Quotes For You

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. - Wayne Dyer

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for  it is more important than winning or losing. -  Arthur Ashe

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by coming more. - Anthony Robbins

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the  treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your  treasure. - Joseph Campbell

Success is to be measured not so much by the position  that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which  he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington 

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live. - José Ortega y Gasset

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.   -  Samuel Adams

Most dissent is not disloyalty. Real disloyalty is keeping  quiet when something needs to be said.  - Steve Smith, Author, Thought Leader on Business

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. -  Mohandas Gandhi

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. - Edward H. Harriman

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.  -  Plutarch

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.  - Larry Bird

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. -  Paul Meyer

The way up and the way down are one and the same. - T.S. Eliot

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. - Alonzo Newton Benn

A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. - David Brinkley

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -  Robert Kennedy

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious. - Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.  - Benjamin Franklin

When it seems impossible, when it seems like nothing is going to work, you're usually only a few millimeters away from making it happen. - Tony Robbins

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus 

Obstacles are a golden opportunity to quickly forge an inner self that is as indestructible as a diamond, able to endure for eternity. - Daisaku Ikeda

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. - Karl Popper

I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I am pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. - Maya Angelou

Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived. - Nicolas Chamfort

Better know nothing than half-know many things - Nietzsche

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, author & statesman (1800-1859)

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. - Howard Zinn

To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty. - Jonathan Azaziah, political activist

What we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? - Howard Zinn

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. -  Abraham Lincoln

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. - Jack Dempsey

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure, Act II, Scn. II

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... - William Faulkner

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.  - Keshavan Nair