Quotes For You

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. -Helen Keller

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out. -David L. Weatherford

War is fear cloaked in courage. -General William Westmoreland

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. -Dame Edith Evans

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire

Has anyone ever said, "It is important to spend less time on how we look and more time on how we see"? If not, someone should. -Carmen Richardson Rutlen

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways. -Mary Kay Ash

I am cognizant of the fact that there are powerful forces at work in this country that would dominate us, substituting a kind of regimentation for the competitive system which has made America great among nations. They would attempt to destroy individual thinking and initiative, cherished ever since our Pilgrim Fathers established this country in defiance of Old World tyranny. I believe that we must continue to retain the wealth of spirit of our forefathers, for if we don't we shall find ourselves dominated in everything we do by a mighty few and shall become serfs in fact if not in name. -The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. -Friedrich Nietsche

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. -Hodding Carter, Jr.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge.

We are often so caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it. -Author Unknown

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -John Ruskin

Opportunity...often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. -Mark Victor Hansen

As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance. --Lydia Sicher

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -George Washington

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. -Niels Bohr

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West.

[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur. -Lydia Sicher

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - W B Yeates

It is always more valuable to report the truth. -Jean-Paul Sartre

The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. -Winston Churchill

Farewell my Dear Friends - May you and I so live that we may reasonably expect to meet againn to our unspeakable comfort where the wicked cease from troubling and our happy Souls for ever be at rest. -Nathaniel Smith

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. -Mary Wortley Montagu

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. -Etty Hillesum

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed...... and they flew. - Christopher Logue

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

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so... -Robert A. Heinlein

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to that person's commitment to excellence, regardless of the chosen field of endeavor. -Vince Lombardi

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. -Oscar Wilde

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. - Thomas Carlyle

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment: they know enough who know how to learn. -Henry Adams

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. -Mary Decker Stanley

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. -Flower A. Newhouse

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. -Douglas MacArthur

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. -Walter Lippman, journalist (1889-1974)

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (1908-1993)

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. - Brian Tracy

All of us are smarter than one of us. -Japanese proverb

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. -William Ellery Channing

I challenge the American people to get informed and speak out. Remember that the Congress represents and works for the people. Congressional oversight committees have been strangely silent for too long, and our elected officials must step up to their responsibilities or be replaced. This is not about partisan politics, but rather what is good for our country. -US Major General John Batiste

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship. -Wynton Marsalis

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. -Vincent Van Gogh

There is a great spectacle, and that is the sea. There is a greater spectacle than the sea, and that is the sky. There is yet a greater spectacle than the sky, and that is the interior of the soul. -Victor Hugo

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul never thinks without a picture. -Aristotle

The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal. -Harold Kushner

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde

What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. -C.S. Lewis

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. - Henry David Thoreau

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations. -Patricia Neal

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. -W. L. George

It is far easier to make war than peace. -Georges Clemenceau

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. -Brian Tracy

We tend to live up to our expectations. -Earl Nightingale

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. -William James

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! - John Adams (1735-1826) Second U.S. President letter to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. -Michael Jordan

It is easy to change your expectations. You can do it in an instant. And that can be a problem. Too often, we lower our expectations because that is easier than overcoming the obstacles which stand in the way of fulfilling those expectations. -Ralph Marston

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. -Goethe

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

There's a whole social rediscovery for someone who has been on the top and who is now starting his way back up. -Paul Kessler

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -Samuel Johnson

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. -Charles Baudelaire

But in the mud and scum of things There always, always something sings. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner