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Below are many quotes that I find inspirational, philosophical, and/or humorous. There are some that I only partially believe in, but I have them posted as I feel they couldbe useful to others. If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorousor any combination of those... send it to me via e-mail,and I will post it up as long as I approve of it. If your quote is posted, I will give you credit and provide a link to your page.
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"You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier."
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"...in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is."
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
"Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion."
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
"You must change in order to survive."
"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
"You can fool most of the people most of the time."
"Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment."
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
"I was terrible at history. I could never see the point of learning what people thought back when people were a lot stupider. For instance, the ancient Phoenicians believed that the sun was carried across the sky on the back of an enormous snake. So what? So they were idiots."
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
"No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare."
"Nothing can be done except little by little."
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
"Failure is usually the line of least persistence."
"'Do Not Disturb' signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids."
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter."
"To give and not to feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
"If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea."
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from."
"I'm all in favor of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so."
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
"Hope is a risk that must be run."
"Art is I; science is we."
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
"Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride."
"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."
"I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat."
"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
"Consul: In American politics, a person who, having failed to secure an office from the people, is given one by the administration on condition that he leave the country."
"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
"Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
"Perseverence: a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
"Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there."
"I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else."
"Silence is one of the hardest things to refute."
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
"Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?"
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
"In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it."
"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own."
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the "Titanic" who waved off the dessert cart."
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
"Celebrities are known primarily for their well-knownness. And we imitate them as if they were cast in the mold of greatness."
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
"Psychological courage entails a cleansing of the doors of perception, allowing us to see things as they really are rather than through the distorted lens of the past. The more we are cleansed of expectations, the more we see what is and the more we can respond to it creatively."
"Spiritual hope is more likely to emerge when we let go of will and open ourselves to trust."
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life."
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
"Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now when great fortunes are made by business, business is war."
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
"You can't TRY to do things; you simply MUST do them."
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
"Acting is an outlet for neurotic impulses."
"I beat the army by being declared psychoneurotic. They thought I was crazy. When I filled in their forms, under "Race," I wrote: "Human." Under "Color:" "It varies."
"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."
"The full-grown modern human being... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of a goal pursued."
"When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens."
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own."
"Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted in office."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words."
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""
"Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm."
"My favorite days in life are nothing special, rather those in which I find joy in the ordinary rhythms of my existence, those in which I am simply content with my place... another glass of life, please."
"Never make fun of people who speak broken English. It means they know another language."
"The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously."
"The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy -- and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end."
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
"For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself."
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"
"Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
"Take away love and ur earth is a tomb."
"Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive there's something wrong with him."
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."
"Inside myself is a place where I live alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
"Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'"
"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful."
"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light."
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
"What we think, we become."
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection."
"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."
"If you stop and think about it, you'll realize that three out of four persons do not know exactly what they're doing a large part of the time."
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either."
"The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action."
"Don't stay in bed... unless you can make money in bed."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
"From self alone expect applause."
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."
"Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
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