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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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"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."
"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones."
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite."
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves... We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness."
"The weak can never forgive.
"What you do may not seem important, but it is very important that you do it."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"Things don't turn up in this world unless someone turns them up."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got to say."
"We only part to meet again."
"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."
"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money."
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."
"True music... must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today."
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
"All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors."
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body."
"You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
"I am the taste in the water, the light of the sun and the moon, the sound in the ether, the ability in man, the fragrance of the earth, the heat in the fire, the life of all that lives, the strength of the strong, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the original seed of all existences."
"A true friend never gets in your way except when you happen to be going down."
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
"The key to everything is patience... you get the Chicken by hatching the egg... not smashing it."
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."
"When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them."
"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much."
"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."
"If you see a bandwagon, it's too late."
"The impossible is often the untried."
"Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure that mine doesn't end with a whine."
"I am always prepared to recognize that there can be two points of view - mine, and the one that is probably wrong."
"Loyalty is the one thing a leader cannot do without."
"The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance."
"Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it."
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
"We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring."
"The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations."
"Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim."
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
"Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you're going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today."
"I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man."
"Who knows what he is told, must know a lot of things that are not so."
"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope."
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If you have any quotes you would like to see on this page please e-mail me and I'll post them up. Thanks.
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