Education | You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Education | Why and How are words so important that they cannot be too often used. | Napoleon |
| Education | The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. | Somerset Maugham |
| Education | A teacher affects all eternity. You never know where his influence stops. | Henry Adams |
| Education | Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself. | Alfred Sheinwold |
| Education | Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. | Confucius |
| Education | The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Education | Nine tenths of education is encouragement. | Anatole France |
| Education | As we live, so we learn. | Yiddish Proverb |
| Education | There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of them is roots; the other, wings. | Hodding Carter |
| Education | Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. | Chinese Proverb |
| Education | I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. | Anna Quindlen |
| Education | I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Education | We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. | Mary Catherine Bateson |
| Education | An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Education | You learn something every day if you pay attention. | Ray LeBlond |
| Education | Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. | Samuel Johnson |
| Education | The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker T. Washington |
| Education | Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. | Auguste Rodin |
| Education | To know what you want to do at an early age and to be patiently encouraged is the best luck of all. | Richard Schickel |
| Education | The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Education | Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t. | Pete Seeger |
| Education | Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. | Robert Frost |
| Education | Never assume the obvious is true. | William Safire |
| Education | He who does not know one thing knows another. | Kenyan Proverb |
| Education | Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Education | What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. | Joseph Addison |
| Education | Without oars, you cannot cross in a boat. | Japanese Proverb |
| Education | The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. | Rebecca P. Sinkler |
| Education | When I was born, I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half. | Gracie Allen |
| Education | A grownup is a child with layers on. | Woody Harrelson |
| Education | It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. | James Thurber |
| Education | Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light. | English Proverb |
| Education | We live and learn. | English Proverb |
| Education | The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but ‘Whom do I want to be like? | Bruno Bettelheim |
| Education | Example has more followers than reason. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| Education | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. | Admiral Hyman G. Rickover |
| Education | To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself. | Josh Billings |
| Education | Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. | Plato |
| Education | If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet. | Japanese Proverb |
| Education | Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid. | John Wayne |
| Education | Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. | William Yeats |
| Education | You may have tangible wealth untold, Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me. | Strickland Gillilan, U.S. poet (1869-1954) |
| Education | Readers are lucky–they will never be bored or lonely. | Natalie Babbitt |
| Education | Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. | Sir Richard Steel |
| Education | There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island. | Walt Disney |
| Education | History is a race between education and catastrophe. | H.G. Wells |
| Education | There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. | John Adams |
| Education | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. | Pablo Picasso |
| Education | What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education. | Harold Howe |
| Education | Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. | Groucho Marx |
| Fear & Pessimism | Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. | Natalie Goldberg |
| Fear & Pessimism | Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. | John Dryden |
| Fear & Pessimism | Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. | Swedish Proverb |
| Fear & Pessimism | The pessimist is halflicked before he starts. | Thomas Buckner |
| Fear & Pessimism | Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. | Anon. |
| Fear & Pessimism | Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. | William R. Inge |
| Fear & Pessimism | The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. | Thomas Szasz |
| Fear & Pessimism | Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. | Charles Schulz |
| Fear & Pessimism | There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Fear & Pessimism | It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. | George MacDonald |
| Fear & Pessimism | Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. | Glenn Turner |
| Fear & Pessimism | Life is full of obstacle illusions. | Grant Frazier |
| Fear & Pessimism | I am afraid. But I will continue. | Raihana, 9, whose school in Afghanistan was attacked with rockets. |
| Fear & Pessimism | Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. | Richard M. Nixon |
| Fear & Pessimism | Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. | David Lloyd George |
| Fear & Pessimism | If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. | Thomas Fuller |
| Fear & Pessimism | Fear is the highest fence. | Dudley Nichols |
| Fear & Pessimism | What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do. | Anon. |
| Fear & Pessimism | Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred-this is the law Eternal. | Buddha |
| Fear & Pessimism | A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. | Harry Truman |
| Fear & Pessimism | You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. | Jeannette Rankin |
| Fear & Pessimism | Fear breeds fear. | Byron Janis |
| Fear & Pessimism | I’ve developed a new philosophy…I only dread one day at a time. | Charlie Brown |
| Fear & Pessimism | The only disability in life is a bad attitude. | Scott Hamilton |
| Fear & Pessimism | A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Sir Winston Churchill (voted Greatest Briton of all time in BBC TV poll) |
| Gardening | Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. | Dutch Proverb |
| Gardening | There are always flowers for those who want to see them. | Henri Matisse |
| Gardening | He that plants trees loves others besides himself. | English Proverb |
| Happiness | The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. | Eric Hoffer |
| Happiness | Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. | Palmer Sondreal |
| Happiness | I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. | J.D. Salinger |
| Happiness | Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. | Swedish Proverb |
| Happiness | Just do your best today and tomorrow will come . . . tomorrow’s going to be a busy day, a happy day. | Helen Boehm |
| Happiness | He who wants a great deal must not ask for little. | Italian Proverb |
| Happiness | When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. | Kahlil Gibran |
| Happiness | Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. | Greek Proverb |
| Happiness | Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. | Psalm 34:12-13 |
| Happiness | Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. | American Proverb |
| Happiness | Live every moment as if it were the most miraculous thing you could ever imagine, because it is. | Ralph S. Marston |
| Happiness | I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. | Rita Mae Brown |
| Happiness | Life is too short and too long to spend it doing anything that doesn’t make you happy. | Jill Conner Brown |
| Happiness | Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. | John Stuart Mill |
| Happiness | How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. | Paul Sweeney |
| Happiness | There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. | Phyllis Bottome |
| Happiness | People are just about as happy as they are willing to be. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Happiness | Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. | Anon. |
| Happiness | Purchased experiences don’t count. | Douglas Coupland |
| Happiness | Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. | Bill Watterson (cartoonist, Calvin & Hobbes) |
| Happiness | Time is but the stream I go fishing in. | Anon. |
| Happiness | Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. | Soren Kierkegaard |
| Happiness | Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it. | Anon. |
| Happiness | My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. | Thornton Wilder |
| Happiness | Happiness is a function of accepting what is. | Werner Erhard |
| Happiness | If you don’t ask, you don’t get. | Mahatma Ghandi |
| Happiness | Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. | William Feather |
| Happiness | The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. | Martha Washington |
| Happiness | Happiness is not a destination. It is the attitude with which you choose to travel. | Arit Desal |
| Happiness | Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. | Francesca Reigler |
| Happiness | The secret of happiness is curiosity. | Norman Douglas |
| Happiness | If you aren’t loving life, change it. | Jill Conner Brown |
| Happiness | If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. | Immanuel von Fichte |
| Happiness | God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. | James M. Barrie |
| Happiness | Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Happiness | You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | Albert Camus |
| Health | It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. | Gandhi |
| Health | A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. | Joan Welsh |
| Health | For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. | John Herschel Glenn |
| Health | The first wealth is health. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Health | What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? | Adam Smith |
| Health | I’ve never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul. | J.B.S. Haldane |
| Health | The most beautiful words in the English language are not ‘I love you,’ but ‘It’s benign.’ | Woody Allen |
| Laughter & Smiles | A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| Laughter & Smiles | Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. | Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |
| Laughter & Smiles | Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. | William James |
| Laughter & Smiles | Smile: a curve that can set many things straight. | Anon. |
| Laughter & Smiles | If you know you’re going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now. | Anon. |
| Laughter & Smiles | The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. | Mark Twain |
| Laughter & Smiles | One kind word can warm three winter months. | Japanese Proverb |
| Laughter & Smiles | Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. | Lord Byron |
| Laughter & Smiles | If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give. | Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch |
| Laughter & Smiles | Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. | Robert Alan |
| Laughter & Smiles | Laughter is an instant vacation. | Milton Berle |
| Laughter & Smiles | The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up. | Mark Twain |
| Laughter & Smiles | People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. | Lee Mildon |
| Laughter & Smiles | I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. | Woody Allen |
| Laughter & Smiles | He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. | Roman Gary |
| Leadership | He that would be a leader must be a bridge. | Welsh Proverb |
| Leadership | Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Leadership | Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. | Charles Simic |
| Leadership | Calculation never made a hero. | Cardinal Newman |
| Leadership | Don’t dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness. | Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr |
| Leadership | We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Leadership | To the brave man every land is a native country. | Greek Proverb |
| Leadership | Power is the ability not to have to please. | Elizabeth Janeway |
| Leadership | Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Leadership | A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. | Anon. |
| Leadership | Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. | Warren G. Bennis |
| Leadership | We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction. | General Douglas MacArthur |
| Leadership | One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. | Arnold Glasow |
| Leadership | The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. | Kenneth Blanchard |
| Leadership | Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. | Groucho Marx |
| Leadership | You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. | Albert Einstein |
| Leadership | The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. | Fred A. Manske, Jr. |
| Love & Friendship | The only way to have a friend is to be a friend. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Love & Friendship | Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. | Bible: Romans 12:9 |
| Love & Friendship | Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so. | Czech Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. | Anon. |
| Love & Friendship | Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. | 1 Corinthians 13:6 |
| Love & Friendship | To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. | David Viscott |
| Love & Friendship | Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. | George Eliot |
| Love & Friendship | Friends are relatives you make for yourself. | Eustache Deschamps, French poet |
| Love & Friendship | Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. | Socrates |
| Love & Friendship | Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Love & Friendship | Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. | Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| Love & Friendship | Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you. | Vipin Sharma |
| Love & Friendship | Good friends are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing. | Randolph Bourne |
| Love & Friendship | The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. | Blaise Pascal |
| Love & Friendship | People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. | Anon. |
| Love & Friendship | When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. | Japanese Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity! | Albert Einstein |
| Love & Friendship | Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs. | Proverbs 10:12 |
| Love & Friendship | A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960) |
| Love & Friendship | If you love life, life will love you back. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Love & Friendship | Love is not blind – it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. | Anon. |
| Love & Friendship | A hug is a great gift. One size fits all, it can be given for any occasion and it’s easy to exchange. | Anon. |
| Love & Friendship | The sun shines upon all alike. | English Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
| Love & Friendship | Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred-this is the law Eternal. | Buddha |
| Love & Friendship | A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. | Jack London |
| Love & Friendship | Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. | Romans 12:16 |
| Love & Friendship | Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. | Dr. Joyce Brothers |
| Love & Friendship | And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. | 1 John 4:21 |
| Love & Friendship | But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… | Luke 6:27 |
| Love & Friendship | When one helps another, both gain in strength. | Ecuadorian Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. | Sicilian Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. | Jonathan Swift |
| Love & Friendship | If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? | Anon. |
| Love & Friendship | Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. | Joseph Addison |
| Love & Friendship | The best time to make friends is before you need them. | Ethel Barrymore |
| Love & Friendship | When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. | E. W. Howe |
| Love & Friendship | Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind, the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind. | Henry James |
| Love & Friendship | The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. | Kin Hubbard |
| Love & Friendship | Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. | Josh Billings |
| Love & Friendship | Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve |
| Love & Friendship | What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Love & Friendship | Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | 1 John 4:11 |
| Love & Friendship | Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. | Swedish Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Love & Friendship | A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. | Donna Roberts |
| Love & Friendship | Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. | Leviticus 19:18 |
| Love & Friendship | There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. | Will Rogers |
| Love & Friendship | Things are beautiful if you love them. | Jean Anouilh |
| Love & Friendship | When life is going wrong, I stop everything to love. | Christian Michel (writer)Â |
| Love & Friendship | All strangers are relations to each other. | Arabian Proverb |
| Love & Friendship | The lover of life makes the whole world his family. | Charles Baudelaire |
| Love & Friendship | People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | Michael Josephson |
| Love & Friendship | They do not love that do not show their love. | Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen from Verona) |
| Love & Friendship | Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Meaning of Life | A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. | Chinese Proverb |
| Meaning of Life | All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Meaning of Life | Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well. | Danish Proverb |
| Meaning of Life | I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. | E. B. White, author |
| Meaning of Life | Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. | Irving Berlin |
| Meaning of Life | The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. | Thomas Szasz |
| Meaning of Life | What makes life dreary is want of motive. | George Eliot |
| Meaning of Life | Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | Joseph Addison |
| Meaning of Life | Faith makes us sure of what we hope for, and gives us proof of what we can’t see. | The Bible |
| Meaning of Life | The proper function of man is to live – not to exist. | Jack London |
| Meaning of Life | For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. | 1 Timothy 6:7-8 |
| Meaning of Life | I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. | Douglas Noel Adams |
| Meaning of Life | If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. | Maya Angelou |
| Meaning of Life | The more things change, the more they stay the same. | Alfonse Karr |
| Meaning of Life | He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Meaning of Life | Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Meaning of Life | The best things in life aren’t things. | Art Buchwald |
| Meaning of Life | Sometimes… when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. | Ally McBeal |
| Meaning of Life | The purpose of life is a life of purpose. | Robert Byrne |
| Meaning of Life | I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. | Charles Schulz |
| Meaning of Life | Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation. | Kin Hubbard |
| Meaning of Life | If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. | Isaac Asimov |
| Meaning of Life | You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose. | Indira Ghandi |
| Meaning of Life | The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is different. | Hippocrates |
| Meaning of Life | It’s never too late to be what you might have been. | George Eliot |
| Meaning of Life | Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. | Richard Bach |
| Meaning of Life | Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. | Washington Irving |
| Meaning of Life | Life is a promise; fulfill it. | Mother Theresa |
| Meaning of Life | Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. | Maurice Chevalier |
| Meaning of Life | Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. | Mary C. Crowley |
| Meaning of Life | You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. | Shira Tehrani |
| Meaning of Life | Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. | Francois Gaulthier |
| Meaning of Life | Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. | Annie Dillard |
| Meaning of Life | Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Meaning of Life | Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. | Laertius Diogenes |
| Meaning of Life | In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes. | Andy Warhol |
| Meaning of Life | Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. | Marge Piercy |
| Meaning of Life | Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are. | Jean-Anthelme Brillat -Savarin |
| Meaning of Life | You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich. | Isabel Allende |
| Nature | Nature does nothing uselessly. | Aristotle |
| Nature | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. | Albert Einstein |
| Nature | To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. | Helen Keller |
| Nature | In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. | Charles A. Lindbergh |
| Parenthood | It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Parenthood | Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| Parenthood | Children need models rather than critics. | Joseph Joubert |
| Parenthood | If you can give your son or daughter one gift, let it be enthusiam. | Bruce Barton |
| Parenthood | Children are a poor man’s riches. | English Proverb |
| Parenthood | A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. | Anon. |
| Parenthood | Some can trace their family back 300 years, but can’t tell you where their children are tonight. | Sir Lawrence Brotherton |
| Parenthood | Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. | John Locke |
| Parenthood | God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. | Jewish Proverb |
| Parenthood | Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. | Margaret Mead |
| Parenthood | Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. | Cathy Guisewite |
| Parenthood | Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. | Robert Fulghum |
| Parenthood | Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. | Babatunde Olatunji |
| Parenthood | Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please. | English Proverb |
| Parenthood | He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. | Francis Bacon |
| Parenthood | I need a butler, not a nanny. | Roz Hayes |
| Parenthood | Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee. | David Frost |
| Parenthood | If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. | Abigail Van Buren  |
| Parenthood | Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. | Socrates, (470399 B.C.) |
| Politics | Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. | Kin Hubbard |
| Politics | One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. | Plato |
| Politics | Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right. | Michael Josephson |
| Politics | A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. | Winston Churchill |
| Politics | Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock. | Will Rogers |
| Politics | I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. | Will Rogers |
| Politics | Your very silence shows you agree. | Euripides |
| Politics | People ask, ‘Pastor Rick, are you right-wing or left-wing?’ I’m for the whole bird. One-winged birds fly in circles. | Rick Warren |
| Politics | The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. | Milan Kundera |
| Religion | ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE placed side by side as one in the church—God’s patchwork of love. | Anon. |
| Religion | LONG-STANDING PROBLEMS? Get down on your knees. | Anon. |
| Religion | STOP WHINING about your church. If it were perfect, you couldn’t belong. | Anon. |
| Religion | PUSH: Pray until something happens. | Anon. |
| Religion | ADVICE IS FREE. Only the wise profit from it. | Anon. |
| Religion | EXERCISE DAILY—walk with God. | Anon. |
| Religion | THERE’S no shortcut to anywhere worth going. | Anon. |
| Religion | PEOPLE who look down on others live on a bluff. | Anon. |
| Religion | HAVING TRUTH DECAY? Brush up on your Bible. | Anon. |
| Religion | THE MORE we thank God for what we have, the more we have to thank God for. | Anon. |
| Religion | WE’RE too blessed to be depressed. | Anon. |
| Religion | WHY DIDN’T NOAH swat those two mosquitoes? | Anon. |
| Religion | A FRIEND WALKS in when the rest of the world walks out. | Anon. |
| Religion | SIGN BROKEN; come inside for message. | Anon. |
| Religion | CHILDREN learn more from models than from critics. | Anon. |
| Religion | OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. | Anon. |
| Religion | GOD MENDS torn hearts. | Anon. |
| Religion | THE DEVIL wants your soul to ruin; we want your soul to mend. | Anon. |
| Religion | IF YOU’RE HEADED in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. | Anon. |
| Religion | TITHE if you love Jesus! Anyone can honk! | Anon. |
| Religion | DON’T GIVE UP. Moses was once a basket case. | Anon. |
| Religion | GOD GIVES the shoulder according to the burden. | Anon. |
| Religion | EXPERIENCE is a hard teacher. It gives the test before the lesson. | Anon. |
| Religion | IF YOU WANT the rainbow, you’ve gotta put up with the rain. | Anon. |
| Religion | THERE ARE no amendments to the 10 commandments. | Anon. |
| Religion | MADNESS in the name of God is still madness. | Anon. |
| Religion | MUD THROWN is ground lost. | Anon. |
| Religion | FORBIDDEN fruits make many jams. | Anon. |
| Religion | TALK only if you can improve the silence. | Anon. |
| Religion | GOD GRADES on the Cross, not the curve. | Anon. |
| Religion | PUT DOWN THE NEWSPAPER—Good News delivered here. | Anon. |
| Sports | You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. | Plato |
| Sports | It doesn’t help to know who’s on first when you’re looking at a soccer field. | Roz Hayes |
| Sports | If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. | Logan P. Smith |
| Sports | Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. | H.G. Wells |
| Sports | You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right. | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Sports | When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. | Anon. |
| Sports | Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen |
| Sports | When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner. | Halle Berry |
| Sports | You can’t think and hit at the same time. | Yogi Berra |
| War | If you can read this, thank a teacher . . . and since it`s in English, thank a soldier. | Bumper Sticker |
| War | When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. | Elayne Boosler |
| War | Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. | Psalm 34:14 |
| War | An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. | Plato |
| War | An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. | Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi |
| War | Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right | Sir Laurens van der Post |
| War | There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. | Victor Hugo |
| War | War does not determine who is right – only who is left. | Bertrand Russell |
| War | War is the unfolding of miscalculations. | Barbara Tuchman |
| War | Once on a tiger’s back, it is hard to alight. | Chinese Proverb |
| War | A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. | Grace Murray Hopper |
| War | But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… | Luke 6:27 |
| War | You can’t say civilization isn’t advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way. | Will Rogers |
| War | Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. | Louis D. Brandeis |
| Wealth | A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. | Samuel Grafton |
| Wealth | What I kept, I lost. What I spent, I had. What I gave, I have. | Persian Proverb |
| Wealth | No one has ever become poor by giving. | Anne Frank |
| Wealth | A penny saved is a penny gained. | Scottish Proverb |
| Work | Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. | Sir James Barrie |
| Work | Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. | Jonathan Kozol |
| Work | Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. | Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), British physicist |
| Work | It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Work | If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Work | If you would not volunteer to do the job you have, you are probably doing the wrong job. | Brian Koslow |
| Work | Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Work | The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. | Nancy Astor |
| Work | We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. | Stevie Wonder |
| Work | One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. | Thomas Fuller |
| Work | I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Work | Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. | Henry Ford |
| Work | If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted. | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Work | If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. | Mario Andretti |
| Work | If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? | Joe Namath |
| Work | Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once. | Isaac Asimov |
| Work | We have so much time and so little to do! | Willy Wonka |
| Work | The trouble with doing something right the first time is that no one appreciates how difficult it was. | Walt West |
| Work | Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. | Joann Thomas |
| Work | Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. | Sam Ewing |
| Work | I never learned from a man who agreed with me. | Robert Heinlein |
| Work | The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. | Fred Dehner |
| Work | If . . . you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. | Catherine Aird |
| Work | The important thing is somehow to begin. | Henry Moore |
| Work | Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. | Mark Twain |
| Work | Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. | Spanish Proverb |
| Work | Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. | Clarence Day |
| Work | The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. | Vince Lombardi |
| Work | Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Work | Work is the best method devised for killing time. | William Feather |
| Work | To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. | Chinese Proverb |
| Work | Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. | T.S. Eliot |
| Work | Fatigue is the best pillow. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Work | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. | Albert Einstein |
| Work | Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. | English Proverb |
| Work | Better reap two days too soon than one day too late | English Proverb |
| Work | Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything. | Gregg Easterbrook |
| Work | Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. | George Claude Lorimer |
| Work | Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. | Anon. |
| Work | It is better to wear out than to rust out. | Bishop Cumberland |
| Work | Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. | Michael Caine |
| Work | So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. | A.J. Reb Materi |
| Work | Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. | Perry Paxton |
