Quotes For You

Passions are the only advocates that always persuade. A simple man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. -Rene Descartes

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Henry David Thoreau

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of great crisis there are two types of men: those who are overwhelmed by the crisis and those who rise up to resist the trend of events and so change the course of history. -Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Doctor

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. -Lucille Ball

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz, US Senator from Wisconsin

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. - Richard Bach

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. -Horace

May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. -Denis Waitley

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people. -Brutus Hamilton

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. - Napoleon Hill

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads. -Erica Jong

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

Accomplishment and success are often the result of commitment and perseverance rather than skill or talent. -George Van Valkenburg

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke. -Brenda Francis

Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -George Orwell

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. -Anne Lamott, Author

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. -Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -Jacob A. Riis

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. -Sarah Ban Breathnach

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -Mark Caine