Quotes

Here are many famous and not so famous quotes:

Anger

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca
Some people are like firecrackers - they explode when heat is applied.
The man who cannot be angry at evil usually lacks enthusiasm for good.
You are not a dynamic person simply because you blow your top.
Many an argument is sound - and only sound.
Anger is seldom without a reason, but seldom a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
For every minute you're angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
When a man loses his temper, his reason goes on vacation.
One of the sorriest spectacles imaginable is the anger of two people who have gotten into an argument over something that neither of them knows anything about.
A husband and wife made it a point not to argue over anything not worth arguing about. Of course this led to some dandy fights over whether or not a subject is worthwhile.

Children

Today, children of six seem to know all the questions and at sixteen they know all the answers.
There's one thing about children - they never go around showing snapshots of their grandparents.
A wise son maketh a glad father. Proverbs 10:1
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
All children wear the sign: "I want to be important NOW". Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign. Dan Pursuit
A spoilt child never loves his mother;
You can do anything with children if you only play with them. German Proverb
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Anna Jameson
It is hard for parents to lead a child in the straight and narrow way when they are on the other route.
Children thrive on praise! It is more important to praise a child for his good works and his good behavior then it it is to scold him for his bad behavior. Always accentuate the positive!
If you can teach a child, you can teach anybody.
You can work for years to build up good habits in a child and have them torn down in a few minutes by other children.
You surely reap in your children exactly what you sow, especially if you don't discipline them - That's your job as a parent, to train up your child in the way he should go.
Every child's discipline must be tailored for his particular needs, his individual personality.
Many adults have a double standard, a stricter one for their children than for themselves.
Many parents are so anxious to give their children what they didn't have, that they neglect to give them what they did have.
The best thing to spend on children is time.
No wonder it's tough to be a teenager. Half the grownups tell him to find himself, and the other half tell him to get lost!
Really, the younger generation isn't so bad, it's just they have more critics than models.
Teenagers are extremists. It takes them a few years to learn moderation and realize that there is a certain in-between and that not everything is all bad or all good, including their parents.

Creation

Posterity will some day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator. - Louis Pasteur
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into most ingenious treatise of philosophy. - Jonathan Swift
The probability of life originating by accident is comparably to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in the print shop.
Darwin guessed that two hundred million years ago one or a few germs appeared on the planet and then, according to Darwin, they immediately went to work reproducing. Not quite according to kind, but with just enough variation to give us finally between two and three million of species. Darwin thought we had two or three million. I am conservative that I prefer the lowest estimate - a million species in the animal kingdom and vegetable world - but according to Darwin's guess, everything we now see came from one or a few germs of life. All evolutionists believe this whether they call themselves Christians, theist or atheist. Our answer is that if it were true that all species came by slow development from one or a few germs, every square foot of the earth's surface would teem with evidences of change. If everything changed, we ought to find evidence of it somewhere, but because it's not true, they have not found a single thing, living or dead, in the process of change. They have examined millions of specimens, from insects so small that you have to look at them with a microscope, up to mammals, but everything is perfect. They have not found one in process of change, and they have not been able to show that a single species ever came from another, Darwin said so while he lived and expressed surprise that, with two or three million species, they had not found one that they could trace to another; but he thought we should accept the hypothesis, even though the 'missing link had not been found' - not the missing link but he links (plural) had not been found. If we have a million different species, we must have at least one million connecting links, one to link each species to another, but a scientist, speaking in London not long ago, said that if evolution were true, it would not be one link between two species, but there would be a million links between two species, and yet, with a million times a million links that must have existed if evolution be true, they have not found a single link. - W. Jennings Bryan
Said George Gallup, world-famed statistician, "I could prove God statistically! Take the human body alone. The chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
To create takes infinite power. All the world cannot make a fly.

Education

True education enrolls men at the cradle and graduates them at the grave.
It's not the I.Q. but the I WILL that is important in education.
His brother has a Ph.D, his wife has an M.A., his daughter has a B.A., he's the only one with a J.O.B.
All a youngster wants out of school is himself.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
Many people were blue and down in the dumps before they became educated, now they're just depressed a despondent. It seems all a college education does is help folks become confused on a higher plane.
An expert can take something you already know and make it sound confusing.
One who never asks questions either knows everything or nothing. - Malcom S. Forbes
If a person has no education he is forced to use his brain.
To look is one thing. to see what you look at is another. To understand what you see is a third. To learn from what you understand is still something else. But to act on what you learn is what really matters.
A person becomes wise by observing what happens when he isn't.
Don't call it education unless it has taught you life's true values.
He who makes the same mistake over and over again learns to do at least one thing well.
A wise man learns by the experience of others. An ordinary man learns from his own. A fool learns from nobody's.
An American woman living in India was having a simple electrical installation done by a native electrician. He troubled her so much for instructions that she at last said irritably, "You know what I want; just use your common sense and do it." The electrician salaamed politely and said, "Madam, common sense is a rare gift of God. I have only a technical education."
We spend $10,000 for a school bus so children won't have to walk. Then we spend $100,000 for a gym so they can get some exercise.

Greatness

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but it takes an even greater man to accept it graciously.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are. S. Chamfort
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man. French Proverb
The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill
The measure of man is what he does with power. - Pittacus (650-569 B.C.)
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness. - St. Francis de Sales
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. Mencius
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. - Benjamin Franklin
Great minds...discuss ideas. Average minds...discuss events. Small minds...discuss people.
One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
Great men see where small men sigh.
One test of a persons strength is his knowledge of his weakness.

Happiness

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies by division.
A poor man can be happy; but a happy man isn't poor.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consumewealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
Existance is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. Irving Kristol
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those whoo will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
That is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
Happiness is a wa-station between too little and too much.
One day's happiness makes a man forget his misfortune; and one day's misfortune makes him forget his past happiness. Ecclesiasticus
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill
If I never get any further than this, I've had a great time getting this far.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like hapiness.
Happiness is the perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Honesty

Truth often hurts, but it's the lie that leaves the scars.
It is easy to tell one lie but difficult to tell only one.
A lie has no legs; it has to be supported by other lies.
A promise is something you can keep after giving it.
The truth may hurt but a lie is agony.
The person who is straightforward and honest doesn't have to worry about a faulty memory.
The confession of a small truth sometimes covers a huge deception.
A diplomat is a gentleman who can tell a lie in such a manner to another gentleman (who is also a diplomat) that the second gentleman is compelled to let on that he really believes the first gentleman, although he knows that the first gentleman is a liar, who knows that the second gentleman does not believe him, yet both let on that each believes the other, while both know that both are liars.
Another good thing about telling the truth; you don't have to remember what you said.
It's a lot more difficult to be a consistent liar than to tell the truth.

Human Relations

When nobody disagrees with you, you can assure yourself that you are exceptionally brilliant. Or else you're the boss.
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
People make enemies by complaining to much to their friends.
There is no place like home; where we are treated the best and grumble the most.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as you do with your own.
Diplomacy is the knack of letting the other fellow have your way.
Formula for tact: Be brief, politely; be aggressive, smilingly; be emphatic, pleasantly; be positive, diplomatically; be right, graciously.
There is some good in everyone, though in some people it takes a little longer to find.
Tact is like a girdle. It enables you to organize the awkward truth more attractively.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking so much, but a tactful man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Promises are like crying babies in church - they should be carried out immediately.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
A young man proved himself wise when a young widow asked him how old he thought she was. He answered, "I am just deciding whether to make you ten years younger on account of your looks, or to make you ten years older on account of your intelligence".
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. Albert Einstein
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked. not to be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell

Love

Love sees through a telescope - not a microscope.
We like some one - because. We love someone - although.
O God, when I am wrong, make me easy to change, and when I am right, make me easy to live with!
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one, Yet the light of the whole life dies When love is gone
The witty Oliver Herford has defined a kiss as, "A course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous."
Stephen Grellet was a French-born Quaker who died in New Jersey in 1855, Grellet would be unknown to the world today except for a few lines which made him immortal. The familiar lines, which have served as an inspiration to so many people, are these: "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now and not defer it. For I shall not pass this way again."
Love is blind and marriage is the eye-opener.
Scratch a lover and find a foe. Dorothy Parker
Greater Love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.John 15:3
For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish. but have everlasting life. John 3:16.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. Ralph Connor
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. 1 John 4:18
Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. William Shakespeare
Love is like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We always believe our first love is our last and our last love our first. George Whyte-Melville
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. Jesus Christ (John 13:34)

Pride

Flattery is like perfume; you're supposed to smell it, not swallow it.
A man who is truly great doesn't have to prove it; and if he isn't great, trying to prove it will do no good.
When an egotist doesn't understand something in a book, he decides it must be a misprint.
Give some people an inch and they think they're rulers.
Blessed is the man who is willing to work as a member of the committee of which he really wanted to be the chairman.
The egoist is an "I" specialist.
A person interrupts and endangers his climb up the ladder of success when he stops to pat himself on the back.
A conceited man once said, "Most people won't admit their faults. I'd admit mine if I had any.
The World's most conceited man was the fellow who celebrate his birthday by sending his mother a telegram of congratulations.
o be unusually pleased with yourself is the surest way of offending everyone else.

Relationship with people

When nobody disagrees with you, you can assure yourself that you are exceptionally brilliant. Or else you're the boss.
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
People make enemies by complaining to much to their friends.
There is no place like home; where we are treated the best and grumble the most.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as you do with your own.
Diplomacy is the knack of letting the other fellow have your way.
Formula for tact: Be brief, politely; be aggressive, smilingly; be emphatic, pleasantly; be positive, diplomatically; be right, graciously.
There is some good in everyone, though in some people it takes a little longer to find.
Tact is like a girdle. It enables you to organize the awkward truth more attractively.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking so much, but a tactful man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Promises are like crying babies in church - they should be carried out immediately.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
A young man proved himself wise when a young widow asked him how old he thought she was. He answered, "I am just deciding whether to make you ten years younger on account of your looks, or to make you ten years older on account of your intelligence".

Success

Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat.
No one is a failure who can truly say, "I have done my best."
Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles that were overcome in their attainment.
If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
Blessed is the man who is willing to work as a member of the committee of which he really wanted to be the chairman.
Sadder than work left unfinished is work never begun.
Making mistakes isn't stupid; disregarding them is.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Luna Turner.
Success is a ladder which cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. - Baltasar Garcian
Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein
Lord Byron said, "I've drunk of every fount of pleasure and quaffed every cup of fame, and yet I die of thirst!"
Try not to be a person of success. But rather a person of value. - unknown
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. - Carol Buchner
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. A. Golden
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? - Robert Schuller
We never know what we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. - B.J. Palmer
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. - Wayne Dyer
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. - R. Duvall
I talk(a lot), and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. - Mario Cuomo
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin Mays
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water. - Ben Franklin
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. - Ralph Bunche
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Anonymous
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts. - Sir Winston Churchill
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lambardi
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S. Buck
What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
Success is how high you bounce with you hit bottom. - General George Patton
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
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 Ewig
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. - Captain J.A. Hatfield
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr. Rule your mind or it will rule you - Horace
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George Halas
Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain. Adversity is your best friend on the path to success. - unknown A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks that others throw at him. - Sidney Greenberg
As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. - Paul Shane Spear
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. - Talleyrand
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. - Helen Keller
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. - Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. - Kim Lyons
The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Nature gave men two ends; one to sit on and on to think with. Man's success or failure is dependent on the one he uses most.
You won't find many rules for success that will work unless you do.
Of all sad words of the tongue or pen, the saddest are, "It might have been."
For success, try aspiration, inspiration, and perspiration.
The president of a highly rated company was asked the secret of his success. "It's really simple", he said, "I always apply the Rule of the three D's: Do it, Delegate it, or Ditch it".
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. William Shakespeare
There is something about your success that displeases even your best friends. Oscar Wilde
Success has ruined many a man. Benjamim Franklin
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it; better to have lost some battles than to have retreated from war; better to have failed when serving God than to have succeeded when serving the devil. What a tragedy to climb the ladder of success only to discover that the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Erwin W. Lutzer
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. - Henry Ward Beecher
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. - George Eliot
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open. - Unknown
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. - Henry Ford
The purpose of life is a life of purpose - Robert Byrne
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required. - Sir Winston Churchill
Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. - (On an American plaque)
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. - John D. Rockefeller
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. - Rosabeth Moss Cantor
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. - Mother Teresa
A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change. - Lester C. Thurow
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully
There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it.- Monta Crane
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - Benjamin Disraeli
Sucess is getting up one more time than falling down. - Unknown
Success has made failures out of many men. - Unknown
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. - Barbara Johnson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self. - Aristotle
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.- Sandra Carey
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. - David Ambrose
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris