Category Detail for General (553 Quotes)

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1 A. Sachs General Death Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
2 Abraham Lincoln General Vanity Common-looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
3 Abraham Lincoln General Learning I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
4 Abraham Lincoln General Honesty Resolove to be honest in all events; and if in your own judgement you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
5 Abraham Lincoln General Work Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
6 Abraham Lincoln General Contention Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control.
7 Abraham Lincoln General Wisdom Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
8 Abraham Maslow General Pride He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
9 Aesop General Goals A sensible man never embarks on an enterprise until he can see his way clear to the end of it.
10 African Proverb General Mistakes Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
11 African Proverb General Principles Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
12 Agnes DeMille General Destiny No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
13 Albert Camus General Trials In the misdst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
14 Albert Camus General Happiness But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
15 Albert Einstein General Labor Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
16 Albert Einstein General Work Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
17 Albert Einstein General Example The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.
18 Albert Einstein General Wisdom The majority of us prefer to look to the outside world and not inside of your own self.
19 Albert Einstein General Goals Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem in my opinion to characterize our age.
20 Albert Einstein General Speech If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
21 Albert Einstein General Meaning Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
22 Albert Einstein General Life There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
23 Aldous Huxley General Experience Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
24 Alexander Pope General Love Is not absence death to those who love?
25 Alexander Pope General Speech Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
26 Ambrose Bierce General Dreams All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
27 Amelia Earhart General Adventure Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
28 Amelia Earhart General Courage Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
29 Anais Nin General Dreams Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
30 Andre Agassi General When you start looking at life through the lens of a 3-year-old, it's like your whole filter changes. Everything you look at is like a painting that's been restored. Everything is alive again, because you just don't take it for granted.
31 Andre Gide General Bravery One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
32 Andrew Marvell General Time But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
33 Anna Sewell General Knowledge I am never afraid of what I know.
34 Annais Nin General Courage Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
35 Antoine de Saint Exupery General Perfection Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
36 Arab Proverb General Principles Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
37 Aristotle General Habit We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then , is not an act, but a habit.
38 Aristotle General Excellence We are what repeatedly do, Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
39 Aristotle General Age It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
40 Arthur Schopenhauer General Truth All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
41 Austin Phelps General Conscience A disciplined conscience is man's best friend.
42 Baron de Montesquieu General Success The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
43 Ben Johnson General Contemplation Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
44 Ben Johnson General Wisdom He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
45 Ben Johnson General Principles Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
46 Benjamin Franklin General Laziness The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
47 Benjamin Franklin General Action Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
48 Benjamin Franklin General Education Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
49 Benjamin Franklin General Forgiveness Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving... it sets you above him.
50 Benjamin Franklin General Knowledge An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
51 Benjamin Franklin General Wisdom The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
52 Benjamin Franklin General Reason They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles.
53 Benjamin Franklin General Action Well done is better than well said.
54 Benjamin Franklin General Anger Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
55 Bernice Johnson Reagon General Trials Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
56 Billie Holiday General Charity Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
57 Bishop Richard Cumberland General Action It is better to wear out than to rust out.
58 Bjarne Stroustrup General Software Development C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
59 Blaise Pascal General Love The heart has arguments with which the logic of the mind is not acquainted.
60 Bob Goddard General Mistakes Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains.
61 Booth Tarkington General Happiness Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
62 Branch Rickey General Luck Luck is the residue of design.
63 Buddhist Saying General Work Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
64 Bumper Sticker General Trials Enjoy Life. This is not a rehearsal.
65 C. Archie Danielson General Ambition Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
66 C. E. Welch General Persistence Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible...Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
67 Calvin Coolidge General Speech I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
68 Carl Jung General Judgement If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
69 Carl Sandberg General Children A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
70 Carlos Asay General Goals Goals lend purpose and direction to our living. They excite the imagination and stir interest, and they generate a strength of anticipation which can rally all the powers of one’s soul...The person who sets goals and strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
71 Celia Thaxter General Renewal Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.
72 Charles Caleb Colton General Speech When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
73 Charles Darwin General Time A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
74 Charles F. Kettering General Planning My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
75 Charles William Stubbs General Conscience To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
76 Chinese Proverb General Progression Learning is like rowing upsteam; not to advance is to drop back.
77 Chinese Proverb General Writing The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.
78 Chinese Proverb General Humble He who treads softly goes far.
79 Chinese Proverb General Wisdom When you want to test the depth of a stream, don't use both feet.
80 Chinese Proverb General Wisdom If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
81 Chinese Proverb General Trials The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
82 Cicero General Kindness If we lose affection and kindliness from our life we've lost all that gives it charm.
83 Cicero General History To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
84 Clarence Darrow General Ignorance I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure; that is all that agnosticism means.
85 Comte de Bussy-Rabutin General Love Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
86 Confucius General Persistence Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
87 Confucius General Character When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
88 Confucius General Thrift When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
89 Confucius General Wisdom When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
90 Corra Harris General Courage The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
91 Cyrus H Curtis General Initiative There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
92 Dale Carnegie General Gentleness Gentleness and friendliness are always stronger than fury and force.
93 Dale Carnegie General The Present One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
94 Darla Isackson General Self Mastery Self-government is being able to determine the cause of effect of any given situation, and possessing the knowledge of your own behaviors so that you can control them.
95 Dave Bent General Software Development There is no such thing as an IT project - there are business projects that leverage technology to enable them.
96 David Grayson General Adventure Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
97 David Jack General Planning I am always in the process of planning - my plans might not be right on all the time, but I am always thinking about the different areas of my life, spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, family, budget, work, and so on. And I’m constantly asking, 'What’s my priority right now?'
98 David Starr Jordan General Wisdom Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
99 David Starr Jordan General Confidence The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he or she is going.
100 Denis Healey General Wisdom It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one stop digging.
101 Diane Westlake General Persistence Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.
102 Don Hutcheson General Purpose What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?
103 Dostoevsky General Children The soul is healed by being with children.
104 Douglas Hurd General Socialism It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
105 Dr. David Livingston General Family I have but one regret, and that is that I did not feel it my duty to play with my children...I worked very hard and was tired at night. Now I have none to play with.
106 Dr. Joyce Brothers General Self Confidence In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
107 Dr. Leo Troy General Mistakes Never say oops in the operating room.
108 Dr. Leonard Piekoff General Error …if you are to fight these errors, you have to know the main arguments advanced in favor of them. You have to hear the Devil’s case, so to speak, presented as strongly as his case permits…You have to be sure you know on each issue what really is true and what is wrong with the arguments advanced for the erroneous position.
109 Duke Elington General Trials A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
110 Dwight D. Eisenhower General Happiness Only a man that is happy in his work can be happy in his home and with his friends. Happiness in work means that its performer must know it to be worthwhile, suited to his temperment, and finnaly suited to his age, experinece, and capacity for performance of a higher order.
111 Edmund Burke General Persistence Our patience will achieve more than our force.
112 Edward George Bulwer-Lytton General Genius Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
113 Edward Gibbon General Self Confidence The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators
114 Eleanor Roosevelt General Dreams The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
115 Eleanor Roosevelt General Dreams The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
116 Elie Wiesel General Indifference The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
117 Elizabeth Barrett Browning General Wisdom Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
118 Emile Zola General Work The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
119 Emily Bronte General Time A person who has not done one half day's work by ten o'clock, runs the a chance of leaving the other half undone.
120 English Proverb General Mistakes We must recoil a little to the end we may leap the better.
121 English Proverb General Wisdom Make not the sauce til you have caught the fish.
122 English Saying General Honesty Venture not to defend what your judgment doubts of.
123 Epicharmus General Reason Judgment, not passion, should prevail.
124 Epictetus General Self mastery No man is free who is not master of himself.
125 Eric Hoffer General Change In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
126 Ernest Hemingway General Action Never mistake motion for action.
127 Euripides General Happiness That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
128 Euripides General Wisdom Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
129 F.H. Bradley General Happiness The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
130 Felicia Hemans General Trials Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
131 Francesco Petrarca General Self Renewal If you draw your thread too fine, it will break.
132 Francis Bacon General Optimism They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
133 Francis Bacon General Persistence A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
134 Francis Bacon General Speech Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
135 Francis Bacon General Talent Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
136 Francis Mauriac General Friendship No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
137 Frank McCourt General Apathy I had the angst and didn't know what ailed me...I was adrift in the american dream.
138 Frank Tyger General Speech Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
139 Franklin Delano Roosevelt General Self Confidence The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
140 Franklin P. Jones General Speech Conversation is the art of telling people a little less than they want to know.
141 French Proverb General Duty One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
142 French Proverb General Destiny One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
143 Friedrich Nietzsche General Purpose He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
144 G.F. Prentice General Friendship A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
145 Gandhi General Life There is more to life than increaseing its speed.
146 Gandhi General Change You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
147 Gandhi General Ridicule First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
148 Gary Head General Litigation In today's compensation culture, it is unfortunately all too easy to imagine a customer suing their dog psychologist if their dog continues to eat their slippers, or somebody taking their feng shui consultant to court if they're not happy with their home's energies...
149 General Douglas MacArthur General Failure We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
150 Georg Lichtenberg General Genius Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
151 George Bernard Shaw General Happiness We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
152 George Bernard Shaw General Experience Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
153 George Bernard Shaw General Skepticism The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
154 George Bernard Shaw General Sincerity It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
155 George Eliot General Speech Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
156 George Henry Lewes General Action The only cure for grief is action.
157 George Macdonald General Trust It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved.
158 George Moore General Home A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it
159 George Santayana General Fanaticism Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
160 George Shelley General Pride Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowments of mind.
161 George Washington General Friendship Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
162 George Washington General Cities The tumultous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. Letter, 28 July 1791, to the Marquis de Lafayette.
163 George Washington Carver General Imagination When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
164 German Proverb General Focus Who begins too much accomplishes little.
165 Gerorges Louis Leclerc General Genius Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
166 Gertrude Stein General Self Confidence Everybody knows if you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
167 Gilbert Keith Chesterton General Adventure An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
168 Giordano Bruno General First Impressions If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
169 Gisela Richter General Mistakes A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
170 Goethe General Character Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world's torrent.
171 Goethe General Mistakes A clever man commits no minor blunders.
172 Goethe General Commitment Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence meets you. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come this way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
173 Goethe General Talent Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
174 Gordon B. Hinckley General Self Discipline One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.
175 Grady Booch Technology Architecture Every system has an architecture. Two things I've said about architecture in the past: first, every system has an architecture - most are accidental, some are intentional; second, the hyperproductive projects I've encountered all tend to proceed by the incremental and iterative release of an executable architecture. In short, architecture is central to enduring software.
176 Greek Proverb General Action Well begun is half done.
177 H. G. Wells General Jealousy Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
178 H. H. Munro (Saki) General Error A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
179 H. Jackson Brown General Time Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
180 H.G. Bohn General Anger Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
181 H.G. Wells General Life We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
182 Harry Emerson Fosdick General Choice He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
183 Harry F. Banks General Attitude For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
184 Hasidic Saying General Friendship One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
185 Hasidic Saying General Self Confidence The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
186 Heber J. Grant General Experience Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
187 Helen Keller General Optimism Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
188 Helen Keller General Excellence One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
189 Helen Keller General Trials Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
190 Helen Keller General Trials Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
191 Helen Keller General Trials We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
192 Helen Keller General Imagination True, I cannot see the stars scattered like gold-dust in the heavens, but other stars just as bright shine in my soul.
193 Helen Keller General Senses Because I cannot see or hear, the thoughtless suppose life must be blank to me. They do not understand that things have other precious values beside color and sound. It never occurs to them to FEEL a flower, and they do not know what they miss - the exquisite shape of a leaf and stem and bud. I do not suppose light suggests to them the radiating life-giving warmth of the sun. True, I cannot see the stars scattered like gold-dust in the heavens, but other stars just as bright shine in my soul.
194 Helen Keller General Trials I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.
195 Helen Keller General Life What a strange life I lead - a kind of Cinderella-Life - half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
196 Helen Keller General Joy ...I have always observed that those who express surprise at my enjoyment of life are those who use their senses imperfectly.
197 Helen Keller General Imagination The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
198 Helen Keller General Life We differ, blind and seeing, not in the nature of our handicap, but in the understanding and idealism we put into the art of living. It is only when we put imagination and feeling behind the senses that they attain their full value.
199 Helen Keller General Renewal When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives out on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within - a spirit of growth and beauty.
200 Helen Keller General Character Character is like the fire within the flint - latent until it is struck out of the stone. Obeserving the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light? And so it is with the dark experiences of life. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.
201 Helen Keller General Happiness When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
202 Helen Keller General Happiness Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
203 Helen Keller General Happiness We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
204 Helen Keller General Wealth Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth, power, and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
205 Helen Keller General Love Cultivate love, for love is the light that gives the eye to see great and noble things.
206 Helen Keller General Charity Unless we can help the world where we are, we could not help it if we were somewhere else.
207 Helen Keller General Destiny It is not required of every man and woman to do or be something great. Most of us have to be content to take small part in the drama of life.
208 Helen Keller General Self Mastery If we don't make the most of ourselves, how can we expect to be made much of by others?
209 Helen Keller General Death It seemed more strange than ever that death should cause fear when one is endowed with the power mentally to survey such a supremely magnificent universe evolving out of chaos! Since each galaxy discovered is another proof of change, why cannot death be life in another form?
210 Helen Keller General Teaching What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
211 Helen Keller General Quiet Only in quietness do we pssess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
212 Helen Keller General Life Many people never stop to think what life means. They hurry and scurry, they run to and fro upon the earth, exploring the paths that lead nowhere. They waste their energies in futile attempts that gain nothing. It is as if they tried to lift themselves up by their wastebands or to walk on their heads. Not until fate, or Destiny, or some other fellow knocks them out, do they learn to look within themselves for happiness.
213 Helen Keller General Charity Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
214 Helen Keller General Fear The worst sorrows in life are not its losses and misfortunes, but its fears
215 Helen Keller General Work When the mind bends gladly to a task, and the hand has to keep up with the eager spirit, one feels in tune with the universe, and misfortune loses its sting.
216 Helen Keller General Self Pity Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
217 Helen Keller General Trials I believe that misfortunes are often the keys which open doors of higher truth for us.
218 Helen Keller General Work I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
219 Henry David Thoreau General Progression I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
220 Henry David Thoreau General Freedom I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, that to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
221 Henry David Thoreau General Humility Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
222 Henry David Thoreau General Money Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
223 Henry David Thoreau General Dreams 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.
224 Henry David Thoreau General Time As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!
225 Henry David Thoreau General Home Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better.
226 Henry David Thoreau General Patience It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero will then know how to wait as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.
227 Henry David Thoreau General Patience All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.
228 Henry David Thoreau General Self Esteem Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared to our private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
229 Henry David Thoreau General Dreams Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
230 Henry David Thoreau General Conformance If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
231 Henry David Thoreau General Nature But here on the stream...Nature, who is superior to all styles and ages, is now, with pensive face, composing her poem autumn.
232 Henry David Thoreau General Integrity Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
233 Henry David Thoreau General Dreams I learned this, at least...That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary - new universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws expanded...and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
234 Henry David Thoreau General Thought He is the rich man and enjoys the fruits of riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
235 Henry David Thoreau General Work The forms of beauty fall naturally around the path of him who is in the performance of his proper work.
236 Henry David Thoreau General Success Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
237 Henry David Thoreau General Conformance The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
238 Henry David Thoreau General Progression It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is "What are we busy about"?
239 Henry David Thoreau General Frugality That man is the richest whos pleasures are cheapest.
240 Henry Ford General Optimism If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
241 Henry Ford General Obstacles Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
242 Henry Louis Mencken General Competition Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
243 Henry Louis Mencken General Cynisism The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
244 Henry Louis Mencken General Criticism Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
245 Henry Peter Bougham General Education Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
246 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow General Judgement We judge ourselves by what we feel we a capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have allready done.
247 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow General Quality It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
248 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow General Self Esteem He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
249 Henry Ward Beecher General Self Control There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
250 Horace General Speech Whatever advice you give, be brief.
251 Horace General Time Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
252 Hugh Jackman General Fear I've always felt that if you back down from your fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I am most scared about.
253 Hungarian Proverb General Thrift He is rich who owes nothing.
254 Hungarian Proverb General Trials The dogs bark but the circus will pass.
255 Isaac Asimov General Death Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
256 Israel Salanter General Pride Promote yourself but do not demote another.
257 J.A. Petit-Senn General Conscience A good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
258 J.C. Penny General Discipline Only the disciplined are free.
259 Jackie Joiner Kersey General Equality Always remember that you are better than no one else, but at the same time, no one else is better than you.
260 James Boswell General Friendship We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over;
261 James Branch Cabell General Pessimism The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
262 James G. Bilkey General Trials You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life.
263 James Joyce General Mistakes Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
264 James Oppenheim General Happiness The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
265 James Russel Lowell General Experience One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
266 James Russell Lowell General Mistakes Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
267 James Stephens General Fear Curiousity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
268 James Taylor General Pride What do you plan to do with your foolish pride when you are all by yourself alone?
269 Janice Kapp Perry General Goals ...the very writing down of that simple goal set in motion circumstances and events that brought about the fulfillment of this heartfelt wish.
270 Janice Kapp Perry General Goals ...I realized that if I ever were to do this I would have to break the task down into doable parts and set specific, attainable goals or it would never happen.
271 Jawaharlal Nehru General Truth Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
272 Jean Cocteau General Freedom The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
273 Jim Collins General Truth One ought not to reject the data merely because one does not like what the data implies.
274 JoAnn Larsen General Life Few persons set out deliberately to miss the wonder and richness of living, but it is treacherously easy to do it. A postponement here, a side stepping there, a hesitant retreat - and a life may diminish behind a wall of negatives: No, I can’t; I won’t; it can never happen—and the rhetoric goes on in people’s minds, cheating them of opportunities to grow and to find joy… Life is a journey - a process of singing our songs - of finding out who we are and what we may become. We’re all born to unspecified possibilities, and the more we risk, the more we discover about ourselves...
275 Joaqin Setanti General Action Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
276 John A. Shedd General Courage A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
277 John Churton Collins General Friendship In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
278 John Dryden General Habit We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
279 John Dryden General Shallowness Errors like straws upon the surface flow, he who would search for pearls must dive below.
280 John Fletcher General Action Deeds, not words shall speak me.
281 John Fletcher General Example Deeds, not words shall speak me.
282 John Henry Newman General Emnity We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
283 John Herschel General Self Esteem Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue
284 John Lambeth General Growth Take calculated risks. You grow by stepping way outside your comfort zone.
285 John Lennon General Wisdom Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
286 John MacCunn General Contemplation It is never enough for us simply to know. We must also weigh.
287 John Pratt General Emotion Our emotions are our motivators. When we feel sympathy, we may wish to help the afflicted. That is not learning truth at all, it is feeling motivated...In attempting to discover truth, it is essential not to let the emotions be a factor. Wanting something to be true does not make it true, but only clouds your perception of reality.
288 John Randolph General Time Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishishable of all possessions.
289 John Soat General Software Development Manage expectations vs. manage the project? Most CIOs I know are doing, by my estimation, a better job at the latter than at the former.
290 Jose Andres General Excellence When I cook, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm very selfish, me and my team. We need to please ourselves. We need to make sure that we are convince of what we are doing and eating and that we see ourselves in that dish we are creating. If I don't please myself, it's impossible I will be able to please you...
291 Joseph Addison General Happiness Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
292 Joseph Addison General Smile What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
293 Joseph F. Newton General Duty A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
294 Joseph Joubert General Labor Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
295 Joseph Joubert General Wisdom Never cut what you can untie.
296 Joseph Joubert General Example Children have more need of models than of critics.
297 Joseph P. Thomson General Self Control Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
298 Josh Billings General Persistence Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
299 Josh Billings General Foolishness The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
300 Judith Madon General Work Doubt not to reap, if thou canst bear to plough.
301 Kin Hubbard General Speech The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
302 Konrad Adenauer General Opinion We all live under the same sky, but not all of us see the same horizon.
303 La Fontaine General Belief Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
304 Lao-Tzu General Learning A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
305 Lao-Tzu General Effort The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
306 Latin Proverb General Action If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
307 Latin Proverb General Self Confidence Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
308 Lee Segal General Duplication A man with one watch always knows the time. A man with two watches is never sure.
309 Legal Maxim General Mercy In case of doubt, it is best to lean on the side of mercy.
310 Leonardo Da Vinci General Mediocrity The average person looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odor or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
311 Lewis Carroll General Wisdom Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
312 Lewis Padgett General Parenthood Salmon do the same thing...The young of the species are not conditioned to live in the completer world of their parents. Having developed sufficiently, they then enter that world. Later they breed. The fertilized eggs are buried in the sand, far up the river, where later they hatch.
313 Lewis Perelman General Conformance Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
314 Lord Chesterfield General Pride Be wiser tha other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
315 Lord Keynes General Truth When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
316 Louis Pasteur General Chance Chance favors the prepared mind.
317 Louise Hay General Self Esteem Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
318 M. Russell Ballard General Goals I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life…If you want to have success in the goal-setting process, you learn to write your goals down. I would even put them in a prominent place…Spend your energies doing those things that will make a difference.
319 Malcolm Muggeridge General Old Age Now, the prospect of death overshadows all others for me. I am like a man on a sea voyage nearing his destination. When I embarked, I worried about having a cabin with a porthole, whether I should be asked to sit at the captain?s table, who were the more attractive and important passengers. All such considerations become pointless, however, when I shall soon be disembarking.
320 Margaret Halsey General Dreams The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
321 Margaret Sangster General Vanity Not always the fanciest cake is the best to eat.
322 Maria Montessori General Principles Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
323 Mariah Burton Nelson General Practice I think it's in the striving, in the discomfort, in the intersection between ambition (what you want to do) and reality (what you can do) that one learns to feel like a champion. One learns to act like a champion through practice.
324 Marianne Williamson General Excellence Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we subconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Fear of Failure) Don't afraid of what I cannot do. Conquer the fear of success, greatness and the unknowns that come with it.
325 Marie von Ebner Eschenbach General Old Age In youth we learn; in age we understand.
326 Marilyn vos Savant General Wisdom To acquire knowledge, one must study; But to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
327 Mark L. Byers General Work Good work involves nourishing the life of something inside you that is larger than yourself.
328 Mark Twain General Honesty Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
329 Mark Twain General Dreams Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
330 Mark Twain General Grief Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
331 Mark Twain General Speculation There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
332 Mark Twain General Speech The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
333 Mark Twain General Self Esteem There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
334 Mark Twain General Adventure There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. (Tom Sawyer)
335 Mark Twain General Judgement To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
336 Mark Twain General Change Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
337 Mark Twain General Genius Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.
338 Mark Twain General Habit Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
339 Mark Twain General Friendship Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
340 Mark Twain General Adventure Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
341 Mark Twain General Education I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
342 Mark Twain General Competition It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
343 Mark Victor Hansen General Delight Treat life as a grand adventure waiting for you.
344 Marquis de Vauvenargues General Labor The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
345 Martha Washington General Happiness The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.
346 Martin Fowler General Software Development We believe the key to writing good software is to have good programmers...You don't have to accept less-talented people. It's the more talented people who get most of the work done.
347 Martin Fraquhar Tupper General Speech Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
348 Martin Luther King Jr General Character The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
349 Martin Luther King Jr General Creativity Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
350 Martin Luther King Jr General Duty In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
351 Mary Wollstonecraft General Evil No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
352 Mary Wortley Montagu General Wisdom People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
353 Max L. Forman General Pride Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
354 Melinda Gates General Wealth We do not want to give excessive wealth to our progeny. Giving wealth to young and future unborn children, in our opinion, reduces or eliminates the character-building challenges ahead of them in life that they would otherwise face
355 Mexican Proverb General Courage Everyone can be master of their own fear.
356 Michael Gerber General Creativity Passion is the love of creation. Creation is its own gift.
357 Moshe F. Rubinstein General Uncertainty Uncertainty is present in most situations we face. It is part of the human condition. We must learn to accept this fact and deal with uncertainty in two fundamental ways: develop tools to reduce it when we can, and learn to tolerate it when we cannot...the predisposition to tolerating uncertainty is a crucial attitude for creative human thinking and problem-solving.
358 Mother Teresa General Renewal To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
359 Najile S. Khoury General Fear Fear of misfortune is worse than misfortune itself.
360 Napoleon Bonaparte General Glory Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
361 Nathaniel Branden General Self Esteem Self-esteem is the reputation we aquire within ourselves.
362 Nathaniel Emmons General Habit Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
363 Nathaniel Hawthorn General Socialism While he leans on the mighty arm of the Republic, his own proper strength departs from him. He loses...the capability of self support.
364 Nelson Henderson General Service The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
365 Nelson Shanks General Progression Attack your weaknesses. That's difficult. Creativity can present a whole spectrum of challenges, and it's so tempting to stick with familiar territory.
366 Niccolo Machiavelli General Force It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
367 Nicholeen Peck General Balance Life can’t be in balance or much of the greatness in the world wouldn’t happen. However, spirituality should be in balance. In fact, if a person is spiritually balanced then they can make it through all the uncertain twists and turns in life.
368 Norman Vincent Peale General Enthusiasm There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
369 Norman Vincent Peale General Commitment Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
370 Norman Vincent Peale General Enthusiasm Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.
371 Norman Vincent Peale General Success Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
372 Og Mandino General Excellence If we settle for mediocrity in the little things, we usually end up settling for mediocrity in the big things.
373 Ogden Nash General Parenthood Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
374 Oliver Wendell Holmes General Speech It is the providence of knowledge to speak and the privilege of wisdom to listen.
375 Oriental Proverb General Wisdom One who believes himself to have all the answers certainly hasn't asked all the questions.
376 Oscar Wilde General Cynisism What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
377 Oscar Wilde General Self Esteem To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
378 Oscar Wilde General Age I am not young enough to know everything.
379 Osvaldo Cruz General Mistakes Through others errors, a wise man corrects his own.
380 Pardis Sabeti General Success I realized at some point that you can do anything if you love it enough. I don't think I do anything special. It's just that I stick around things that I love. When I do that, everything tends to fall into place very quickly.
381 Paul Erdos General Problems Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
382 Paul Pearsall General Action We come to feel as we behave.
383 Peter Coffee General Language I suspect that language wars used to start for reasons described by storyteller Garrison Keillor in his 1985 book "Lake Wobegon Days," in which he told of the frustration of immigrants to the U.S. who found themselves surrounded by people who don't speak the same native language. "You become a yokel ... an idiot," Keillor wrote, no matter how smart and insightful you might have been when you could speak in the language you know best.
384 Peter Drucker General Action Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
385 Peter Marshall General Principles Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
386 Philip Massinger General Love Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
387 Phillip Brooks General Children The future of the race marches forward on the feet of little children.
388 Plutarch General Progression The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
389 Proverb General Wisdom What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
390 R.G. Collingwood General Purpose Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
391 Racing Saying General Speed Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?
392 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Action In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
393 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Goals We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
394 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Preparation The future belongs to those who prepare for it.
395 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Example That which we are, we are all the while teaching,not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
396 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Courage Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
397 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Courage What a new face courage puts on everything!
398 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Wisdom Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
399 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Potential What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
400 Ralph Waldo Emerson General The Present Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
401 Randy Pausch General Adversity Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something...The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
402 Randy Pausch General Opportunity We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
403 Randy Pausch General Skill Have something to bring to the table because that will make you more valuable.
404 Randy Pausch General Relevancy An injured Lion wants to know that it can still roar.
405 Randy Pausch General Problems When there's an elephant in the rom, introduce it.
406 Randy Pausch General Feedback When you are screwing up and nobody says anything to you, that means they have given up on you.
407 Randy Pausch General Time Time must be explicitly managed, like money...Ask yourself if you are spending your time on the right things. Don't invest time on irrelevant details. It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister.
408 Randy Pausch General Planning You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.
409 Randy Pausch General Tasks I'm a big believer in to do lists. It helps break life into small sets.
410 Renier Guistina Michiel General Happiness The world improves people according to the dispositions they bring into it.
411 Richard Bach General Excuses Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
412 Richard Wagner General Happiness Joy is not in things; it is in us.
413 Richard Whately General Sleep Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
414 Rita Mae Brown General Mistakes The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
415 Robert Browning General Mistakes A minute's success pays the failure of years.
416 Robert Frost General Persistence The best way out is always through.
417 Robert Frost General Education Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
418 Robert Frost General Happiness Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
419 Robert H. Schuller General Decision Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
420 Robert Louis Stevenson General Preparation Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
421 Rodin General Experience Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
422 Rosemary Nelson General Humility No Matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment.
423 Rotarian General Worry If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago.
424 Rousseau General Rights Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
425 Rousseau General Speech People who know little are usually great talkers, while people who know much say little.
426 Rousseau General Trials To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
427 Royal Bank of Canada General Caution There is no dishonour in rethinking a problem.
428 Ruskin General Nature No cheating or bargaining will ever get a single thing out of Nature's "establishment" at half price.
429 Samuel Butler General Experience Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
430 Samuel Butler General Life Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
431 Samuel J. Hurwitt General Speech Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
432 Samuel Johnson General Family To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
433 Samuel Johnson General Knowledge Knowledge is of two kinds, we know the subject for ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
434 Samuel Johnson General Money A man had better have 10,000 pounds at the end of 10 years passed in England than 20,000 pounds at the end of 10 years passed in India, because you must compute what you must give up for money...And a man who has lived 10 years in India has given up 10 years of social comfort and all those advantages which arise from living in England.
435 Samuel Johnson General Principles He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences.
436 Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower General Mistakes Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
437 Scott Abel General Software Development (Speaking on advertising revenue based free software)...This model will not work if people don't love the software.
438 Selene Yeager General Initiative I never say never. I believe that if you really want to do something, there must be a way.
439 Seneca General Charity We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
440 Seneca General Anger The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
441 Seneca General Self Control Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
442 Seneca General Trials Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
443 Seneca General Charity The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others.
444 Seneca General Procrastination While we are postponing, life speeds by.
445 Seymour Cray Technology Power If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
446 Shakespeare General Action Action is eloquence.
447 Sidney Smith General Action A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men and women whom timidity prevented from making a first effort, who if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone to great lengths in the career of fame.
448 Simonides General Dance Dancing is silent poetry.
449 Sir Walter Scott General Action If you turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
450 Socrates General Misfortune If all our misfortunes were laid in one heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
451 St. Augustine General Self Control To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
452 Stan M. Gardner General Health So, although the "calories in, calories out" concept is compelling - and true in some cases - it does not work for everyone...I see the body more as a biochemistry laboratory than as a bank. The body is alive, constantly seeking to attain a state of balance and harmony. Atoms, molecules, cells, organs, limbs and fluids perform in concert to keep bodily functions alive and healthy.
453 Stanislaus Lezczynski General Responsibility No snowflake in an avelanche ever feels responsible.
454 Stella, Lady Reading General Action The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
455 Stephan Rechtschaffen General Genius Brilliance is about creativity and depth of understanding, not speed of performance.
456 Stephen R. Covey General Gratitude Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generations before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up.
457 Stephen R. Covey General Destiny The best way to predict your future is to create it.
458 Stephen R. Covey General Goals Begin with the End in Mind.
459 Steve Post General Speech Remember a closed mouth gathers no foot.
460 Steven R. Covey General Self Mastery Inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promisis to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.
461 Student Fable General Caution It's better to run today and live another day.
462 Student Fable General Caution Better to be old than bold.
463 Student Fable General Caution He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
464 Sun Tzu General Opportunity Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
465 Swedish Proverb General Wisdom Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
466 T.H. Huxley General Self Confidence The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
467 Tennyson General Optimism Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
468 Terrence General Bravery Fortune favors the brave.
469 Terrence General Wisdom I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
470 Theodore Roosevelt General Life Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
471 Thomas Browne General Courage When life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
472 Thomas Carlyle General Duty Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
473 Thomas Carlyle General Pride The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
474 Thomas Carlyle General Action Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
475 Thomas Edison General Potential If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves!
476 Thomas Fuller General Courtesy All doors are open to courtesy.
477 Thomas Fuller General Principles Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
478 Thomas Fuller General Wisdom If thou are a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.
479 Thomas Jefferson General Persistence I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have it.
480 Thomas Jefferson General Pleasure Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
481 Thomas Jefferson General Principles Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
482 Thomas Jefferson General Fear ...how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
483 Thomas O'Shaughnessy General Self Discipline No man is free until he conquers himself.
484 Tryon Edwards General Old Age Age does not depend on years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
485 Tryon Edwards General Improvement People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
486 Turkish Proverb General Mistakes No matter how long you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
487 Unknown General Motherhood There is no place for a mother to go to resign.
488 Unknown General Opportunity The door to opportunity is marked 'push'.
489 Unknown General Pretense People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you make them feel.
490 Unknown General Speech We lightly jest, with heedless words that never should be spoken; and do not know how words can bruise nor wounded hearts be broken.
491 Unknown General Focus The successful man is the average man... focused.
492 Unknown General Goals An obstacle is someting you see when you take your eyes off of the goal you are trying to reach.
493 Unknown General Habit Bad habits are like a comfortable bed...easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
494 Unknown General Cheerfulness If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
495 Unknown General Gratitude I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
496 Unknown General Speech Kind words are short to speak but their echoes are endless.
497 Unknown General Handicaps If you are handicapped it just means that everyone else needed a head start.
498 Unknown General Coincidence Coincidence is a miracle of God that has remained anonymous.
499 Unknown General Knowledge The most important things in our lives are those learned after we think we know everything.
500 Unknown General Opportunity Listen carefully. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
501 Unknown General Work If you are going to leave you footprints in the sands of time first put on your workboots.
502 Unknown General Self Pity The only thing that some people do for themselves is feel sorry, and even then they like help with it.
503 Unknown General Trials A smooth sea never made skillful mariner.
504 Unknown General Knowledge It's better to know nothing than to know that which isn't so.
505 Unknown General Trials Be cheerful, the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
506 Unknown General Trials Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
507 Unknown General Patience There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly will endure.
508 Unknown General Wisdom He who rides a tiger can never dismount.
509 Unknown General Happiness The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
510 Unknown General Optimism My 5-year-old grandson was jumping all over the furniture. His mother told him to stop or he might knock all of his teeth out. He replied: "Can I put them all under my pillow?"
511 Unknown General Fanaticism God, please save me from your followers!
512 Unknown General Life Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the moments that take our breath away.
513 Unknown General Happiness No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
514 Unknown General Success It's difficult to argue with success.
515 Unknown General History The gate of history swings on small hinges.
516 Velasquez General Art Imitate nothing or nobody, paint all people and things as you see them.
517 Vernon Sanders Law General Experience Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
518 Virgil General Self Confidence They can conquer who believe they can.
519 Voltaire General Chance Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without cause.
520 Voltaire General Music Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
521 W. Somerset Maugham General Excellence It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
522 W.C. Field General Persistence Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim up stream.
523 W.G. Benham General Mistakes The road to ruin is always in good repair; the travellers pay the expense of it.
524 W.H. Davies General Contemplation What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
525 W.H. Murray General Persistence Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
526 Wally Famous Amos General Self Esteem Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
527 Walter Winchell General Friendship A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
528 Washington Irving General Mystery Mystery often defeats itself by the suspicions it awakens.
529 Wila Cather General Happiness That is happiness, to be dissolved into something completely great.
530 Wilis R. Whitney General Self Confidence Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
531 Will Durant General Education Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
532 Will Rogers General Action Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
533 William Cullen Bryant General Problems Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness, a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
534 William Ellery Channing General Trials Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
535 William Hamilton General Truth Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
536 William Hazlitt General Peace Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
537 William Hazlitt General Experience The more we do, the more we can do.
538 William James General Wisdom The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
539 William James General Life The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
540 William James General Thought That which holds the attention determines the action.
541 William Jennings Bryan General Opportunity Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
542 William Jennings Bryan General Destiny Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
543 William Jordan General Progression Man should be content with what he has... but never with what he is.
544 William Lyon Phelps General Pride This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
545 William Ross Wallace General Motherhood The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
546 William Saroyan General Mistakes Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
547 William Shakespeare General Discipline What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy? Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity for a toy? For one sweet grape, who would the vine destroy? Of what found beggar but to touch the crown, Would with the scepter straight be stricken down?
548 William Wordsworth General Kindness The best portion of a good mans life, his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
549 Wilson Mizner General Chance The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
550 Winston Churchill General Optimism A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
551 Winston Churchill General Pessimism A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
552 Xenocrates General Speech I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
553 Yogi Berra General Goals You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.