Quotes

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." - - - Harry Fosdick

" 'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders." - - - Geroge P. Burnham

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - - - Theodore Roosevelt

"Winning may not be everything, but losing isn't anything." - - - Charlie Brown

"If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers." - - - Homer Simpson

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - - - Abraham Lincoln

"No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears." - - - Unknown

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - - - Langston Huges

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - - - Conrad Hilton

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - - - Henry Van Dyke

"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." - - - William Hazlitt

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up again." - - - Vince Lombardi

"If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to." - - - Franklin

"Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise." - - - George Washington

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are things that endure. These qualities are so much more important that the events that occur." - - - Lombardi

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - - - Abraham Lincoln

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - - - Lily Tomlin

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - - - Henry Ford

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." - - - Raplh Waldo Emerson

"Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says." - - - Cicero

"A coward is one who in a perilous emergency and thinks with his legs." - - - Bierce

"Who dare nothing, need hope for nothing!" - - - Unknown

"The philosopher is nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer." - - - George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strengths or knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - - - Vince Lombardi

"There are only two kinds of thinkers in the world. Those who think they can and those who think they can't . . . and they're both right." - - -Unknown

"The race is not given to the swift or the strong, but the one who endures until the end." - - - Unknown

"A fool who knows his foolishness is wise; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is a fool indeed." - - - Dhammapada

"There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow." - - - Unknown

"Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value." - - Einstein

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give us happiness." - - Thomas Jefferson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." - - Alphonse Karr

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - - Doris Mortman

"I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm." - - Calvin Coolidge

"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - - James Openheim

"The good news is that the bad news can be changed into good news when you change your attitude." - - Robert Schuller

"Empty pockets never held anyone ack. Only empty heads and empty hears can do that." - - Norman Vincent Peale

"The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others." - - Syrus

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." - - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." - - Millard Fuller

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find ways around the laws." - - Plato

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the et, I go into the other room and read a book." - - Groucho Marx

"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." - - Nietzshe

"At twenty years of age; the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement." - - Ben Franklin

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women, and when it dies there, no constitution, no edict, no parlimant can restore it."

"The race is not given to the swift or the strong, but the one who endures until the end."

"To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace." - - Cicero

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." - - Pete Seeger

"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments." - - Samuel Johnson

"Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought." - - Henri Bergson

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - - Einstein

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when they are open." - - Thomas Dewar

"The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government." - - George Washington

"Don't be afraid that your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin." - - Grace Hansen

"The week is young. Let's see what happens." - - Shawn Levy

"One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many interrogations, a student; many exclamations, a fanatic." - - - J.L. Basford

"You cannot teach a man anything: you can only help him to find it within himself." - - - Galileo

"An unguided mind is like an unguided car; it flounders around but doesn't really get anywhere." - - - Unknown

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those that mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - - - Dr. Suess

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - - - Kahlil Gibran

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it." - - - Plato

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - - - mark Twain

"Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice." - - - Voltaire

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - - - Calvin Coolidge

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." - - - Abigail Van Buren

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - - - Albert Einstein

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - - - Winston Churchill

"You discover more about a person in an hour of pay than in a year of conversation." - - - Plato

"I've have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." - - - Dr. Jonas Salk

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to beloved." - - - George MacDonald

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." - - - Patrick Henry

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - - - Albert Camus

"Life is like waiting in a room. I hope they don't call us soon." - - Randy Jackson

"The deed you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today." - - - St Francis of Assisi

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - - - Einstein

"Enthusiasm is traveling to work on Monday morning at the same speed you go home on Friday afternoon." - - - Joe Heuer

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - - - TS Elliot

"Success usually come to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - - - Thoreau

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - - - Thomas A. Edison

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice." - - - Mark Twain

"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - - - Oscar Wilde

"If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you very often get it." - - - Unknown

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is the content and the quality and not the circumference of one's life that counts most." - - - Mendelson

"Then as it was, then again it will be. Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea." - - - Led Zeppelin

"Wildness is the preservation of the world, so seek the wolf in thyself" - - - James Hetfield

"Many times I've lied, Many times I've listened, Many times I've wondered how much there is to know" - Robert Plant

"The truth is like gold: Keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away." - - -Senegal

"Try to live your life so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry." - - - Mark Twain

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work." - - - Thomas Edison

"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else." - - - Ivern Ball

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change, and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - - - Plutarch

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - - - Ambrose Bierce

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta' put up with the rain." - - - Dolly Parton

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves." - - - Thomas Edison

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I see now, I should have been more specific." - - - Unknown

"The reward of a life well done is to have done it." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat." - - - Ann Landers

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - - - Andrew Jackson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - - - Abe Lincoln

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." - - - Harold Coffin

"Lack of wealth is easily repaired, but poverty of soul is irreparable." - - -Michel DeMontaigne

"I us not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - - - Woodrow Wilson

"If we lead good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." - - - St. Augustine

  "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." - - - John F. Kennedy

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention." - - - Duguet

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to!" - - Unknown

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - - - Harry Kemp

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, while an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - - - Winston Churchill

"Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost." - - - Herbert Hoover

"Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow." - - - August B. Black

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - - - Omar Bradley

"One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing." - - - Fr. Theodore Hesburg

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." - - - Dali Lama

"Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." - - - Mark Twain

"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." - - -Pogo

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." - - - Winston Churchill

"The early bird may catch the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese." - - - Unknown

"What a caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." - - - Lao Tsu

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - - - Albert Schweitzer

"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet." - - - Damon Runyon

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - - - Gen George S. Patton

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - - -Jonathon Swift

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." Art Linkletter

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a fool about things." - - - W.C. Fields

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." - - - Unknown

"The race is not given to the swift or the strong, but the one who endures until the end." - - -Unknown

"Diplomacy is the art of saying, 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock!" - - - Will Rogers

"When you've reached the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!" - - - Thomas Jefferson

"Conscience - the inner voice that warns us that someone is looking." - - HL Mencken

"What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." - - - Unknown

"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in school!" - - - Unknown

"Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." - - -J. Fiebig

"It's not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it." - - - Descartes

"To just dream of a person you would like to be is a waste of the person you really are." - - - Unknown

"Courage mounteth with occasion." - - - Shakespeare

"Invest in yourself. It will pay you for the rest of your life." - - - Unknown

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad." - - - Jimmy Buffet

"Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation might be cheaper?" - - - Unknown

"My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil" - J. Paul Getty

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." - - - Henry Ford, Sr

"Old people love to give out advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." - - - Rochefoucauld

" A penny saved is a governmental oversight." - - - Unknown

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." - - - Unknown

"I couldn't wait for success - so I went ahead without it." - - - Jonathan Winters

"I have finally reached financial independence - no one will lend me money." - - -Unknown

"If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for everything." - - Rev. D. Foster

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading!" - - - Henny Youngman

"Our government has said that Americans are geographically illiterate and economically ignorant. It's true. How many times have you said to yourself, "Where did all my money go?' - - - Alan Prophet

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" - - - Aristotle

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - - - Thomas Jefferson

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it's the quality which guarantees all others." - - - Winston Churchill

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and the eyes, without speaking, confess the secrets of the heart." - - - St. Jerome

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." - - - Unknown

"If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions." - - - Unknown

"Great necessities call out great virtues." - - - Abigail Adams

"Everyday above ground is a good one. So, remember to stop and smell the roses because roots don't have a scent!" - - - Ed Cannon Jr.

"The difference between Winners and Losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do." - - - Unknown

"Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." - - - Dali Lama

"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead." - - - Aristotle 384-322 BC

"Nothing in the fine print is ever good news." - - - Andy Rooney

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - - -E Joseph Crossman

"The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back." - - - Franklin P Jones

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - - - Doug Larson

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility." - - - Aristotle 384-322 BC

 "A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." - - - Milton Berle

"If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances." - - - Unknown

"The truth will ouch." - - -Arnold H Glasow

"He who hesitates is last." - - - Mae West

"A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog." - - - Unknown

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." - - - Mae West

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - - - Steven Wright

"The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once." - - - Jane Bryant Quinn

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius." - - - George Bernard Shaw

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun." - - - Earl Wilson

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - - - Mark Twain

"A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only braver five minutes longer." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me." - - - Camillo di Cavour

"It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." - - - Thomas Jefferson

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - - - Mark Twain

"As sight is to the body, so is reason in the soul." - - - Aristotle

"If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract - - - teach him to deduct." - - - Fran Lebowitz

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion." - - - Thoreau

"A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to take a civil service examination." - - - Ronald Reagan

"The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money." - - - Tax Auditor

"When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot - - - but I always found them." - - - Rodney Dangerfield

"We're getting a lot of government these days, but we'd probably be worse off if we were getting as much as we're paying for." - - - Olin Miller

"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me $85. That's why, in the Navy, the captain goes down with the ship." - - - Dick Gregory

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - - - Leo Burnett

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it." - - - Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - - - Charles Wadsworth

"If all the cars in the United States where placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend." - - - Doug Larson

"School is a building with four walls with tomorrow inside." - - - Lon Watters

"The closest to perfection a person comes is when he fills out a job application form." - - - Stanley J Randall

"It ain't bragging if you really done it." - - - Dizzy Dean

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." - - - Unknown   

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." - - - Uknown   

"If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it." - - - Uknown  

"It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it." - - - Unknown  

"Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." - - - Unknown

"No one is listening until you make a mistake." - - - Unknown   

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else." - - - Unknown   

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others." - - - Unknown  

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - - - Unknown   

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - - - Unknown   

"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - - - Unknown   

"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." - - - Unknown   

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." - - - Unknown

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." - - - Plutarch

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - - - Emily Dickinson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - - - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Disasters happen when the people who can remember what happened last time have retired." - - - Unknown

"The secret is to become wise, before you get old." - - - Unknown

"The great thing in the world isn't so much where we stand, as what direction we are moving." - - - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you think you can, or you can't, you're right!" - - - Henry Ford

I want to share something with you. The three sentences that will get you through life (1) "Cover for me." (2) "Oh, good idea Boss." (3) "It was like that when I got here." - - -Homer Simpson

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - - - Chinese proverb

"If I sit down, I write a long opinion and don't come to the point as quickly as I could. If I stand up, I write as long as my knees hold out. When my knees give out, I know it's time to stop." - - - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - - - Walter Cronkite

"Well done is better than well said." - - - Benjamin Franklin

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