Quotes For You

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American revolutionary

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tzu

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. - John Adams

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. - Anais Nin

It is more important in these times than ever that people feel free to express themselves in their art, and that people have the ability to escape fear by immersing themselves in art, beauty and nature. Touching one's creative soul keeps us grounded in the now. This is a time when people want to escape the oppressive messages of the media and negative word of mouth. This can be overcome with a dip of a brush, throwing clay, playing a song – reaching one's center where their spirit lives. --Laura Hansen

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - George Orwell

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison. - Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Crime and Punishment

I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. - General Douglas MacArthur

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. - Flavia Weedn, Inspirational author

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. - Aristotle

Beauty is not diminished by being shared. - Robert Heinlein

A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny. - Charley Reese, Journalist

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English writer, statesman

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightning. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. - Seneca, Roman statesman & philosopher (4 B.C.?-65 A.D.)

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher (1803-1882)

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. - Gerry Spence

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer & philosopher

Stuff your eyes with wonder...live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. - Ray Bradbury

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. - John F. Kennedy

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

I shall grow old but never lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the best. - Henry van Dyke (1852 - 1933)

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . Does our being alive matter? - Harold Kushner, "When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough"

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. - Arthur Gordon

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Chinese proverb

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart - messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you’ll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along. - Martha Beck, "Finding Your Own North Star"

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert H. Schuller

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries, surely stands in a lonely place. - Gary Zukov

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. - E.R. Beadle

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the ILLUSION of knowledge. - Daniel Boorstin

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. -Bertrand Russell

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late. - Mary Kay Ash

Quit hanging on to the handrails... Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day. - Melody Beattie, "Finding Your Way Home"

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - Judith Kelman

You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life... You were made with a purpose. - Og Mandino in "The Greatest Miracle in the World"

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective... Remember, it is always later than you think. - Og Mandino in "The Greatest Success in the World"

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexicographer

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. - Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet

Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Confucius (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. - Sandra Day O'Connor

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. - Phillip Adams

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. - Christopher Morley

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are. - Jim Rohn

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade. - Constance Baker Motley, First Black Woman, Federal Judge

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. - Gloria Steinem

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. - Wendell Berry

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow. - Carol Moseley Braun

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. - Margaret Mead

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. - Albert Szent Gyorgi.

Success doesn't come to you... you go to it. - Marva Collins

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled. - Dhyani Ywahoo, Native American

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe. - Elliot Richardson

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. - Paul Wellstone

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around. - Geraldine Ferraro

People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me. - Princess Diana

I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out. - Mary Steenburgen

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice. - Lord Acton

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. - Annie Dillard

Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness -- and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right. - Dr. Richard Gaylord Brilley

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. - E M Forster

If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. - Jim Rohn

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. - Swedish Proverb

Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life. - Laing Burns, Jr

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. - Jim Rohn

All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - C H Oakhurst.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph. - John H. Johnson

Success is a journey, not a destination. - Ben Sweetland

If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it ...Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country ... It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. - Edward Bernays, legendary PR pioneer and nephew of the father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud from "The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of PR,"

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. -Edward Simmons

A stumble may prevent a fall. -English Proverb

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. -Dell Crossword

Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road. -Laing Burns, Jr

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom. - Zig Ziglar

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. - Charles Francis Adams II

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. - Charles Francis Adams II

My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward. - David Thomas

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. - Jim Rohn

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. - Susan B. Anthony

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road, the one "less traveled by"- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. - Rachel Carson

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. - Jim Rohn

Half the failures in life arise from pulling on one's horse as it is leaping. - Julius Hare, 1795-1855

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. - Thomas Disch

It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of the flower - unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. It can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth. -George Matthew Adams

Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. - George Matthew Adams

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. - Orison Swett Marden

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. - Robert Collier

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't. - Zig Ziglar

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success. - Thomas J. Watson

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

For what can war, but endless war, still breed? - John Milton

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. - William Cowper

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon writer (1937- )

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian

One joy shatters a hundred griefs. - Chinese Proverb

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. -Helen Keller

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

I pressed down on the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea. - P G Wodehouse

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -Thomas L. Holdcroft