Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Wise Words Quotes Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~ Robert Brault

"It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company,"

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~ James Thurber

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~ Oprah Winfrey

Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~ Kathryn Carpenter

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you’re also loved by one. ~ Robert Brault

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~ Frederick W. Faber

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~ Stanislaw Lec

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Don’t despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~ Martin H. Fischer

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~ Irish Proverb

Beware of a man of one book. ~ English Proverb

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~ Tad Williams

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~ Baltasar Gracian

Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~ Chris Fedak and Allison Adler,

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~ Horace

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~ Swedish Proverb

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~ Thomas Edison

Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~ Anonymous

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don’t mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~ Bill Veeck

You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~ Mick Jagger

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. ~ Author Unknown

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~ John C. Collins

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~ Frank Tyger

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~ Chinese Proverb

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~ Jeb Dickerson

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down. ~ W. Migner

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~ Texan Proverb

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~ Brigham Young

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else’s eyes. ~ From the television show

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~ Author Unknown

It isn’t what you know that counts, it’s what you think of in time. ~ Author Unknown

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~ Author Unknown

For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~ Mary Howitt

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man’s only two choices. ~ Terri Guillemets

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you’re the easiest person to fool. ~ Richard Feynman

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~ Joaquin de Setanti

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~ Irish Saying

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~ Joseph Joubert

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~ Robert Brault

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ~ Jim Rohn

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~ Liz Armbruster

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~ Pope John XXIII

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~ Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? ~ Coleman Cox

Laziness will cause you pain. ~ Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~ Toni Morrison

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~ Max Lerner,

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~ Author Unknown

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~ Brecht

[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~ From the television show

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~ Victor Hugo

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far." ~ Robert Brault

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~ Author unknown

A day is Eternity’s seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~ Erika Harris

People cannot go wrong, if you don’t let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~ W. Somerset Maugham,

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament,"

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~ Sara Teasdale

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~ Robert Brault

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it…. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~ Alice Walker,

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis,