Quotes

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas Gandhi



"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself." - Mohandas Gandhi


"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." - Rene Dubos


"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The sum of one's intelligence is the sum of one's habits of mind." - Lauren Resnick



"The greatest of all weaknesses is to be conscious of none." - Harvey Mackay


"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving


"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy." - William Shakespeare


"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers


"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods." - C. S. Lewis


"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy


"A problem is your chance to do your best." - Duke Ellington


"Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness." - Friedrich Nietzsche



"Realists do not fear the results of their study." - Feodor Dostoyevsky


"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of very man or woman." - Conrad Hilton


Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller


"What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing." - Pablo Picasso


"Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself." - Charles de Gaulle


"No one has ever drowned in sweat." - Lou Holtz


"It is what we do, rather than what we feel, or say we do that reflects who and what we truly are." - Leo Buscaglia


"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler." - Albert Einstein


"The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory we have in overcoming it." - Jean Baptiste Moliere



"There is no hope of joy except in human relations." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come." - Chinese Proverb


"I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have." - Studs Terkel



"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." - Elbert Hubbard



"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day." - Johnny Carson


What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino


It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins


"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant


"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle


"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." - Albert Camus


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Lewis Stevenson
 

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock



"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." - Chinese Proverb


"Life is an endless process of self-discovery." - John W. Gardner


"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis


"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him." - Samuel Butler


"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction." - James Baldwin


Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.  - H. L. Mencken


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust



"We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations." - Stephen Covey


"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb


"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Confucius


"Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain." - John Lithgow


Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. - Dalai Lama


"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him." - Lou Holtz


Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.  - William Morris


"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald


"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." - Robert Lewis Stevenson


"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli


"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon


"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind." - Buddha



"I attribute my success to this-I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale


"There is nothing so practical as a good theory." - Kurt Lewin


"Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy." - Gordon Allport


When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." - George C. Marshall



"The dread of criticism is the death of genius." - William Gilmore Simms


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive. But it is the lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain


"If you want work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time." - Elbert Hubbard