One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety. | Deepak Chopra |
Underpromise; overdeliver. | Tom Peters |
To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love. This is very simple and is a part of all the world’s inspired teachings. | Hugh Prather |
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. | Anita Roddick |
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. | Wayne Dyer |
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. | Orson Welles |
Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it. | Barry Rogstad |
Action conquers fear. | Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. | William Penn |
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. | Bertrand Russell |
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. | |
Everyone who got to where he is had to begin where he was. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property. | Gautama Buddha |
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do. | Kathleen Winsor |
You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. | Paramahansa Yogananda |
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. | |
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. | G. E. Lessing |
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin. | W. Clement Stone |
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. | Lee Iacocca |
Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances. | |
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. | Brendan Francis |
You get what you focus on. | David Justus |
You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself, because you never know when the World will need you. | Rabbi Hillel |
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. | Norman Vincent Peale |
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. | William James |
The greatest definition for concentration I ever heard is: wherever you are, be there! | |
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success. | Michael Jordan |
It is not length of life, but depth of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t. | Melody Beattie |
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. | Victoria Holt |
The best way to say, ‘I love you, God,’ is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, ‘Thank you, God,’ is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. | Don Miguel Ruiz |
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Organize your life around your dreams – and watch them come true. | |
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. | Charles D. Gill |
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. | Earl Nightingale |
While we are postponing, life speeds by. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. | Stephen Vincent Benet |
Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go. | Anonymous |
The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. | Blaine Lee |
Something almost magical happens when people break through the obstacles that hold them back and discover what is truly inside them. | Brian Biro |
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. | Abraham Lincoln |
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. | |
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. | |
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. | Norman Vincent Peale |
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. | Les Brown |
The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of the seed. | Robert Collier |
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. | Bernard Meltzer |
Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. | Bob Proctor |
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. | Thomas Edison |
People fail forward to success. | Mary Kay Ash |
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. | Deepak Chopra |
Most smiles are started by another smile. | Anon |
The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness. | Paulo Coelho |
Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. | Les Brown |
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose, though not always what I pleased. | Lois McMaster Bujold |
It is not good enough for things to be planned – they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. | Pir Vilayat Khan |
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. | Comte de Buffon |
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. | Napoleon Hill |
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. | Louis L’Amour |
How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%. | Vic Conant |
Change your thoughts and you change your world. | Norman Vincent Peale |
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open up a window and look out to see who’s there. | Jalal ad-Din Rumi |
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. | Anne-Sophie Swetchine |
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. | Robert Heinlein |
It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. | Al Franken |
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. | Hugh Macleod |
Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. | Thomas Jefferson |
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. | Samuel Goldwyn |
The question for each of us is not what we would do if we had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have. | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. | Jean Houston |
The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. | |
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. | Claude M. |
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. | Joseph Campbell |
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. | Sarah Bernhardt |
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. | William Shakespeare |
Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip. | Zig Ziglar |
The greatest things on earth have been done little by little. | Thomas Guthrie |
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems. | Gandhi |
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. | Lucille Ball |
Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do. | David Wilkerson |
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. | Anais Nin |
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. | Denis Waitley |
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. | Henry Miller |
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. | Oprah Winfrey |
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. | Pablo Picasso |
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy |
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. | Dale Carnegie |
You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. | Scott Sorrell |
It’s not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about? | Henry David Thoreau |
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other…. The whole purpose of life is to live by love. | Thomas Merton |
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. | Abigail Adams |
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. | Welsh proverb |
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. | Mary Tyler Moore |
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. | William O. Douglas |
Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power”. | Peter McWilliams |
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. | Marvin Gaye |
The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you’re wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. | Derek Jeter |
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. | John Schaar |
You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality. | Ramtha |
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. | Jim Rohn |
The amount of love you show to your neighbor reflects how much you love yourself. | Tessy Igbinoghene |
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness That makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. | Albert Clarke |
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. | Barbara DeAngelis |
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. | Michael Jordan |
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. | Jerry Rice |
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. | Patricia Neal |
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. | Voltaire |
The one thing that matters is the effort. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. | Edward Everett Hale |
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! | Richard Exely |
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | George Bernard Shaw |
It’s not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it’s what you convince yourself is true. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Whatever you believe with emotions becomes your reality.You always act in a manner consistent with your intermost beliefs and convictions. | Brian Tracy |
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. | Lee Iacocca |
What you must dare is to be yourself. | Dag Hammarskjold |
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings. | Oprah Winfrey |
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the art of peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. | Morihei Ueshiba |
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. | Ben Stein |
The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace “if I can, I hope, maybe” with “I can, I will, I must”. | Mary Kay Ash |
We have not been called to change this crazy world. We are called simply to love it. | Maithri Goonetilleke |
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. | Anwar el-Sadat |
Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. | Harvey Mackay |
The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities. | Stephen Covey |
We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. | James R. Ball |
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. | Belva Davis |
Never let yesterday use up today. | Richard H. Nelson |
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. | Oprah Winfrey |
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. | Bertrand Russell |
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. | Leonardo da Vinci |
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 |
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days. | Lance Armstrong |
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is impossible not to feel good about yourself if you make someone smile. | Enzo D’Alimonte |
Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. | William Dempster Hoard |
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. | Denis Waitley |
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. | J. K. Rowling |
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. | Zig Ziglar |
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it. | Dianne Houston |
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. | Edmund Hillary |
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. | Denis Waitley |
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. | John Foster Dulles |
Put your future in good hands – your own. | Mark Victor Hansen |
Who begins too much accomplishes little. | German Proverb |
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. | Wayne Dyer |
Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. | Anonymous |
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. | Dale Carnegie |
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. | Bernard Meltzer |
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. | Ayn Rand |
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. | Denis Waitley |
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. | Oprah Winfrey |
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 |
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. | Oprah Winfrey |
Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least. | Charley Willey |
All of us are gifted; some just open our packages earlier than others. | |
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. | Ben Franklin |
My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. | Miles Davis |
The little things are infinitely the most important. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. | Margaret Bonnano |
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace. | Ernie Banks |
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. | Sydney Smiles |
Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. | Willis Whitney |
In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. | Max Dupree |
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. | Helen Keller |
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. | Maya Angelou |
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. | W. Somerset Maugham |
A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. | George S. Patton |
For every minute of anger, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo Buscaglia |
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. | Pamela Vaull Starr |
There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood. | Deepak Chopra |
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. | Brian Tracy |
How can I be more like you? She asked the guru. And the guru answered: The best way to be more like me is to be more like you. | Alan Cohen |
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. | Arnold Bennett |
The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it. | Neale Donald Walsch |
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. | Ken Keyes Jr. |
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. | Brian Tracy |
All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow | Anonymous |
Growth is the only evidence of life. | John Henry Newman |
The day you stop crying on your misfortune is the day you will be free. | Joel Chow |
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. | Kimon Nicolaides |
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’ | E. M. Kelly |
Don’t expect. Encourage. | Paul B. Taubman, II |
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. | J. Donald Walters |
Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. | Jamie Winship |
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. | Coleman Hawkins |
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in. | Morrie Schwartz |
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill |
Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are. | Kurt Cobain |
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. | Kurt Lewin |
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. | Arthur C. Clarke |
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller |
Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. | Benjamin Disraeli |
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. | Walter Hagen |
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. | John D. Rockefeller |
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome. | William James |
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. | Thomas Guthrie |
Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. | Napoleon Hill |
If you want to have what you have not, you must do what you do not. | Taro Gold |
It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. | Anthony Robbins |
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future remains. | Dr. Robert H. Goddard |
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. | Abraham Lincoln |
Forget concepts and philosophies. Forget methods and disciplines. Simply be yourself. Live, love, that is enough. | Sharma |
One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser. | Jossie Estrella |
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. | Desiderius Erasmus |
The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked. | Swami Beyondananda |
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else. | Arnold Bennett |
Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don’t you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied. | Sri Chinmoy |
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. | Brian Tracy |
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. | Arthur Rubinstein |
In school you get the lesson and then take the test. In life you take the test and then get the lesson. | |
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO LIST every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. | Jean de La Fontaine |
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. | Sarah Caldwell |
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. | Aristotle |
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. | Frederico Fellini |
Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself. | Harvey Fierstein |
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. | Wendell Phillips |
I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It’s when you are not scared of losing that you win everything. | Shailendra Singh |
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. | William Faulkner |
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. | Soren Kierkegaard |
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. | Katharine Hepburn |
People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound. | James Allen |
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. | Mark Twain |
The beginning is always today. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. | Babe Ruth |
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. | Napoleon Hill |
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. | Arthur Ashe |
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. | Toni Cade Bambera |
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. | Evan Esar |
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. | William James |
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. | Erica Jong |
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. | Ruby Dee |
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. | Sidney J. Harris |
The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting. | Walt Disney |
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. | Stan Smith |
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. | William Ralph |
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. | Greg Werner |
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. | Lucille Ball |
I used to say, ‘I sure hope things will change.’ Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. | Jim Rohn |
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. | Charles Caleb Colton |
To reach our goal, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others… but to get ahead of ourselves. | Thomas L. Monson |
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. | Carl Rogers |
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. | Maya Angelou |
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. | Donald H. Rumsfeld |
Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work. | Win Borden |
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. | Samuel Johnson |
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. | Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. | Dorothea Brande |
God bless the whole world. No exceptions. | |
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. | Andy Warhol |
When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more work. | George Bernard |
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. | Liberace |
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. | Christopher Parker |
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. | Oprah Winfrey |
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. | Longfellow |
What you believe yourself to be, you are. | Claude M. Bristol |
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. | Author Unknown |
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | Colin Powell |
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. | Vince Lombardi |
Do not judge and you will never be mistaken. | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. | Ayn Rand |
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. | Dame Rose Macaulay |
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. | Oprah Winfrey |
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
The secret of happiness is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. | Author Unknown |
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. | John B. Gough |
If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. | Gary Zukav |
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad. | Christina Rossetti |
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. | Og Mandino |
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. | Lewis Carroll |
Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, laugh; whenever you have an opportunity to dance, dance; whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing – and one day you will find you have created your paradise. | Osho |
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar |
Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else? | Budd Schulberg |
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. | Danny Kaye |
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. | Hugh White |
If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. | Barbara Cook |
Little by little, one travels far. | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | Joseph Addison |
Time is not a line, but a series of now points. | Taisen Deshimaru |
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. | Mildred Barthel |
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself. | Oprah Winfrey |
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours. | Cynthia Kersey |
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. | E. Merrill Root |
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. | Frank Wilczek |
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. | Wally ‘Famous’ Amos |
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. | Winston Churchill |
It is not enough to aim; you must hit. | Italian Proverb |
Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success; both theirs and yours. | T. Harv Eker |
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. | Elinor Smith |
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. | Annie Lennox |
Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job. | Marty Brounstein |
Life is always walking up to us and saying, ‘Come on in, the living’s fine,’ and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. | Russell Baker |
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | J. Paul Getty |
This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. | Bette Davis |
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. | Conrad Hilton |
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. | Michael Altshuler |
Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world. | Remez Sasson |
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. | Louise Hay |
True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway. | Author Unknown |
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. | Boris Pasternak |
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. | Tallulah Bankhead |
Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. | Betty Eadie |
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. | Theodore Rubin |
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. | Eddie Cantor |
The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. | John Ruskin |
The way we see the problem is the problem. | Stephen Covey |
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. | Brian Tracy |
In all things it is better to hope than to despair. | Johann W. von Goethe |
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. | Rebecca Beard |
Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities, will override fear almost every time. The only thing we are afraid of is what we are capable of accomplishing. | Rich DiGirolamo |
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. | Vincent Van Gogh |
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. | Albert Ellis |
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. | Mary Kay Ash |
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. | Joel Hawes |
To be successful in life, gravitate towards the standard of excellence, not the standard of acceptance. | Enzo D’Alimonte |
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
You’re alive. Do something. Look. Listen. Choose. Act. | Barbara Hall |
Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened. | Proverb |
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. | Germaine Greer |
Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s about the choices you’ve just made, and the ones you’re about to make, it’s about the things you choose to say – today. | Mike Dooley |
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. | Wayne Dyer |
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. | Neale Donald Walsch |
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. | Albert Einstein |
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important. | Stephen Covey |
Look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature. It’s yours for the asking. | Earl Nightingale |
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. | Johann W. von Goethe |
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. | Sir William Osler |
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. | Ronald Reagan |
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective. | George C. Marshall |
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. | Brendan Francis |
I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. | Booker T. Washington |
There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them. | Laura Preble |
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly. | Shakti Gawain |
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. | Mike Murdock |
It is in giving that we receive. | St. Francis of Assisi |
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. | Thomas Jefferson |
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. | William James |
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! | Bob Newhart |
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others. | William Arthur Ward |
When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you. | Lao Tzu |
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. | Robert H. Schuller |
Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. | Vincent Van Gogh |
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. | Dale Carnegie |
Happiness depends upon ourselves. | Aristotle |
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
My actions are my only true belongings. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
It may not be your fault for being down, but it’s got to be your fault for not getting up. | Steve Davis |
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. | James Allen |
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. | |
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. | Robert Frost |
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. | Christophe |
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. | David Starr Jordan |
You create your opportunities by asking for them. | Patty Hansen |
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. | Galileo |
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. | Walter Savage Landor |
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce |
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. | Sren Kierkegaard |
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | Herbert Kaufman |
Never spend your money before you have earned it. | Thomas Jefferson |
The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation. | Andrew Schneider |
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. | Margaret Mead |
Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. | Viktor Frankl |
Travelers: there is no path. Paths are made by walking. | Antonio Machado |
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? | Oprah |
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. | Eric Hoffer |
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. | Lee Iacocca |
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. | William Arthur Ward |
Eliminate the time between the idea and the act. | Dr. Edward Kramer |
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. | Lao Tzu |
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. | Bernice Johnson Reagon |
Positive thoughts have power to change your life when they’re fueled by positive emotions. | Peggy McColl |
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. | Herman Cain |
We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. | Everett Mamor |
The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. | Dr. Leo Buscaglia |
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. | Sir J. Lubbock |
Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. | Diego Marchi |
Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success. | Louisa May Alcott |
If you become a learner you will encounter the greatest teachers. | Steve Stimson |
Of course, anger can always be justified. But then, so can forgiveness. It all depends on how much more you want from the adventure. | Mike Dooley |
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker T. Washington |
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. | Shimon Peres |
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. | Tony Robbins |
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. | Elbert Hubbard |
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence. | Buddha |
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. | Brenda Ueland |
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. | Tom Morris |
Hilary Hinton Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
Dreams grow if you grow. |
Stop selling. Start helping. |
Make today worth remembering. |
Goals don’t care who has them. |
When you make a promise, keep it. |
Only men of character are trusted. |
If you want to earn more, learn more. |
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. |
He climbs highest who helps another up. |
A goal properly set is halfway reached. |
Every choice you make has an end result. |
Take time to be kind and to say thank you. |
Getting up and moving forward is a choice. |
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. |
Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’ |
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. |
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. |
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. |
If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time. |
A plan is always successful if the plan is good. |
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. |
Success comes when opportunity meets preparation. |
The way you see people is the way you treat them. |
There is little you can learn from doing nothing. |
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. |
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. |
Success is dependent upon the glands — sweat glands. |
I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself. |
Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands. |
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day. |
The right quote can inspire people to change their ways. |
Where you start is not as important as where you finish. |
Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count. |
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too. |
Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable. |
Success must never be measured by how much money you have. |
Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead! |
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. |
Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude. |
You are the most influential person you will talk to all day. |
Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it. |
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly. |
You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have. |
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. |
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. |
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. |
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. |
The world’s most deadly disease is a hardening of the attitudes. |
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. |
We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending. |
Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. |
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours. |
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference. |
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? |
It is your attitude, not your aptitude that determines your altitude. |
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. |
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. |
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist. |
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. |
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born. |
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there. |
The greatest cause of a poor image is the absence of unconditional love. |
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. |
Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. |
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. |
Outstanding people have one thing in the common absolute sense of mission. |
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. |
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. |
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. |
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you. |
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in! |
The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. |
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. |
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur. |
How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past. |
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success. |
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. |
Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. |
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. |
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. |
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. |
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. |
Don’t let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future. |
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. |
Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible! |
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. |
You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific. |
Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude. |
You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. |
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. |
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for. |
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have. |
When you do more than you’ve paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do. |
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little. |
Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past. |
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do. |
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. |
Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance. |
You can start where you are with what you’ve got and gone to wherever it is you want to go. |
The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job. |
Quote | Author |
Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. | Sam Walton |
Stocks don’t just move, they are moved. | Jeff Cooper |
A winning strategy must include losing. | Rich Dad |
Know what you own, and know why you own it. | Peter Lynch |
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. | Ingvar Kamprad |
If you personalize losses, you can’t trade. | Bruce Kovner |
All you need is one pattern to make a living. | Linda Raschke |
Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. | Jim Rohn |
Everyday I assume every position I have is wrong. | Paul Tudor Jones |
Not cheap without reason, nor dear without value. | Unknown |
It costs $0.00 to wait for a good trading signal. | Steve Burns |
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | Benjamin Franklin |
Never make forecasts, especially about the future. | Samuel Goldwyn |
It’s time, not timing, that makes money in the market. | Unknown |
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. | Robert Arnott |
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. | Henry David Thoreau |
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Prepare for bad times and you will only know good times. | Robert Kiyosaki |
Take your profits or someone else will take them for you. | J.J. Evans |
Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered. | Unknown |
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. | Jack Welch |
I’ve never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale. | John Neff |
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | Benjamin Graham |
In trading everything works sometimes and nothing works always. | Unknown |
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. | John Maynard Keynes |
Trees don’t grow to the sky, and markets don’t fall to the floor. | Prem Watsa |
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. | John Maynard Keynes |
I am the trader I am today because of the trades I made yesterday. | Unknown |
A trader must know himself and provide against his own weaknesses. | Unknown |
In trading the impossible happens about twice a year. | Henri M Simoes |
Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday. | Larry Summers |
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. | John D Rockefeller |
Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse. | W. D. Gann |
The four most dangerous words in investing: ‘this time it’s different.’ | Sir John Templeton |
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. | Unknown |
A sensible trader never risks more than 2% of his equity on any one trade. | Alexander Elder |
A stock broker is one who invests other people’s money until its all gone. | Woody Allen |
There is nothing riskier than the widespread perception that there is no risk. | Howard Marks |
A lot of people get so enmeshed in the markets that they lose their perspective. | Martin Schwartz |
The fastest way to lose your whole trading account is to try to quickly double it. | Steve Burns |
An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination. | Ralph Seger |
Of all speculative blunders there are few worse than trying to average a losing game. | Jesse Livermore |
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. | Benjamin Graham |
If you can’t take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses. | Ed Seykota |
The best traders have no ego. You have to swallow your pride and get out of the losses. | Tom Baldwin |
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less. | Joel Greenblatt |
A portfolio that goes down 50 percent and comes back 50 percent is still down 25 percent. | Unknown |
Accepting losses is the most important single investment device to insure safety of capital. | Gerald M. Loeb |
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. | Benjamin Graham |
Pros will reenter a trade after it gets stopped out if the trade sets up again. Amateurs give up. | Dan de Joya |
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, is an American singer, guitarist, record producer and actress.
Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hit song “Cherry Bomb”. With The Blackhearts, Jett is known for her rendition of the song “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” which was number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982.
Jett’s other notable songs include “Bad Reputation”, “Light of Day”, “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and her covers of “Crimson and Clover”, “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)” and “Dirty Deeds”.
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Rock ‘n’ roll music is what gets me off. |
People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do. |
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. |
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it’s great that now, 25 years later, we’re not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That’s really exciting for us. |
You know I don’t care if the world thinks I’m smart or not. |
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there’s no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that’s not the goal, then I don’t want to do it. |
So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I’ve been there. I know what the press would do. |
We always play clubs. It’s not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they’re intimate, they’re tight, their sweaty, they’re hot. You’re close to the people. Those are my favorites. |
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. |
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out. |
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be. |
You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. |
You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands. |
I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure. |
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn’t play rock ‘n’ roll. |
Why there aren’t people out there willing to have fun playing rock ‘n’ roll. I just don’t get it. |
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time. |
I’ve been doing this stuff for so long it’s the one aspect of my life that I’ve paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it. |
I’m having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It’s good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe. |
I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. |
I wouldn’t say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul. |
I feel like it’s my job to carry the torch. |
I don’t know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn’t seem to be any rock ‘n’ roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It’s even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see. |
Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up that’s all. |
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. |
I’d like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much. |
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren’t able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. |
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it’s catchy, and you’ve got a little bit of help, I think that’s all you need. But there hasn’t been that in music. |
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women’s rules. |
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I’m mean and I’m not. People expect me to have fangs. |
I think what I’m going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock ‘n’ roll and do what I like to do in music. |
I love to engage with people who come to see us. |
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. |
I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically. |
I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans. |
I think there’s nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock ‘n’ roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. |
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook. |
I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. |
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know. |
William Martin Joel is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the “Piano Man” after his signature song of the same name,he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 pop and rock studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album of classical compositions in 2001.
He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. |
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. |
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. |
It’s really hard to make a living as a musician. It’s almost impossible. |
It feels great to have a #1 album. |
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job. |
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. |
My songs are like my kids. |
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. |
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? |
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. |
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want. |
The good ole days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems. |
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. |
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. |
I’ve crashed my car three times. |
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn’t try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are. |
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. |
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. |
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. |
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. |
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. |
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. |
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money. |
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own. |
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. |
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. |
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. |
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women. |
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. |
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. |
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. |
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. |
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. |
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. |
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music. |
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. |
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter. |
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who’d banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. |
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld. |
I’m a history nut. |
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? |
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. |
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. |
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans. |
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun. |
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. |
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from. |
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking. |
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. |
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. |
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring. |
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. |
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the “King of Pop”, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture.
Jackson influenced artists across many music genres; through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated dance moves such as the moonwalk, to which he gave the name, as well as the robot. He is the most awarded recording artist in pop music history
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I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. |
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I’m crazy about her. |
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. |
I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. |
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him. |
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater. |
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. |
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. |
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. |
I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily. |
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. |
I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am. |
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. |
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. |
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK? |
I just wish I could understand my father. |
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work. |
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. |
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. |
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. |
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to. |
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. |
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I’d hide my face in the dark, I wouldn’t want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. |
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice. |
When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see. |
Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep. |
Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her. |
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting. |
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. |
I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am. |
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. |
You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town. |
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. |
People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell. |
My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. |
Me and Janet really are two different people. |
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. |
Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel. |
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. |
Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do. |
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. |
Well, you don’t get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn’t have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends. |
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy.
He has become known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. |
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. |
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. |
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. |
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. |
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. |
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. |
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. |
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. |
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! |
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. |
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. |
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. |
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. |
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. |
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. |
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards. |
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. |
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. |
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. |
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. |
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. |
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite. |
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. |
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment… not authority. |
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. |
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. |
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. |
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. |
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. |
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. |
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. |
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. |
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. |
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. |
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. |
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. |
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. |
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. |
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ‘agnostic’. |
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. |
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. |
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. |
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? |
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. |
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. |
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. |
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. |
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. |
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. |
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. |
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. |
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. |
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. |
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. |
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. |
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. |
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right. |
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. |
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. |
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. |
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. |
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. |
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. |
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. |
Misery is a match that never goes out. |
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. |
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. |
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. |
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Author |
Don’t think, just do. | Horace |
Wake up. Kick ass. Repeat. | |
Never, never, never give up. | Winston Churchill |
You are gold, baby. Solid gold. | |
Never complain and never explain. | Benjamin Disraeli |
You are capable of amazing things. | |
You only fail when you stop trying. | |
The best revenge is massive success. | Frank Sinatra |
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. | Aristotle |
You can make yourself better everyday. | |
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. | Alfred A. Montapert |
Either you run the day or the day runs you. | Jim Rohn |
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. | H. G. Wells |
It always seems impossible until it is done. | Nelson Mandela |
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. | Amelia Earhart |
You get what you focus on, so focus on what you want. | |
There’s something in you that the world needs. | |
Believe in yourself and you’ll be unstoppable. | |
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
You are amazing, you are brave, you are strong. | |
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. | |
I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past. | |
A little progress everyday adds up to big results. | |
Train yourself to find the blessing in everything. | |
Hey, little fighter, soon things will be brighter. | |
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. | Babe Ruth |
Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value. | Albert Einstein |
I know it has been tough but I still cheering for you. | |
Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can! | |
The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still. | |
Take a deep breath, it’s just a bad day not a bad life. | |
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. | Thomas Paine |
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. | Bo Jackson |
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. | Nikos Kazantzakis |
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. | Arthur Ashe |
Hold on to what is good, even if it’s a handful of earth. | Hopi prayer |
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. | Theodore Roosevelt |
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. | Maya Angelou |
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. | Victor Kiam |
You have that in you and you know it. Follow that instinct. | |
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. | Charles R. Swindoll |
Everything you need to accomplish your goals is already in you. | |
It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. | |
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. | |
God knew your life would come to this and he has a plan for you. | |
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. | Og Mandino |
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. | John W. Gardner |
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. | |
I’m so proud of you. I just wanted to tell you in case no one has. | |
One day this plan will make sense to you. |
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books,[5][6] including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy, which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception, which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline.
In his most famous novel Brave New World and his final novel Island, he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. |
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. |
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. |
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. |
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. |
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. |
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. |
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. |
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. |
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. |
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. |
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? |
It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. |
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. |
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. |
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. |
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. |
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. |
Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. |
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. |
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. |
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. |
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. |
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. |
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. |
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. |
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’ |
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. |
Every man’s memory is his private literature. |
Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. |
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. |
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. |
Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. |
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. |
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. |
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. |
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. |
Dream in a pragmatic way. |
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. |
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. |
Experience teaches only the teachable. |
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. |
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. |
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. |
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. |
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. |
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness. |
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. |
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. |
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. |
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul. |
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. |
A child-like 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. |
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. |
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. |
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. |
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. |
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. |
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex. |
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. |
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. |
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. |
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. |
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. |
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. |
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. |
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. |
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. |
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. |
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. |
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. |
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. |
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. |
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. |
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. |
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. |
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. |
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. |
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. |
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. |
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. |
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. |
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. |
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. |
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. |
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. |
The proper study of mankind is books. |
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. |
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. |
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. |
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. |
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. |
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous. |
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. |
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. |
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. |
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. |