Famous Quotes & Sayings

St. Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Octavia Butler

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Henry Drummond

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

John Barrymore

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Saadi

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Franklin P. Adams

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Christopher Morley

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Joseph Campbell

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Casey Stengel

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Pliny the Elder

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Wayne Dyer

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Thomas a Kempis

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Dorothy Day

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Dale Evans

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

George Washington Carver

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Malcolm Forbes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Philip Sidney

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Victor Kiam

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Omar Khayyam

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

William E. Gladstone

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Leo Rosten

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Orson Welles

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Norman Cousins

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

David Frost

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Sam Levenson

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Lou Holtz

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Paracelsus

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

E. F. Schumacher

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Tom Wilson

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.