quotes

There was a time I seemed to sail upon the vast blue sea... scanning for the horizon, for some distant wondrous place that I've never seen before. But as the days and years pass by I learned that the joy is in the journey, and not at the journey's end. ??

There has never been a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin

I will forgive you. History will forgive you. My people will never forgive yours. Napoleon III (regarding Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany)

For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do no less. Franklin D. Roosevelt; (1st Inaugural Address)

The old men are dead. The children are freezing to death. Here me, my chiefs! My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph, 1877

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer

The cross is a symbol of torture, I prefer the dollar sign, the symbol of free trade, therefore of the free mind. Ayn Rand

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. Robert Heinlein

It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts. Oscar Levant

Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, scene-shifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. Julius C. Hare

We invent what we love, and what we fear. John Irving

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler

Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine

The secret of sucess is to do the common things uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeler Jr

Maturity doesn't come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility. Ed Cole

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. Louis D. Brandeis

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Orlando A. Battista

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. Les Brown

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mohandas Ghandi

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. Lord Dunsany

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham H. Maslow

The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here. Robert G. Ingersoll

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Lin Yutang

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming. Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. Hermann Hesse

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. Sir William Osler

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the way with them. Denis Watley

If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead. Wynn Bullock

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer. Robert Heinlein

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. J. B. S. Haldane

The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them. Thomas Hobbes

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. Ayn Rand

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. Robert Heinlein

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir

Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. Latin proverb

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman

He who knows others is learned.
He who knows himself is wise. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

What kind of fruitcake goes home and cooks dessert? Road Rules V (Shane)

I see pride. I see power. I see a bad-ass-mother-fucker who won't take no lip off'a nobody. Cool Runnings

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't pay attention you might miss it. Ferris Beuller's Day Off

If you want to be somebody,
If you want to go somewhere,
You better wake-up and pay attention. Sister Act II: Back In the Habit