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Quotations about Self-Respect

strawhattluffy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:43:56 +0000

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. ~Clint Eastwood

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. ~Whitney Griswold

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~Theodore Parker

Quotations about Friendship

strawhattluffy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:40:45 +0000

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

Famous self-confidence quotations

denisewixer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:52:44 +0000

There?s hope for every failure, as long as he doesn?t blame others for his fate.
~ by

There is nothing more exhilarating than being shot at and missed.
~ by Winston Churchill

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. It’s child’s reaction to and adult situation.
~ by

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
~ by Barbara De Angelis

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every one of us has a potential of greatness, waiting to be developed.
~ by

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~ by Albert Camus

Famous life quotations

denisewixer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:50:26 +0000

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
~ by José Ortega y Gasset

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
~ by Confucius

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
~ by Author Unknown

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
~ by Vita Sackville-West

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
~ by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Wise Words

ramonsanjiz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:35:32 +0000

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from “The Serenity Prayer” by Reinhold Neibuhr

People cannot go wrong, if you don’t let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Quotations about Attitude

ramonsanjiz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:29:42 +0000

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, “Already Gone”

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster’s Law

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson

Wise Motivational Quotes

strawhattluffy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:46:31 +0000

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

Quotations about Action

strawhattluffy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:42:02 +0000

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall

Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway<!–, remark to Marlene Dietrich, quoted in A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir, 1967, MBT p39–>

Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Wise Famous Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:44:05 +0000

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~Author : Odell Shepard Famous Quotes

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Inspirational Sayings

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~Author : Andre Gide Nice Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~Author : Aristotle Great Sayings

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~Author : Chilo Meaningful Sayings

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~Author : Franklin Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~Author : Sydney Harris Motivational Sayings

Wise Random Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:41:20 +0000

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
~Author : Laurence Sterne Famous Quotes

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
~Author : Richard Phillips Feynman Inspirational Sayings

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
~Author : Fontenelle Nice Quotes

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
~Author : Albert Camus The Fall Great Sayings

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
~Author : Timothy Leary Meaningful Sayings

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.
~Author : Romanian Proverb Wise Quotes

James Arthur Baldwin Great Sayings

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:45 +0000

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
~Author : Ansel Adams Nice Quotes

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life’s possibilities.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Great Sayings

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
~Author : Peter Drucker Meaningful Sayings

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Wise Quotes

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
~Author : Donald O Rickter Motivational Sayings

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
~Author : Michael Crichton Caltech Michelin Lecture January 17 2003 Famous Quotes

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
~Author : George Santayana Inspirational Sayings

Ferris I do have a test today. that wasn’t bull. It’s on European socialism. I mean, really, what’s the point I’m not European. I don’t plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they’re socialists They could be fasict anarcists. It still doesn’t change the fact that i don’t own a car.
~Author : Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Nice Quotes

Jacques Prvert Wise Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:06 +0000

There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I’ll be needing that to die in.
~Author : Helen Hayes Famous Quotes

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
~Author : Bergen Evans The Natural History of Nonsense 1946 Inspirational Sayings

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
~Author : Fernando Botero Columbian painter and sculptor Nice Quotes

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.
~Author : Unknown Great Sayings

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
~Author : Bronwyn Davies Meaningful Sayings

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Author : Jacques Prvert Wise Quotes

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
~Author : Igor Stravinsky Motivational Sayings

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
~Author : Alan Watts Famous Quotes

Jonathan Swift Motivational Sayings

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:38:15 +0000

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
~Author : BF Skinner Meaningful Sayings

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
~Author : Karl Marx Wise Quotes

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Motivational Sayings

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
~Author : Pythagorus Famous Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~Author : W B Yeats Inspirational Sayings

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great Sayings

Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:37:41 +0000

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
~Author : Robert Frost Famous Quotes

You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn’t take long to call the roll.
~Author : Bum Philips Inspirational Sayings

Information is the currency of democracy.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

An idea is a feat of association.
~Author : Robert Frost Great Sayings

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~Author : Freya Madeline Stark Meaningful Sayings

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.
~Author : Eddie Cantor Wise Quotes

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic 1947 Motivational Sayings

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~Author : William Henry Hudson Famous Quotes

Famous Best friend sayings

strawhattluffy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:44:06 +0000

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Famous LIFE Quotes

strawhattluffy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:40:11 +0000

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.

I never wanted to be different; I just wanted to be me.

Why live to please others? I mean, it’s your life. If you aren’t happy with it, what’s the use in living?

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Famous Life Sayings

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:12 +0000

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

Famous Life Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:13:29 +0000

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 our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

Famous Success Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:11:12 +0000

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

Famous Inspirational Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

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

Great Life Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:05:19 +0000

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown

You can’t escape history, or the needs and neuroses you’ve picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown

Nice Life sayings

ramonsanjiz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:03:24 +0000

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard

Nice Famous Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:00 +0000

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
~Author : Elizabeth Bowen Inspirational Sayings

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.
~Author : Robert Wubbolding Nice Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous — on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Great Sayings

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Author : Saint Bernard Epistle Meaningful Sayings

I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become President of the United States
~Author : Jack Kemp Seattle Washington Winter 199697 lecture series when asked if he would run for president in 2000 Wise Quotes

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.
~Author : Dr Anthony Daniels The Observer 1998 Motivational Sayings

Famous Quotes

ramonsanjiz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:12:47 +0000

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
~Author : French Proverb Inspirational Sayings

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Nice Quotes

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another
~Author : Theodore Hesburgh Great Sayings

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
~Author : Paul Rudnick Meaningful Sayings

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.
~Author : Lester R Bittel Wise Quotes

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
~Author : Lewis Mumford Motivational Sayings

Words of Wisdom

turgayevren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:01:02 +0000

1. The man who has no imagination has no wings. (Muhammed Ali)

2. He who opens a school door, closes a prison (Victor Hugo)

3. The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Emerson)

4. A man is hidden under his tongue. (Hadrat Ali)

5. The best academy, a mother’s knee. (James Russel Lowel)

6. Whoever has beauty must know that it is borrowed. (Mawlana)

7. The truest guide in life is knowledge. (Atatürk)

8. Everything comes if a man will only wait. (Benjamin Disrealli)

9. I would never die for my beliefs, cause I might be wrong. (Betrand Russel)

10. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)

11. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Einstein)

12. Nothing endures but change. (Heraclitus)

13. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi)

14. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Goethe)

15. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso)