Famous Quotes By Josh Billings

 

1. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
2. A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
3. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
4. As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
5. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
6. Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
7. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
8. Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
9. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
10. I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
11. I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
12. If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
13. If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
14. It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
15. It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
16. Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
17. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
18. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
19. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
20. Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
21. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
22. Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
23. Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
24. Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
25. One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
26. One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
27. The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
28. The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
29. The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
30. The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
31. The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
32. The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
33. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
34. There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
35. There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
36. There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
37. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
38. There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
39. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
40. There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
41. Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
42. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
43. Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Famous Quotes By Daisaku Ikeda

 

1. A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
2. A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
3. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
4. A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
5. Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
6. Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
7. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
8. I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
9. I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
10. In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
11. It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
12. Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
13. Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
14. Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
15. Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
16. No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
17. No one should be left to suffer alone.
18. Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
19. Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
20. The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
21. The gratification of desire is not happiness.
22. The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
23. There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
24. To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
25. Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
26. We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
27. When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
28. When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
29. Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
30. With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Famous Quotes By Virginia Woolf

 

1. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
2. Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
3. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
4. For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
5. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
6. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
7. I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
8. If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
9. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
10. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
11. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
12. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
13. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
14. It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
15. Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
16. Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
17. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
18. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
19. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
20. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
21. Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
22. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
23. Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
24. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
25. The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
26. The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
27. The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
28. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
29. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
30. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
31. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
32. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
33. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
34. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
35. We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
36. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
37. Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
38. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
39. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
40. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
41. You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Famous Quotes By Oprah Winfrey

 

1. As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
2. Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
3. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
4. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
5. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
6. Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
7. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
8. I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
9. I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
10. I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
11. I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
12. I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
13. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
14. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
15. It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
16. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
17. My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
18. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
19. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
20. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
21. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
22. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
23. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
24. The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
25. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
26. Turn your wounds into wisdom.
27. Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
28. What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
29. What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
30. What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
31. When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
32. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
33. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Famous Quotes By Aung San Suu Kyi

 

1. A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.
2. At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
3. Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
4. Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
5. Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
6. For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
7. Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
8. Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
9. History is always changing.
10. Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
11. Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing,
12. Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
13. I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
14. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
15. I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
16. I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
17. I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
18. I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
19. I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
20. I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
21. If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
22. If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
23. If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
24. In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
25. In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
26. In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
27. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
28. Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
29. My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.
30. Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
31. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
32. One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
33. Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
34. Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
35. The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
36. The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
37. The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
38. The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
39. War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
40. What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

Famous Quotes By Jim Rohn

 

1. A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
2. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
3. Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
4. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
5. Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
6. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
7. Either you run the day or the day runs you.
8. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
9. Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
10. Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.
11. Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
12. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
13. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
14. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
15. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
16. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
17. If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
18. Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
19. Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
20. Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
21. Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
22. Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
23. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
24. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
25. Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
26. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
27. Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
28. Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
29. Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
30. Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
31. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
32. The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
33. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
34. Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
35. Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
36. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
37. Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
38. Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
39. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
40. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
41. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Fuller

 

1. A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
2. A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
3. A good garden may have some weeds.
4. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
5. Abused patience turns to fury.
6. All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
7. All things are difficult before they are easy.
8. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
9. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
10. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
11. Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
12. Better be alone than in bad company.
13. Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
14. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
15. Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
16. Despair gives courage to a coward.
17. Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
18. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
19. Great hopes make great men.
20. Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
21. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
22. He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
23. He that hopes no good fears no ill.
24. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
25. If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
26. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
27. If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
28. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
29. If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
30. In fair weather prepare for foul.
31. It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
32. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
33. Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
34. Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
35. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
36. One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
37. Scalded cats fear even cold water.
38. The more wit the less courage.
39. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
40. There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
41. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
42. Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
43. 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
44. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
45. Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
46. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
47. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Famous Quotes By Napoleon Hill

 

1. Action is the real measure of intelligence.
2. All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
3. Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
4. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
5. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
6. Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
7. Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
8. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
9. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
10. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
11. Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
12. First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
13. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
14. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
15. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
16. It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
17. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
18. It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
19. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
20. Money without brains is always dangerous.
21. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
22. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
23. Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
24. No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
25. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
26. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
27. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
28. The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
29. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
30. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
31. The starting point of all achievement is desire.
32. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
33. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
34. War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
35. We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
36. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
37. You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Famous Quotes By Jon Meacham

 

1. A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
2. A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
3. A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
4. An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
5. As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
6. Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
7. Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
8. Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.
9. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
10. Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
11. The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
12. The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
13. The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
14. The government invented the Internet.
15. The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
16. The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
17. The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
18. The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
19. Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
20. World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Famous Quotes By William Blake

 

1. A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
2. Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
3. Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
4. Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
5. Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
6. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
7. Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
8. Exuberance is beauty.
9. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
10. Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
11. He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
12. He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
13. I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
14. Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
15. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
16. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
17. It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
18. Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
19. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
20. Opposition is true friendship.
21. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
22. Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
23. That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
24. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
25. The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
26. The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
27. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
28. The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
29. The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
30. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
31. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
32. The true method of knowledge is experiment.
33. The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
34. Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
35. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
36. Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
37. What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
38. What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
39. When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
40. Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Famous Quotes By Maya Angelou

 

1. All great achievements require time.
2. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
3. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
4. As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
5. At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
6. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
7. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
8. For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
9. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
10. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
11. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
12. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
13. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
14. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
15. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
16. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.
17. Life loves the liver of it.
18. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
19. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
20. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
21. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
22. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
23. My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
24. My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
25. Nothing will work unless you do.
26. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
27. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
28. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
29. The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
30. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
31. The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
32. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
33. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
34. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
35. We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
36. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
37. While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
38. While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Famous Quotes By Hugh Jackman

 

1. Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
2. As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
3. As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
4. Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
5. By nature I'm not a brooder.
6. I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
7. I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.
8. I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
9. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
10. I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
11. I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
12. I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
13. I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
14. I would love to have a robot at home.
15. If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
16. I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
17. I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
18. I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'
19. I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
20. I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
21. My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
22. My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.
23. My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.
24. My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
25. Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
26. That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
27. The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
28. The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
29. To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
30. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!
31. When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
32. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Famous Quotes By Sophocles

 

1. A man growing old becomes a child again.
2. A short saying often contains much wisdom.
3. A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
4. All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
5. Always desire to learn something useful.
6. Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
7. Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
8. Evil gains work their punishment.
9. For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
10. For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
11. Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
12. God's dice always have a lucky roll.
13. Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
14. How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
15. If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
16. Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
17. It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
18. It is best to live however one can be.
19. It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
20. Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
21. Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
22. Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
23. Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
24. No lie ever reaches old age.
25. No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
26. Not even old age knows how to love death.
27. Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
28. Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
29. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
30. Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
31. Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
32. Silence is an ornament for women.
33. Success is dependent on effort.
34. The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
35. The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
36. There is no success without hardship.
37. Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
38. Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
39. To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
40. To him who is in fear everything rustles.
41. Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
42. War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
43. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
44. Who seeks shall find.
45. Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
46. Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
47. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
48. Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
49. You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Famous Quotes By Buddha

 

1. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
2. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
3. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
4. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
5. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
6. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.
7. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
8. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
9. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
10. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
11. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
12. It is better to travel well than to arrive.
13. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
14. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
15. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
16. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
17. The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
18. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
19. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting.
20. There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
21. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
22. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
23. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
24. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
25. To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
26. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
27. Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
28. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
29. When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
30. Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
31. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
32. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
33. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Famous Quotes By Jeff Bridges

 

1. A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
2. Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
3. Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
4. Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
5. I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
6. I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
7. I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
8. I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
9. I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
10. I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
11. I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
12. I love marriage.
13. I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
14. I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
15. I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
16. If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
17. I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
18. I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
19. In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
20. It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
21. Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
22. Movies are like magic tricks.
23. Movies are very subjective.
24. My mom wasn't a movie star.
25. My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
26. Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
27. Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
28. One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
29. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
30. Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
31. That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
32. Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.
33. Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
34. Well, I'm not a big sports fan.
35. When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
36. When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
37. Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
38. Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
39. Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
40. You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.