Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Barry Lopez

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Dave Barry

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Charles Stanley

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Chester A. Arthur

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Audre Lorde

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Arthur Rubinstein

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Denise Levertov

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

William Shakespeare

The readiness is all.

Calvin Coolidge

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Charles R. Swindoll

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Apolo Ohno

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

Barbara de Angelis

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Brian Tracy

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Artur Schnabel

I practice in my head.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Denis Waitley

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

Edwin Land

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Ashleigh Brilliant

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Abraham Lincoln

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Abbie Hoffman

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Adrienne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman.