Quotables 3

• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson
• He that always gives way to others will end up having no principles of his own. - Aesop
• The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. - Maxine Hong Kingston
• Love and kindness are never wasted. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. - Barbara DeAngelis
• It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham
• Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. - Vince Lombardi
• The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Schultz
• Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mandela
• I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. - Oprah Winfrey
• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown. - Spanish proverb
• Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
• The world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful. - Benjamin Franklin
• We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder
• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henry Matisse
• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates
• You have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. - Barbra Steisand
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa
• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't nkow how to laugh either. - Golda Meir
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. - Aristotle
• I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln
• At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want. - Lao-Tzu
• The weak can nnever forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake
• When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything. - General George Patton
• Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
• When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. - Nicole Kidman
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity if every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean Jacques Rousseau
• The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. - William Wordsworth
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison
• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere
• It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. - Gloria Steinem
• The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer. - Billie Holiday
• Victory belongs to the most presevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte
• Life is like playing a violin in public and learnning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
• If A is a success in life, then A equals X+Y+Z. Work is X Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
• It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball
• While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca
• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Bejamin Disraeli
• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Let us not look back in anger, of forward with fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
• When it's all over, it's not who you were, it's whether or not you made a difference. - Bob Dole
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. - Dorothy Parker
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Gandhi
• If you can't sleep, get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. The worry gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie
• When you get to the end of your rope, with a know and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. - Lauren Bacall
• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. - Frank Lloyd Wright
• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Seneca
• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop
• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain
• It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren