Advice Experience Wisdom Quotes
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. (Quote by - Benny Hill)
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)
One learns to itch where one can scratch. (Quote by - Ernest Bramah)
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. (Quote by - Auguste Comte)
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. (Quote by - Shashi Deshpande)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Quote by - Confucius)
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. (Quote by - Louis-ferdinand Celine)
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. (Quote by - G. Emmons)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. (Quote by - Piers Anthony)
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Quote by - Jacob Braude)
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. (Quote by - Bruce Friedman)
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. (Quote by - Rona Barrett)
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm. (Quote by - Cicely Tyson)
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. (Quote by - Nietzsche)
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. (Quote by - Bryan Adams)
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry. (Quote by - Muriel Rukeyser)
It is the growling man who lives a dog's life. (Quote by - Coleman Cox)
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
You create your opportunities by asking for them. (Quote by - Patty Hansen)
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (Quote by - William James)
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra Carey. (Quote by - Sandra Carey)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. (Quote by - Rose F. Kennedy)
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone. (Quote by - George O'neil)
Intelligence is nothing without delight. (Quote by - Paul Claudel)
It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Quote by - Charles Haddon-spurgeon)
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. (Quote by - Marlon Brando)
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Quote by - Basho)
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. (Quote by - Les Brown)
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. (Quote by - William Morris Hunt)
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. (Quote by - Dr. Marcus Bach)
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. (Quote by - Arabic Parable)
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. (Quote by - King George V)
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character. (Quote by - John S. Bonnell)
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. (Quote by - John Heywood)
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. (Quote by - Robert Henri)
The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !. (Quote by - Bhalchandra)
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. (Quote by - Bhagavadgita)
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Quote by - Harvey Fierstein)
Others have done it before me. I can, too. (Quote by - Corporal John Faunce)
Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. (Quote by - Joe Davis)
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. (Quote by - Sidney J. Harris)
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture. (Quote by - Anandabai Joshee)
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur. (Quote by - Earl Of Arran)
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. (Quote by - Robert Freeman)
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. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... (Quote by - Robert Collier)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Quote by - Socrates)
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. (Quote by - Jennie Garth)
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. (Quote by - Bible)
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. (Quote by - George Chapman)
As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar. (Quote by - A. H. Euwer)
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. (Quote by - Baron Wessenberg)
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. (Quote by - A. C. Benson)
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. (Quote by - John Murray)
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. (Quote by - August Heckscher)
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. (Quote by - Gesser)
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. (Quote by - Thomas E. Lawrence)
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history. (Quote by - Hertzler)
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. (Quote by - Jacqueline Bisset)
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb. (Quote by - Yugoslav Proverb)
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place. (Quote by - Louis A. Allen)
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance. (Quote by - Lenore Fleischer)
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Quote by - Confucius)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara. (Quote by - Clara)
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. (Quote by - Billy Crystal)
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
To do nothing is also a good remedy. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. (Quote by - Stanley Milgram)
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. (Quote by - H. A. Hopf)
Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. (Quote by - Jon R. Sime)
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. (Quote by - Connie Mack)
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. (Quote by - Charles Francis Adams)
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. (Quote by - H.)
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. (Quote by - Roy Jr. Blount)
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were. (Quote by - George E. Bergman)
Wise men still seek Him today. (Quote by - Dan Bell)
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. (Quote by - Joan Borysenko)
If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners. (Quote by - Christopher D. Furman)
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. (Quote by - Cynthia Heimel)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. (Quote by - Martin)
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. (Quote by - Michael Isenberg)
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. (Quote by - Gene Brown)
What you cannot enforce, do not command. (Quote by - Socrates)
Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. (Quote by - Jimmy Durante)
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. (Quote by - Tony Buzan)
Success... it's what you do with what you've got. (Quote by - Leroy Van Dyke)
Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous. (Quote by - Christian Proverb)
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. (Quote by - Sudie Back)
Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. (Quote by - Ee Cummings)
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug. (Quote by - Francisco D'anconia)
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.". (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (Quote by - Ee Cummings)
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. (Quote by - Apocrypha)
Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge. (Quote by - Dialog Brochure)
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. (Quote by - Audrey Hepburn)
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Quote by - Danny Devito)
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. (Quote by - Michael Lebeuf)
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. (Quote by - Monica Baldwin)
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Quote by - Sam Ewig)
The worst men often give the best advice. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character. (Quote by - George D. Boardman)
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
I quote others in order to better express myself. (Quote by - Montaigne)
Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. (Quote by - Lady Stella Reading)
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont)
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. (Quote by - Ali Ibn-abi-talib)
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. (Quote by - Ava Gardner)
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? (Quote by - Maurice Freehill)
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are. (Quote by - Eva Arrington)
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. (Quote by - Bible)
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life. (Quote by - William Feather)
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system. (Quote by - C. Wright Mills)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. (Quote by - M. H. Alderson)
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. (Quote by - Alford)
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. (Quote by - Johnny Cash)
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]. (Quote by - Bible)
It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead. (Quote by - Merle Crowell)
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. (Quote by - Herbert Clark Hoover)
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. (Quote by - James Freeman Clarke)
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. (Quote by - John Mayer)
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. (Quote by - Ursula K. Leguin)
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. (Quote by - Ellen Frankfort)
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. (Quote by - F. Albrecht)
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. (Quote by - Gandhi)
I thought so hard I got a headache. (Quote by - J.d. Cobb)
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. (Quote by - Mimfa A. Gibson)
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. (Quote by - Epictetus)
A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. (Quote by - Cyril James)
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
A lie told often enough becomes truth. (Quote by - Lenin)
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. (Quote by - J. W. Eagan)
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. (Quote by - Cybill Shepherd)
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. (Quote by - Gail Godwin)
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. (Quote by - Heartland Advisor)
Do to others what you would have them do to you." The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines were variations on this theme. - Matthew 7:12. (Quote by - Bible)
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow. (Quote by - Glen Beaman)
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold. (Quote by - Bede Jarrett)
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. (Quote by - Don Stanford)
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. (Quote by - Scotty Bowman)
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-despréaux)
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. (Quote by - H.k. Barclay)
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. (Quote by - Noelie Alito)
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. (Quote by - Jack Kuehler)
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. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. (Quote by - Bernard Baily)
Those who claim to always be right, are always wrong about atleast one thing. (Quote by - Tala Fane)
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1]. (Quote by - Bible)
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. (Quote by - Arthur James Balfour)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. (Quote by - American Indian Proverb)
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. (Quote by - Joe Girard)
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. (Quote by - Frank Herbert, Dune)
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. (Quote by - Bob Brown)
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be. (Quote by - Jeremy Schwartz)
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)
Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels. (Quote by - Rabino Nilton Bonder)
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. (Quote by - Francis Yeats Brown)
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. (Quote by - Gerald W. Grumet)
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. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. (Quote by - Ellen Degeneres)
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. (Quote by - John Dewey)
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran. (Quote by - Ana Lee)
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too. (Quote by - Ching-an)
What was once thought can never be unthought. (Quote by - Carl J. Friedrich)
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it. (Quote by - Janet Jackson)
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. (Quote by - Baudjuin)
An unexamined life is not worth living. (Quote by - Socrates)
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. (Quote by - Arnold Bennet)
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. (Quote by - E. S. Bouton)
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. (Quote by - Leo Aikman)
The road to success runs uphill. (Quote by - Willie Davis)
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. (Quote by - Norman Angell)
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. (Quote by - Jon R. Sime)
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. (Quote by - Rene Daumal)
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. (Quote by - Francis W. Parker)
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others. (Quote by - Frederic William Maitland)
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley. (Quote by - General Omar Bradley)
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. (Quote by - Johnson)
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way. (Quote by - George Leonard)
Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Quote by - Hamming)
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. (Quote by - Jerry Chin)
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. (Quote by - Ellen Barkin)
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these. (Quote by - Clarence Francis)
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. (Quote by - David Bailey)
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. (Quote by - Cadman)
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. (Quote by - Marie Chapian)
Advice: the smallest current coin. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.". (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Quote by - Theodore Rubin)
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. (Quote by - Milarepa)
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. (Quote by - Jim Ferree)
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. (Quote by - Mildred Newman)
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. (Quote by - John Carey)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan. (Quote by - David Starr Jordan)
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. (Quote by - L. Estrange)
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. (Quote by - Gwynn Thomas)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz. (Quote by - Naguib)
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. (Quote by - Charles Tremendous Jones)
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Quote by - Taylor Benson)
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. (Quote by - Sharon Anthony Bower)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. (Quote by - Sioux Indian Prayer)
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. (Quote by - Fogg Brackell)
There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information. (Quote by - Everette Dennis)
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. (Quote by - Eubie Blake)
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet". (Quote by - Conan Doyle)
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (Quote by - Robert Maynard Hutchins)
The price of wisdom is eternal thought. (Quote by - Frank Birch)
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. (Quote by - Cynthia Heimel)
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. (Quote by - Ryszard Kapuscinski)
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success. (Quote by - Sir Walter Besant)
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. (Quote by - Bible)
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. (Quote by - Richard Baker)
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. (Quote by - John Anster)
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. (Quote by - Socrates)
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you. (Quote by - Dr. Robert Anthony)
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)
Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. (Quote by - Thea Alexander)
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. (Quote by - Elias A. Ford)
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. (Quote by - Leonardo De Vinci)
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. (Quote by - Fats Domino)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. (Quote by - Jean-paul Sartre)
Good questions outrank easy answers. (Quote by - Paul A. Samuelson)
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. (Quote by - Madeleine L'engle)
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown)
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. (Quote by - Robert Leighton)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. (Quote by - Sidney Goff)
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?. (Quote by - Fanny Brice)
The object of the superior man is truth. (Quote by - Confucius)
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. (Quote by - John Enoch Powell)
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Quote by - Paul Fix)
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. (Quote by - H.)
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. (Quote by - Lord Jeffrey)
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. (Quote by - Confucius)
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. (Quote by - Fredrich)
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. (Quote by - Nancy Astor)
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. (Quote by - William Frederick Book)
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. (Quote by - Sarah Caldwell)
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. (Quote by - Vince Gill)
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. (Quote by - Marshall Mcluhan)
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. (Quote by - Ezra Taft Benson)
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning. (Quote by - Eric Allenbaugh)
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. (Quote by - Caryl Haskins)
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. (Quote by - Cleveland Amory)
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. (Quote by - Christian Lacroix)
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. (Quote by - Sir John Davies)
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. (Quote by - Robert Neville)
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. (Quote by - Professor William Buechner)
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !. (Quote by - Bhalchandra)
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. (Quote by - Benjamin F. Fairless)
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. (Quote by - M Kathleen Casey)
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. (Quote by - Socrates)
It looks easy, but It's not at all. (Quote by - Cuong Doan)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. (Quote by - George Earle Buckle)
Promise is most given when the least is said. (Quote by - George Chapman)
When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. (Quote by - Art Fettig)
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in! (Quote by - H.r. Haldeman)
The trodden path is the safest. (Quote by - Legal Maxim)
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. (Quote by - Proverb)
Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. (Quote by - Wilfred T. Grenfell)
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. (Quote by - John Tudor)
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. (Quote by - Ken Carey)
Experience teaches only the teachable. (Quote by - Vernon Law)
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities? (Quote by - H.jay Dinsah)
The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process. (Quote by - George Gallup)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
No one is free who does not lord over himself. (Quote by - Claudius)
Fish and guests smell after three days. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. (Quote by - Herbert Agar)
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. (Quote by - Socrates)
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. (Quote by - John Atkinson)
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. (Quote by - Epictetus)
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. (Quote by - Scott Reed)
What is conceived well is expressed clearly. (Quote by - Nicholas Boileau)
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. (Quote by - Sarah Bernhardt)
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions. (Quote by - Roger Babson)
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. (Quote by - Faith Baldwin)
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. (Quote by - Francis Bowen)
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (Quote by - Bruce Jay Friedman)
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want. (Quote by - Phil Lout)
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. (Quote by - Eknath Easwaran)
Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. (Quote by - Tom Hannah)
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. (Quote by - Euripides)
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. (Quote by - Sarah Knowles Bolton)
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. (Quote by - Montaigne)
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (Quote by - James Allen)
Character is more important than intelligence for success. (Quote by - Gilberte Beaux)
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose. (Quote by - William M. Bulger)
It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. (Quote by - R. K. Bergethon)
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. (Quote by - Bible)
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model. (Quote by - Carolyn Kenmore)
Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification. (Quote by - James Gordon Bennett)
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. (Quote by - Confucius)
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life. (Quote by - G. W. Follin)
You are not in business to be popular. (Quote by - Kirstie Alley)
Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. (Quote by - James Bennis)
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. (Quote by - Clarissa)
No pressure, no diamonds. (Quote by - Mary Case)
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. (Quote by - Euripides)
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]. (Quote by - Bible)
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. (Quote by - Leon Gambetta)
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner. (Quote by - Carl W. Buechner)
There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside. (Quote by - Critias Of Athens)
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. (Quote by - Eric Butterworth)
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. (Quote by - Euripides)
For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. (Quote by - Fredrich Halm)
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for. (Quote by - Johnathan Swift)
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
Never practice two vices at once. (Quote by - Mike Binder)
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices. (Quote by - P. B. Fitzwater)
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. (Quote by - Walter Anderson)
Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. (Quote by - L. Carte)
Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold. (Quote by - Peter D. Moore)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Dignity belongs to the conquered. (Quote by - Kenneth Burke)
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. (Quote by - Eldridge Cleaver)
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently. (Quote by - Keith Bellows)
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. (Quote by - Walter Duranty)
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. (Quote by - George Arliss)
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. (Quote by - Richard Buckminster Fuller)
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. (Quote by - Bible)
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. (Quote by - Alec Baldwin)
Right is its own defense. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. (Quote by - Socrates)
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. (Quote by - Edward William Bok)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. (Quote by - Christine Collange)
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasgow)
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. (Quote by - Roy L. Hunt)
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. (Quote by - Robert Bresson)
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. (Quote by - Newton D. Baker)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. (Quote by - Al Batt)
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
He who angers you conquers you. (Quote by - Elizabeth Kenny)
The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me. (Quote by - Brandy)
My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others. (Quote by - Franki)
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. (Quote by - Confucius)
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. (Quote by - Harvey S. Firestone)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The highest qualities of character… must be earned. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. (Quote by - Edward Flaherty)
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. (Quote by - James Burgh)
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer. (Quote by - Keith Degreen)
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. (Quote by - Eddie Cantor)
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. (Quote by - Henry L. Doherty)
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. (Quote by - Alfred Glossbrenner)
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. (Quote by - Richard Deupree)
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. (Quote by - George Barzan)
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. (Quote by - Linnaeus)
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. (Quote by - Seneca)
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. (Quote by - E. M. Bounds)
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. (Quote by - Douglas Everett)
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Quote by - Robert L. Stevenson)
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. (Quote by - W. R. Inge)
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. (Quote by - Matt Damon)
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. (Quote by - Lao-tzu)
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. (Quote by - Robert Burn)
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light. (Quote by - Evelyn Scott)
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Quote by - Sally Berger)
Let him that would move the world first move himself. (Quote by - Socrates)
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. (Quote by - Herbert Henry Lehman)
The reward of suffering is experience. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. (Quote by - John R. Amos)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. (Quote by - Mourning Dove)
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. (Quote by - Roland Barthes)
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. (Quote by - Dom H. Camara)
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away…. (Quote by - Dinah Mulock)
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. (Quote by - Eva Figes)
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. (Quote by - Bible)
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. (Quote by - Michael Burke)
Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality. (Quote by - Laura)
If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !. (Quote by - Bhalchandra)
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. (Quote by - Dustin Hoffman)
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. (Quote by - John Berger)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. (Quote by - Ghose Aurobindo)
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers. (Quote by - Brigham Young Fun)
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. (Quote by - Louis Armstrong)
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself. (Quote by - Cathy Lee Crosby)
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. (Quote by - James Buckham)
You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. (Quote by - Franklyn Broude)
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. (Quote by - William C. Bryant)
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. (Quote by - Chopin)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. (Quote by - Aesop)
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. (Quote by - Katharine Graham)
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever. (Quote by - Bruce Friedman)
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people. (Quote by - Elaine N. Aron)
Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us. (Quote by - Peter Devries)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell-holmes)
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. (Quote by - St. Thomas Aquinas)
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. (Quote by - Ivern Ball)
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. (Quote by - Kenneth Baker)
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. (Quote by - Vance Havner)
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. (Quote by - Hanmer Parsons Grant)
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. (Quote by - John Patrick)
We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the Heart. (Quote by - Maurice Hulst)
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. (Quote by - Ernesto Che Guevara)
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. (Quote by - Mark Messier)
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. (Quote by - George Iles)
He that won't be counselled can't be helped. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. (Quote by - Bioleau)
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Good men prefer to be accountable. (Quote by - Michael Edwardes)
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. (Quote by - Marcel Pagnol)
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. (Quote by - Helena Petrova Blavatsky)
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. (Quote by - Latvian Proverb)
When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day. (Quote by - Brooklyn Marie)
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. (Quote by - Richard Clark)
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. (Quote by - Confucius)
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. (Quote by - Stewart Emery)
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)
It is always in season for old men to learn. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8]. (Quote by - Bible)
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]. (Quote by - Bible)
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over. (Quote by - John J. Emerick)
There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !. (Quote by - Bhalchandra)
Character must be kept bright as well as clean. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes. (Quote by - Marjorie Holmes)
Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. (Quote by - Periander)
If you don't ask, you don't get. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)
Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. (Quote by - George Gardner)
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. (Quote by - Ben Stein)
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. (Quote by - Jimmy Page)
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Bonnie Lin)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace. (Quote by - Austin Farrar)
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. (Quote by - Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose. (Quote by - James Fenton)
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. (Quote by - William Blake)
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. (Quote by - William Cowper)
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
The unexamined life is not worth living. (Quote by - Socrates)
The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow. (Quote by - Susie Switzer)
Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. (Quote by - Jann Mitchell)
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. (Quote by - Michael Garrett Marino)
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. (Quote by - Lord Dunsany)
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Quote by - Harlan Ellison)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Quote by - Jim Backus)
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. (Quote by - Nelson Algren)
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. (Quote by - Sally Koch)
The most complex things are the simplest. (Quote by - Agni Celeste)
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. (Quote by - Gerald Early)
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. (Quote by - Warren Miller)
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. (Quote by - Evangel)
Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. (Quote by - Michael J. Gelb)
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. (Quote by - Paul Keating)
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. (Quote by - Duke Ellington)
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. (Quote by - Ethel Barrymore)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
