Category: Quotes

Quotes & Memes

Quotes September 29, 2016

“The light at the end of the tunnel might seem a long way off. But the switch may be very near.”
Anonymous

“I never feel guilty about reading any kind of book. Books are medicine, each one a specific prescription for whatever ails us.”
Sandra Cisneros

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
Lisa Randall,
theoretical physicist

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.

“When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.”
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to Be and Back Again)

Takeaway Truth:
Never be ashamed of your reading taste. Love is empowering. At the end of life, love is the only thing that remains. I’ve sat a death vigil, and I know that in that last breath of life, the dying person wants only to whisper words of love to those who remain.
Joan Reeves

 

Quotes September 28, 2016

Every day, do something to move the ball forward.
Jayne Atkinson,
actress

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll,
writer

“Reminder: food is fuel, not therapy.”
Unknown

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.
Jess Lair

 
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
American Football Coach

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
Ronnie Oldham

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
American Author

I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though… drenched with possibilities.
Valaida Fullwood
Writer, Public Speaker

 

Quotes September 25, 2016

“Compassion,” wrote historian Karen Armstrong in considering the proper meaning of the Golden Rule, “asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”

“Have compassion for everyone you meet … You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.”
Lucinda Williams
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coehlo

When you wake up at 6 in the morning, you close your eyes for 5 minutes and it’s already 6:45. When you’re at work and it’s 2:30, you close your eyes for 5 minutes and it’s 2:31.
Anonymous

Bought a talking parrot today and taught him to say “Help, I’ve been turned into a parrot.”
Anonymous

 

Quotes September 26 & 27, 2016

“Every judgment, all of them, point back to a judgment we hold against ourselves.”
Lynne Forrest

“It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.”
M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Millner,
writer

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
Steve Furtick

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.”
Roger L’Estrange, 1616-1704

“Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.”
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948

“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”
Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”
Will Rogers

Quotes September 24, 2016

Favorite:
“Be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy.”
Unknown

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey Firestone,
entrepreneur and corporate leader

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. Mark Zuckerberg

“What is one’s personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.”
Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance

“…the true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life…”
William Morris, “The Aims of Art,” in The Collected Works of William Morris

Prisons of stone and iron may hold the body for long and painful years in darkness, but they cannot shut out the light of truth from the truth-loving soul; they cannot destroy the peace of the dutiful spirit.
Hubbard Winslow

Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.
Franklin P. Jones

 

 

Quotes September 23, 2016

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”
Michelangelo

There are no great men. There are only great challenges, which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
William Frederick Halsey Jr.,
military leader

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer,
journalist

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”
Frank A. Clark

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
Charles Schwab

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert Muller

Quotes September 22, 2016

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.
Jack Welch,
corporate leader and author

‘The banker had a bit of a slither to her walk, and his feelings for her were akin to a phobia of snakes.’
Carol O’Connell’s Mallory series

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
Barbara De Angelis

“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Voltaire

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Benjamin Disraeli,
prime minister

Quotes September 20, 2016

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.

You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

It’s frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression.”
Anonymous

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.
Norman Vincent Peale,
minister and writer

“Shine like the whole Universe is yours.”
Rumi

“It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.”
St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine,
writer

Quotes September 19, 2016

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Estee Lauder,
entrepreneur

“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, 1913-1970

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
Henry Ford, 1863-1947

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
Lao-Tze

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Nurturing is not complex. It’s simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what they need at that time.
Mary Anne Radmacher

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Les Brown

Quotes September 18, 2016

10 Famous Quotes That Melt Our Hearts
1.      “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”   The Princess Bride

2.      “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.” Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

3.      “We loved with a love that was more than love.”   Edgar Allan Poe “Annabel Lee”

4.      “Swoon. I’ll catch you.” The English Patient

5.       “I have crossed oceans of time to find you.” Dracula

6.      “You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.” Gone With the Wind

7.      “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” When Harry Met Sally

8.      “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” The Wedding Date

9.      “It seems right now that all I’ve ever done in my life is making my way here to you.” Bridges of Madison County

10.   “…I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”  John Green

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision
Stevie Wonder