quotes 6

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself."
— Robin Cook

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
— Henry B. Adams

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
— John Quincy Adams

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."
— Joseph Addison

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
— Stella Adler

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
— Aesop

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
— Muhammad Ali

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
— Dante Alighieri

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
— Thomas Alva Edison

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
— Minna Antrim

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
— Aristotle

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."
— Byrd Baggett

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
— James Baldwin

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
— Bruce Barton

"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
— John Beecher

"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
— Warren G. Bennis

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."
— Bible, Proverbs 16:24

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
— Paul Boese

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
— Daniel Boorstin

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."
— Win Borden

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
— The Buddha

"Patience will achieve more than force."
— Edmund Burke

"Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them."
— Leo Burnett

"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
— John Cage

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
— Michael Caine

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
— Charles Caleb Colton

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
— Confucius

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
— Calvin Coolidge

"Spend some time alone every day."
— The Dalai Lama

"Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it."
— Salvador Dali

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
— Anne Dillard

"Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died."
— John Dretschmer

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
— Bruce Springsteen

"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Great spirits have always faced violent protest from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

"It is never to late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
— Euripides

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
— Bruce Feirstein

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
— Henry Ford

"You exist only in what you do."
— Federico Fellini

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
— Brendan Francis

"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
— Jameson Frank

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
— Fernando Flores

"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."
— Ellen Glasgow

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
— Arnold Glasow

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
— Vincent van Gogh

"Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny."
— Kamran Hamid

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
— Lorraine Hansberry

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
— Sydney J. Harris

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Give me liberty or give me death."
— Patrick Henry

"Nothing is permanent but change."
— Heraclitus

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
— Don Herold

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
— Eric Hoffer

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
— Robert Hughes

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
— Victor Hugo

"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."
— Thomas Henry Huxley

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
— Eugene Ionesco

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving

"To be loved, you must be lovable."
— Italian Proverb

"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely."
— H. Jackson Brown

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking"
— William James

"If you believe everything you read, you better not read."
— Japanese Proverb

"Fall down seven times; stand up eight times."
— Japanese Proverb

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
— Thomas Jefferson

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
— Pope John Paul II

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings"
— Samuel Johnson

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." — Franklin P. Jones