Quotes
written on 2003-02-23, @ 7:40 p.m..
Okay, well, I decided that I want to share all my favorite quotes with you people.
Our doubts are our traitors
And make us lose the good we aft might win
By fearing to attempt
-William Shakespeare
It has long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-Elinor Smith, American Aviator
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
-Louise Brown
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-William James
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pine
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
-Hebrews 13:2
Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.
-Carmelia elliot
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney
The question is not whether we will die, but how we live.
-Joan Boryesenko
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
-Helen Keller
Nothing is impossible, improbable, unliking but never impossible (except in math of course)
One kind word can warm three winter months
-Japanese Proverb
Courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is the ability go on in the face of it
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You can do anything. You may not be able to but you always can.
The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it.
-C.C. Scott
Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always our own.
It's important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in.
-Ione Skye
Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love.
-Lao-tzu
There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
-Anonymous
The world is not a "prison house" but a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
Believe in yourself because when it comes down to it, only you can convince yourself that you can-not your best friend, parent, mentor or boyfriend/girlfriend-just you and you alone.
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave BUTTPRINTS in the sands of time???
-Bob Moawad
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-William James
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll still be among the stars.
Money can't buy happiness, it can, however, rent it.
A man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
What does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.
No great discovery was made or invention was created by just following "the crowd"; they were found by taking a road less travelled.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody's not thinking.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When one door closes another opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
It takes less time to do something right than explain why you did it wrong.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
You're only as strong as your weakest link.
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from those moments everything that you possibly can for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people that you have never talked to before, and actually listen.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We live in an age where pizza gets to your house before the police.
I finally got some powered water but I don't know what to add to it.
I came, I saw, I brought the t-shirt.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
You may say I'm a dreamer; but I say you're a nonbeliever.
In the end, only kindness matters.
-Jewel, Hands
One grain of rice can tip the scale.
-Emperor, Disney's Mulan
The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
-Emperor, Disney's Mulan
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
The best way to get praise is to die.
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Man is certainly is stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making Gods by the dozens.
The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and downfalls you experience, help to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
I don't really trust a sane person.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Be careful of what you wish for, you may actually get it...
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-Anonymous
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of some one else.
-Judy Grland
A book is like a mirror, if a fool looks in, you can't expect a genius to look out.
Be true to yourself 'cause friends and family will come and go but you're stuck with yourself for all eternity and who wants to go around kicking them self for all eternity?
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
Only the dead have seen the end of war...
-Plato
War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
For those who understand no explanation is necessary and for those who don't no explanation is ever enough.
The truth...is beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
-Albus Dumbledore
"Death is the ultimate fairness. Rich and poor; young and old, we are all equal in death."
-Annubis from Gargoyles
It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
-Proverb
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
-Moulin Rouge (Dude, that is great movie)
"The past is the past the present is for living and the future still to be written."
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
-George Carlin
"Love is like playing the piano, first you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
- Author Unknown
"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it".
- William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
- James Madison
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."
- George Washington
"A government is like a fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."
- George Washington
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes."
- Alexander Hamilton
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient towards redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
- Thomas Jefferson