Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~ Steven D. Woodhull

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~ Albert Camus,

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~ Allison Gappa Bottke

Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~ Colonel Potter

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~ African Proverb

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~ Odell Shepherd

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~ Charles DuBois

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~ Betty Smith,

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~ Robert Brault

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~ John Lennon

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~ Albert Einstein

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens

We have a choice every day – to act on yesterday’s good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow’s regrets. ~ Robert Brault

When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~ Paul Vitale

Be kind to your shadow. ~ Rebecca Lawless

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it’s something you have to choose to do. ~ From the television show

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They’re contagious.) ~ Dr. SunWolf

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~ Robert Brault

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~ Henry Miller,

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard,

Nature gave men two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~ George R. Kirkpatrick

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~ Oscar Wilde

Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others’ hearts as seeds. ~ Mikhael Dominico

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~ Chinese Proverb

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~ N. Smith

When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" – don’t do it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

When you invite trouble, it’s usually quick to accept. ~ Quoted in

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~ Author Unknown

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~ Author Unknown

All philosophy in two words, – sustain and abstain. ~ Epictetus

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~ Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. ~ Janis Joplin

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein

The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small. ~ Witter Bynner,

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~ Robert Brault

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ Albert Schweitzer Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~ Robert Frost What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~ Tom Stoppard

I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~ Robert Charles Whitehead

Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~ Author Unknown

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~ Robert Brault

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~ S.A. Sachs

Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses. ~ Oscar Wilde

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. ~ Howard Ruff,

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you’re tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~ Bruce Lee

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~ Robert Brault

While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself. ~ Doug Horton

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~ Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~ Buddha

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~ Ann Landers

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~ William Shakespeare,

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~ Leo Aikman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ Frank Herbert,

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~ Plato

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozel

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~ Frances Willard