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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
The Bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
-Longfellow
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
--"Charlie Brown"
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. -Anonymous
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.... The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
Bloom where you are planted. -Anonymous
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous
Obstacles are Opportunities in Disguise. -Anonymous
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire
Never believe in Never. -Anonymous
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Don't try to become a man of success; rather, be a man of value. -Anonymous
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who is greedy is always in want.
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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
--Goethe
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
--Aristotle
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
--Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789)
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.
--Albert Schweitzer
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
--Heraclitus of Ephesus
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
--Frederick Douglas
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
--Kathe Kollwitz
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
--Frank Leahy
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
--Albert Einstein
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
--The Buddha
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
--Mark Twain
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
--Pamela Vaull Starr
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
--Marcel Proust
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
--George Orwell
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
--Keller
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
--Vince Lombardi
The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.
--Lao-Tzu
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
--William Faulkner
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
--Isaac Watts
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
--Lily Tomlin
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
--Ovid
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
--Albert Einstein
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
--Malcolm S. Forbes
I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
--William Walsh, Song
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
--Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
--Jane Austen
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
--Albert Einstein
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
--Ruth Ross
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
--Marilyn Vos Savant
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
--George Bernard Shaw
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
--Thomas Jefferson
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
--Plato
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
--Voltaire
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
--Ernest Hemingway
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
--George Bernard Shaw
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
--Shakespeare
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
--Socrates
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
--Winston Churchill
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
--Shakespeare
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
--Goethe
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
--Kahlil Gibran
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
---Epicurus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
--Thoreau
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be
necessary to erect a hut.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
--Longfellow
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
--Aristotle
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
--George Patton
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
--Henry M. Robert
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
--Vincent T. Lombardi
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious.
--Jim Morrison
Reputations are created every day and every minute.
--Christopher Ruel
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
--Ovid
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
--Plato, Laws
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
--Greek Proverb
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
--Plato, The Republic
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862)
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
--Albert Einstein
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
--Van Gogh
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
--T. S. Eliot
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
--Nietzsche
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
--Abba Eban
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
--Charles William Stubbs
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
--George Santayana
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmond Burke