| Work | Never cut what can be untied. | Portuguese Proverb |
| Work | People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. | Robert F. Kennedy |
| Work | Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot. | Malayan Proverb |
| Work | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Work | To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Work | Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Work | Find a need and fill it. | Ruth S. Peale |
| Work | Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. | Mark Twain |
| Work | Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. | Satchel Paige |
| Work | What may be done at any time will be done at no time. | Scottish proverb |
| Work | He who begins many things finishes but few. | Italian Proverb |
| Work | The work will teach you how to do it. | Estonian Proverb |
| Work | Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. | Edward H. Harriman |
| Work | There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. | Indira Gandhi |
| Work | It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. | George Burns |
| Work | As is our confidence, so is our capacity. | William Hazlitt |
| Work | The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. | Harold Taylor |
| Work | The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. | John F. Kennedy |
| Work | Never confuse movement with action. | Ernest Hemingway |
| Work | Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. | Elbert Hubbard |
| Work | I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. | John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960) |
| Work | It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. | Harry Truman |
| Work | You’ll never achieve your dreams if they don’t become goals. | Anon. |
| Work | Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Work | Learn, earn, return – these are the 3 phases of life. | Jack Balousek |
| Work | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny … | Isaac Asimov |
| Work | One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. | Kin Hubbard |
| Work | What is now proved was once only imagined. | William Blake |
| Work | The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. | Kin Hubbard |
| Work | If a man does his best, what else is there? | General George S. Patton |
| Work | We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. | Anne C. Weisberg |
| Work | If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Work | I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Work | The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. | Gandhi |
| Work | The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. | Elbert Hubbard |
| Work | I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. | Gen. George S. Patton |
| Work | You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once. | Oprah Winfrey |
| Work | To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. | Daniel Considine |
| Work | I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. | Helen Keller |
| Work | There aren’t any rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Work | Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. | Confucius |
| Work | Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. | Theodore N. Vail |
| Work | If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | Thomas Watson, Sr. |
| Work | How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards. | Spanish Proverb |
| Work | If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer. | Lily Tomlin |
| Work | When you can’t solve the problem, manage it. | Dr. Robert H. Schuller |
| Work | There can be no joy of life without joy of work. | Thomas Aquinas |
| Work | The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. | Benjamin Mays |
| Work | The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Work | Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. | Albert Giacometti (sculptor) |
| Work | The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it. | Joseph Farrell |
| Work | If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you’re leading the pack. | Anon. |
| Work | My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. | Hank Aaron |
| Work | The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse [to the trap] gets the cheese. | Anon. |
| Work | If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. | Abigail Van Buren |
| Work | Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. | African Proverb |
| Work | Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Work | Do what you can with what you have where you are. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Work | It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. | Albert Einstein |
| Work | The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | Alan Kay |
| Work | Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. | Henri-Frédéric Amiel |
| Work | A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960) |
| Work | Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Work | The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Work | To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun? | Katharine Graham |
| Work | If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. | Anon. |
| Work | Energy and persistence conquer all things. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Work | What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts. | Ralph S. Marston |
| Work | Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen |
| Work | We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. | John W. Gardner |
| Work | I praise loudly; I blame softly. | Catherine the Second |
| Work | When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Work | Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. | Anon. (often attributed to Robert Evans)Â |
| Work | No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. | Turkish Proverb |
| Work | Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. | Lakota Proverb |
| Work | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. | Walter Bagehot |
| Work | We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. | Albert Einstein |
| Work | In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don`t have the first, the other two will kill you. | Warren Buffet |
| Work | Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Work | You will never find time for anything. You must make it. | Charles Buxton |
| Work | The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. | Linus Pauling |
| Work | When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. | Ethiopian Proverb |
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