"It always seems impossible until it's done." |
wiki ~ Nelson Mandela |
Each of us must work for our own
improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. |
wiki ~ Marie Curie |
The greatest discovery of my
generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind. |
wiki ~ William James |
Let them that would move the world,
first move themselves. |
wiki ~ Socrates |
They who conquer others are strong,
Those who conquer themselves are mighty. |
wiki ~ Lao tzu |
I have generally found that a person
who is good at excuses, is usually good at nothing else. |
wiki ~ Benjamin Franklin |
Our unique reward, however, is that
while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, humankind survives by
adjusting to their backround. |
wiki ~ Ayn Rand |
A wise person will make more
opportunities than they find. |
wiki ~ Francis
Bacon |
Destiny is no matter of chance. It
is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. |
wiki ~ Willian Jennings Bryan |
I don't wait for moods. You
accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to work. |
wiki ~ Pearl S. Buck |
I think one's own feelings waste
themselves in words, they ought to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring
results. |
wiki ~ Florence
Nightingale |
He that will not sail till all
dangers are over must never put out to sea. |
wiki ~ Thomas Fuller |
Ah, but a person's reach should
exceed their grasp, or what's a heaven for? |
wiki ~ Robert Browning |
As far as your self-control goes, as
far goes your freedom. |
Marie von Ebner - Eschenbach |
Nothing ever comes to one, that is
worth having, except as a result of hard work. |
wiki ~ Booker T. Washington |
What you can do, or dream you can,
begin it: Boldness has a genius, power and magic in it. |
wiki ~ Goethe |
Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are. |
wiki ~ Theodore Roosevelt |
Problems are only opportunities in
work clothes. |
wiki ~ Henry John Kaiser |
You can't build a reputation on what
you are going to do. |
wiki ~ Henry Ford |
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try. |
wiki ~ Beverly Sills |
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living. |
wiki ~ Gail Sheehy |
I have
missed more than 9000 shots in my career, I have lost almost 300 games, on 26
occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot ... and missed, I have
failed over and over in my life, that is why I succeed. |
wiki ~ Michael Jordon |
No one can make you feel inferior
without your own consent. |
wiki ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
Parents can only give good advice or
put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their
own hands. |
wiki ~ Anne Frank |
Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. |
wiki ~ William Shakespeare |
You must be the change you wish to
see in the world. |
wiki ~ Mohandas K. Ghandi |
The heir to the kingdom is taught
that he may become a king in reality by first governing his own appetites. |
wiki ~ Plato |
You must do the things you cannot
do. |
wiki ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
Courage is being scared to death -
and saddling up anyway. |
wiki ~ John Wayne |
A person is not idle because they
are absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. |
wiki ~ Victor
Hugo |
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification, but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose. |
wiki ~ Helen Keller |
Die when I may, I want it said of me
by those who new me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where i
thought a flower would grow. |
wiki ~ Abraham Lincoln |
They who have a why to live
for can bear almost any how. |
wiki ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
The greatest use of life is to spend
it for something that will outlast it. |
wiki ~ William James |
The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
wiki ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
The beginning is the most important
part in any work. |
wiki ~ Plato |
Imagination is more important than
knowledge. |
wiki ~ Albert Einstein |
Our life is what our thoughts make
it. |
wiki ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Hitch your wagon to a star. |
wiki ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
The secret of success is constancy
to purpose. |
wiki ~ Benjamin Disraeli |
It is good to have and end to
journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
wiki ~ Ursula K. Le Guin |
The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook. |
wiki ~ William James |
Learn to say no. It will be of more
use to you than being able to read Latin. |
wiki ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander Time, for that's the stuff life is made of. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Even if your on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there. |
wiki ~ Will Rogers |
We must adjust to changing times and
still hold to unchanging principles. |
wiki ~ Jimmy Carter |
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wiki ~ Lao tzu |
The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step. |
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What matters in a character is not
whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it. |
wiki ~ Germaine de Stael |
I cannot and will not cut my
conscience to fit this years fashions. |
wiki ~ Lillian Hellman |
One makes things easier for oneself
by making things easier for others. |
wiki ~ Asian Proverb |
People who fight fire with fire
usually end up with ashes. |
wiki ~ Abigail Van Buren |
The only way on earth to multiply
happiness is to divide it. |
wiki ~ Paul Scherer |
One person cannot hold another down
in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with them. |
wiki ~ Booker T. Washington |
Talent is always conscious of its
own abundance and does not object to sharing. |
wiki ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Listen, or thy tongue will keep you
deaf. |
wiki ~ American Indian Proverb |
Love is a fruit in season at all
times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. |
wiki ~ Mother
Teresa |
Never impose your language on people
you wish to reach. |
wiki ~ Abbie Hoffman |
The eye sees only what the mind is
prepared to comprehend. |
wiki ~ Robertson Davies |
I praise loudly, I blame softly. |
wiki ~ Catherine II of Russia |
It takes a great person to be a good
listener. |
wiki ~ Calvin Coolidge |
Everbody is ignorant, only on
different subjects. |
wiki ~ Will Rogers |
Discovery consists of seeing what
everbody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. |
wiki ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi |
I have never met a person who was
not my superior in some particular. |
wiki ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Bring ideas in and treat them
royally, for one of them may be the king. |
wiki ~ Mark Van Doren |
It takes two flints to make a fire. |
wiki ~ Louisa May Alcott |
The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. |
wiki ~ Albert
Einstein |
People are never so near playing the
fool as when they think themselves wise. |
wiki ~ Mary Wortley Montagu |
Light is the task where many share
the toil. |
wiki ~ Homer |
I not only use all the brains I
have, but all I can borrow. |
wiki ~ Woodrow Wilson |
Alone we can do so little, together
we can do so much. |
wiki ~ Helen Keller |
I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book. |
wiki ~ Groucho
Marx |
The only lightless dark is the night
of darkness in ignorance and insensibilty. |
wiki ~ Helen Keller |
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant
water loses its purity and in cold water becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the
vigors of the mind. |
wiki ~ Leonardo da Vinci |
To keep a lamp burning we have to
keep putting oil in it. |
wiki ~ Mother Theresa |
If you think education is expensive,
try ignorance. |
wiki ~ Derek Bok |
One is not born a genius, one
becomes a genius. |
wiki ~ Simone de Beauvoir |
Knowledge is the most precious
treasure of all things because it can never be given away, stolen or consumed. |
wiki ~ Sanskrit
proverb |
It is the mind that makes the body. |
wiki ~ Sojourner Truth |
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea,
never goes back to its original dimensions. |
wiki ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |
wiki ~ Aristotle |
The road to a friend's home is never
too long. |
wiki ~ Danish proverb |
Pick small battles and win them all. |
Ted Purdy |
Moral indignation is jealousy
with a halo. |
wiki ~ H. G. Wells |
"Glory is fleeting, but
obscurity is forever." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Victory goes to the player who
makes the next-to-last mistake." |
Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower |
"Don't be so humble - you are
not that great." |
Golda Meir |
"His ignorance is
encyclopedic" |
Abba Eban |
"If a man does his best, what
else is there?" |
General George S. Patton |
"I can write better than anybody
who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." |
A. J. Liebling |
People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. |
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard |
Not everything that can be
counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted |
Albert Einstein |
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former |
Albert Einstein |
A lie gets halfway around the
world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on |
Sir Winston Churchill |
The artist is nothing without
the gift, but the gift is nothing without work |
Emile Zola |
The full use of your powers
along lines of excellence |
John F. Kennedy |
I'm living so far beyond my
income that we may almost be said to be living apart. |
e e cummings |
Give me a museum and I'll fill
it. |
Pablo Picasso |
Everything in moderation, even moderation. |
Jackie Carr |
In theory, there is no
difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. |
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut |
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have. |
Thomas Jefferson |
Each problem that I solved
became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. |
Rene Descartes |
In the End, we will remember
not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
Whether you think that you can,
or that you can't, you are usually right. |
Henry Ford |
Do, or do not. There is no
'try'. |
Yoda |
The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it. |
Oscar Wilde |
Don't stay in bed, unless you
can make money in bed. |
George Burns |
I don't know why we are here,
but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
The only difference between me
and a madman is that I'm not mad. |
Salvador Dali |
If you can't get rid of the
skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. |
George Bernard Shaw |
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near. |
Andrew Marvell |
Good people do not need laws to
tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. |
Plato |
The power of accurate
observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Whenever I climb I am followed
by a dog called 'Ego'. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
We have art to save ourselves
from the truth. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Human history becomes more and
more a race between education and catastrophe. |
H. G. Wells |
Talent does what it can; genius
does what it must. |
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
If you are going through hell,
keep going. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Some cause happiness wherever
they go; others, whenever they go. |
Oscar Wilde |
I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
I shall not waste my days in
trying to prolong them. |
Ian L. Fleming |
When you do the common things
in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. |
George Washington Carver |
How wrong it is for a woman to
expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. |
Anais Nin |
I have not failed. I've just
found 10,000 ways that won't work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Maybe this world is another
planet's Hell. |
Aldous Huxley |
Blessed is the man, who having
nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. |
George Eliot |
Once you eliminate the
impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. |
Sherlock Holmes |
It's kind of fun to do the
impossible. |
Walt Disney |
The optimist proclaims that we
live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. |
James Branch Cabell |
An inconvenience is only an
adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
Be nice to people on your way
up because you meet them on your way down. |
Jimmy Durante |
The true measure of a man is
how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. |
Samuel Johnson |
A people that values its
privileges above its principles soon loses both |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
The significant problems we
face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. |
Albert Einstein |
Basically, I no longer work for
anything but the sensation I have while working. |
Albert Giacometti |
All truth passes through three
stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as
being self-evident. |
Arthur Schopenhauer |
Many a man's reputation would
not know his character if they met on the street. |
Elbert Hubbard |
There is more stupidity than
hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. |
Frank Zappa |
Perfection is achieved, not
when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. |
Antoine de Saint Exupery |
Life is pleasant. Death is
peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
Isaac Asimov |