Famous Quotes & Sayings

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Cyril Cusack

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Oliver Herford

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Charles Simmons

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Robert W. Service

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Errol Flynn

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Minna Antrim

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Frank A. Clark

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Robert Hall

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

John Cheever

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Plautus

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

William Hazlitt

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Ernest Holmes

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Washington Irving

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Aristotle Onassis

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Jesus Christ

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

John Burroughs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Buddha

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

Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Swami Sivananda

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Jules Renard

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Mary Kay Ash

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Orson Welles

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

Jimmy Dean

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Saadi

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

Charles Lamb

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Mary Ellen Chase

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

Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Don Shula

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Jim Elliot

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Dale Evans

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

William Feather

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Edward Everett Hale

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.