Quotes For You

  Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero If you cannot convince them...

  Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...

  Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. - Samuel Johnson Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.  - W. C. Fields If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistake...

  Image of Frank Zappa created by ChatGPT Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill Silence is more musical than any song. - Christina Rossetti To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - Jo...

  Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600 Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. - Henry James, from his essay about the rules of writing Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi...

  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury READ MORE

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE