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"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." - Edwin Markham
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston
"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." - Confucius
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." - Dalai Lama
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"The root of suffering is attachment." - The Buddha
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." - Michel de Montaigne
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." - Pablo Picasso
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." - Gustave Flaubert
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." - John Wooden
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." - E. M. Forster
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." - Rudolf Arnheim
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." - Jane Addams
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream." - John Eliot
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." - Alan Watts
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert Schuller
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." - Isocrates
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." - Aristotle
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
"The great myth of our times is that technology is communication." - Libby Larsen
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, and wear Reebok." - Shaquille O'Neal
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." - Walter Lippmann
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." - Kahlil Gibran
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Bernard Shaw
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"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
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts." - William Shakespeare
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." - Vernon Cooper
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth." - The Buddha
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." - Václav Havel
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." - Alan Watts
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." - John Lennon
"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." - Anne Frank
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." - Walt Disney
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." - Jane Roberts
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." - Denis Waitley
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." - André Malraux
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"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." - Anne Frank
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know." - William Shakespeare
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." - Tom Hodgkinson
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Augustine of Hippo
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Laozi
"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings." - John Astin
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." - Pema Chödrön
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open." - Pauline Kael
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." - The Buddha
"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity." - Augustine of Hippo
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best." - Jerome
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"All things change; nothing perishes." - Ovid
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations." - Albert Einstein
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." - Seneca the Younger
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." - Pema Chödrön
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austen
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise." - Anne Brontë
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." - Dalai Lama
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." - John Lennon
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." - Blaise Pascal
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." - Aristotle
"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again." - John McCain
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are." - Forrest Church
"The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom." - William Hurt
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." - Seneca the Younger
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." - Anaïs Nin
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it." - Eckhart Tolle
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone." - Lucretius
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster." - Avery Brooks
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Larry Elder
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Basil of Caesarea
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." - Yolanda Hadid
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." - Charles Dickens
"All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind." - The Buddha
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." - Walter Benjamin
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." - Napoleon Hill
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Humphrey
"Do not scorn what you have received, nor envy the gains of others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." - The Buddha
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." - Rumi
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence J. Peter
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Edison
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." - Moncure D. Conway
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." - Carl Jung
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." - Marcus Aurelius
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him." - Laozi
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." - Samuel Richardson
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away." - Sophocles
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." - Jared Diamond
"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." - Clay Shirky
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." - Brendan Behan
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." - Man Ray
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." - Confucius
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." - Pablo Picasso
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Molière
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you." - Janet Jackson
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." - Wayne Dyer
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." - Brendan Behan
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share." - Thomas Fuller
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." - Pablo Picasso
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." - Wayne Dyer
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain." - Oprah Winfrey
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." - Vusi Mahlasela
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D'Israeli
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." - Plato
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings." - The Buddha
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"The simplest things are often the truest." - Richard Bach
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - Albert Einstein
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe." - Alan Watts
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth." - The Buddha
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me." - The Buddha
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." - Nargis Fakhri
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." - Robert Fulghum
"Resolutely train yourself to attain peace." - The Buddha
"The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." - Ovid
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself." - Alan Watts
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." - Kahlil Gibran
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Be the chief but never the lord." - Laozi
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams." - Henry David Thoreau
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - Epictetus
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." - Muhammad Ali
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." - Leonardo da Vinci
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil." - Benjamin Haydon
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Cicero
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." - Simon Sinek
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." - Daisaku Ikeda
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"Change in all things is sweet." - Aristotle
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." - Carl Jung
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." - Jared Diamond
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Heywood Broun
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." - Aeschylus
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button." - Volker Grassmuck
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montagu
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" - Doug Larson
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." - Henry David Thoreau
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together." - Mariella Frostrup
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." - Caroline Myss
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - Epictetus
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel." - Marcia Fudge
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." - Richard Bach
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." - Voltaire
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." - Joseph Joubert
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." - Chanakya
"It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts." - Ella Fitzgerald
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self." - Confucius
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens." - Pema Chödrön
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." - Bruce Lee
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." - Franz Kafka
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part." - Christopher Reeve
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it." - Warren Buffett
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" - Dalai Lama
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James A. Yorke
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." - Jean de La Fontaine
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." - Miguel de Cervantes
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." - Gordon Hinckley
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." - Daisaku Ikeda
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." - Don Marquis
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Fortune favors the brave." - Virgil
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." - Satchel Paige
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." - Vusi Mahlasela
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." - The Buddha
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." - Steve Jobs
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." - Carrie Snow
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Heywood Broun
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Leave no stone unturned." - Euripides
"With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it." - Amber Valletta
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." - Franz Grillparzer
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." - Rose Kennedy
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chödrön
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." - Robert Fulghum
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing." - The Buddha
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." - Colette
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on." - Alan Watts
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open." - Pauline Kael
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." - Anaïs Nin
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." - Mortimer J. Adler
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." - Alan Watts
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" - Richard Bach
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Laozi
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." - Confucius
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little." - Cheng Yen
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence J. Peter
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted." - Teresa of Ávila
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." - Jane Addams
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." - Léon Blum
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Leave no stone unturned." - Euripides
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." - John Lennon
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucius
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." - Nargis Fakhri
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"When in doubt, don't." - Benjamin Franklin
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"Change in all things is sweet." - Aristotle
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." - Alan Watts
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Laozi
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." - Don Shula
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." - Dalai Lama
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." - Walter Lippmann
"By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm." - Dalai Lama
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." - Thomas Aquinas
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." - Og Mandino
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself." - Alan Watts
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life." - Joseph Prince
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." - Kahlil Gibran
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." - The Buddha
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." - Benjamin Franklin
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels." - The Buddha
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." - Wayne Dyer
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family." - Salman Rushdie
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." - Etty Hillesum
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." - Edward Gibbon
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"The simplest things are often the truest." - Richard Bach
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed." - The Buddha
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." - Norman Cousins
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." - The Buddha
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." - Confucius
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"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
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"Our distrust is very expensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." - Barack Obama
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." - Dalai Lama
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"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
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." - Alan Watts
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." - Pema Chödrön
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it." - J. M. Barrie
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it." - Publilius Syrus
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything." - Denis Waitley
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness." - Dag Hammarskjöld
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"Never find fault with the absent." - Alexander Pope
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." - Aristotle
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." - Aesop
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." - Norman Cousins
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." - Publilius Syrus
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Laozi
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Laozi
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Sun Tzu
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that." - The Buddha
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Bernard Shaw
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." - Anaïs Nin
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent." - Epictetus
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin." - The Buddha
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger." - Richard Bach
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise." - Barack Obama
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." - Franz Kafka
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn." - Yogi Berra
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." - Jerome
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." - Rose Kennedy
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open." - Pauline Kael
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"I allow my intuition to lead my path." - Manuel Puig
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." - Dalai Lama
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." - Epictetus
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them." - Sophocles
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others." - Harriet Lerner
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with." - Marcus Aurelius
"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." - The Buddha
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving." - John Dewey
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." - Samuel Johnson
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Do I speak at the right time, or not? Do I speak of facts, or not? Do I speak gently or harshly? Do I speak profitable words or not? Do I speak with a kindly heart, or inwardly malicious?" - The Buddha
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." - Confucius
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Samuel Johnson
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." - Steven Van Zandt
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people." - Daisaku Ikeda
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." - Charles Péguy
"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." - The Buddha
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." - Yolanda Hadid
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." - The Buddha
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well." - Warren Buffett
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - The Buddha
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse." - The Buddha
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky
"I think and that is all that I am." - Wayne Dyer
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"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
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Dalai Lama
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert Humphrey
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?" - Confucius
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." - Dalai Lama
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it." - Michelangelo
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship." - Mother Angelica
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle
"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil
"A wise person should be urgently moved on occasions that make for urgency." - The Buddha
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." - Walter Lippmann
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"You can't choose up sides on a round world." - Wayne Dyer
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." - Václav Havel
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!" - Bob Newhart
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings." - Ezra Taft Benson
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family." - Salman Rushdie
"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - Dalai Lama
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." - Napoleon
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"All things change; nothing perishes." - Ovid
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Francis Bacon
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - The Buddha
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Laozi
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Edison
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance." - Thomas Carlyle
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"Myths which are believed in tend to become true." - George Orwell
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." - Richard Bach
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." - Alan Watts
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." - Elbert Hubbard
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." - The Buddha
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." - Jim Rohn
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." - Heraclitus
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person." - The Buddha
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." - The Buddha
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Laozi
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." - John Junor
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way." - Morihei Ueshiba
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"Do I speak at the right time, or not? Do I speak of facts, or not? Do I speak gently or harshly? Do I speak profitable words or not? Do I speak with a kindly heart, or inwardly malicious?" - The Buddha
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinem
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas Edison
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness." - Dag Hammarskjöld
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." - The Buddha
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." - Amelia Earhart
"All is flux; nothing stays still." - Heraclitus
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." - Gustave Flaubert
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Joyce Brothers
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." - Man Ray
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." - Eustace Budgell
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"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
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." - Charles Dickens
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them." - Sophocles
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it." - Dee Hock
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Laozi
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?" - Dalai Lama
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." - Henry Reed
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." - P. G. Wodehouse
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John Locke
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law." - Thomas Hobbes
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family." - Salman Rushdie
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
"If you want to go east, don't go west." - Ramakrishna
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert Schuller
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." - Laurence J. Peter
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." - Pablo Picasso
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Almost everything comes from nothing." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." - W. Clement Stone
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson
"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one." - Diogenes
"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship." - Marilyn Monroe
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Cicero
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." - Aristotle
"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." - Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." - Thomas Edison
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse." - The Buddha
"You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person." - The Buddha
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." - Warren Bennis
"I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." - Warren Buffett
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." - Sophocles
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." - Publilius Syrus
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Laozi
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it." - Dee Hock
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Isocrates
"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." - Albert Einstein
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." - Tony Robbins
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montagu
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." - Paul Theroux
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." - Brian Tracy
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." - Michel de Montaigne
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Anaïs Nin
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama
"One should not hurt others if one loves oneself." - The Buddha
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." - Heraclitus
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." - Max Planck
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." - Aristotle
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." - John Steinbeck
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?" - Confucius
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." - The Buddha
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." - Rita Mae Brown
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." - Sri Chinmoy
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." - Simon Sinek
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." - Marian Wright Edelman
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." - Hannah Arendt
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch
"Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next." - Herbert Hoover
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." - Don Shula
"Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." - Dhammapada
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." - Yolanda Hadid
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." - Jean de La Fontaine
"Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength." - Dalai Lama
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." - Blaise Pascal
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." - The Buddha
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story." - Casey Stengel
"Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." - Albert Einstein
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Augustine of Hippo
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison
"As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed." - The Buddha
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." - Herman Melville
"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
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." - Charles Péguy
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream." - John Eliot
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." - John Lennon
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." - Caterina Fake
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." - John Steinbeck
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." - Herman Melville
"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams." - Henry David Thoreau
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." - Walt Disney
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness are at an all-time high. We must course-correct." - Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished." - The Buddha
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." - John Keats
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." - Alan Watts
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." - Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James A. Yorke
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney
"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." - Tom Hodgkinson
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story." - Casey Stengel
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt
"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one." - Diogenes
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." - Napoleon Hill
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others." - Harriet Lerner
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." - Sophocles
"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world." - The Buddha
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." - Edmond Rostand
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." - Albert Einstein
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." - Kahlil Gibran
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - Bernard Shaw
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." - Thomas Edison
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." - Richard Whately
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement." - Ralph Marston
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf." - Albert Schweitzer
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann
"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Laozi
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." - W. Clement Stone
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." - Napoleon Hill
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom." - Sam Walton
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." - Julian Casablancas
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." - Vernon Cooper
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." - Caterina Fake
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." - Voltaire
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." - E. M. Forster
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels." - The Buddha
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." - Max Planck
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." - John Lasseter
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." - John Wooden
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." - Jean de La Bruyère
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." - Aristotle
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people." - Daisaku Ikeda
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." - Robert Griffin III
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." - Benjamin Franklin
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never find fault with the absent." - Alexander Pope
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." - Thomas Aquinas
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations." - Albert Einstein
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be." - Saul Alinsky
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." - Napoleon Hill
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"As you think, so shall you become." - Bruce Lee
"Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another." - The Buddha
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"No day in which you learn something is a complete loss." - David Eddings
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon Robinson
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." - Neil Gaiman
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." - Barbara De Angelis
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." - Aesop
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." - Albert Einstein
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
"Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox" - Laozi
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." - Abraham Lincoln
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Laozi
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." - Richard Bach
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." - Dalai Lama
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." - Jane Roberts
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." - Daisaku Ikeda
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montagu
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." - John Junor
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." - Laozi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." - Betty Friedan
"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens." - Pema Chödrön
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." - Marcus Aurelius
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage." - Confucius
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"When in doubt, don't." - Benjamin Franklin
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." - Napoleon Hill
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story." - Casey Stengel
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"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." - Anne Frank
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." - Wayne Dyer
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffett
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes." - The Buddha
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - A. A. Milne
"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." - Confucius
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." - Barbara De Angelis
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." - Iris Murdoch
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." - William Sloane Coffin
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William C. Menninger
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Cicero
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." - Franz Grillparzer
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G. K. Chesterton
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." - Francis of Assisi
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - Paul Cézanne
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." - Joseph Joubert
"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." - Anne Frank
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon Robinson
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it." - Charles F. Kettering
"You won't skid if you stay in a rut." - Kin Hubbard
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life." - James Freeman Clarke
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble." - The Buddha
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert Schuller
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." - William C. Menninger
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero
"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." - Laozi
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." - Barbara Bush
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us." - Daisaku Ikeda
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." - Laozi
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." - John Junor
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself." - Oprah Winfrey
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." - Wayne Dyer
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." - Isocrates
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." - John Dewey
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." - Thomas Haynes Bayly
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." - Alan Watts
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." - Anaïs Nin
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Richard Bach
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." - Ayn Rand
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." - Abraham Lincoln
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." - Tony Robbins
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." - George Santayana
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." - Coco Chanel
"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful." - Harvey Mackay
"They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed." - The Buddha
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past." - Ellen Gilchrist
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napoleon Hill
"I allow my intuition to lead my path." - Manuel Puig
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." - Benjamin Franklin
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Laurence J. Peter
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ignorance never settles a question." - Benjamin Disraeli
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." - Léon Blum
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." - Voltaire
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." - Heraclitus
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Samuel Johnson
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." - Ovid
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." - Muhammad Ali
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Brontë
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." - The Buddha
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracián
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you." - Julie Morgenstern
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings." - Ezra Taft Benson
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffett
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ignorance never settles a question." - Benjamin Disraeli
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." - Caterina Fake
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself." - Oprah Winfrey
"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 develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Laozi
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens." - Pema Chödrön
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity." - Billie Jean King
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox" - Laozi
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." - Steven Van Zandt
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink." - Sophocles
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." - Steve Jobs
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." - Samuel Johnson
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." - Sophocles
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." - Jean de La Fontaine
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." - Whoopi Goldberg
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." - Peter Elbow
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." - John Lennon
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." - Pema Chödrön
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Richard Bach
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James A. Yorke
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own." - Jessamyn West
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." - Richard Whately
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." - Rita Mae Brown
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"Be the chief but never the lord." - Laozi
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." - Judy Collins
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." - Moncure D. Conway
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." - William Sloane Coffin
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." - May Sarton
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." - Franz Kafka
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Augustine of Hippo
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean." - Alan Watts
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." - Gordon Hinckley
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." - Winifred Holtby
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible." - Epictetus
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." - Aristotle
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." - W. Clement Stone
"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 Aurelius
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." - Moncure D. Conway
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." - Laozi
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it." - J. M. Barrie
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." - Ben Hogan
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"Your friend is your needs answered." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." - Ovid
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." - Václav Havel
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"God always takes the simplest way." - Albert Einstein
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." - Lucille Ball
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." - Plato
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Hal Abelson
"Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet." - The Buddha
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." - Robert Griffin III
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence J. Peter
"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax." - Alan Watts
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." - Pema Chödrön
"You teach best what you most need to learn." - Richard Bach
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William C. Menninger
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story." - Casey Stengel
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Bernard Shaw
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him." - Laozi
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." - Christian Dior
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." - Dalai Lama
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
"You teach best what you most need to learn." - Richard Bach
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." - Plato
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not." - Dhammapada
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth." - The Buddha
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Laurence J. Peter
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people." - Mary Kay Ash
"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." - Wayne Dyer
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way." - The Buddha
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace." - Christie Brinkley
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button." - John Brunner
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." - Hannah Arendt
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." - Babe Ruth
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." - Man Ray
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" - Thomas Edison
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world." - Marcus Aurelius
"I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." - Albert Einstein
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom." - Sam Walton
"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
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Basil of Caesarea
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." - The Buddha
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - Paul Cézanne
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." - Richard Bach
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing." - The Buddha
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." - Phil Jackson
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Joyce Brothers
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world." - Marcus Aurelius
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." - Dalai Lama
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball." - Bob Knight
"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." - Caroline Myss
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." - Alan Watts
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert Humphrey
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." - Akhenaten
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffett
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Leonardo da Vinci
"I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable." - Warren Buffett
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." - Marcus Aurelius
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D'Israeli
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Laozi
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." - Robert Fulghum
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing
"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
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you." - Wayne Dyer
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"Study the past, if you would divine the future." - Confucius
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." - Peter Elbow
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." - Yolanda Hadid
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." - Gordon Hinckley
"The root of suffering is attachment." - The Buddha
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." - Samuel Johnson
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength." - Dalai Lama
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." - Thomas Edison
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom." - Plato
"He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin." - The Buddha
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." - Alan Watts
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." - Michael Phelps
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." - Sojourner Truth
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." - Man Ray
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You give before you get." - Napoleon Hill
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Publilius Syrus
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." - Charles Dickens
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." - Plato
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger." - Michelle Obama
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"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
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." - Jerome
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - The Buddha
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." - Arnold Palmer
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." - John Dewey
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - George Eliot
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." - George Marshall
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." - Louise Hay
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be." - Saul Alinsky
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Samuel Johnson
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." - Joseph Joubert
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page
"Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." - Carrie Snow
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams
"'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill." - The Buddha
