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"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."
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William James
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. "
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Maya Angelou
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"Everywhere man blames
nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the
echo of his character and passions, his mistakes
and weaknesses."
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Democritus
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"The whole difference
between construction and creation is exactly
this: that a thing constructed can only be loved
after it is constructed; but a thing created is
loved before it exists."
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Charles Dickens
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"Nothing in education is so
astonishing as the amount of ignorance it
accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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Henry Brooks Adams
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"Facts do not cease to
exist because they are ignored."
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Aldous Huxley
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can
never see the shadow." |
Helen Keller |
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"The only thing to fear is fear itself." |
Franklin Roosevelt |
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"A pessimist sees
the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty." |
Winston Churchill |
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration." |
Thomas Edison |
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a
mistake." |
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great
ones to public office." |
Aesop
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"A small error in
the beginning is a great one in the end." |
Thomas Aquinas
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"Violence never settles anything." |
Genghis Khan
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"Better to have loved and lost, than to have
never loved at all." |
Saint Augustine |
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"We build too many walls and not enough
bridges." |
Sir Isaac Newton
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"What worries you, masters you." |
John Locke
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"I think;
therefore I am." |
René Descartes
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"The bible shows us not how heaven goes, but how
to go to heaven." |
Galileo Galilei
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"Silence is the virtue of fools." |
Sir Francis Bacon
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"Few sinners are saved after the first 20
minutes of a sermon." |
Mark Twain
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one
less traveled by, and that has made all the
difference." |
Robert Frost
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"There's two theories to arguin' with a woman.
Neither one works." |
Will Rogers
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"A God who let us
prove his existence would be an idol." |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you get neither. " |
C. S. Lewis
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"Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret to success." |
Henry Ford
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"There are two ways to live your life: One is as
though nothing is a miracle -- The other is
though everything is a miracle." |
Albert Einstein
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain
and most fools do." |
Benjamin Franklin
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the
transition that is troublesome." |
Isaac Asimov
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does
inaction spoil the intellect." |
Leonardo da Vinci
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"The secret to getting things done is to act." |
Dante
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is
human, the former is a Gift from God."
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Blaise Pascal
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"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done
today." |
Abraham Lincoln
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies." |
Aristotle
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the
hardest. You are always being asked to do
things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to
turn them down." |
George Marian Eliot |
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"I find that the
harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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"It may be true that you can't fool all the
people all the time, but you can fool enough of
them to rule a large country." |
Will Durant |
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"In general, the art of government consists of
taking as much money as possible from one class
of citizens to give to another." |
Voltaire |
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"What lies beyond us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Where is there dignity unless there is
honesty?" |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is
organized life." |
Immanuel Kant |
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him
for what he is not, a sense of humor to console
him for what he is." |
Francis Bacon |
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"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will
come for miles to watch you burn." |
John Wesley |
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"Once abolish the God, and the government
becomes the God." |
Gilbert Chesterton |
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"I am indebted to
my father for living, but to my teacher for
living well." |
Alexander The Great |
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"The past, the present and the future are really
one: they are today." |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the
darkness." |
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt |
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"The most useful piece of learning for the uses
of life is to unlearn what is untrue." |
Antisthenes |
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"To measure the man, measure his heart." |
Malcolm S. Forbes |
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their
noses, and some don't turn up at all." |
Sam Ewing |
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"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 |
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"Every man must do two things alone; he must do
his own believing and his own dying." |
Martin Luther |
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as
we are." |
Anais Nin |
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"The highest activity a human being can attain
is learning for understanding, because to
understand is to be free." |
Baruch Spinoza |
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"What you possess in the world will be found at
the day of your death to belong to someone else.
But what you are will be yours forever." |
Henry Van Dyke |
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"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can
listen twice as much as we speak." |
Epictetus |
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." |
Thomas Jefferson |
