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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Quotefest. Again.

  1. "If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change." - Siddhartha Buddha
  2. "A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  3. "Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Nietzche
  4. "Don't waste your time living someone else's life, and don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs
  5. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
  6. "I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters." - Oprah Winfrey
  7. "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley
  8. "If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?" - Lord Chesterfield
  9. "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
  10. "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon Bonaparte
  11. "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." - Khalil Gibran
  12. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. "It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
  14. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
  15. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
  16. "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bouces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton
  17. "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
  18. "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen behavior." - Vince Lombardi
  19. "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome." - Samuel Johnson
  20. "When you believe in a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney
  21. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
  22. "If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity, even if I may not have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi
  23. "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under the lights." - Muhammed Ali
  24. "Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  25. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan
  26. "The important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
  27. "Just do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald
  28. "Inspiration and genius, one and the same." - Victor Hugo
  29. "Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." - Benjamin Franklin
  30. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  31. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George Patton
  32. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
  33. "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." - Unknown
  34. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." - Willam B. Sprague
  35. "The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." - Oprah Winfrey
  36. "We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
  37. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
  38. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
  39. "Joy is not in things; it is in us." - Richard Wagner
  40. "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey
  41. "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin
  42. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
  43. "Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  44. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
  45. "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
  46. "We can only do no great things; only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
  47. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
  48. "Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." Confucius
  49. "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson
  50. "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." - Ronald Regan
  51. "You've got to take the initiative and play your game. Confidence makes the difference." - Chris Evert
  52. "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
  53. "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, ackowledge the great powers around us and in us." - Euripides
  54. "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin
  55. "Someone who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." - Lao Tzu
  56. "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
  57. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be dones does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
  58. "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
  59. "Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way, they may not be possessed." - Confucius
  60. "When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure." - Alice Hoffman
  61. "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." - Indira Gandhi
  62. "All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so for now." - Pearl S. Buck
  63. "Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe
  64. "The Constitution only gives people the right to puruse happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
  65. "The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
  66. "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." - Pete Seeger
  67. "No one can give you better advice than yourself." - Cicero
  68. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,  you are usually right." - Henry Ford
  69. "You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." - Joan Baez
  70. "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." - Gracian
  71. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  72. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl S. Buck
  73. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
  74. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."  - Vince Lombardi

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