Quotes and Sayings
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.George Weiss
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.Zig Zigla
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - - A canvas - - A piece of film - - Or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - - That vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.Edward Steichen
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.Albert Einstein
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.Miyamoto Musashi
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.Socrates
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.John M. Richardson, Jr.
How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.Prove
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
The kingdom of God or nothing.John Taylor, former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.Geoffrey F. Albert
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.Lois McMaster Bujold
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.La Bruyere
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.D. A. Battista
Diplomacy: lying in state.Oliver Hereford
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.James Broughton
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.Samuel Butler, In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler: A Memoi
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.George Bernard Shaw
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.George Bernard Shaw
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.Anouk Aimee
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.Dominique de Menil
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream.Brendan Francis
Die, but do not retreat.Joseph Stalin
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.La Rochefoucauld
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.Napoleon Bonaparte
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
