Try not to become a man of success but a
man of value.
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought
and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it;
if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of
opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are
ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Marriage Quotes
There is no more lovely, friendly and
charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther King
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
A successful marriage requires falling in
love many times,
always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
The secret to having a good marriage is to
understand that
marriage must be total, it must be permanent,
and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
Marriage, ultimately,
is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
Harville Hendrix
What counts in making a happy marriage
is not so much how compatible you are,
but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
Grow old along with me.
The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me,
is that when you fall out of love with each other,
it keeps you together until maybe you fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
Friendship Quotes
"We learn our virtues from our friends who
love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover
our real character from a friend. He is a mirror,
on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the
reflection." Jean Paul Richter
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A
farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after
moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach
"Every man should keep a fair-sized
cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends." Henry Ward Beecher
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy
to none. Benjamin Franklin
"Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Take the time today to tell your friends
the difference they have made in your life." Catherine Pulsifer
"The only service a friend can really
render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which
you can see a noble image of yourself." George Bernard Shaw
"It's an incredibly liberating thing when you stop worrying about what
other people think about you. Now I just need me to love me and, as a
result, I'm a much better friend, girlfriend, sister, aunt, everything."
Linda Evans
"Your friends will know you better in the
first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand
years." Richard Bach
"To be a friend means encourage strengths
in others and accepting their weaknesses; in other words, accepting them
for who they are." Catherine Pulsifer
"The best looking-glass is the eyes of a
friend." Irish Proverb
Success Quotes
We are all motivated by a keen desire for
praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
Along with success comes a reputation for
wisdom.
Euripides
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his
goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Keep steadily before you the fact that all
true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
The thing always happens that you really
believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but
is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
There is only one success--to be able to
spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The greatest results in life are usually
attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may
for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and
perseverance.Owen Feltham
Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.Dennis Waitley
The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather
a lack in will.Vince Lombardi
I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please
everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope
Success does not consist in never making
blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings
The secret of success in life is for a man
to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Earl of Beaconsfield
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation,
perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar
If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Jospeph Addison
Impatience never commanded success. Edwin
H. Chapin
The talent of success is nothing more than
doing what you can do, well. Henry W. Longfellow
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace
at first. Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein
The man who makes a success of an
important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself.
It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that
succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has
enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main
things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be
criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number
consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the
accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. C. V. White
If at first you don't succeed, try, try
again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields
Motivational Quotations
It was a high counsel that I once heard
given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take calculated risks. That is quite
different from being rash. George S. Patton
If you do not hope, you will not find what
is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided
each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all
gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment
every day. Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the
possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
Without inspiration the best powers of the
mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with
sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder
We are what we repeatedly do. Exellence,
therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire
Experience is the child of thought, and
thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot plough a field by turning
it over in your mind. Author Unknown
The best way out is always through. Robert
Frost
Do not wait to strike till the iron is
hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague
Nothing will ever be attempted if all
possible obections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson
Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence
He who hesitates is lost. Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling
but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are still masters of our fate.We are
still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill
Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream of those that
wake. Matthew Prior
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize
the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its
intellectual eye. Mary Shelley
Pull the string, and it will follow
wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight Eisenhower
Be the change that you want to see in the
world. Mohandas Gandhi
Efficiency is doing things right;
effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
Formula for success: under promise and
over deliver. Tom Peters
A life spent making mistakes is not only
more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Jonathan Swift
The best way to teach people is by telling
a story. Kenneth Blanchard
If you'll not settle for anything less
than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your
lives. Vince Lombardi
I had to pick myself up and get on with
it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton
Improvement begins with I. Arnold H.
Glasgow
Quotes and Proverbs About Life
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander
time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
Life is either a daring adventure or
nothing. Helen Keller
Life is like a game of cards. The hand
that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free
will. Jawaharal Nehru
Life is like the dice that, falling, still
show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always
presenting different aspects. Alexis
Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn
to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. Palladas
The geat blessing of mankind are within us
and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark,
we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without
finding it.Seneca (7 B.C. - 65 A.A.)
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the
whole world were to see the one, and read the other. Thomas Fuller
Most of the shadows of this life are
caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one
problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can
find our greatest pleasure. Kal Menninger
Life is short, art long, opportunity
fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hypocrites
After the game, the king and the pawn go
into the same box. Italian Proverb
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and
a comedy for those who think. La Bruyere
Life is like a library owned by the
author.In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were
written for him. Harry Emerson Fosdick
We make our fortunes, and we call them
fate. Earl of Beaconsfield
The best way to prepare for life is to
begin to live. Elbert Hubbard
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville
The whole of life is but a moment of time.
It is ourduty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. Plutarch
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting
a realm too fair to be. George William Curtis
The boundaries which divide life from
death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the
other begins? Edgar Alan Poe
One way to get the most out of life is to
look upon it as an adventure. William Feather
There are no classes in life for
beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most
difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke
To live is like to love--all reason is
against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an
invisible sun within us.Sir Thomas Brown
As I grow to understand life less and
less, I learn to love it more and more. Jules Renard
Greatest George Carlin Quotes
I don’t have pet peeves — I
have major psychotic fucking hatreds!
Think of how stupid the
average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Swimming is not a sport.
Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
A house is just a place to
keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Have you ever noticed that
their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?
I wanna live. I don’t wanna
die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out
by myself in the third grade.
I used to be Irish Catholic.
Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.
You can’t fight City Hall, but
you can goddamn sure blow it up.
If the Cincinnati Reds were
really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
Honesty may be the best
policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
If it’s true that our species
is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed
rather low and settled for very little.
No one knows what’s next, but
everybody does it.
There are 400,000 words in the
English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a
ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be
OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. “All of you words over
here, you seven….baaaad words.” That’s what they told us, right? …You know
the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt,
cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
The very existence of
flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves,
“You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not
close enough to get the job done.”
The reason I talk to myself is
because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Just when I discovered the
meaning of life, they changed it.
Religion has convinced people
that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything
you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten
specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these
things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke
and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and
scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs
money.
Weather forecast for tonight:
Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
If it requires a uniform, it’s
a worthless endeavor.
If you live long enough,
sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.
You know the good part about
all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
Soft rock music isn’t rock,
and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
Reminds me of something my
third-grade teacher said to us. She said, “You show me a tropical fruit
and I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.”
As soon as someone is
identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
If a movie is described as a
romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
The IQ and the life expectancy
of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
I knew a transsexual guy whose
only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
I put a dollar in a change
machine. Nothing changed.
If you’ve got a cat and a leg,
you’ve got a happy cat. If you’ve got a cat and two legs, you’ve got a
party.
You can prick your finger —
just don’t finger your prick.
By and large, language is a
tool for concealing the truth.
Ever notice that anyone going
slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that
doctors call what they do “practice”?
I don’t like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
I think it’s the duty of the
comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
When you’re born you get a
ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row
seat.
Eventually, alas, I realized
the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
I never fucked a ten, but one
night, I fucked five twos.
I never joined the Boy Scouts.
I don’t trust any organization that has a handbook.
I would never want to be a
member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
Have you noticed that most of
the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in
the first place? There’s such balance in nature.
So I say, “Live and let live.”
That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” Anyone who can’t go along with that,
take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but
it’s always worked in our family.
Catholic — which I was until I
reached the age of reason.
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d
like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is
sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic
achievements on the back of our car.”
I love and treasure
individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify
with and belong to.
Beethoven was so hard of
hearing, he thought he was a painter.
Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4
times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
God bless the homicidal
maniacs. They make life worthwhile.
I’ve never seen a homeless guy
with a bottle of Gatorade.
One great thing about getting
old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by
saying you’re too tired.
If Helen Keller had psychic
ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?
What year did Jesus think it
was?
George Washington’s brother,
Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.
Have you ever wondered why
Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their
communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have
been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
In America, anyone can become
president. That’s the problem.
Once you leave the womb,
conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then
you’re just what they’re looking for. Conservatives want live babies so
they can raise them to be dead soldiers.
“One thing leads to another”?
Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
No one who has had “Taps”
played for them has ever been able to hear it.
Property is theft. Nobody
“owns” anything. When you die, it all stays here.
The best thing about living at
the water’s edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if
they come this way you can hear them splash.
The future will soon be a
thing of the past.
The planet is fine. The people
are fucked.
The real reason that we can’t
have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not
steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a
building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile
work environment.
Boxing is a more sophisticated
form of hockey.
The only good thing ever to
come out of religion was the music.
I think everyone should treat
one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for
the consequences.
Bowling is not a sport because
you have to rent the shoes.
“When Will Jesus Bring the
Pork Chops?” This title offends all three major religions, and even
vegetarians!
Thou shalt keep thy religion
to thyself.
And now, in the interest of
equal time, here is a message from the National Institute of Pancakes: It
reads, and I quote, “Fuck waffles.”
Atheism is a non-prophet
organization.
Whoever coined the term “Buyer
Beware” was probably bleeding from the asshole.
Cloud nine gets all the
publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a
better view.
Have you ever noticed that the
lawyer always smiles more than the client?
I’m always relieved when
someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
Just think, right now as you
read this, some guy somewhere is gettin’ ready to hang himself.
