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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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"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."
"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."
"...You're already not there [University] for very long. The key is to make sure it's the best time you can imagine."
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
"Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
"The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
"Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable: by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times."
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
"I would rather have three minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
"A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill."
"And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others."
"Obstacles are necessary for success... victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
"Take the attitude of a student. Never be to big to ask questions. Never know to much to learn something new."
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
"I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind. It's about time the piano realized it has not written the concerto."
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing."
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!"
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
"The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
"It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it."
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
"Religion... is the opium of the people."
"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time."
"So often your there when I'm lonely,
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
"Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present."
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
"There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change."
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story."
"Leadership is action, not position."
"In my heart I'll always see you everywhere."
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere"
"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either."
"Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose."
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."
"It is important to our friends that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not."
"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do."
"In the fight for survival, a tie or split decision will simply not do."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
"Idealist: One who upon observing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"Lies: It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"Life: Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came."
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
"I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me."
"Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?"
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
"Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage."
"Sure there's no "i" in team, but there is an "m" and an "e"."
"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
"Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do."
"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy."
"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor."
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
"God help those who do not help themselves."
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
"The worst-tempered people I have ever met were people who knew they were wrong."
"When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research"
"The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it."
"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."
"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public; talent in privacy."
"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
"The plural of spouse is spice."
"There's so much to say, but your eyes keep interrupting me."
"The city is a human zoo, not a concrete jungle."
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
"Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake."
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
"In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, be sure to leave room for the mouse."
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass; the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation."
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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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