quotes

These are quotes that I like. They are insightful, meaningful, motivating, or thought provoking.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Andy Dufresne

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve.
Gordie Lachance 

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche 

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Author Unknown

This moment contains all moments.
C.S. Lewis

I am what I am, not because of myself, but because of the grace of God working in me.
Author Unknown

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Francis de Sales

Be careful what you set your heart on, for you will surely get it.
Georgia Harkness

Forgiveness is giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.
Archibald Hart

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future.
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.
Billy Graham

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.
Author Unknown

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
Etty Hillesum

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
Augustine

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Corrie ten Boom

When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need.
Author Unknown

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
John Paul II

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.
Etty Hillesum

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Stanley Lindquist

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
Richard G. Scott

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
Author Unknown

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.
Author Unknown

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David McKay

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
William Somerset Maugham

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Etty Hillesum

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Diana Robinson

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Heather Cortez

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Dwight L. Moody

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
Vernon Baker

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C.S. Lewis

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
Dalai Lama

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen

Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Abraham Lincoln

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis

In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
Robert H. Schuller

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.
Amarillo By Morning Sung By George Strait

What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.
Helen Keller

Time is the best doctor.
Yiddish Proverb

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
Author Unknown

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.
Reggie McNeal

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes

He who doesn't look ahead remains behind.
Mexican Proverb

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Hugh Macleod

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
James Keller

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C.S. Lewis

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.
Helen Keller

Prayer is not about asking for stuff, it is about a relationship.
Bob Pflumm

Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Walter Cronkite

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
Dalai Lama

There, but for the grace of God, go I.
John Bradford

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Doug Horton

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell

Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.
Author Unknown

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Francis of Assisi

It's not about what you own; it's about what owns you.
Author Unknown

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Author Unknown

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Dalai Lama

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold Toynbee

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

Once a year go somewhere you've never been before.
Dalai Lama

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus

My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
John Diamond

Open your arms to change but don't give up your values.
Dalai Lama

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
Author Unknown

Death is the gate of life.
Bernard of Clairvaux

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Author Unknown

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda Radner

Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi

If you want something done, give it to the busiest person you know.
Author Unknown

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
H.G. Wells

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff.
Gilda Radner

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

Life is not an easy matter...You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Unknown Author

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker

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

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
Mary C. Crowley

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.
Author Unknown

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Author Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I think we all have that responsibility to be someone that people look up to. You don’t have to be an entertainer or a movie star. If you’re just a friend to someone, a brother or sister … people’s eyes are always on you.
Josh Pastner

God, if I can't have what I want, let me want what I have.
Unknown Author

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree....Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.
Martin H. Fischer

A joy shared is a joy doubled.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard

We say we are your followers, O Lord, and yet we fail in so many ways. Give us the imagination and courage to do your will on earth as it is done in hearven.
Steven Bouma-Prediger

The happiest, healthiest people are those who get outside themselves and show concern for others.
Chic Broersma

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.
C. S. Lewis

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity.
Author Unknown

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie

Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow, a vision of Hope. Look to this day for it is life.
Author Unknown

God wants us to grow in our discipleship. So he works within us by his Spirit to make it happen.
Chic Broersma

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
United Negro College Fund Slogan

Help us to rest in you mercy, God of grace upon grace, and increase our faith.
Steven Bouma-Prediger

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. (Erma Bombeck)

God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know. (Rick Warren)

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way. (Charles L. Allen)

Jesus completely redefines expectations: saving one's life means losing it for the gospel and following Jesus involves denying oneself for the sake of God's purposes. (Steven Bouma-Prediger)

God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you. (Augustine)

A gentleman is one who puts more into life than he takes out. (George Bernard Shaw)

A fanatic is one who, having lost sight of his aim, redoubles his effort. (George Santayana)

We rest today (Sabbath) to let our souls catch up with our bodies. (Unknown)

I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul. (Charles L. Allen)

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. (Teresa of Avila)

O God, help us to realize that we meet you in Jesus. (Steven Bouma-Prediger)

The unquestioned life is not worth living. (Socrates)

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness. (May Sarton)

You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do. (Dan Fogelberg)

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. (J. S. Bach)

Thank you, Lord for your goodness. Help me share it today. (Jon Brown)

Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end. (George Müller)

What a person thinks about determines what he is. (Charles L. Allen)

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (Albert Camus)

Free us to know you, O Lord, and serve you in ways great and small. (Steven Bouma-Prediger)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)

Hard work's a good distraction. (Scott Westerfeld)

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. (Natalie Goldberg)

Nothing is said that has not been said before. (Terence)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Lord, in our pain and brokenness, bring about your intentions.
Jon Brown

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination. (Mikhail Gorbachev)

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Mark Twain)

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. (Charles L. Allen)

If I can just change one person's life, maybe that person can change thousands. (Earl Watson)

No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried. (Adam Powell Jr.)

What we love to do we find time to do. (John Lancaster Spalding)

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. (Mark Twain)

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person. (Charles L. Allen)

If you can't convince them, confuse them. (Harry Truman)

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Everyone must row with the oars he has. (English Proverb)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)

Kindness gives birth to kindness. (Sophocles)

Don't give up, don't ever give up. (Jim Valvano)

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain)

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. (Abraham Heschel)

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it? (Charles L. Allen)

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Native American Proverb)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)

Cherish all your happy moments. They make a fine cushion for old age. (Christopher Morley)

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. (Margaret Lee Runback)

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

There is time for everything. (Thomas Edison)

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. (Benjamin Franklin)

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. (Mark Twain)

It isn't our position, but our disposition that makes us happy. (Anonymous)

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to. (Charles L. Allen)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. (Sophocles)

The essence of love is kindness. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. (Dale Carnegie)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others. (Charles L. Allen)

It is hope that maintains most of mankind. (Sophocles)

We must become the change we want to see. (Mahatma Gandhi)

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. (Stephen Covey)

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. (Mark Twain)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

It's easy to make a buck. It's lot tougher to make a difference. (Tom Brokaw)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. (Buddha)

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (James Barrie)

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! (Norman Vincent Peale)

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde)

As I go about I see a lot of ''coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else. (Charles L. Allen)

You give but little when give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. (Kahil Gilbran)

What is the hardest task in the world? To think. (Emerson)

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. (William Dean Howells)

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal form listening carefully. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)

Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. (Walt Disney)

I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain)

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special. (Jim Valvano)

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life. (Charles L. Allen)

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. (Peter F. Drucker)

If you think you have it tough, you should read history books. (Bill Maher)

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it. (Henri J. M. Nouwen)

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Carl Sandburg)

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. (Normal Vincent Peale)

It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

Old age ain't no palace for sissies. (Bette Davis)

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. (Jules Renard)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas Edison)

The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. (Phillip Brooks)

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next. (Normal Vincent Peale)

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty, and truth. (Albert Einstein)

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. (Robert Fulghum)

Never let yesterday use up too much of today. (Will Rogers)

It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. (Adlai Stevenson)

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group. (Lane Kirkland)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. (George Burns)

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. (Aristotle)

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake. (Greg Anderson)

The first duty of love is to listen. (Paul Tillich)

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. (Elbert Hubbard)

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. (Norman Vincent Peale)

The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle)

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. (Thomas Moore)

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem. (Samuel Johnson)

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work. (Elbert Hubbard)

Common sense is as rare a genius. (Emerson)

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Henry Ford)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. (Joan Welsh)

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. (Barbara Streisand)

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer)

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. (Anonymous)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein)

There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus)

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton)

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. (Thomas Jefferson)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne Lindbergh)

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. (Oscar Wilde)

Your wealth is where your friends are. (Plautus)

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln)

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. (Mother Teresa)

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. (Persian Proverb)

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French Proverb)

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. (Bobcat Gloldthwait)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. (E. E. Cummings)

Change your thoughts and you change the world. (Norman Vincent Peale)

This above all: to thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare)

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good. (Abigail Van Buren)

No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Marie Beynon Ray)

We only do well the thing we like doing. (Collette)

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. (Swedish Proverb)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday. (R. Casarjean) 

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. (J. Petit-Senn)

We all find time to do what we really want to do. (Williams Feather)

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. (George Eliot)

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Charles Buxton)

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (Unknown)

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. (Louis L'Amour)

Everyone must row with the oars that he has. (English Proverb) 

The world belongs to the energetic. (R. W. Emerson)

Bloom where you are planted. (Anonymous)

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. (Richard Bach)

Life is the sum of all you choices. (Albert Camus)

Learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. (www.THEINTERVIEWWITHGOD.com)

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. (Irving Berlin)

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. (Alexandre Dumas)

A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness. (Charles Baudelaire)

Patience is the companion of wisdom. (Augustine)

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau)

It is with a word as with an arrow - once let loose it does not return. (Unknown)

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

What we think, we become. (Buddha)

Education is hanging around until you've caught on. (Robert Frost)

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (Anonymous)

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. An what is energy but liking life. (L. Auchincloss)

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master call a butterfly. (Richard Bach)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. (Sophocles)

We are judged by what we finish, not what we start. (Anonymous)

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. (John L. Beckley)

Nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion. (George Hegel)

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. (Andre Godin)

It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength. (Corrie ten Boom)

Our passions are ourselves. (Anatole France)

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. (Plato)

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. (Simone Weil)

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday. (Robin Casarjean)

Nothing lasts forever, not even troubles. (Arnold Glasgow)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Eric Hoffer)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)

Today is a gift. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Sports is the toy department of human life. (Howard Cosell)

You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. (Unknown)

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted. (Aesop)

What a wonderful life I have had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. (Colette)

No man is good enough to be another man's master. (George Bernard Shaw)

Common sense is as rare as genius. (Emerson)

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. (Thomas Huxley)

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato)

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is an attitude. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. (Anne Frank)

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. (Albert Einstein)

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan Francis)

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

Cherish all your happy moments. They make a fine cushion for old age. (Christopher Morley)

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. (Ferdinand Foch)

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)

We make a living by what we get, we make life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton)

The truth is more important than the facts. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. (Opening lines of Desiderata)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. (William Arthur Ward)

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. (Nelson Mandela)

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson)

If you laugh everyday you'll have more days to laugh. (Ashalia Denise Thacker)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined. (Henry David Thoreau)

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. (Thomas Edison)

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. (Plato)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those your hold well. (Josh Billings)

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world. (Unknown)

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away. (John S. Coleman)

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick)

The true measure of man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. (Confucius)

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. (Mark Twain)

Tact is what you think but don't say. (Unknown)