Famous Quotes & Sayings

George S. Patton

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

John C. Maxwell

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Duke Ellington

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Roy L. Smith

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Yogi Berra

I never said most of the things I said.

Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Matthew Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Neil Armstrong

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

George Halas

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Carl von Clausewitz

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Luc de Clapiers

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

William Morris

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Eden Phillpotts

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

Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

John Locke

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Brenda Ueland

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Benjamin Jowett

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Jean de la Bruyere

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Madame de Stael

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Augustus Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Indira Gandhi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

George Sand

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.