Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Johannes Brahms

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Satchel Paige

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Quintilian

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Thomas a Kempis

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

William Wordsworth

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

M. C. Escher

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

David Livingstone

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

Herodotus

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Grandma Moses

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Clara Schumann

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Robert W. Service

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

C. S. Lewis

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Saint Augustine

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Audrey Hepburn

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Rene Descartes

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Thomas Reid

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

W. Clement Stone

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Arnold H. Glasow

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Bill Gates

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Robert Rauschenberg

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Arthur Helps

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Bill Copeland

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell

Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Martin Buber

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Jesus Christ

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Rupert Brooke

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.