Quote |
Author |
If you don’t believe then who will? | Unknown |
As we run, we become. | Amby Burfoot |
Today I will run for pure, absolute, joy | Unknown |
Make each day your masterpiece. | John Wooden |
A runner is real when she takes the first step. | Unknown |
Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run. | Jumbo Elliot |
There is an itch in runners. | Arnold Hano |
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. | Haruki Murakami |
The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. | Bill Squires |
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. | Jimmy Buffett |
I always thought of running as just dancing forward. | Tom Hiddleston |
Get going… Walk if you have to, but finish the damned race. | Ron Hill |
It’s not so much that I began to run, but that I continued. | Hal Higdon |
It’s supposed to be hard… The hard is what makes it great | Unknown |
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. | Emil Zatopek |
Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion. | Gail W. Kislevitz |
Running is real and relatively simple. But it ain’t easy. | Mark Will-Weber |
If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. | Unknown |
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. | Julie Isphording |
Runners don’t do drugs, they make their own … naturally. | E. Neil Culbertson |
Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there I promise. | Zoe Koplowitz |
You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them. | Michael Jordan |
I’m not as fast or flexible as I once was, but running keeps me young. | Nicole DeBoom |
The biggest mistake an athlete can make is to be afraid of making one. | L. Ron Hubbard |
It’s time to keep enjoying the best day in running history. | Amby Burfoot |
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. | Jules Rendard |
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. | Kathrine Switzer |
Part of a runner’s training consists of pushing back the limits of his mind. | Kenny Moore |
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. | Dean Karnazes |
Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you. | Desiree Linden |
Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line. | Todd Williams |
The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it. | Franz Stampfl |
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. | Lynn Jennings |
I’ve learned that it’s what you do with the miles, rather than how many you’ve run. | Rod DeHaven |
Life is complicated. Running is simple. Is it any wonder that people like to run? | Kevin Nelson |
The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. | John Bingham |
Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner. | Thomas King |
Mind is everything: muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. | Paavo Nurmi |
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. | Noel Carroll |
Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. | Unknown |
Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don’t have to rush through it. | Jim Fixx |
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. | Steve Prefontaine |
When you cross the finish line, no matter how slow or fast, it will change your life forever. | Dick Beardsley |
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. | George Sheehan |
You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff. | Lemony Snicket |
I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It’s almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. | Mary Decker Slaney |
Running is in my blood – the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hat of butterflies in your stomach. | Marcus o’Sullivan |
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding. | Steve Prefontaine |
I’m afraid the reson so many new runners quit is because they never get past the point of feeling like they have to run. | John Bingham |
Running has taught me to love my brain, my body, and what both can do for me when I use them wisely and appreciate them. | Meggie Smith |
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Author |
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 |
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 |
Quote |
Author |
Success is 99% failure. | Soichira Honda |
Make a customer, not a sale. | Katherine Barchetti |
Work hard. Think big. Listen well. | Ben Feldman |
Everyone lives by selling something. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. | Japanese Proverb |
The sale begins when the customer says yes. | Harvey MacKay |
You miss every sale that you do not try for. | Ben Feldman |
A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts. | Unknown |
Knowledge Is Power, Only If It Is Followed By Action! | Lew Nason |
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. | Nikos Kazantzakis |
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do. | Ben Feldman |
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. | Samuel Johnson |
The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them. | Jill Konrath |
90 percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion. | Shiv Khera |
If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. | Bob Hooey |
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour. | Brian Tracy |
Your prospect doesn’t get excited first. You must get excited first. | Ben Feldman |
Every brand isn’t for everybody, and everybody isn’t for every brand. | Liz Lange |
Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise. | Anonymous |
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. | Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. | Albert Einstein |
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event – it is a habit. | Aristotle |
The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say. | Tom Freese |
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. | Harry Truman |
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. | Dale Carnegie |
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. | Jim Rohn |
What are you selling today? | Unknown |
You Can Only Get What You Want, If You Help Enough Other People Get What They Want. | Zig Ziglar |
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. | William Bernbach |
Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get. | Nelson Boswell |
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. | Zig Ziglar |
The insurance agent should be able to two things: first – to scare, and then reassure. | Unknown |
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect. | William Clement Stone |
Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. | Don Cooper |
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. | Nicholas Johnson |
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. | Thomas J. Watson Jr |
To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship. | Patricia Fripp |
If you can sell one thing, you can sell anything. | Unknown |
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. | Zig Ziglar |
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. | Oprah Winfrey |
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. | Bertolt Brecht |
You don’t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. | Patricia Fripp |
A sale is not something you pursue; it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer. | Unknown |
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises; he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. | Mahatma Ghandi |
A sale is not something you pursue; it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer. | Unknown |
I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. | Estée Lauder |
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit. | Conrad Hilton |
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. | Karl Marx |
When a consumer derives value – especially from something that was given to him for free – he becomes the best kind of evangelist. | Mitch Joel |
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first, success will be yours. | Ray Kroc |
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, director, and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA). Lee is considered by critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is credited with promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.
He is noted for his roles in five feature-length Hong Kong martial arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei’s The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest’s The Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; and Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers’ Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978)
Lee died on July 20, 1973, at age 32. Since his death, Lee has continued to be a prominent influence on modern combat sports, including judo, karate, mixed martial arts, and boxing, as well as modern popular culture, including film, television, comics, animation, and video games. Time named Lee one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
Quotes |
Those who gain, lose. |
Boards don’t hit back. |
The doer alone learns. |
Motivation of the trainee. |
Love is an egotism of two. |
Faith without work is death. |
Be happy, but never satisfied. |
Don’t strive to become, but be. |
Self-education makes great men. |
The inner self is the true self. |
Real living is living for others. |
As you think, so shall you become. |
Not what to think but how to think. |
The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion. |
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. |
Without respect, love cannot go long. |
The essence: free movement of spirit. |
Maintaining their complete attention. |
Art is the communication of feelings. |
Nothing exists except the here and now. |
Failure is what your mind acknowledges. |
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory. |
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity. |
Faith backed by action is applied faith. |
Be a practical dreamer backed by action. |
If you are in the now, you are inventive. |
Do not precede others, always follow them. |
The inability to adapt brings destruction. |
Be flexible so you can change with change. |
It is later than you think! Know yourself! |
Life is simply what our feelings do to us. |
The possession of anything begins in mind. |
Intelligence is the understanding of self. |
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. |
Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today. |
No man is defeated unless he is discouraged. |
No one can hurt you unless you allow him to. |
A person cannot forget someone good for them. |
To change with change is the changeless state. |
There is no weapon more deadly than the will. |
Be self-aware rather than a repetitious robot. |
A purpose is the eternal condition of success. |
To refuse to be cast down, that is the lesson. |
Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot. |
The true stillness is the stillness in movement. |
Obey the principles without being bound by them. |
Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. |
It’s not what you give; it’s the way you give it. |
I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. |
Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities. |
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. |
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. |
When one is not expressing himself, he is not free. |
Right conduct is governed by reason and creativity. |
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. |
False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words. |
The law of averages: put in more, come out with more. |
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge. |
Emotions – the most important motors of our behavior. |
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. |
Thoughts backed by faith will overcome all obstacles. |
One great cause of failure is a lack of concentration. |
There is a difference: the world, our reaction to it. |
The more we value things, the less we value ourselves. |
Realize the fact that you simply live and not live for. |
The best techniques are the simple ones executes right. |
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self-knowledge. |
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal. |
Meditation is the freeing of the mind from all motives. |
The spiritual power of man’s will removes all obstacles. |
You will never get any more out of life than you expect. |
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. |
You know how I like to think of myself? As a human being. |
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. |
One must always strive to be better. The sky’s the limit. |
It’s the will that makes men – success takes perseverance. |
I don’t want to do anything halfway; it as to be perfect. |
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation. |
Mistakes are always forgivable if one dares to admit them. |
Every man today is the result of his thoughts of yesterday. |
To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing. |
An idea, by itself, it not erroneous, but judgment makes it. |
Unquestionably, man has his will – but the woman has her way! |
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. |
When a man seeks your advice, he generally wants your praise. |
Success means doing something sincerely and whole-heartedly. |
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. |
Remember, no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. |
Art demands only immediate, honest, and whole-hearted action. |
Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don’t. |
Freedom lies in understanding yourself from moment to moment. |
We can see through others only when we see through ourselves. |
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time. |
Art must originate with an experience or feeling of the artist. |
Simplicity is the last step of art and the beginning of nature. |
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting. |
Ever since I was a kid, the word quality has meant a lot to me. |
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum. |
Art is an expression of life and transcends both time and space. |
What’s amiss I’ll stop to mend, And endure what can’t be mended. |
Quote |
Focus on the good. |
Good Morning Sunshine! |
Mornings are gift of God |
Sunshine is the best medicine. |
Make Today Ridiculously Amazing |
You are glowing like the sunshine. |
Choose to rise and shine today champ! |
Every morning is a chance at a new day |
A day without laughter is a day wasted |
Wake up each day & Be thankful for life |
Feed your mind with positive thoughts. |
Start every day with the right attitude. |
Don’t look back, you’re not going that way. |
Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm. |
I wish you a day as colorful as the rainbow |
Nothing is impossible when God is on your side |
Be in love with your life. Every minute of it. |
I love the smell of possibility in the morning. |
Love the life you live; Live the life you love. |
Every day is another chance to change your life. |
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning |
I get up in the morning looking for an adventure. |
I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes |
Some days you just have to create your own sunshine |
Life is a gift. Wake up every day and realize that. |
You will never have this day again so make it count! |
A little step may be the beginning of a great journey |
Coffee; because bad mornings deserve a second chance. |
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. |
Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction |
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow |
I hope your dreams come true today! Have a blessed day. |
Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow |
Good Morning! I hope your day is as positive as you are. |
Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others. |
Your Future is Created by What You Do Today, Not Tomorrow |
Rise up, start fresh see the bright opportunity in each day |
Monday is the perfect day to correct last week’s mistakes. |
May you enjoy the wondrous things today that come your way. |
Life is like a mirror: It’ll smile at you if you smile at it |
Good morning to the person who has the biggest heart I know. |
The sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful and so are you |
Yesterday is Gone, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Blessing |
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. |
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a blessing. |
Vision is important. Make clear what you’re trying to achieve. |
Never stop believing in hope because miracles happen every day. |
Hello, Good Morning! I hope you have a ridiculously amazing day! |
Every day is a fresh start — a new chance to make things happen. |
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. |
Quote | Author |
Content is king. | Bill Gates |
Failure is an option. | Unknown |
Think like a customer. | Paul Gillin |
Your culture is your brand. | Tony Hsieh |
You have to build engagement. | Unknown |
Stop selling. Start helping. | Zig Ziglar |
Going viral is not an outcome. | Unknown |
Social media is a contact sport. | Margaret Molloy |
Content: there is no easy button. | Scott Abel |
Google is the new corporate homepage. | Jeremiah Owyang |
Create something people want to share. | John Jantsch |
The best marketing strategy ever: CARE. | Gary Vaynerchuk |
Don’t build links. Build relationships. | Rand Fishkin |
What makes content engaging is relevancy. | Gail Goodman |
This is the era of less is more with SEO. | Adam Audette |
Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. | Jay Baer |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. | Leonardo Da Vinci |
Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. | Beth Comstock |
Nothing begets creativity like constraints. | Christopher Mims |
Social media creates communities, not markets. | Don Schultz |
The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife. | David Ogilvy |
The importance of gratitude is never forgotten. | Deborah Lee |
Great Execution is the Ultimate Differentiator. | Margaret Molloy |
The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. | Tom Fishburne |
Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. | Shirley Polykoff |
People spend money when and where they feel good. | Walt Disney |
The future of content marketing is in your hands. | David Hahn |
Empower your readers with social sharing buttons. | Mike Stelzner |
Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash. | Avinash Kaushik |
If you build it… you may still need Google AdWords. | Jennifer Mesenbrink |
Marketing is really just about sharing your passion. | Michael Hyatt |
Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. | Robert Collier |
Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make. | Unknown |
Make the prospect a more informed buyer with content. | Robert Simon |
People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. | Simon Sinek |
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. | William Bernbach |
Content is the reason search began in the first place. | Lee Odden |
Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort. | Jeff Bullas |
I don’t want to go viral, I want to set hearts on fire. | Coco J. Ginger |
Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising. | Milton Hershey |
You cannot buy engagement. You have to build engagement. | Tara-Nicholle Nelson |
Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing. | Rebecca Lieb |
Content is anything that adds value to the readers life. | Avinash Kaushik |
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. | Wendy Piersall |
Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake. | Chris Baggott |
New marketing is about the relationships, not the medium. | Ben Grossman |
Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. | Jay Baer |
My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. | Dave Naylor |
You can’t push your sales messages on your fans too often. | Andrea Vahl |
Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer. | Jonathan Midenhall |
Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.[1] His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
The publication of Animal Farm led to fame during his lifetime. During the final years of his life he worked on Nineteen Eighty-Four, and moved between Jura in Scotland and London. It was published in June 1949, less than a year before his death.
Orwell’s work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective “Orwellian”—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as “Big Brother”, “Thought Police”, “Room 101”, “Newspeak”, “memory hole”, “doublethink”, and “thoughtcrime”.In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.
Quotes
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. |
War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. |
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. |
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. |
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. |
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? |
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. |
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. |
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. |
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. |
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. |
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. |
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. |
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. |
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. |
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. |
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. |
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. |
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. |
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. |
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. |
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. |
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. |
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. |
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. |
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. |
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. |
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. |
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. |
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. |
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. |
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. |
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. |
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. |
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. |
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. |
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. |
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. |
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. |
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. |
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. |
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. |
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. |
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. |
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. |
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. |
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. |
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. |
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. |
Good writing is like a windowpane. |
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. |
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. |
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. |
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. |
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. |
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. |
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. |
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. |
For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity. |
Four legs good, two legs bad. |
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. |
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. |
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. |
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. |
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. |
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. |
I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man. |
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right? |
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. |
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. |
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. |
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. |
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. |
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. |
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. |
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. |
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. |
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. |
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. |
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. |
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. |
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot. |
Big Brother is watching you. |
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. |
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. |
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. |
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. |
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. |
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. |
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. |
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. |
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. |
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. |
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. |
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. |
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. |
Serious sport is war minus the shooting. |
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. |
Just go. | Anonymous |
Take me anywhere. | Anonymous |
If not now, when? | Anonymous |
I need vitamin sea. | Anonymous |
The world is yours. | Anonymous |
To travel is to live. | Hans Christian Andersen |
When in doubt, travel. | Anonymous |
To travel is to evolve. | Pierre Bernardo |
Adventure is worthwhile. | Aesop |
Oh the places you’ll go. | Dr. Seuss |
I read; I travel; I become. | Derek Walcott |
Travel teaches toleration. | Benjamin Disraeli |
You travel for the unknown. | Anonymous |
Collect moments, not things. | Anonymous |
Life is an adventure, dare it. | Anonymous |
The journey is the destination. | Dan Eldon |
Not all those who wander are lost. | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Travel before you run out of time. | Anonymous |
Travel is the ultimate inspiration. | Anonymous |
The journey not the arrival matters. | T. S. Eliot |
Life is short and the world is wide. | Anonymous |
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. | David Mitchell |
I’m in love with places I’ve been to. | Anonymous |
Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. | Anonymous |
Nature is one of our greatest teachers. | Anonymous |
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. | Confucius |
The mountains are calling and I must go. | Anonymous |
You don’t have to be rich to travel well. | Eugene Fodor |
Take only memories, leave only footprints. | Chief Seattle |
Do it now. The future is promised to none. | Anonymous |
People don’t take trips, trips take people. | John Steinbeck |
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. | George Bernard Shaw |
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. | Yogi Berra |
I want to make memories all over the world. | Anonymous |
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. | Neale Donald Walsch |
Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost. | Anonymous |
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller |
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. | Peter Hoeg |
He who would travel happily must travel light. | Antoine de St. Exupery |
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. | Susan Sontag |
This heart of mine was made to travel the world. | Anonymous |
I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way. | Carl Sagan |
It feels good to be lost in the right direction. | Anonymous |
It is not down in any map; true places never are. | Herman Melville |
Travel brings power and love back into your life. | Rumi |
Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else. | Tennessee Williams |
Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. | Matthew Karsten |
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. | Paulo Coelho |
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it. | Anonymous |
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. | Anonymous |
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time.
List of quotes
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. |
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. |
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. |
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. |
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. |
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. |
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. |
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. |
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. |
The flesh is the surface of the unknown. |
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. |
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. |
The ox suffers, the cart complains. |
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. |
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. |
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. |
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. |
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. |
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. |
Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. |
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. |
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. |
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. |
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. |
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. |
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. |
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. |
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. |
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. |
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. |
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. |
Taste is the common sense of genius. |
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. |
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. |
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. |
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. |
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. |
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. |
Toleration is the best religion. |
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. |
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. |
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. |
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. |
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. |
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. |
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. |
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. |
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. |
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. |
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. |
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. |
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
When liberty returns, I will return. |
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. |
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! |
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. |
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. |
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. |
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. |
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. |
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. |
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. |
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. |
To think of shadows is a serious thing. |
Those who live are those who fight. |
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. |
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. |
To contemplate is to look at shadows. |
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. |
To love another person is to see the face of God. |
To love beauty is to see light. |
To love is to act. |
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. |
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul. |
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. |
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. |
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. |
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. |
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! |
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. |
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. |
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. |
Habit is the nursery of errors. |
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. |
I’m religiously opposed to religion. |
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. |
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. |
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. |
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. |
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. |
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. |
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. |
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. |
Conscience is God present in man. |
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. |
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. |
Despotism is a long crime. |
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. |
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. |
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. |
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. |
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. |
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. |
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. |
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. |
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. |
Genius: the superhuman in man. |
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. |
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. |
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. |
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. |
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. |
No one can keep a secret better than a child. |
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. |
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. |
Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
One believes others will do what he will do to himself. |
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. |
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. |
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. |
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. |
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. |
One sometimes says: ‘He killed himself because he was bored with life.’ One ought rather to say: ‘He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.’ |
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. |
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. |
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. |
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. |
People do not lack strength; they lack will. |
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. |
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. |
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. |
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. |
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. |
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. |
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. |
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter. |
Liberation is not deliverance. |
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. |
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. |
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. |
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. |
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. |
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. |
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. |
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. |
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. |
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. |
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. |
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. |
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. |
Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. |
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! |
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don’t always succeed. |
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. |
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers? |
Wisdom is a sacred communion. |
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. |
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. |
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. |
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. |
A library implies an act of faith. |
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. |
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. |
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. |
A great artist is a great man in a great child. |
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. |
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. |
A war between Europeans is a civil war. |
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. |
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. |
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. |
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy—and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures.
Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court.
He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.
List of quotes
The Amen of nature is always a flower. |
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. |
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. |
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. |
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. |
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. |
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. |
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. |
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’. |
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. |
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. |
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn. |
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. |
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. |
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
Every idea is an incitement… Eloquence may set fire to reason. |
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. |
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. |
Knowledge like timber shouldn’t be mush use till they are seasoned. |
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. |
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. |
Love prefers twilight to daylight. |
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. |
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. |
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. |
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. |
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. |
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. |
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. |
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. |
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. |
Don’t be “consistent” but be simple true. |
Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. |
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? |
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. |
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. |
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. |
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. |
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. |
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. |
Have the courage to act instead of react. |
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. |
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. |
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. |
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. |
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap. |
I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! |
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. |
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. |
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it. |
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! |
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. |
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. |
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. |
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. |
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. |
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. |
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. |
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. |
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. |
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. |
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. |
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse. |
A new untruth is better than an old truth. |
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. |
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. |
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. |
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. |
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. |
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. |
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. |
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. |
When in doubt, do it. |
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. |
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. |
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. |
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences. |
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. |
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. |
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. |
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. |
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Men are only as great as they are kind. |
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. |
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. |
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. |
Live truth instead of professing it. |
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. |
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. |
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. |
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. |
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. |
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake. |
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. |
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. |
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure. |
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. |
Life in abundance comes only through great love. |
In order to have friends, you must first be one. |
Initiative is doing the right things without being told. |
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. |
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. |
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. |
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. |
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. |
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. |
Life is just one damned thing after another. |
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. |
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. |
Fear clogs; faith liberates. |
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. |
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. |
It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. |
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. |
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. |
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. |
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. |
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. |
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. |
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. |
The thing we fear we bring to pass. |
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. |
There is no failure except in no longer trying. |
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward. |
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. |
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. |
We are not punished for our sins, but by them. |
We are punished by our sins, not for them. |
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. |
We work to become, not to acquire. |
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. |
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. |
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. |
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. |
Responsibility is the price of freedom. |
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. |
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. |
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. |
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. |
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. |
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. |
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. |
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. |
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. |
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. |
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. |
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. |
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. |
The love we give away is the only love we keep. |
The man who has no problems is out of the game. |
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. |
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. |
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. |
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. |
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. |
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. |
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. |
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. |
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. |
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. |
Art is not a thing; it is a way. |
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. |
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. |
A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. |
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. |
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. |
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. |
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. |
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. |
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. |
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. |
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. |
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. |
Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill’s works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one’s life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve “success”.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. |
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. |
There is no such thing as Something for nothing. |
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. |
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. |
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. |
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. |
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy. |
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. |
You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed. |
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. |
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. |
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. |
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. |
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. |
Money without brains is always dangerous. |
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. |
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. |
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. |
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. |
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. |
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. |
It is always your next move. |
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. |
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge. |
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. |
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. |
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. |
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. |
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. |
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. |
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. |
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. |
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. |
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success. |
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. |
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. |
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. |
The starting point of all achievement is desire. |
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him. |
You give before you get. |
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. |
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. |
One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life. |
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. |
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. |
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. |
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. |
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. |
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. |
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. |
A goal is a dream with a deadline. |
Action is the real measure of intelligence. |
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. |
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. |
The battle is all over except the “shouting” when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be. |
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. |
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. |
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. |
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. |
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. |
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. |
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. |
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. |
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. |
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. |
Think and grow rich. |
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. |
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. |
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. |
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. |
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. |
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. |
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. |
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. |
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. |
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. |
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. |
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. |
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. |
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. |
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. |
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. |
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. |
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. |