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

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