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity." - The Buddha
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." - Danilo Dolci
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." - Thomas Edison
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." - Tony Robbins
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." - Rita Mae Brown
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"Life is a progress, and not a station." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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." - Anne Frank
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - The Buddha
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." - Franz Grillparzer
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - Harry Kemp
"Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you." - Julie Morgenstern
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little." - Cheng Yen
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." - Laozi
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." - Christopher Reeve
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." - Don Miguel Ruiz
"Fortune favors the brave." - Virgil
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." - Gustave Flaubert
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." - Alan Watts
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten." - Aesop
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance." - Thomas Carlyle
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater." - Epictetus
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." - Thomas Jefferson
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." - Alan Watts
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." - Ovid
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." - Christopher Reeve
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." - Laozi
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." - Laozi
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure." - The Buddha
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." - Richard Bach
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means." - Charles Kingsley
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." - The Buddha
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence J. Peter
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." - Betty Friedan
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." - Confucius
"Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings." - The Buddha
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." - Pema Chödrön
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." - Napoleon Hill
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." - John Galsworthy
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." - Jean de La Bruyère
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" - Confucius
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." - Sam Ewing
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." - Elie Wiesel
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Publilius Syrus
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes." - The Buddha
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Larry Elder
"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." - The Buddha
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." - Satchel Paige
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." - Rumi
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." - Cynthia Ozick
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins." - Charles Eastman
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." - Thomas Jefferson
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving." - John Dewey
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm." - Dalai Lama
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams." - Henry David Thoreau
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." - Brendan Behan
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." - Blaise Pascal
"Give, even if you only have a little." - The Buddha
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." - Louise Hay
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him." - Laozi
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." - Mignon McLaughlin
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." - Amelia Earhart
"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." - George Marshall
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." - Wayne Dyer
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people." - Mary Kay Ash
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." - Pema Chödrön
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." - Lou Holtz
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." - The Buddha
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." - James Gleick
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself." - Napoleon Hill
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Olivier Messiaen
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed." - The Buddha
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be." - Saul Alinsky
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." - Bruce Lee
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" - Dalai Lama
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" - The Buddha
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"You won't skid if you stay in a rut." - Kin Hubbard
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." - John Wooden
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life." - James Freeman Clarke
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." - Dalai Lama
"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" - Dalai Lama
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." - Danilo Dolci
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." - Winifred Holtby
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." - Chanakya
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." - Vusi Mahlasela
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." - Dalai Lama
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." - Voltaire
"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." - Sam Ewing
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John Locke
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"Life is a progress, and not a station." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia
"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." - Laozi
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." - Molière
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." - Carl Jung
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best." - Jerome
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." - Dalai Lama
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." - Dalai Lama
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." - Robert Fulghum
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." - Charles Dickens
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." - Thomas Jefferson
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." - Amelia Earhart
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." - Sophocles
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." - Bruce Lee
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." - Samuel Richardson
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." - Eustace Budgell
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." - Rachel Carson
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." - Anaïs Nin
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." - Giotto
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." - Dalai Lama
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." - Phil Jackson
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." - The Buddha
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Dalai Lama
"Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - Paul Cézanne
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." - Laozi
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." - Bodhidharma
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." - Benjamin Franklin
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Bobby Unser
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." - Barbara Bush
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger." - Michelle Obama
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." - May Sarton
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"I allow my intuition to lead my path." - Manuel Puig
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"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
"The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage." - Confucius
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." - Plato
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him." - Laozi
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom." - Plato
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." - Publilius Syrus
"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Laozi
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment." - Morihei Ueshiba
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship is Love without his wings!" - Lord Byron
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." - Richard Whately
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions." - John F. Kennedy
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." - John Madden
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves." - Carl Jung
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
"As you think, so shall you become." - Bruce Lee
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." - Lou Holtz
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." - Marsha Petrie Sue
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Laozi
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - Epictetus
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." - Moncure D. Conway
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life." - Joseph Prince
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." - Tony Robbins
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." - Walt Disney
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." - Albert Camus
"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world." - The Buddha
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength." - Dalai Lama
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." - Pablo Picasso
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." - Lord Byron
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part." - Christopher Reeve
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." - John Keats
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." - Neil Gaiman
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." - Iris Murdoch
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." - Chanakya
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." - Richard Bach
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." - Michel de Montaigne
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." - Arthur Ashe
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means." - Charles Kingsley
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." - Zhuang Zhou
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another." - The Buddha
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." - Sophocles
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." - Chanakya
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!" - Richard Bach
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." - Satchel Paige
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life." - Joseph Prince
"Fortune favors the brave." - Virgil
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." - Wayne Dyer
"There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do." - Amy Poehler
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." - Will Rogers
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"All things change; nothing perishes." - Ovid
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." - Elbert Hubbard
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon Robinson
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Isocrates
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." - Gordon Hinckley
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own." - Jessamyn West
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"Life is a progress, and not a station." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others." - Harriet Lerner
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." - Dalai Lama
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." - Albert Einstein
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
"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." - A. Powell Davies
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." - Bodhidharma
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." - John Dewey
"You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person." - The Buddha
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Heywood Broun
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." - Akhenaten
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Isocrates
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"Speak low, if you speak love." - William Shakespeare
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." - Julian Casablancas
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
"God always takes the simplest way." - Albert Einstein
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - Bernard Shaw
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." - Arnold Palmer
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." - George Herbert
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten." - Aesop
"To fly, we have to have resistance." - Maya Lin
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." - Kurt Vonnegut
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James A. Yorke
"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button." - Volker Grassmuck
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Richard Bach
"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters." - Aesop
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"Never complain and never explain." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world." - Marcus Aurelius
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness are at an all-time high. We must course-correct." - Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." - Barbara De Angelis
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice." - Sogyal Rinpoche
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" - Tony Robbins
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." - Edmond Rostand
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill
"I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others." - Confucius
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"No day in which you learn something is a complete loss." - David Eddings
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." - Barbara Bush
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!" - Richard Bach
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." - John Galsworthy
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?" - Thomas Jefferson
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Laozi
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." - Douglas Coupland
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity." - The Buddha
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." - Marcus Aurelius
"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature." - Don DeLillo
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." - Judy Collins
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." - Aesop
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." - Peter Elbow
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." - Plotinus
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." - Isocrates
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." - Helen Keller
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." - Christian Dior
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." - Wayne Dyer
"Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D'Israeli
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves." - Carl Jung
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." - Dorothy Thompson
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." - Thomas Haynes Bayly
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf." - Albert Schweitzer
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." - Sophocles
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"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
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." - P. G. Wodehouse
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for." - Mariella Frostrup
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." - Charles Dickens
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it." - Henry Moore
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." - Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." - Laozi
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Laurence J. Peter
"All serious daring starts from within." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Augustine of Hippo
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." - Cynthia Ozick
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger
"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." - Etty Hillesum
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Abraham Lincoln
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." - Rumi
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." - Pema Chödrön
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom." - Plato
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not." - Dhammapada
"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts." - Alan Cohen
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." - Confucius
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." - Albert Einstein
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." - Henry James
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." - Gustave Flaubert
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another." - The Buddha
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." - Walter Benjamin
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." - Carl Jung
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure." - The Buddha
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." - Dalai Lama
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." - Jerome
"God always takes the simplest way." - Albert Einstein
"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
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Molière
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox" - Laozi
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck." - Og Mandino
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." - Liberace
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
"To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." - Plotinus
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" - Tony Robbins
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with." - Marcus Aurelius
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - The Buddha
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." - Brian Tracy
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John Locke
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." - Marcus Aurelius
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." - Jane Addams
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past." - Ellen Gilchrist
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." - Kahlil Gibran
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." - Dalai Lama
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." - Kurt Vonnegut
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"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
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." - Og Mandino
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." - Lord Byron
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." - Erma Bombeck
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." - Jerome
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against." - Bruce Lee
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Olivier Messiaen
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Larry Elder
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." - The Buddha
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Spurgeon
"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
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud
"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." - Aesop
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." - Theodore H. White
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." - Thomas Edison
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James
"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations." - Albert Einstein
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world." - The Buddha
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." - Norman Cousins
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." - The Buddha
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." - John Madden
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." - Thomas Jefferson
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure." - Eric Liddell
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." - P. G. Wodehouse
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anaïs Nin
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." - Marcus Aurelius
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Isocrates
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone." - Lucretius
"Wisdom begins at the end." - Daniel Webster
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." - A. Powell Davies
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." - Barbara Bush
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." - Dalai Lama
"May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." - Napoleon Hill
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." - Arnold Palmer
"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." - Sam Ewing
"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." - The Buddha
"You win the victory when you yield to friends." - Sophocles
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." - William C. Menninger
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." - Anaïs Nin
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." - Woody Allen
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." - Zhuang Zhou
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Kahlil Gibran
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." - Francis Bacon
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." - Judy Collins
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Bernard Shaw
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." - Laozi
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." - Abraham Lincoln
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open." - Pauline Kael
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." - Carl Jung
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." - Kathleen Norris
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." - Joseph Joubert
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." - Brooks Adams
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." - Benjamin Franklin
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." - Samuel Richardson
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." - Isocrates
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - René Descartes
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself." - Napoleon Hill
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." - Franz Grillparzer
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." - Lou Holtz
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." - W. Clement Stone
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." - Lord Byron
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." - Giotto
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." - Kahlil Gibran
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it." - J. M. Barrie
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides
"In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both." - Mariella Frostrup
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win." - The Buddha
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." - Isocrates
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." - Robert Fulghum
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." - Anaïs Nin
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Dalai Lama
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." - Will Rogers
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"No garden is without its weeds." - Thomas Fuller
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." - Kyle Chandler
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." - Gordon Hinckley
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." - John Dewey
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share." - Thomas Fuller
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." - Thomas Aquinas
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." - Erma Bombeck
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - George Eliot
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." - Julian Casablancas
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." - John Wooden
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax." - Alan Watts
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels." - The Buddha
"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship." - Mother Angelica
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." - Phil Jackson
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." - George Santayana
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." - Bruce Lee
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them." - Hugh Miller
"'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill." - The Buddha
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." - Dorothy Thompson
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - Wilson Mizner
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means." - Charles Kingsley
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chödrön
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune." - Horace
"Pitching is the art of instilling fear." - Sandy Koufax
"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom." - Sam Walton
"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
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity." - The Buddha
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." - William Shakespeare
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." - Dalai Lama
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." - Rudolf Arnheim
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Molière
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater." - Epictetus
"You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike
"Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course." - The Buddha
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted." - Laozi
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it." - Eckhart Tolle
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"Never find fault with the absent." - Alexander Pope
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." - Laozi
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - Paul Cézanne
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." - John Lennon
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Leo Buscaglia
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." - Voltaire
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." - George Santayana
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people." - Daisaku Ikeda
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean." - Alan Watts
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." - George Herbert
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Wisdom begins at the end." - Daniel Webster
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax." - Alan Watts
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - The Buddha
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." - Paul Theroux
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." - Richard Bach
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"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
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." - Benjamin Franklin
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Samuel Johnson
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." - Confucius
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austen
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." - Heraclitus
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." - Ben Hogan
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." - Margaret Thatcher
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be." - Sai Baba
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." - Phil Jackson
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." - Julian Casablancas
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next." - Herbert Hoover
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain." - Oprah Winfrey
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"One should train in deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind—that yield long-lasting happiness." - The Buddha
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without." - Henry David Thoreau
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you." - Janet Jackson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G. K. Chesterton
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." - Wayne Dyer
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." - Anaïs Nin
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon Robinson
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace." - Christie Brinkley
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." - John Lennon
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." - Sri Chinmoy
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little." - Cheng Yen
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." - Thomas Jefferson
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present." - Babatunde Olatunji
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." - Man Ray
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." - Alan Watts
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." - Tony Robbins
"Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if already dead." - The Buddha
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." - Amelia Earhart
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"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
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything." - Denis Waitley
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." - The Buddha
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." - The Buddha
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." - The Buddha
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." - Simon Sinek
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." - The Buddha
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"Never find fault with the absent." - Alexander Pope
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master." - The Buddha
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!" - John Pierrakos
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be." - William James
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?" - Dalai Lama
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil." - Benjamin Haydon
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Søren Kierkegaard
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life." - Joseph Prince
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"The great myth of our times is that technology is communication." - Libby Larsen
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." - Jerome
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." - Brian Tracy
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." - Molière
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity." - Albert Schweitzer
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." - Erma Bombeck
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf." - Albert Schweitzer
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." - Edith Wharton
"The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom." - William Hurt
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." - The Buddha
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family." - Salman Rushdie
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." - Parker Palmer
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Publilius Syrus
"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
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." - Man Ray
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence J. Peter
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus
"You can do it if you believe you can!" - Napoleon Hill
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason." - Thomas Paine
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." - Thomas Haynes Bayly
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne
"Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for." - Mariella Frostrup
"Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself." - Oprah Winfrey
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"You cannot have what you do not want." - John Acosta
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum." - Holly Near
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." - Napoleon Hill
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." - Henry James
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napoleon Hill
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith." - Gordon Hinckley
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Laurence J. Peter
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." - Richard Burton
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." - John Galsworthy
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." - Theodore H. White
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William C. Menninger
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice." - Sogyal Rinpoche
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Augustine of Hippo
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." - Jean de La Fontaine
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." - Richard Bach
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." - The Buddha
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." - Abraham Lincoln
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares." - Henri Nouwen
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there." - Richard Bach
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life." - Daisaku Ikeda
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"A noble one produces an abundance of merit by having a compassionate mind towards all living beings." - The Buddha
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it." - Eckhart Tolle
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." - Alan Watts
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky
"Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort." - Epictetus
"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
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it." - Amber Valletta
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"Life is about timing." - Carl Lewis
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"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
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." - Aesop
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." - Abraham Lincoln
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." - Max Planck
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." - The Buddha
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." - Thomas Fuller
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." - Sai Baba
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James A. Yorke
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." - The Buddha
"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." - Thomas Edison
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." - Christopher Reeve
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Leo Buscaglia
"Our distrust is very expensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." - Sri Chinmoy
"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace." - Christie Brinkley
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"Wisdom begins at the end." - Daniel Webster
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." - Wayne Dyer
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." - Anaïs Nin
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." - Laozi
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." - Colette
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." - Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." - Albert Einstein
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." - Henry James
"Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing." - The Buddha
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." - Richard Bach
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert Schuller
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." - Napoleon Hill
"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself." - Oprah Winfrey
"Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." - Don Miguel Ruiz
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be." - William James
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." - Peter Abelard
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"Give, even if you only have a little." - The Buddha
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes
"All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master." - The Buddha
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." - Brian Tracy
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything." - Denis Waitley
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch
"You really can change the world if you care enough." - Marian Wright Edelman
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." - The Buddha
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." - Richard Bach
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity." - Billie Jean King
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." - Edward Gibbon
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." - Steve Jobs
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"None knows the weight of another's burden." - George Herbert
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." - Winifred Holtby
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." - John Bercow
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley
"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them." - Sophocles
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." - Vusi Mahlasela
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." - Simon Sinek
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be as you wish to seem." - Socrates
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." - Barack Obama
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucius
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." - Nargis Fakhri
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." - George Jean Nathan
"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." - Pema Chödrön
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Leo Buscaglia
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." - Paul Theroux
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Richard Bach
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." - The Buddha
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." - John Madden
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." - Daisaku Ikeda
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." - Marsha Petrie Sue
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
"Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together." - Mariella Frostrup
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." - John Bercow
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." - John Bercow
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday." - Franz Liszt
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." - Rose Kennedy
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Samuel Johnson
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement." - Ralph Marston
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anaïs Nin
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." - William Blake
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." - John Lasseter
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas Edison
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." - Confucius
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past." - Ellen Gilchrist
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." - Lewis Cass
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Brontë
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." - John Lasseter
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chödrön
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." - Mortimer J. Adler
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." - Brooks Adams
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there." - Richard Bach
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." - Publilius Syrus
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." - Lord Byron
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow." - The Buddha
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." - Charles Péguy
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." - W. Clement Stone
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good." - The Buddha
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." - Joseph Stalin
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd
"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it." - Warren Buffett
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chödrön
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." - Vernon Cooper
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." - A. Powell Davies
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"May all beings have happy minds." - The Buddha
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." - Ben Hogan
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one." - Diogenes
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." - Abraham Lincoln
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." - Publilius Syrus
"So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Brontë
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me." - The Buddha
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." - Richard Bach
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." - Rachel Carson
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Isocrates
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." - Coco Chanel
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." - Barbara Bush
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" - Thomas Edison
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Laozi
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." - Confucius
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." - Wayne Dyer
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." - Erma Bombeck
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." - Pema Chödrön
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." - Jared Diamond
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature." - Don DeLillo
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." - Arthur Ashe
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." - Earl Monroe
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost." - Leo Tolstoy
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." - Benjamin Franklin
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Thomas Jefferson
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." - Napoleon Hill
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." - Francis Bacon
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." - Rita Mae Brown
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." - John Lennon
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" - Richard Bach
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential." - Dalai Lama
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." - Dhammapada
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." - Jared Diamond
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Laozi
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." - Napoleon Hill
"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." - Erma Bombeck
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts." - William Shakespeare
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." - Michael Phelps
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." - Marsha Petrie Sue
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." - Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." - Hannah Arendt
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength." - Dalai Lama
"Never promise more than you can perform." - Publilius Syrus
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." - Brendan Behan
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self." - Confucius
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - Robert M. Pirsig
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom." - Plato
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday." - Franz Liszt
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein
"May all beings have happy minds." - The Buddha
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." - Elie Wiesel
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck." - Og Mandino
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." - Oprah Winfrey
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - Augustine of Hippo
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"None knows the weight of another's burden." - George Herbert
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." - Anaïs Nin
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." - Wayne Dyer
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you want to go east, don't go west." - Ramakrishna
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"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
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"You can do it if you believe you can!" - Napoleon Hill
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Isocrates
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." - Don Marquis
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"Almost everything comes from nothing." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." - Bruce Lee
"Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit." - The Buddha
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort." - Epictetus
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - René Descartes
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" - Bill Bradley
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." - Brian Tracy
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." - Pablo Picasso
"All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master." - The Buddha
"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
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." - Aeschylus
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." - Carl Jung
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Laozi
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." - Sigmund Freud
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." - Samuel Johnson
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." - Dalai Lama
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." - Carl Jung
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." - Vernon Cooper
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again." - John McCain
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything." - Denis Waitley
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - The Buddha
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." - Alan Watts
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." - John Steinbeck
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Laozi
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." - Christian Dior
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"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
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good." - The Buddha
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." - Thomas Edison
"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." - Douglas Coupland
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." - Jane Roberts
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." - The Buddha
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." - Laurence J. Peter
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"Study the past, if you would divine the future." - Confucius
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." - Alan Watts
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." - Richard Burton
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance." - Thomas Carlyle
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be." - Saul Alinsky
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way." - The Buddha
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." - Peter Elbow
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink." - Sophocles
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against." - Bruce Lee
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." - Michael Phelps
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Richard Bach
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." - Joseph Joubert
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Laozi
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." - Edmund Burke
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"A noble one produces an abundance of merit by having a compassionate mind towards all living beings." - The Buddha
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Humphrey
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austen
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Hal Abelson
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." - The Buddha
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten." - Aesop
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." - Richard Whately
"When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way." - Morihei Ueshiba
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." - Phil Jackson
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." - James Gleick
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." - Tony Robbins
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." - Louise Hay
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." - Tom Hodgkinson
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinem
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." - Iris Murdoch
"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"Life is a progress, and not a station." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs." - Lin Yutang
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." - Alan Watts
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies." - Confucius
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." - Thomas Fuller
"You win the victory when you yield to friends." - Sophocles
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." - Confucius
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"One should train in deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind—that yield long-lasting happiness." - The Buddha
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." - Richard Burton
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." - Rose Kennedy
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply!" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster." - Avery Brooks
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." - Laozi
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." - Arthur Ashe
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Sun Tzu
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself." - Alan Watts
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." - Rumi
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." - Laozi
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." - Chuck Swindoll
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." - Sophocles
"Error is discipline through which we advance." - William Ellery Channing
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts." - Alan Cohen
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." - Benjamin Franklin
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." - Hugh Jackman
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." - George Santayana
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." - Mortimer J. Adler
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." - Aeschylus
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." - Sophocles
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is." - Robert M. Pirsig
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture." - Susan Orlean
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." - Wayne Dyer
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." - Amelia Earhart
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Inglis Anderson
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way." - The Buddha
"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil." - Benjamin Haydon
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax." - Alan Watts
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." - George Santayana
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Leo Buscaglia
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." - Rudolf Arnheim
"None knows the weight of another's burden." - George Herbert
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"'As I am, so are they; as they are, so am I.' Comparing others with oneself, do not kill nor cause others to kill." - The Buddha
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" - The Buddha
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." - Alan Watts
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." - Nargis Fakhri
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." - Aesop
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." - Aeschylus
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." - Oprah Winfrey
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." - Clay Shirky
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it." - Eckhart Tolle
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - Epictetus
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life." - Hermann Hesse
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." - Norman Cousins
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." - Dorothy Thompson
"To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success." - Anna Pavlova
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Our distrust is very expensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." - Marsha Petrie Sue
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet." - The Buddha
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." - The Buddha
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert Humphrey
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas Edison
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." - The Buddha
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." - Laozi
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." - Babe Ruth
"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." - Arthur Rubinstein
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?" - Confucius
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." - Katherine Mansfield
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"I think and that is all that I am." - Wayne Dyer
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity." - Billie Jean King
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." - Pema Chödrön
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." - Laurence J. Peter
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." - Parker Palmer
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." - Albert Einstein
"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button." - Volker Grassmuck
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday." - Franz Liszt
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"Each day provides its own gifts." - Marcus Aurelius
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." - Samuel Johnson
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." - Man Ray
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - A. A. Milne
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement." - Ralph Marston
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." - Rudolf Arnheim
"To lead people walk behind them." - Laozi
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." - Don Shula
"Do not scorn what you have received, nor envy the gains of others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." - The Buddha
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer
"All is flux; nothing stays still." - Heraclitus
"Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!" - The Buddha
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." - Hugh Jackman
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with." - Peter Elbow
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." - Margaret Thatcher
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert Schuller
"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts." - William Shakespeare
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." - Barack Obama
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch
"All is flux; nothing stays still." - Heraclitus
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Søren Kierkegaard
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." - Alan Watts
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise." - Anne Brontë
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Inglis Anderson
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it." - Publilius Syrus
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life." - James Freeman Clarke
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." - Kathleen Norris
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." - Wayne Dyer
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!" - Richard Bach
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it." - J. M. Barrie
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." - Uta Hagen
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." - Whoopi Goldberg
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten." - Aesop
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"All things change; nothing perishes." - Ovid
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there." - Richard Bach
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen
"All serious daring starts from within." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." - Peter Abelard
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." - Parker Palmer
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." - Edward Gibbon
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James
"They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed." - The Buddha
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." - Wayne Dyer
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." - The Buddha
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble." - The Buddha
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." - Sojourner Truth
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." - Bodhidharma
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." - Tony Robbins
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas Edison
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Laozi
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best." - Jerome
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." - Richard Whately
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck." - Og Mandino
"All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master." - The Buddha
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." - Walter Lippmann
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." - Cynthia Ozick
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." - Oscar Wilde
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." - Robert Griffin III
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." - Oprah Winfrey
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live." - Bertrand Russell
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one." - Cicero
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"To fly, we have to have resistance." - Maya Lin
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas Edison
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful." - Harvey Mackay
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - Bernard Shaw
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"You give before you get." - Napoleon Hill
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." - Laozi
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness are at an all-time high. We must course-correct." - Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"A disciplined mind brings happiness." - The Buddha
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Hal Abelson
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." - Pablo Picasso
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature." - Don DeLillo
"You win the victory when you yield to friends." - Sophocles
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open." - Thomas Dewar
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." - Alan Watts
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." - Marcus Aurelius
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." - Earl Monroe
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." - Sigmund Freud
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." - Caterina Fake
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." - William Sloane Coffin
"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." - William Blake
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Seneca the Younger
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas Edison
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare
"They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed." - The Buddha
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." - Plato
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." - Albert Einstein
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracián
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Laozi
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune." - Horace
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." - James Gleick
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - Harry Kemp
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." - Christian Dior
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anaïs Nin
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert Schuller
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
"I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair." - The Buddha
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." - Charles Dickens
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel." - Marcia Fudge
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." - Brendan Behan
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." - Laozi
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." - Napoleon Hill
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"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
"A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished." - The Buddha
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it." - Dee Hock
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies." - Confucius
"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." - John Dewey
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." - Helen Keller
"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger." - Richard Bach
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." - A. Powell Davies
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"God always takes the simplest way." - Albert Einstein
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard." - Henry David Thoreau
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." - Confucius
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." - Aristotle
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Leo Buscaglia
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it." - Henry Moore
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." - Whoopi Goldberg
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinem
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Søren Kierkegaard
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." - John Steinbeck
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." - George Jean Nathan
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." - Epictetus
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." - Alan Watts
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." - Winifred Holtby
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." - Pema Chödrön
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." - Bruce Lee
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." - Henry Reed
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." - W. Clement Stone
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." - Judy Collins
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." - Aesop
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." - Man Ray
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"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 beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Augustine of Hippo
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?" - Thomas Jefferson
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." - Alan Watts
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" - Richard Bach
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." - Elizabeth Kenny
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." - Isocrates
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things." - Edward Everett Hale
"If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well." - Warren Buffett
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." - W. Clement Stone
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best." - Jerome
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." - Liberace
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D'Israeli
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - A. A. Milne
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent." - Epictetus
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." - Napoleon Hill
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." - Abraham Lincoln
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else." - Jean François Paul de Gondi
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." - Swami Vivekananda
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it." - Eckhart Tolle
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." - Brooks Adams
"Ignorance never settles a question." - Benjamin Disraeli
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity." - Albert Schweitzer
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." - The Buddha
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." - Jean de La Fontaine
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part." - Christopher Reeve
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." - P. G. Wodehouse
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise." - Barack Obama
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself." - Betty Friedan
"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." - Hugh Jackman
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." - Bodhidharma
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own." - Jessamyn West
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." - Phil Jackson
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Augustine of Hippo
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." - Marcus Aurelius
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink." - Sophocles
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." - Neil Gaiman
"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." - Douglas Coupland
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort." - Epictetus
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." - Alfred Tennyson
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." - Mortimer J. Adler
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him." - Augustine of Hippo
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." - Marcus Aurelius
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." - Shakti Gawain
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Cicero
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it." - Warren Buffett
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." - Abraham Lincoln
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow." - The Buddha
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." - Margaret Thatcher
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austen
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." - Henry David Thoreau
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"The root of suffering is attachment." - The Buddha
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Laozi
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." - Wayne Dyer
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard H. Aiken
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
"Error is discipline through which we advance." - William Ellery Channing
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." - The Buddha
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt." - Honoré de Balzac
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - Napoleon
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Spurgeon
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Isocrates
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." - Walter Benjamin
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." - Henri Poincaré
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"You win the victory when you yield to friends." - Sophocles
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." - Parker Palmer
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Browning
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity." - Billie Jean King
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." - Sojourner Truth
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John Locke
