Quotes - Motivational

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game. Winston Churchill If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game. Winston Churchill Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. Ovid The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now." Joseph Ray

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else. Yogi Berra When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. Helen Keller There is time for everything. Thomas A. Edison Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. Henry Davod Thoreau I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. Johnette Napolitano You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. Heraclitus Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Alice Meynell The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. Richard Cech

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. Gerald J. Simmons The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. Herman Melville The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Corneille The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards. - Aristotle If you wish to be out front Then act as if you were behind. - Lao-Tzu In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. - Henry David Thoreau Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. - William Longgood There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. Theodore Roosevelt Nothing succeeds so well as success. - Prince de Talleyrand Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln Go back a little to leap further. - John Clarke The whole secret to a successful life it to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it. - Henry Ford Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George S. Patton As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. - Benjamin Disraeli Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. - Thomas R. Dewar Since I gave up hope, I feel much better. - Unknown When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde Some people are like Slinkies... Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs. - Author Unknown Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. - Quentin Crisp

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. - Remy de Gourmont I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare. - Voltaire Three may keep a secret if two are dead. - Benjamin Franklin Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. - Thomas R. Dewar The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear. - Norm, from the TV show "Cheers" The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. - Don Marquis The meek shall inherit the Earth.......if you don't mind. - Graffiti Visualize Getting Towed - sign on a private driveway between The Zen Center in Marin, California and Muir Beach (where public parking is limited) It's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame. - Anonymous I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If something's hard, then it's not worth doing. - Homer Simpson When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? - Homer Simpson The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

Famous Learning Quotations

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. - Chinese Proverb He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. - Joseph Joubert Men learn while they teach. - Seneca What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. - Aristotle I am always ready to learn, though I don't always like being taught. - Winston Churchill The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. - Warren Bennis Learning is it own exceeding great reward. - William Hazlitt

Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next. - G.K. Chesterton Learning without thought is labor lost. - Confucius A man, though wise, should never be ashamed / of learning more, and must unbend his mind. - Sophocles Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. - Confucius They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. - The Book of Common Prayer Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts. - Edward L. Youmans Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. - Baltasar Gracian He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius Be very sure that no man will learn any thing at all unless he first will learn humility. - Edward Bulwer Lytton He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. - Richard Steele If you wish to be out front Then act as if you were behind. - Lao-Tzu Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern

And that is life. Paul Laurence Dunbar

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. - Louis Kossuth

Inspirational Quotations Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed. - Anthony Storr Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Unknown Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't loaf and invite inspiration. Light out after it with a club. - Jack London The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble as well as we can. - Sydney Smith Trust your hopes, not your fears. - David Mahoney Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. - Frank L. Gaines When you cease to dream you cease to live. - Malcolm Forbes Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. - Tobias George Smollett Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. - George F. Tilton

Favorite Quotations Every successful revolt is termed a revolution, and every unsuccessful one a rebellion. - Joseph Priestly

Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty. - Confucius

Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe. - Euripides A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. - Thomas Jefferson Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley My country is the world and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. - Berthold Auerbach Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do. Malcolm Forbes Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru Nothing under the sun is ever accidental. - Gotthold Lessing Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in many places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto. - Gautama Buddha The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool. - Frank A. Garbutt Better face a danger once than always be in fear. - Proverb The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - William Ralph Inge

Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause. - Voltaire Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt. - Antoinette Deshoulieres Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. - Jeremy Taylor Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent. - Robert Bernstein What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy. - Marie Corelli

Health Quotations

Common sense is in medicine the master workman. - Peter Latham Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs. - Jean-Martin Charcot There are some remedies worse than the disease. - Publilius Syrus Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature. - Elbert Hubbard

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good -- but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands. - Persius Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. - Menander Happiness lies, first of all, in health. - George William Curtis For life is only life when blest with health. - Martial I am convinced digestion is the great secret to life. - Sydney Smith Nature, time and patience are three great physicians. - H.G. Bohn The King who cannot rule his diet, Will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet. Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno", author unknown Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. - Henry Miller Time is the great physician. - Benjamin Disraeli If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. - Seneca He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish Proverb Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise me depend; God never made his work for man to mend. - John Dryden I am dying with the help of too many physicians. - Alexander the Great

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. - Benjamin Franklin The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. - Robert Orben America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay! - Homer Simpson Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you. - Herb Shriner A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends." (Marcus Tullius Cicero) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. - Mark Twain Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer Unlimited The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - Gilbert Chesterton Only presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we". - Mark Twain Life is rather like a can of sardines: we're all of us looking for the key. - Alan Bennett I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst, found on from The Witty, The Thought Provoking and The Humorous Quotes site.) Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain Hey, the way I figure it is this: if the kids are still alive by the time my husband comes home, I've done my job. - Roseanne Arnold By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. - Homer Simpson There are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield to. - Oscar Wilde Anyone who can only think of only one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. - Mark Twain Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. - Wendy Wasserstein All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people. - Will Cuppy The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. - Samuel Butler The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. - Gilbert Chesterton The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. - V.S. Pritchett "A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." (W. C. Fields) "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." (George Bernard Shaw) "Alcohol is the cause and solution to all life's problems." (Dan Castellaneta, as Homer Simpson) "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss." (Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love) "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker." (Ogden Nash) "Drink provokes the desire but takes away the performance." (William Shakespeare) "Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted." (E. Jean Carroll) "Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat." (Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

"Fish fuck in it." (W. C. Fields, explanation for why he never drank water) "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." (W. C. Fields) "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." (Frank Sinatra) "I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink." (Sir Richard Burton) "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I'm glad I'm an alcoholic. Oh yes, I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Obviously, I'm sorry for the hurt I caused people ... but being an alcoholic was an amazing and powerful experience. There were some days when I'd drink a bottle of tequila and I didn't care if I died. I was so washed up, so empty and feeling emotionally bankrupt. I used to love tequila." (Sir Anthony Hopkins) "It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health." (Robert E. Lee) "O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth..." (John Keats) "Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days." (W. C. Fields)

AYN RAND: Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. FULTON J. SHEEN: Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. GORE VIDAL: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. Be who you are and say 4.7 what you feel, because Vote those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. --- Dr. Suess 2. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

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--- Bruce Lee 3. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --- Eleanor Roosevelt 4. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. --- Aristotle 5. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark

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should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. --- Jack London If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. --- William Arthur Ward It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. --- Sir Winston Churchill Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. --- John Wooden Give me liberty or give me death. --- Patrick Henry I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. --- Hakeem Olajuwon

11. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. --- Tim Hansel 12. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. --- Scott Hamilton 13. If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. --- Anonymous 14. Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. --- Voltaire 15. If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you might as well just give it up. --- Cher 16. I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. --- Woodrow Wilson 17. You have two ears and one mouth. Use them in that proportion. --- Anonymous 18. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. --- Foster C. McClellan 19. Presence is more than just being there. --- Malcolm Forbes 20. People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them... you affected their lives, they didn't affect yours. --- Anonymous

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O beware, my lord, jealousy is the green eye'd monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on." (William Shakespeare)

Jealousy

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"Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel." (The Prophet Mohammad) "O beware, my lord, jealousy is the green eye'd monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on." (William Shakespeare) "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)