Wisdom of life
| The impossible is often the untried. | -Jim Goodwin |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness that precedes the dawning of the day of success. | |
| Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. | |
| Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. | -Dennis Wholey |
| Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. | -R. I. Fitzhenry |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | -Leo Tolstoy |
| Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. | -Max L. Forman |
| If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. | |
| Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely. | |
| The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. | -Albert Einstein |
| Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. | -Henry J. Kaiser |
| The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. | -Marcel Proust |
| You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. | -Ziggy |
| The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. | -Oscar Wilde |
| We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. | -Abraham Maslow |
| Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. | -William Blake |
| Don't you hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals? | |
| Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return. | -Da Vinci |
| Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth. | -Tennessee Williams |
| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson (Circles) |
| No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. | -Florida Scott-Maxwell |
| When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. | -R. H. Grant |
| Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? | |
| Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. | -Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. | -William Penn |
| Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. | -G.M. Trevelyan |
| Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. | -Ralph Sockman |
| The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. | -Florence Scovel Shinn |
| A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. | -Thomas Szasz |
| Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. | -Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise. | |
| It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. | -Gertrude Stein |
| The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. | -Robert M. Pirsig |
| Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. | |
| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | -Douglas Adams [Last Chance to See] |
| Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? | |
| No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If you judge, investigate. | -Seneca |
| A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. | -Charles Brower |
| You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. | -Mark Twain |
| Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. | -Duke Snider |
| He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. | |
| There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. | |
| My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right. | -Dan Quayle |
| Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog. | -Josh Billings |
| The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. | -Plato |
| I never said it was possible. I only said it was true. | -Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology |
| May you live all the days of your life. | -Jonathan Swift |
| It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed. | |
| The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. | -William Strong |
| We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. | -John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish author |
| The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. | -Stella, Lady Reading |
| What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. | -Samuel Johnson |
| When professors want your opinion, they'll give it to you. | |
| No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. | -Yogi Berra |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. | -Robert L. Stevenson |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. | -Charles Dickens |
| You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. | -Richard Bach |
| There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. | -Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom] |
| Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking. | -H.L. Mencken |
| In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. | -Christopher Morley |
| Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. | -Seneca |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. | -Victor Hugo |
| We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. | |
| This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. | -Western Union internal memo, 1876 |
| Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. | |
| It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed. | |
| Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. | -Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) |
| The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished. | |
| Money often costs too much. | -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. | -Alice Miller |
| If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, you probably aren't on your toes. | -Liguorian |
| If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. | -Bob Edwards |
| Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. | -Whitney M. Young |
| Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you. | |
| Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. | -Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. | -Thomas Jefferson |
| To communicate is the beginning of understanding. | -AT&T |
| Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. | -W. Migner |