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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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"Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students."
"Some men study so much, the don't have time to know."
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole law; the rest is interpretation."
"When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature."
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
"There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them."
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
"Fortune favours the brave."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"When asked if he had a drinking problem: "Yes, there's never enough.""
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
"It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise."
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
"For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"...if it [the law] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where it should be. Now put the foundations under them."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
"The man who goes alone can start today: but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready..."
"I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick'... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll-'em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
"Not all those who wander are lost."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?"
"If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed."
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
"People ignore what you say. They are only concerned with what you do."
"I never gave them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
"Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward."
"The 'C' students run the world."
"The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not."
"Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced."
"I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better."
"A lie can run around the world six times when the truth is still trying to put on its pants."
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
"Be good and you will be lonesome."
"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid that to open it and remove all doubt."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."
"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."
"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, 'I don't know.'"
"In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"Modesty died when clothes were born."
"My philosophical studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years."
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
"The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense."
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
"The man who doesn't read books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."
"When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all."
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
"You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject, the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it."
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
"On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies."
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
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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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