Quotes For You
1. Treat your friends as you do your pictures; place them in their best light.
Jennie Churchill
2. No one knows the weight of another's burdens.
George Herbert
3. God judges a man not by the point he has reached, but by the way he is facing; not by distance, but by direction.
James Stewart
4. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Balfour
5. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles Allen
6. If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing: you're right.
Henry Ford
7. Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
F. P. Jones
8. The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Vri Putnam
9. Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Bacon
10. Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
Cicely Tyson
11. We forfeit three fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Schopenhauer
12. What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Coach Bear Bryant
13. A wise man will make more oppurtunities than he will find.
Francis Bacon
14. Problems are oppurtunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser
15. Well done is better than well said.
Ben Franklin
16. The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.
H. E. Jansen
17. In the middle of difficulty lies oppurtunity.
Albert Eistein
18. Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James B. Conant
19. Sin pays-but it pays in remorse, regret, and failure.
Billy Graham
20. Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.
J. Hudson Taylor
21. Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin
22. Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
23. It's not hard to make decissions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney
24. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
25. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
26. I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
St. Francis De Sales
27. The important thing in this world is not where we stand, but in what direction we move.
Goethe
28. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Tereesa
29. Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
30. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
31. What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens
32. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Rev. Jesse Jackson
33. No one else can decide how you are going to act ... Everyone must march to his own drums.
John Powell
34. A person's life is dyed the color of his imagination.
Marcus Aurelus
35. He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
36. Happy times and bygone days are never lst...In truth they grow more wonderful within the heart that keeps them.
Kay Andrew
37. The heart is a brittle thing, and one false vow can break it.
E. G. Bulver-Lytton
38. We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
39. Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Mathew Barrie
40. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
41. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
42. There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
Elmer G. Leterman
43. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton
44. I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
45. Acquantances ask about our outward life; friends ask about our inner life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
46. True friends are the ones you really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Bachanan
47. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Thomas Heywood
48. Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
49. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore Vail
50. Do not expect someone else to open the door to happiness for you. You alone have the key. Turn it.
Barbara Johnson
51. Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Claude McDonald
52. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
Frank A. Clark
53. The true calling of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Dean Starley
54. We carefully count others' offenses against us, but we rarely consider what others may suffer because of us.
Thomas A Kempis
55. I have held many things in my hands, and i have lost them all; but whatsoever I have placed in God's hands: that I stll possess.
Martin Luther
56. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victo Hugo
57. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richter
58. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
59. No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
60. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of streng of mind.
William Hazlitt
61. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramohansa Yogananda
62. Envy takes the joy, happiness, and contentment out of living.
Billy Graham
63. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Thoreau
65. May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
L. O. Baird
66. Perhaps the key to the back door of our hearts is simply acceptance-the kind of love that would just as soon hug you in a tattered bathrobe as in your Sunday best.
Susan Lenzkes
67. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
68. Try not to become a person of success but rather a person of value.
Albert Einstein
69. How often are we offended by not being offered something we do not want?
Eric Hoffer
70. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Coleridge
71. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Teddy Roosevelt
72. Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
73. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
74. While one person, hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
75. Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them.
Lord Chesterfield
76. A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrea removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
Royal Neighbor
77. Just like a rubber band, when you stretch the truth, wtch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland
78. The true measure of loving...is to love without measure.
St. Bernard Of Clairvalix
79. A person who can really love is not afraid to reveal himself.
H M. Lynd
80. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller
81. I do not know of any way so sure of making others happy s being so one's self.
Sir Arthur Helps
82. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
83. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
84. The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thorear
85. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
86. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
87. Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
88. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
89. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
90. This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
William Lyon Phelps
91. Friendship without self-interest is rare and beautiful.
James Francis Byrnes
92. Cooperation is spelled with two letters: WE.
George M. Verity
93. Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
94. Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dogobert D. Runes
95. Confidence is the foundation of friendship, if we give it, we will receive it.
Harry E. Humphreys Jr.
96. You can keep your friends by not giving them away.
Mary Pettibone Poole
97. The goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belongs to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
Georgette Leblanc
98. We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
99. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.
Bishop Fulton J. Steen
100. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
Charles M. Schwab
101. Our to-days and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
102. Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher
103. Take joy home, and make a place in thy heart for her.
Socrates
104. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Thomas Fuller
105. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. Wisdom is only found in truth.
Goethe
107. The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Sir William Temple
108. The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
109. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous word stir up anger.
Solomon
110. Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude
111. The mind grows by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
112. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
113. Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
114. Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
William Penn
115. You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
116. To love and be loved, s the greatest happiness of exitence.
Sydney Smith
117. Great thoughts come from the heart.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
118. Purpose is what gives life meaning.
C H Parkurst
119. The man who is incapable of making a mistake is incapable of anything.
Abraham Lincon
120. There is nothing which love may not achieve.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
121. Impossibilities recede as experience advances.
Arthur Helps
122. As we are, so we do, and as we do, so is it done to us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
123. There is nothing permanent except change.
Heracitus
124. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry Dvid Thoreau
126. Enjoy your own life without comparing it wil that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
127. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized
Frances Havergal
128. It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca
129. Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you might never owe.
Mark Twain
130. One of the greatest pleasures in life is conversation.
Sydney Smith
131. Life is a great bundle of little things.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
132. No one know what he can do till he tries.
Pubilius Syrus
133. It takes a great man to make a good listener.
Arthur Helps
134. You cannot do a kindness too soon cause you never know how soonit will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
135. For they can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
136. A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find.
Plutarch
137. No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of another.
Charles Dickens
138. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
139. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
140. The pursuit even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Cicero
141. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
142. Sometimes the thing out life misses helps more than the thing which it gets.
Alice Cary
143. A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha
144. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
145. Blessed is the influence of one true loving soul on another.
George Eliot
146. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
147. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
148. Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Seneca
149. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
150. The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
151. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
152. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
153. Only eyes washed by ears can see clearly.
Louis L. Mann
154. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph aldo Emerson
155. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln
156. To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
157. It is not enough to have great qualities, one must make good use of them.
La Rochefoucauld
158. The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have.
Lin Yatang
159. Whatever you do, do it with all your might.
Cicero
160. Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
William Shakeseare
161. That mas is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
162. To love is to admire with the heart, to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier
163. Love is something eternal-the aspect may change but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh
164. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Georg Hegel
165. Love is all we have, the oly way that each can help the other.
Eurpedes
166. The time you enjoy wasting is ot wasted time.
Bertrand Russel
167 Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cat
168. A happy life consists of tranquility of the mind.
Cicero
169. They can conquer who believe they can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
170. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
171. There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
Socratees
172. We are shped and fashioned by what we love.
Goethe
173. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
174. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
175. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tsze
176. Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
177. Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
William Collins
178. In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
John Ray
179. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now
Robert Green Ingersoll
180. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
181. Cheerfulness or joyfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive.
Jean Paul Richter
182. We always have time enough, if we use it.
Goethe
183. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
184. Then give to the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
185.The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
William Blake.
186. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
187. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you ake the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
188. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the worl calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
189. It matters not how long we live, but how.
Philip James Bailey
190. Where there are friends, there is wealth.
Plautus
191. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
192. A wise man will make more oppurtunitites than he finds.
Francis Bacon
193. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom
194. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
195. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Heywood
196. Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten.
Pythagras
197. When we have ot what we love, we must love what we have.
Roger Bussy Rabuti
198. Goodness is not tied to greatness, but greatness to goodness.
Thomas Moffett
199. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
200. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart.
William Shakespeare
201. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Goethe
202. Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Pierre Augustin De Beaumarchais
203. Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.-
Philip Crosby
204. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby
205. You have to lead pe
ople gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby
206. Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Philip Crosby
207. We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Athol Fugard
208. It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
209. Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Titus Livy
210. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
211. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
John Henry Newman
212. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
213. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
214. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
215. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William John Bennett
216. Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Timothy Bentley
217. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
218. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
219. Better than being the head of the family is being the heart of it.
George Bergman
220. Cooperation is spelled with two letters; WE.
George W. Verity
221. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
222. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
223. You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Anonymous
224. . . .if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
225. You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
226. Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
227. Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
228. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
Love is the bridge.
Stephen Levine
229. Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau
230. People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
231. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
232. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots.
The other is wings.
Hodding Carter, Jr.
233. Let your heart guide you.
It whispers, so listen closely.
Unknown
234. When one door of happiness closes, another opens:
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
235. Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
Chief Seattle
236. Every man dies.
Not every man truly lives.
Braveheart
237. Don't smother each other.
No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia
238. Don't go through life, GROW through life.
Eric Butterworth
239. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
240. We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
241. Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born.
Mary Anne M.B.L. Radmacher
242. People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
243. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
244. When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
245. One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people
who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
246. I am not the same,
having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne M.B.L. Radmacher
247. The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
248. Blessed is the influence of
one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
249. Think for yourself and let others enjoy
the privilege of doing so too.
Voltaire
250. Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan