Quotes For You

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,"