Admitting Mistakes
Anger
Cause & Effect
Education
Failure
Friends
Goals
Happiness
Humor
Interacting w/Others
Invalidation
Maturity
Money
Mortality
Motivation
Perspective
Power
Preparation
Positive Thinking
Pushing Yourself
Religion
Respect Yourself
Responding Well
Science
Sex
Society & History
Success
Truth
Work
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson - art historian

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Tyron Edwards

Learn from others' mistakes. We don't have time to make them all ourselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
Gandhi

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese proverb

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Hating people is like burning your own house down to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Always forgive your enemies-- nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R. A. Dickson

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Why should I? When somebody insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for them? - Explaining why he did not hit a motorist after the latter abused him following an accident.
Joe Louis (1914-1981)

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself.
Gustave Flaubert

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht - newspaperman

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Carl Sagan

I like business because it is competitive, because it rewards deeds rather than words. I like business because it compels earnestness and does not permit me to neglect today's task while thinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please, not reform; because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality. I like business because it promptly penalizes mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency, while rewarding well those who give it the best they have in them. Lastly, I like business because each day is a fresh adventure
R. H. Cabell

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanislaus Lezczynski

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Einstein

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.
Mary Kay Blakely

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Gandhi

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live
James Truslow Adams

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
John Burroughs

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln

Failures are divided into two classes----those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others
Unknown

There is a story told of Edison, who made, say, 1,000 unsuccessful attempts before arriving at the light bulb. "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" a reporter asked. "I didn't fail 1,000 times," Edison replied. "The light bulb was an invention with 1,001 steps."

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson Sr. (founder of IBM)

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1893-1979) Canadian Actress

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

Hold your friends close and your enemies even closer

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Unknown

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.
Swedish proverb

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinsoll

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - author

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein - writer

If you reveal your aims, you will never keep them
Richard Nixon

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.
Mychal Wynn

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell - classical guitarist

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
Mabel Newcomber

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
Harold B. Melchart

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Dr. Benjamin Spock

Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness.
Orville Wright

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations.
Victor Borge

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet

Of course I believe in luck. How else to explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty- one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin

Have you read about the evils of drinking? I have, and it led me to give up reading.
Unknown

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen

I think you'd be better off falling in love (than taking a writing class). You'd be better off getting rejected by someone; sidling up to a woman and saying, "How 'bout it baby?", and she saying, "Fuck off". These are valuable experiences.
Frank McCourt

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Jane Caminos - cartoonist

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't.
Robert Benchley

Life is something to do when you can't sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

If you're interested in changing people's hearts and minds, start with people's hearts because otherwise they're not going to care what's on your mind.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Many people believe that support is something that you give to someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that's not the way I see it. Support is the boost you can give someone who can help himself but who needs a partner to open a window or push aside a roadblock.
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's

Good manners are like traffic rules for society.
Michael Levine

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well
Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

To find yourself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate of loneliness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

You grow up the thay you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) Spanish Philosopher

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

There are many things in life that are more important than money. And they all cost money.
Fred Allen

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
Lina Wertmuller

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

Time is at once the most valuable, and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Horace

Play it like you feel it, baby, and live it up, kid. You'll be all right. I've never given up, and never given in. I've lost many times and said on the way down, "You're going to have to kill me." Try to enjoy your life 'cuz this it, baby.
John Mellencamp

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
Persian proverb

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.
Elizabeth Gilbert

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.
Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disasterous.
Margaret Fontey

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde

In order to get discouraged, you have to have some sense of an objective.
Deborah Gordon

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain

A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe, Author

The further back you can look, the father forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill

I am no Einstein.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

The amateur salesperson sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
Stephen R. Covey

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country
Kurt Vonnegut

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet
Persian saying

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

Comedy is when you slip on a banana peel; tragedy is when I slip on a banana peel.
Groucho Marx

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Jean Paul Richter

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today
Rotarian

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring
Dodie Smith

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth - poet

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! For boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!
Johann Goethe

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are seting out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
Chinese proverb

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

Work like you don't need the money
Love like you've never been hurt
Dance like no one's watching

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.
Robert Frost

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate
Stephen Pollard, Journalist

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
Malcolm Forbes

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Robert Wooden

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

Money is a "way of keeping score in life", says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You can do that with a small amount of money...or not do it with a fortune.
Bill Bonner, financial journalist

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Norman Cousins

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

Guard well your spare moments. They are like diamonds. Discard tham and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
Unknown

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
George Beranos

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to care for his tools.
Spanish Proverb

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would advise, Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.
Paul Reiser

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
Tom Morris

"But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
Robert Browning

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
W.J. Slim

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
F.W. Faber

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can - begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W.H. Murray

Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to . . ."
Lao-Tzu

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) American Author

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself
F. Hawes

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook

To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H.L. Hunt

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.
Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Duguet

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear".
Thomas Jefferson

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
Seneca the Younger (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.)

"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."
Howard Stern

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
Einstein

"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men."
Carl Sagan

"When people stop believing in God, the problem is not that thereafter they believe in nothing, it is that thereafter they will believe in anything."
G.K. Chesterton, English essayist and novelist

"Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more."
John Bledsoe

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."

"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense."
Robert A. Heinlein

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

I'd rather be governed by a wise Turk than a stupid Christian
Martin Luther

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli

What is important is not that there are uncontrollable events in our lives, but how we respond to them.
Hyrum W. Smith

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American Journalist

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Tyron Edwards

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
Gloria Steinem

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
Danish proverb

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Terence

It is not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Alice Walker

The most important words that have helped me in life - when things have gone right, or when things have gone wrong - are "Accept responsibility" . . . It's everyone's responsibility to lead, to honor, and to fight for everyone's basic rights, for equality.
Billie Jean King

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle, Historian

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov, Actor

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
Elvis Presley

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and those who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of the truth
Einstein

"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."

"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny."
Carl Sagan

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
Einstein

"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time."
Einstein

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
Donald Knuth

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West

A guy has to work really hard to get laid. All you have to do is to just stand braless in the wind.
From the introduction to "Loose Girl"

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
Mae West

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
short-story writer Katherine Mansfield

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements
Norman Douglas

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson

What the public wants is not passion but the appearance of passion.
Roland Barthes

You can always count on the U.S. to do the right thing - once it has exhausted the alternatives
Winston Churchill

CNN: What do you think of the state of the world today?
George Carlin: It's a big freak show. You gotta just enjoy it. That's my attitude. The human race is destroying itself slowly and it's wonderful to watch. It's being led by America, which has all the money and the power and the guns. We're all given a ticket to the American freak show the day we're born and some people, they put their ticket away. Me, I watch the show.

The Great Society was the woman that I loved, and that bitch of a war took her away from me.
Lyndon Johnson

All of us who were connected with computers lusted after them. To have a computer was better than sex.
Ed Roberts (inventor of the Altair 8800 - 1st PC?)

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow

I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Lincoln (at the end of his First Inagural Address)

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben - humorist

People try nonviolence for a week, and when it does not work, they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.
Theodore Roszak - social critic

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
Charles Darwin

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
Jonathan Winters

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English Scientist

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
Elvis Presley

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Ruth McKenney

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaisr - industrialist

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.
Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor