What are your thoughts about quotes?

Personally, I LOVE them! :-) Below are some of my favourites (and yeah, I know there's a lot!) ...

If you have a favourite quote please share it with me (when you click on the email link, remove the .spam from the address). I always love reading new and different quotes! :-) Thanks!

Enjoy!

 

• When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. -- Greg Anderson
• The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. --John Maxwell - thank you Franky :)
• Fences are made for those who cannot fly. -- Elbert Hubbard
• May you live all the days of your life. -- Jonathan Swift

• We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread out before us like islands that slumber on the ocean and where the beings that now pass before us, like shadows, will stay in our presence forever. -- Bulwer-Lytton (as seen in Og Mandino's book "Return of the Ragpicker" - a book I highly recommend!)
• A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao-tzu
• For mem'ry has painted this perfect day with colours that never fade,
  And we find at the end of a perfect day
  The soul of a friend we've made.
  -- Carrie Jacobs Bond

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill
• We never know how high we are
  Till we are called to rise
  And then, if we are true to plan,
  Our statures touch the skies.
  -- Emily Dickinson
• Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw the stars." -- Dale Carnegie's Father
• The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. -- Helen Keller

• All things come to those who wait, but only what's left over by those who hustle. -- Abraham Lincoln
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -- Euripides
• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny

• How high could you go if you knew you wouldn't fall?
• I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. -- Plutarch
• Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm. -- RW Emerson
• There is no man so successful as he who does not await the arrival of his opportunity, but sets out and makes it. -- Plato
• By keeping silence when we ought to speak, we may be lost. By speaking when we ought to keep silence we waste our words. The wise person is careful to do neither. -- Confucius
• A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water you realise how strong she is. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

• No one ever stumbled on anything sitting down. -- Demosthenes
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde

• Each new moment is exciting - it has never existed before. -- Alice Farra
• Seize the flower. For if you pluck it not it will fade and fall. -- Ovid
• When I hear somebody sigh that 'life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'compared to what?' -- Sydney J Harris
• A person who puts off living as he ought to, is like a person waiting for the river to pass by before they cross it. But it glides on forever. -- Horace
• If you have a friend worth loving, love them, yes, and let them know that you love them ere life's evening tinge their brow with sunset glow. Why should good words never be said of a friend till they are dead? -- Daniel Webster Hoyt
• I know that I will never be given a greater burden than I can bear.
• Joy and woe are woven fine
  A clothing for the soul divine;
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine ...
  And when this we rightly know,
  Safely through the world we go.
  -- Blake
• You are important just because you are alive. -- Alice Farra
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe. -- Anatole France

• You see things; and you say "why?" but I dream things that never were; and I say "why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw
• All that we are is a result of what we have thought. -- Buddha
• When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas

• Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. -- Goethe
• Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Hitch your wagon to a star. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you. -- Barbara Sher
• Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. -- Harvey Mackay
• "I think that I shall never see
  A poem as lovely as a tree." -- Alfred Joyce Kilmer
• "Some pursue happiness....others create it!!" -- thank you German :)
• The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in -- Tehyi Hsieh

• A person cannot travel within and stand without -- James Allen
• When you get to the end of your tether, tye a knot and hold on! -- FDR
• The only thing you have to fear is fear itself...

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation -- Henry David Thoreau
• Darest Thou, now O soul,
  Walk out with me toward the unknown region
  Where neither ground is
  for the feet nor any path to follow?
  -- Walt Whitman

• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise -- Dr Sigmund Freud
• The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; The passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills what remains. -- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music however measured or faraway. -- Henry David Thoreau

• The man who succeeds above
  his fellow is the one
  who early in life, clearly
  discerns his object,
  and towards that object
  habitually directs his powers.
  Even genius itself is but fine
  observation strengthened by
  fixity of purpose. Every man
  who observes vigilantly and
  resolves steadfastly
  grows unconsciously into genius.
  -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

• Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes true character to be polite to a beggar.
• You are everything that is,
  your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true.
  You are everything you choose to be.
  You are as unlimited as the endless universe.
  -- Shad Helmstetter, "What To Say When You Talk To Your Self"
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -- Will Rogers
• Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. -- George Bernard Shaw

• A wishbone has never taken the place of a backbone. -- W.G.P.
• I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs. -- Beryl Pfizer
• We all like to think we're unique until someone tells us we're different. -- PK Shaw
• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton

• A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. -- Polish Proverb
• A small measure of craziness mixed with a reasonable amount of eccentricity is an attractive alternative to conformity. -- J D Boatwood
• If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk? Anonymous

• Our favourite season is usually the one which has just gone. -- PK Shaw
• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? -- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner
• Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. -- Kin Hubbard

• One trouble with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected. -- W.G.P.
• People's minds are like parachutes. To function properly they must first be open. -- W.G.P.
• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. -- Mary Catherwood
• Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart
• Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears old age. -- Chinese Proverb
• Courage is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better. -- Richard Hooker
• Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different -- Lord Samuel
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. -- English Proverb

• One joy scatters a hundred griefs. -- Chinese Proverb
• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We are always getting ready to live, but never living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment. -- Horace

• So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. -- Will Rogers
• Time is the bearer of all knowledge. -- Poss Fallance
• Man is what he believes. -- Anton Checkhov
• The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel. -- Russian Proverb
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -- Ambrose Redmoon -- Thank you Jasmeet :-)

• Persistent people tend to see obstacles as challenges to be overcome rather than reasons to fail. -- Kreitner & Kinicki, 1989 -- Thanks Andres :-)
• God didn't save me from all of that to give up now -- thanks Pink :-)
• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened -- Saki
• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. --author unknown
• The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. -- Jean Paul Richter
• Would I have ever learned to love so freely, if I had not learned to hate with such passion. -- Douglas Q. Plew -- thanks for sharing this Douglas :-)
• I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. --Thomas Edison -- thanks Greg!
• Dreams are the touchstones of our character -- Henry David Thoreau

• A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Thanks Greg! Loved this one :-)
• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible -- Jonathan Swift
• Character is power -- Booker Washington
• Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't -- Margaret Thatcher
• A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
• Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at time -- H. Ross Perot
• Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently -- Henry Ford
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts -- John Wooden
  

• Don't spend a $1.00's worth of time on a $.10 decision
  - WOAH!!! How true this is!!!! ;-)
• It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never takes a chance. It's the dream afraid of waking, that never learns to dance. It's the one who won't be broken, that cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying, that never
  learns to live --The Rose
• The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer -- an Air Force motto
• " I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder.--Anonymous
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -- Japanese proverb
• "Set no upper limit" -- President, Rice University -- thank you for this Quin :-)
• "Coincidence is God's way of performing a miracle anonoymously" -- thanks Toy! :-))

• Even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
• You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster!
  -- thanks for these two Pramod :-)
• Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough... - Dinah Shore.
• We flatter those we scarcely know
  We please the fleeting guest
  And deal full many a thoughtless blow
  To those who love us best. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. - Bruce Lee