Sep 28, 2009

Modesty is the citadel of beauty - Demades

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please - Mark Twain

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge - Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear - Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint - Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more - Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval - Mark Twain

Sep 20, 2009

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply - Josh Billings

The years teach much which the days never know - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires - Abigail Van Buren

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment - Fred Brooks

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude - Ralph Marston

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children - George Bernard Shaw

We pay, when old, for the excesses of youth - J. B. Priestley

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The trick is growing up without growing old - Casey Stengel

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul - Samuel Ullman

Muscles come and go; flab lasts - Bill Vaughan

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair - Sam Ewing

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long - Pope Paul VI

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty - Henry Ford

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her - Agatha Christie

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter - Mark Twain

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity - Tom Stoppard

Age considers; youth ventures - Rabindranath Tagore

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place - Zora Neale Hurston

Have no fear of perfection , you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way - Napoleon Hill

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds - Albert Einstein

We can do no great things, only small things with great love - Mother Teresa

Do first things first, and second things not at all - Peter Drucker

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca

No wind favors he who has no destined port - Montaigne

Well done is better than well said - Benjamin Franklin

Inches make champions - Vincent Lombardi

Know thyself - Socrates

Sep 11, 2009

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying - Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Gandhi

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else - Judy Garland

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle - Pluto

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience - Oliver Wendell Holmes

PAST - the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it - Rafikki to Simba in The Lion King

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted - Aesop

Never, never, never, never give up - Winston Churchill

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day - Benjamin Franklin

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience - Denis Waitley

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities - James A. Froude

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary - Margaret Cousins

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Unknown

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

It's time to start living the life you've imagined - Henry James

I don't want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well - Diane Ackerman

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin

Life is too short to be small - Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still - Linda Brakeall

Sep 10, 2009

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance - Gian Carlo Menotti

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations - Benjamin Disraeli

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up - Tom Wilson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life - Sandra Carey

You have your ideology and I have mine - Kahlil Gibran

Never ruin an apology with an excuse - Kimberly Johnson

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present - Babatunde Olatunji

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it - Unknown

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword - Charles Reade

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been - Mark Twain

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks - Charles Gordy

Life is short but a smile takes barely a second - Cuban Proverb

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight - Phyllis Diller

Sep 6, 2009

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist - Harold Wilkins

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn - Unknown

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often - Sir Winston Churchill

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius

You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still - Chinese

Where there is love there is life - Mahatma Gandhi

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself - Chinese

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never - Charles Caleb Colton

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching - Unknown

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward - Soren Kierkegaard

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time - Chinese

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced - Soren Kierkegaard

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on - Robert Frost

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have - Unknown

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Unknown

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