"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." - John Dewey
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." - Laozi
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." - Oscar Wilde
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him." - P. G. Wodehouse
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." - Abraham Lincoln
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"If you want to go east, don't go west." - Ramakrishna
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montagu
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?" - Thomas Jefferson
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again." - Hugo Black
"You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." - Robert Griffin III
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"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
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"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
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." - The Buddha
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world." - Marcus Aurelius
"We are all something, but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - Bernard Shaw
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." - Hugh Jackman
"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings." - John Astin
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past." - Ellen Gilchrist
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - The Buddha
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." - Kathleen Norris
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." - Norman Cousins
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not." - Dhammapada
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." - Léon Blum
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" - The Buddha
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." - Charles Péguy
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!" - John Pierrakos
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." - Lewis Cass
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Laozi
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Kahlil Gibran
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue" - Confucius
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." - Jack Welch
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"To fly, we have to have resistance." - Maya Lin
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Laozi
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." - Alan Watts
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - Dalai Lama
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." - Kahlil Gibran
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." - Man Ray
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." - Alan Watts
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." - Wayne Dyer
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?" - Confucius
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." - Seneca the Younger
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." - Henry David Thoreau
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." - Plato
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." - René Descartes
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie
"Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..." - Moncure D. Conway
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." - Seneca the Younger
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - Augustine of Hippo
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William Burroughs
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." - Thomas Edison
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"You're never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Francis Bacon
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith." - W. H. Auden
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." - Pema Chödrön
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." - Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel." - Marcia Fudge
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." - Mencius
"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." - Donald Trump
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!" - The Buddha
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." - Peter Abelard
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." - Richard Bach
"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button." - Volker Grassmuck
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." - Jane Roberts
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Walter Scott
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." - Napoleon Hill
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - Harry Kemp
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent." - Epictetus
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." - Confucius
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." - Napoleon
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington
"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
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." - Pema Chödrön
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." - Joan Rivers
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G. K. Chesterton
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue" - Confucius
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Laozi
"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
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." - Julian Casablancas
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Laozi
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it." - Gustave Flaubert
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" - Dr. Seuss
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Laozi
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." - Etty Hillesum
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." - Arnold Palmer
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason." - Thomas Paine
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert Humphrey
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." - William Shakespeare
"The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom." - William Hurt
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." - Aristotle
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." - Brian Tracy
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The human spirit must prevail over technology." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"Error is discipline through which we advance." - William Ellery Channing
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Augustine of Hippo
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Lindbergh
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." - Jim Rohn
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" - The Buddha
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." - Sophocles
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." - Richard Burton
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." - Laozi
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters." - Aesop
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Joyce Brothers
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montagu
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I allow my intuition to lead my path." - Manuel Puig
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Anaïs Nin
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." - James M. Beggs
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon
"When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself." - Confucius
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share." - Thomas Fuller
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D'Israeli
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…" - The Buddha
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." - Francis of Assisi
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." - Edward Gibbon
"To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." - Confucius
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." - The Buddha
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." - Albert Camus
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." - Brooks Adams
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one." - Diogenes
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Anaïs Nin
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health." - Dalai Lama
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Richard Bach
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - The Buddha
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - Bernard Shaw
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know." - William Shakespeare
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone." - Lucretius
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." - William Blake
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." - John F. Kennedy
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." - Lewis Cass
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"Almost everything comes from nothing." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Laozi
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." - Marian Wright Edelman
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." - Earl Monroe
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise." - Barack Obama
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." - Dhammapada
"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn." - Yogi Berra
"America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others." - Parker Palmer
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." - Laozi
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them." - Hugh Miller
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." - Michael Phelps
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one." - Cicero
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." - Walt Disney
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." - Voltaire
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness." - Dalai Lama
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away." - Sophocles
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." - Christian Dior
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." - Douglas Adams
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know." - William Shakespeare
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." - Alan Watts
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." - Ovid
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." - Jim Rohn
"He who is contented is rich." - Laozi
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." - William Shakespeare
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on." - Alan Watts
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." - Mother Teresa
"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others." - Harriet Lerner
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." - Eustace Budgell
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." - Richard Bach
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"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
"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
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse." - The Buddha
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." - Léon Blum
"May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." - Earl Monroe
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." - Francis Bacon
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert Schuller
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." - Richard Bach
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Laozi
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." - Vernon Cooper
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucius
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." - Richard Burton
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." - Laozi
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - George Eliot
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." - Mia Hamm
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law." - Thomas Hobbes
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." - Laozi
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." - Ayn Rand
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Coco Chanel
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life." - Mark Twain
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." - Chanakya
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." - Kahlil Gibran
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together." - Mariella Frostrup
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Montesquieu
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." - Elbert Hubbard
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." - Seneca the Younger
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George Orwell
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." - A. Powell Davies
"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John Locke
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." - Blaise Pascal
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness." - Vusi Mahlasela
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." - Plato
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." - John Junor
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." - Alan Watts
"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
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." - Walt Disney
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." - Theodore Isaac Rubin
"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn." - Hannah More
"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out." - Albert Camus
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." - Woody Allen
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." - Confucius
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." - Cynthia Ozick
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." - Charles Péguy
"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
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." - The Buddha
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." - Christopher Reeve
"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like." - Napoleon Hill
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." - Warren Bennis
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." - Eckhart Tolle
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"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
"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity." - Augustine of Hippo
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
"Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." - Kurt Vonnegut
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." - Michelle Obama
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." - George Jean Nathan
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." - Napoleon Hill
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napoleon Hill
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Szenes
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." - Isocrates
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it." - Knute Rockne
"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - Albert Einstein
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Be the chief but never the lord." - Laozi
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." - John Dewey
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." - Phil Jackson
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." - Mike Singletary (basketball)
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own." - Jessamyn West
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." - Louise Hay
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." - The Buddha
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." - The Buddha
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - Publilius Syrus
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort." - Epictetus
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." - Václav Havel
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." - Richard Bach
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." - Robert Southey
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." - Pablo Picasso
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Error is discipline through which we advance." - William Ellery Channing
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship." - Mother Angelica
"You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." - Denis Waitley
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it." - Henry Moore
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." - Seneca the Younger
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." - Voltaire
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
"You cannot have what you do not want." - John Acosta
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Laozi
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work." - Dalai Lama
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
"Do I speak at the right time, or not? Do I speak of facts, or not? Do I speak gently or harshly? Do I speak profitable words or not? Do I speak with a kindly heart, or inwardly malicious?" - The Buddha
"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"Wisdom begins at the end." - Daniel Webster
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." - Mortimer J. Adler
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." - Barbara De Angelis
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." - Kahlil Gibran
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon Robinson
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuang Zhou
"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." - Napoleon
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." - Paul Theroux
"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
"Change in all things is sweet." - Aristotle
"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil
"None knows the weight of another's burden." - George Herbert
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." - Confucius
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." - Chanakya
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out." - Albert Camus
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas Edison
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." - Tony Robbins
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"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
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows." - Edward Young
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - Augustine of Hippo
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Isocrates
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life." - Cynthia Ozick
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." - Václav Havel
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another." - The Buddha
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." - Colette
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes." - Christopher Reeve
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" - Thomas Edison
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him." - Augustine of Hippo
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"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
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings." - The Buddha
"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." - Elon Musk
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." - Napoleon Hill
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John Locke
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." - Isocrates
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." - Steven Van Zandt
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." - John Keats
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Durant
"I owe my solitude to other people." - Alan Watts
"Do not scorn what you have received, nor envy the gains of others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." - The Buddha
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if already dead." - The Buddha
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." - Aesop
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats
"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." - Douglas Adams
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." - Mortimer J. Adler
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." - Zhuang Zhou
"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom." - Sam Walton
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." - Aesop
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." - George Foreman
"Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men." - Confucius
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." - The Buddha
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are." - Forrest Church
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." - John Steinbeck
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." - Napoleon Hill
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
"Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." - The Buddha
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." - Maria Shriver
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can." - Neil Gaiman
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - Bernard Shaw
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
"As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse." - The Buddha
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." - Helen Keller
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." - John Madden
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream." - John Eliot
"Love and friendship exclude each other." - Jean de La Bruyère
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you." - Janet Jackson
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it." - Michelangelo
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Napoleon Hill
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." - Plotinus
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Laozi
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." - Rumi
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinem
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." - Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." - Alan Watts
"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." - Robert Griffin III
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." - Napoleon Hill
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"Once you label me you negate me." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things." - Edward Everett Hale
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." - Dalai Lama
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." - Kahlil Gibran
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." - Leonard Nimoy
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for." - Mariella Frostrup
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." - Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." - Aristotle
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." - Robert Fulghum
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West
"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings." - Ezra Taft Benson
"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." - The Buddha
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." - Dale Turner
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." - Abraham Lincoln
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." - John F. Kennedy
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." - Robert Southey
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke Jr.
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life." - James Freeman Clarke
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." - E. M. Forster
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." - Maya Angelou
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia E. Butler
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you." - Janet Jackson
"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different." - Nargis Fakhri
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." - Kathleen Norris
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Do more than dream: work." - William Arthur Ward
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture." - Susan Orlean
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Friendship is Love without his wings!" - Lord Byron
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." - Phil Jackson
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." - Liberace
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." - Anaïs Nin
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." - Albert Camus
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." - Wayne Dyer
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - A. A. Milne
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." - John Bercow
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." - The Buddha
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." - Lou Holtz
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - Wilson Mizner
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" - W. Clement Stone
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard." - Henry David Thoreau
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." - Baltasar Gracián
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points." - Confucius
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button." - John Brunner
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." - Alan Watts
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." - Anaïs Nin
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." - Nikola Tesla
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure." - Eric Liddell
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"Ethics change with technology." - Larry Niven
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on." - Alan Watts
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be." - William James
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." - Voltaire
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party." - Hanya Yanagihara
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." - Edith Wharton
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." - Jack Welch
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." - Eckhart Tolle
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." - Bruce Lee
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." - Joe Paterno
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Cicero
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." - Confucius
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." - Leonardo da Vinci
"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu
"The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?" - The Buddha
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy." - The Buddha
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Bobby Unser
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream." - John Eliot
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John Locke
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share." - Thomas Fuller
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca the Younger
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." - John Dewey
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge." - Masayoshi Son
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." - Richard Bach
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Dalai Lama
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." - Muhammad Ali
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." - Yoko Ono
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." - Kurt Vonnegut
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"'As I am, so are they; as they are, so am I.' Comparing others with oneself, do not kill nor cause others to kill." - The Buddha
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." - Franz Kafka
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto." - W. Clement Stone
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" - Gloria Steinem
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does." - Jane Austen
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" - Tony Robbins
"Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." - Don Miguel Ruiz
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way." - Wayne Dyer
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." - Thomas Edison
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
"Love and friendship exclude each other." - Jean de La Bruyère
"You won't skid if you stay in a rut." - Kin Hubbard
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged." - Ben Fountain
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." - William Sloane Coffin
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." - Etty Hillesum
"The great myth of our times is that technology is communication." - Libby Larsen
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless." - Pema Chödrön
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." - Elbert Hubbard
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." - Don Shula
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - George S. Patton
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." - George Herbert
"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." - Tom Hodgkinson
"I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals." - The Buddha
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger." - Michelle Obama
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." - Epictetus
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." - Rose Kennedy
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." - Bill Watterson
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." - Dale Carnegie
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little." - Cheng Yen
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow
"Who sows virtue reaps honor." - Leonardo da Vinci
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus
"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible." - Epictetus
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Tony Blair
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." - Wayne Dyer
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." - John Galsworthy
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Never find fault with the absent." - Alexander Pope
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"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
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes." - Dalai Lama
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." - Charles Lindbergh
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker
"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - The Buddha
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." - Larry Page
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." - Daisaku Ikeda
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." - Steven Van Zandt
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone." - The Buddha
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all." - Erasmus
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Laozi
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." - Vince Lombardi
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." - Tom Peters
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." - Miguel de Cervantes
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." - William Shakespeare
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." - Jean de La Bruyère
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Kahlil Gibran
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." - Will Rogers
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"The root of suffering is attachment." - The Buddha
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." - Aristotle
"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow." - The Buddha
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." - Plato
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part." - Christopher Reeve
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when." - Simon Sinek
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." - Voltaire
"In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both." - Mariella Frostrup
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him." - Augustine of Hippo
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." - Thomas Jefferson
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." - Yolanda Hadid
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." - Bodhidharma
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." - Francis of Assisi
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Brian Tracy
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship." - Harbhajan Singh
"Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people." - The Buddha
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength." - Dalai Lama
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments." - Ezra Stiles
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing." - Wayne Dyer
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble." - The Buddha
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." - George Jean Nathan
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca the Younger
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." - Miguel de Cervantes
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"We are wiser than we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." - Molière
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day." - John Wooden
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anatole France
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." - Zhuang Zhou
"The cautious seldom err." - Confucius
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Larry Elder
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." - The Buddha
"We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel." - Marcia Fudge
"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." - Caroline Myss
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Richard Bach
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." - Mary Pickford
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
"Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?" - Dalai Lama
"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." - Douglas Adams
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." - Jerome
"Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites." - Richard Garriott
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." - Francis de Sales
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." - Muhammad Ali
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"Speak low, if you speak love." - William Shakespeare
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." - Zhuang Zhou
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by." - John Bercow
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." - Napoleon Hill
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." - Iris Murdoch
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." - Dalai Lama
"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." - Confucius
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe." - Gordon Hinckley
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich." - Muhammad Ali
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." - Abraham Lincoln
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." - Confucius
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know." - William Shakespeare
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." - Confucius
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." - Kahlil Gibran
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." - Isocrates
"The simplest things are often the truest." - Richard Bach
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." - Aristotle
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus
"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
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." - Laozi
"In order to win, you must expect to win." - Richard Bach
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." - The Buddha
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." - Benjamin Franklin
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." - Aristotle
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." - Dan Gable
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"Fortune favors the brave." - Virgil
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation." - Paul Theroux
"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure." - The Buddha
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Isocrates
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." - Jack Welch
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again." - John McCain
"You teach best what you most need to learn." - Richard Bach
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." - Elbert Hubbard
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." - Walt Disney
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." - George Santayana
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Joyce Brothers
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Francis Bacon
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." - Jim Rohn
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." - Laozi
"Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Laozi
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing." - Winifred Holtby
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you." - Eckhart Tolle
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"We need never be ashamed of our tears." - Charles Dickens
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." - Aristotle
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." - Joseph Roux
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert Schuller
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Thomas Jefferson
"By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Laozi
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Laozi
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." - Bruce Lee
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!" - Bob Newhart
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." - Sojourner Truth
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them." - Tom Krause
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." - Wayne Dyer
"Change in all things is sweet." - Aristotle
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." - Henry Reed
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy." - Jane Roberts
"He who hath many friends hath none." - Aristotle
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Paul Tillich
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across? – The Buddha" - The Buddha
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Kahlil Gibran
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." - Max Planck
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." - John Junor
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." - Alan Watts
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Basil of Caesarea
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires." - The Buddha
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chödrön
"You'll see it when you believe it." - Wayne Dyer
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." - Lucille Ball
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" - Sun Tzu
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." - Marcus Aurelius
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." - Robert Southey
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it." - Amber Valletta
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert Schuller
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." - Ovid
"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." - Dhammapada
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." - Denis Waitley
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out." - Albert Camus
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves." - Carl Jung
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert Schuller
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly." - Richard Bach
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." - Marcus Aurelius
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." - Walter Benjamin
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them." - Richard Bach
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." - Plutarch
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." - Mark Goulston
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship." - Mother Angelica
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." - John Madden
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose." - Dale Earnhardt
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." - P. Chidambaram
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." - Katherine Mansfield
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." - Elie Wiesel
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." - William C. Menninger
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Confucius
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." - James Gleick
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles Henry Parkhurst
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." - Dalai Lama
"A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished." - The Buddha
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." - Alexis Carrel
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure." - The Buddha
"Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men." - Confucius
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Laozi
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false." - The Buddha
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." - Chuck Norris
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"So much technology, so little talent." - Vernor Vinge
"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble." - The Buddha
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." - Ovid
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - Douglas MacArthur
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." - Robert Southey
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chödrön
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - J. Willard Marriott
"Our distrust is very expensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." - Eknath Easwaran
"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace." - Christie Brinkley
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." - Max Planck
"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." - Albert Einstein
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." - Confucius
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her." - Maria Montessori
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - Laurie Anderson
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia
"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." - Anne Frank
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving." - John Dewey
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato
"Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing." - The Buddha
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. Cummings
"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." - Sojourner Truth
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." - Pema Chödrön
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel." - Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." - Richard Bach
"I believe that every person is born with talent." - Maya Angelou
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" - Tony Robbins
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - Wilson Mizner
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
"You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life." - Ravi Zacharias
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition." - Honoré de Balzac
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." - Sidney Hook
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." - Eckhart Tolle
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." - Barack Obama
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama
"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry." - Earl Monroe
"Love and friendship exclude each other." - Jean de La Bruyère
"By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears." - Thomas Carlyle
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." - Aristotle
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." - Margaret Laurence
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." - John Galsworthy
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." - Coco Chanel
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more" - Tony Robbins
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca the Younger
"A wise person should be urgently moved on occasions that make for urgency." - The Buddha
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." - Laozi
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Laozi
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Kahlil Gibran
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it." - Henry Moore
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense." - Joyce Meyer
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - Seneca the Younger
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all." - Erasmus
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him." - Albert Schweitzer
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." - Robert F. Kennedy
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree." - Elbert Hubbard
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert Humphrey
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday." - Franz Liszt
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." - Thomas Haynes Bayly
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over." - Warren Buffett
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness." - Dag Hammarskjöld
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." - Buckminster Fuller
"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." - Confucius
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." - Don Shula
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." - Peter Abelard
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Laozi
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." - Samuel Johnson
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." - Epictetus
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." - Harold Nicolson
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Isocrates
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." - Marsha Petrie Sue
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." - Napoleon Hill
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." - Mortimer J. Adler
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." - Murray Gell-Mann
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." - Paulo Coelho
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck." - Og Mandino
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them." - Sophocles
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" - Dalai Lama
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." - Samuel Johnson
"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done." - Lucille Ball
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." - Richard Bach
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." - Lou Holtz
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." - Dalai Lama
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth." - The Buddha
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"As you think, so shall you become." - Bruce Lee
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" - Woody Allen
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." - Lord Byron
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." - Wayne Dyer
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One should not hurt others if one loves oneself." - The Buddha
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!" - The Buddha
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise." - Horace
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." - William C. Menninger
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson
"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one." - Cicero
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." - George Bernard Shaw
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." - Lewis Cass
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
"Each day provides its own gifts." - Marcus Aurelius
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise." - Barack Obama
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Augustine of Hippo
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him." - William Ellery Channing
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." - Ernie Banks
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." - Jeff Bezos
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them." - Hugh Miller
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
"I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others." - Confucius
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." - Confucius
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Basil of Caesarea
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." - Laozi
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." - Laozi
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are." - Forrest Church
"I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time." - Victoria Osteen
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A short saying often contains much wisdom." - Sophocles
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Niels Bohr
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." - George Herbert
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - Wilson Mizner
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." - Charles Dickens
"Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others" - The Buddha
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To have much learning and skill, to be well-trained in discipline, and good in speech — this is the highest blessing." - The Buddha
"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
"By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm." - Dalai Lama
"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community." - Steven Van Zandt
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - Jane Addams
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." - May Sarton
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." - Mortimer J. Adler
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." - Lucille Ball
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther
"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." - Albert Einstein
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!" - The Buddha
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration." - Niccolò Machiavelli
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee
"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"It's a good thing to be satisfied with what one has." - The Buddha
"Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that." - The Buddha
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." - Gordon Hinckley
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn." - Yogi Berra
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." - David Rockefeller
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." - Richard Bach
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." - William Arthur Ward
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." - William James
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"The more you care, the stronger you can be." - Jim Rohn
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." - Ralph Abernathy
"If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well." - Warren Buffett
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." - Edwin Markham
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others." - Dalai Lama
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Learning is finding out what you already know." - Richard Bach
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?" - David Bader
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm." - Rowan Williams
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." - Satchel Paige
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Laozi
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides
"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer." - James Gleick
"A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert Schuller
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Laozi
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man." - Sophocles
"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins." - Charles Eastman
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish." - Epictetus
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." - Richard Bach
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus
"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself." - Oprah Winfrey
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Bernard Shaw
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." - Voltaire
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." - Plato
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." - Norman Cousins
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Laozi
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort." - Dalai Lama
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." - Dalai Lama
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." - Albert Einstein
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." - Alan Watts
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy." - Cory Doctorow
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"Each day provides its own gifts." - Marcus Aurelius
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." - Liberace
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." - Pope Paul VI
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong." - Richard Needham
"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice." - Sogyal Rinpoche
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Laozi
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." - Francis of Assisi
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." - Napoleon Hill
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Molière
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." - Michael Jordan
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose." - Richard Bach
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." - Aristotle
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." - Thomas Jefferson
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." - Brian Tracy
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action." - Confucius
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate." - Benjamin Disraeli
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G. K. Chesterton
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom." - The Buddha
"None knows the weight of another's burden." - George Herbert
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind." - Albert Schweitzer
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." - Northrop Frye
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." - William Shakespeare
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." - Thomas Edison
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"You really can change the world if you care enough." - Marian Wright Edelman
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." - Charles W. Chesnutt
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"Joy is the best makeup." - Anne Lamott
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun." - Kahlil Gibran
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." - Napoleon Hill
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith." - W. H. Auden
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan
"All is flux; nothing stays still." - Heraclitus
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe." - Torquato Tasso
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." - Aristotle
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." - Henry Reed
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." - Samuel Johnson
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?" - David Bader
"No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca the Younger
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." - George Santayana
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." - Thomas Carlyle
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." - Samuel Richardson
"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage." - Farhan Akhtar
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." - John F. Kennedy
"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are." - Forrest Church
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live." - John Dewey
"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger." - Michelle Obama
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it." - The Buddha
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." - Wayne Dyer
"What is past is left behind. The future is yet unreached. Whatever quality is present, clearly see it right there." - The Buddha
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." - Ian Botham
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." - Anaïs Nin
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." - Cicero
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
"Speak low, if you speak love." - William Shakespeare
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." - Wayne Dyer
"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah." - Afrika Bambaataa
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." - William Blake
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly." - Voltaire
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public." - Douglas Coupland
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." - Epicurus
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." - Baltasar Gracián
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." - Tony Robbins
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Albert Camus
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." - Liberace
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." - Blaise Pascal
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." - Chuck Norris
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Seuss
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger
"A noble one produces an abundance of merit by having a compassionate mind towards all living beings." - The Buddha
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner
"A disciplined mind brings happiness." - The Buddha
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against." - Bruce Lee
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." - John Marshall
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." - Alfred Tennyson
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other." - Tony Robbins
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Laozi
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." - Thomas Hardy
"Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous." - Confucius
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace." - Dalai Lama
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." - Desmond Tutu
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." - Eckhart Tolle
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." - Mao Zedong
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." - Carl Jung
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Tony Robbins
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!" - Richard Bach
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Laozi
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." - George Washington
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely." - Frank Abagnale
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has." - Josh Billings
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Hal Abelson
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." - Charles Dickens
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." - Laurence J. Peter
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey
"To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our passion is our strength." - Billie Armstrong
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo Tolstoy
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." - Chanakya
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Whatever happens, take responsibility." - Tony Robbins
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." - Helen Keller
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." - E. M. Forster
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible." - Epictetus
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy." - Laozi
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul." - A. Powell Davies
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." - Anatole France
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Reagon
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." - Pericles
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
"Once you label me you negate me." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." - Sigmund Freud
"May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Fans don't boo nobodies." - Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." - William Inge
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry K. Beecher
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." - Charles Dickens
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca the Younger
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose." - Simone Weil
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself." - Henry Reed
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." - Winston Churchill
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button." - John Brunner
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Thomas Jefferson
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth Arden
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance." - Thomas Carlyle
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." - Laozi
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." - Washington Irving
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." - Pema Chödrön
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Heywood Broun
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity." - The Buddha
"A wise person should be urgently moved on occasions that make for urgency." - The Buddha
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present." - Eckhart Tolle
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." - Thomas Edison
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear." - Pat Riley
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." - John Wooden
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Laozi
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler
"I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." - Pema Chödrön
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." - Simon Mainwaring
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen