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

Quotables 2

• Only through experience of tiral and suffering can the soul be strengthed, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
• Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa
• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Khalil Gibran
• To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail. - Michael Jordan
• Everything comes too late for those who one wait. - Elbert Hubbard
• If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi
• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo
• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey
• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand
• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington
• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
• Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. - Sam Rayburn
• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. Life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore
• Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. - Cato the Elder
• Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela
• You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at least you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
• The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. - Cicero
• It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. - George S. Patton
• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
• They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
• Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain
• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. - Carol Burnett
• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. - J.K. Rowling
• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it. - Chuang Tzu
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. - Helen Keller
• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso
• Nuture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli
• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix 
• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
• You can't be brave if you've had only wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore
• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne

Quotables

• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings tunes without words and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
• They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
• Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. - Honore de Balzac
• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. - Bill Cosby
• We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - GK Chesterton
• Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher
• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato
• The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers
• The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a magnificent world unto itself. - Henry Miller
• We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon Johnson
• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott
• Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required. - Winston Churchill
• I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalyn Carter
• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything they just cry over [it]. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. - Malcolm X
• Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
• 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. - Henry David Thoreau
• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• With slight efforts, how can we obtain great results? It is foolish to even desire it. - Euripides
• A sound mind in a sound bady is a short but full description of a happy state in this work. - John Locke
• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William Gladstone
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. - Patricia Sampson
•  Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong
• Happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of! - Bejamin Franklin
• One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remans a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

More Quoties

Getting these out of the way before it gets bigger. :)

1. He who doesn't find a little enough with find nothing enough. - Epicurus
2. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates
3. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.
4. It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
5. The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Tennyson
6. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. - Zora Neale Hurston
7. Never let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers
8. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
9. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
10. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
11. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
12. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
13. He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. - Chinese Proverb
14. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
15. A little nonsense now and then si relished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl
16. Be thankful for what you have. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. - Oprah Winfrey
17. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
18. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Coleridge
19. If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit. Give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus
20. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb
21. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
22. Life is far too important a thing to ever talk about seriously. - Oscar Wilde
23. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
24. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
25. I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. - Booker T. Washington
26. Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which all self-respect springs. - Joan Didion
27. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli
28. The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
29. I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
30. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. - Martin Luther King Jr. 
31. Play for more than you can afford to lose and you'll learn the game. - Winston Churchill
32. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
33. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
35. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. - Aesop
36. Let him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates
37. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde
38. In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend. - Solon
39. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned. - P.T. Barnum
40. What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have means much more. - Seneca
41. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
42. The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great
43. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus
44. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca
45. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albret Einstein
46. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein
47. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Satanaya
48. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. - Mae West
49. He who has hope has everything. - Arabic Proverb
50. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula LeGuin

Quoties

Gotta get some of these out so I can remember them forever!!

1. Take chances. When rowing forward, the boat may rock. - Chinese Proverb
2. Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it. - Cheryl Tiegs
3. Never to suffer would be never to have been blessed. - Edgar Allen Poe
4. Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What maddness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. - Seneca
5. The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King Jr.
6. When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb
7. No one has ever achieved anything form the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
8. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie
9. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie
11. A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it. - Alistair Cooke
12. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso
13. There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. - Gandhi
14. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader
15. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes
17. Concentrate all you thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham
18. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, and acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin Jones
19. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin
20. It is common sense to make a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin Roosevelt
21. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
22. Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes. - Ann Landers
23. The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. - Johnny Carson
24. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
25. Gray skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington
26. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb if, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
27. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain
28. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
29. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing thta ever has. - Margaret Mead
30. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra
31. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - JRR Tolkien
32. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Eleanor Roosevelt
33. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland
34. Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. - Lily Tomlin
35. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan
36. Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. - Phil Jackson
37. Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the name. - George Washington
38. That's the secret to life...replace one worry with another... - Charles M Schulz
39. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
40. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
41. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. - Robert Frost
42. How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. - Marcus Aurelis

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

Another Onsalught of the Lovely Texts My Phone Sends Me

1. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."  - Thomas A. Edison
2. "You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda
3. "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." General George S. Patton
4. "After about three lessons, the voice teacher said 'Don't take lessons. Do it your way.'" - Johnny Cash
5. "Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." - Princess Diana
6. "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" - Jane Austen
7. "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - The Dalai Lama
8. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite
9. "Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep." - Madonna
10. "One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them." - Ira Gershwin
11. "I'm hoping that someday some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him." - Hank Aaron
12. "If we stopped trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
13. "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." - Jim Henson
14. "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero
15. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
16. "Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night." - Marian Wright Edelman
17. "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
18. "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
19. "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
20. "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
21. "There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it." - Pearl Bailey
22. "You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabaar
23. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha
24. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
25. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
26. "You cannot depend on  your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
27. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." - Anais Nin
28. "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman
30. "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell
31. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
32. "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
33. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
34. "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
35. "You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." - Frederick Douglass
36. "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." - William Congreve
37. "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes." - Goethe
38. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
39. "Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
40. "Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau
41. "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." - Miles Davis
42. "You are only as good as the team you have behind you." - Jim Palmer
43. "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir
44. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville
45. "Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the men of old. Seek what they sought." - Basho
46. "Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keefe
48. "The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem
49. "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George Patton
50. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
51. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
52. "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Robert Schuller
53. "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
54. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life beautiful." - Joshua J. Marine
55. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." - Seneca
56. "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner
57. "A real friend is the one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
58. "Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
59. "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
60. "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." - Ella Williams
61. "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller
62. "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney
63. "It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
64. "When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." - Confucius
65. "What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." - Oprah Winfrey
66. "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." - Will Rogers
67. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
68. "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be stong to live, as well as to think." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
70. "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." - Kahlil Gibran
71. "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tzu
72. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted  was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell

Inspiration. (Lots and lots of quotes.)

So I meant to blog about Peru, and the Heart concert, before I did this...but I really need to clean out my text inbox. Haha. So, here is a huge slough of awesome quotes (seriously, a ton of these are amazing!).

1. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton
2. "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
3. "In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." - Richard Bach
4. "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
5. "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe
6. "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
7. "The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
8. "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin
9. "Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - John F. Kennedy
10. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
11. "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West
12. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
13. "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin
14. "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur
15. "Whatever you fear most has no power. It is your fear that has the power." - Oprah Winfrey
16. "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
17. "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates
18. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Nelson Mandela
19. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
20. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe  Ruth
21. "Imagination is more important that knowledge." - Albert Einstein
22. "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." - Leo Tolstoy
23. "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller
24. "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn
25. "Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly of having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." - Hank Aaron
26. "You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." - Dolly Parton
27. "Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change." - Jesse Jackson
28. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." - John F. Kennedy
29. "Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent." - Samuel Johnson
30. "Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." - Christopher Morley
31. "The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow." - H.G. Wells
32. "He who knows enough is enough will always have enough." - Lao-Tzu
33. "It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration." - Igor Stravinsky
35. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
36. "Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt
37. "Look and you will find it; what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
38. "The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller
39. " It is only with the hear that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
40. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
41. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
42. "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus
43. "All our dreams come true...if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
44. "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
45. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things." - Albert Einstein
46. "You are never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka
47. "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius
48. "Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is an attitude." - Martin Luther King Jr. 
49. "It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula LeGuin
50. "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - William Shakespeare
51. "Since you get more joy out of giving to others, put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
52. "Never injure a friend, even in jest." - Marcus Cicero
53. "Please all, and you will end up pleasing none." - Aesop
54. "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde
55. "There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
56. "There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." - Rainer Maria Rilke
57. "We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams." - Jesse Jackson
58. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." - Epicurus
60. "You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one." - Henry David Thoreau
61. "If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
62. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
63. "To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." - Pearl Buck
64. "Never apologize for showig feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
65. "Find the ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living can be joy enough." - Emily Dickinson
66. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. "Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin
68. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou
69. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
70. "Ideas are the beginning of all achievement." - Bruce Lee
71. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
72. "If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful." - Sophia Loren
73. "Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child
74. "Re-examine all that you have been told...and dismiss that which insults your soul." - Walt Whitman
75. "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leoardo da Vinci
76. "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

More Quotes and More Thoughts on Them

More quotes I've received from my phone, since the last time I blogged about the quotes I got from my phone! :)

1. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."  - Malcolm Forbes (a true teacher understand this, and a teacher who doesn't believe this should get out of the system in my opinion.)
2. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying  about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
3. "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? If that's the case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen (Um...ok. I was upset at first when I read this one because even if everything is an illusion, we can't get out of it so might as well go with it...but then I thought, there's a nice thought about materialism...it is utterly pointless if you actually look at it head on.)
4. "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." - Harry S. Truman (I want to be this kind of parent!)
5. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once the child grows up." - Pablo Picasso (I'm definitely noticing this in teaching primary.)
6. "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on." -Mark Twain (Oh, thank you for your endless cynicism. :) )
7. "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle (Hard to find, that one is.)
8. "Charity sees the need not the cause." - German Proverb (good old Germans!)
9. "I have never been hurt by what I have not said." - Calvin Coolidge (unless it's "I love you"...)
10. "Glory is fleeting, but obsucrity is forever." - Napoleon (still not sure how I feel about this one, especially considering who it came from.)
11. "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." - Mae West (don't we all?)
12. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
13. "It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde (You would say that, Oscar.)
14. "I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
15. "Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true." - Marcel Proust
16. "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough." - Bruce Lee (go martial arts!!)
17. "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" - Cicero
18. "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."  - Erica Jong (so true!)
19. "The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things." - Woody Allen (I don't know how I feel about him altogether because I don't entirely agree with anything he says apparently.)
20. "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett (not just the business world, buddy.)
21. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening  fruit." - Aristotle (I've noticed this a lot lately, that even if I get along with someone great from the beginning, and we get really close really fast, they still aren't nearly as dependable as those I've been friends with for years, or decades, and in the end I'm still not as open or myself around them.)
22. "What we aniticipate seldom occurs. What we least expected usually happens." - Benjamin Disraeli
23. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton
24. "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." - G.W.F. Hegel
25. "Never go to a docot whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck
26. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life." - The Bible (pretty sure that's not the King James version though.)
27. "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (sure, when you're BFF is Henry David Thoreau, I'd say the same thing!)
28. "Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo DaVinci (a little Eastern philosophy? I think so.)
29. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
30. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." - Rainer Maria Rilke
31. "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka
32. "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
33. "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante
34. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb
35. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Theresa
36. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
37. "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russell

Now if you can stick with me after reading all those quotes, I will tell you why I bolded some of them. See, there is this wonderful thing called tender mercies of the Lord. I've been making some changes in my life, as well as had a potentially major trial thrown at me, and those were the quotes that I received on the exact day when I needed to hear it. Each addressed some issue I'd been pondering. For example, I'm trying to be more attentive to others' needs, and be willing to be friends with everyone. I'm trying to be a more affectionate friend, and to be patient when others frustrate me. I'm also facing up to a lot of attitudes and habits I've been carrying around for a long time that I never should've picked up. And all those quotes were just the little encouragement I needed exactly at the right time to take the next step when my legs were too tired (or frustrated) to move. Cause God is awesome that way. :)

Quotes, plus some other thoughts.

So I've been told to update my blog more often...I promise I think about it. I just don't do it. Haha.

So tonight one of my very dearest friends is getting set apart for his mission, and I just realized that I didn't get his address...and now it's too late to talk to him! This will be the 48th missionary that I write to...because I will get his address somehow. Haha. It's kind of an obsession I have...writing missionaries. This is a random side note.

Anyway, apparently when I signed up for my phone plan, I also signed up for a daily quote message, because I've been getting them every day. And some of them are actually pretty sweet, so I want to document them and I figured why not on my blog, since this is a great place to document random thoughts. So here they are:

1. "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire (amen, brother.)

2. "The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill (dang it! haha)

3. "In the book of Genesis, it says that it is not good for man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief." - John Barrymore

4. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill (sad how true that one is).

5. "The measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."  - Samuel Johnson (I really like that one.)

6. "You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle." - Bill Clinton (ironic)

7. "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde (kinda sad but probably true)

8. "So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else." - Goethe (nice testimony. :) )

9. "Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of." - Peter Ustinov (I like this one too)

10. "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - Shakespeare (classic.)

11. "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." - Eleanor Hamilton

12. ""A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochfoucauld

13. "There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues." - Prentice (love this one)

14. "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

15. "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - E.M. Forster (now isn't that a thought...)

16. "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John. D. Rockefeller

17. "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

18. "It's not only fine feathers that make fine birds." - Aesop

19. "If I'm a cup maker, I want to make the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it." - Densel Washington (love him!)

20. "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

21. "The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass