Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Unknown Quotes about Wisdom, Character, Motivation, Friendship, Politics & God!

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. -Napoleon I

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. HERB COHEN

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -- Aldous Huxley

"You'd be surprised at how much you learn when you look up words you already know."

Knowing a lot of facts is not the same as being smart. Unknown

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. Wayne Dyer

If you live in the past you'll stay there, if you learn from the past you're guaranteed a better future!

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." ~ Babe Ruth

"There is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other" ~ Albert Einstein

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. -Frank Tyger

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." ~ Christopher Morley

"Be bold, brave and not afraid of falling on your face and ultimately you will succeed"-Richard Branson

"Shallow men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause and effect" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ~Wayne Dyer
There are more fools in the world than there are people. -Heinrich Heine

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. Buddha

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer. -Sheila M. Kelly

I love my country too much to be a nationalist. -Albert Camus

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate."

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow..The Truth Will Set You Free: Abe Lincoln

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. -Anatole France

"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it." ~ Robert H.Schuller

"The best thing you can do is get good at being you." ~ Dennis the Menace

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. -John Calhoun

By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness. - Dalai Lama

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. -Andr Malraux

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. -Horace
 Be helpful.When you see a person without a smile, give them yours. Zig Ziglar

"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."~Oscar Wilde
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frankl

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” –L. L’Amour

"The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are." -Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by." ~ Ovid

It is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. -Jeffery F. Chamberlain

It' s not where you take things from , it's where you take them to. - Jean - Luc Godard

If you know you can do something great, don't settle on good.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burk

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." ~ Joseph Conrad

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." ~ Helen Keller

There are a thousand reasons for failure, but no excuses.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere ~Voltaire

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. -Publilius Syrus

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." ~ Napoleon Hill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan

"There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit." ~ Brian Hays

"Never, never, never, never give up." ~ Winston Churchill

If you can dream it,you can do it - Walt Disney

A good reputation is more valuable than money. -Publilius Syrus

"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation." ~Jim Rohn

A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. -William Gibson

If you are going to fail, do it fast and move on to the next thing.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. -George Baker   

 "I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it." Donald Trump

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Buddha

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. - Dale Carnegie

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. -Johann Wolfgang

"Our body is the most sensitive barometer of our inner world." - Sherrill Sellman

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." ~ Anthony J.D'Angelo

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. ~ Anonymous

Never assume, seldom deny, always distinguish. - Unknown

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life. -Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

"Serenity is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us." - Virginia Woolf

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." Dwight Eisenhower

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities." ~ Robert H.Schuller

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“God will forgive me. It's his job.” ~ Heinrich Heine

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. -Walter Cronkite

We are most alive when we're in love. -John Updike

"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it." ~ Brian Hays

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. -Orison Swett Marden

"Elected officials are like diapers, and need to be changed frequently for the same reasons"

"The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty" Benjamin Franklin

“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.” Swami Vivekananda

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore

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