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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 could be useful to others. If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorous or 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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"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
"I asked for all things that I might enjoy life, I was given life, that I might enjoy all things."
"Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it."
"What I'd really like to do is make lots and lots of money and just be a writer of comedies and sit at home with a lampshade on my head."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
"Life is the sum of all your choices."
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
"Beyond a certain point great art is best accepted, like miracles, without explanation."
"We are what we believe we are."
"Give me a man who sings at his work."
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you don't take the risk."
"Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? You should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you. And look at your body -- what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel."
"The key to change... is to let go of fear."
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
"To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be themselves."
"Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within."
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury."
"The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win."
"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate."
"A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life."
"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
"I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"Every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it."
"No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness -- or so good as drink."
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world."
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
"Love is just a word until its proven to you..."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn."
"I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter."
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
"Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in "What made you choose this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
"The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."
"To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace."
"The fact that a business is large, efficient, and profitable does not mean it takes advantage of the public."
"The realization that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realize sooner that our own world belongs to all of its creatures, that the moon landing marks the end of our childhood as a race and the beginning of a newer and better civilization."
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill."
"Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
"Life is not life unless you make mistakes."
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much."
"[Experience is] how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other."
"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom known until it be lost."
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories."
"A life without humor is like a life without legs."
"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another."
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions."
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
"Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."
"First things first, second things never."
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there -- that's disgrace."
"It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy, they are unimportant."
"If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth."
"Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies."
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust: Love still stands when all else has fallen."
"To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory."
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls I will write always I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you."
"Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right."
"If you stand in the rain long enough you'll see a rainbow."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see shadows."
"The essence of man is imperfection."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
"No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others."
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
"There is no data on the future."
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