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 Famous quotes on success, motivation, positive thinking and much more.


All We're Saying Is Give Peace A Chance

John Lennon



PEACE

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

-President Eisenhower-

We make war that we may live in peace.
-Aristotle-

Bullets cannot be recalled.
They cannot be uninvented.
But they can be taken out of the gun.
- Martin Amis-


The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
- Richard M. Nixon


Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
- Georg Büchner

I ... believe that in every country
the people themselves are more peaceably
and liberally inclined than their governments.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt-



HAPPINESS

The art of being happy lies in the power
of extracting happiness from common things.
-Henry Ward Beecher-

We act as though comfort and luxury were the
chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kinglsey-


Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln-
 

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
 

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell .


BRAIN

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel


DISCIPLINE

More than those who hate you,
more than all your enemies,
an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
-Buddha-

EDUCATION

When you educate a boy,
you educate an individual,
but when you educate a girl,
you educate a community.
-African proverb-


ENDEAVOUR

Let us endeavour to live that when
we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain-


LIFE

A man who dares to waste one hour of life
has not discovered the value of life.
-Charles Darwin-

DEMOCRACY

The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that
we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.

-Edward Dowling-

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government
-Thomas Jefferson-


The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through
-Alexis de Tocqueville-

The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941]
-Edward Dowling-


"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
--Mahatma Gandhi-


GOVERNMENT

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
-Milton Friedman-


HEROES

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes
are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs
whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
-Florence Nightingale-


INDEPENDENCE

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
The only real security that a man will have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford -

 

KINDNESS

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams

It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you."
-Cort Flint-
 

"Let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier. Be the living
expression of God's kindness: kindness in
your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

-Mother Teresa-

You have not lived a perfect day,
unless you've done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.
-Ruth Smeltzer -

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
— Maurice Maeterlinck-

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

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln-
 

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

-Stephen  Grellet, 1773-1855-


OPPORTUNITY

“Opportunity is missed by most people because I
It is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”-
-Thomas Alva Edison-


KNOWLEDGE

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli


PAIN

Whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the
pain of others"

-Albert Schweitzer-


POSSESSION

Desire makes everything blossom;
possession makes everything wither and fade.
-Marcel Proust-

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
-Pliny the Younger-
 


PRESIDENT

My father was not a failure.
After all, he was the father
of a President of the United States.
-Harry S Truman-

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow-


PRINCIPLE

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


PUBLIC AFFAIRS

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

-Plato-
 



GROWING
"Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees"
- William Marriott-


DYING
“A lot of people die at forty, but they aren’t buried until 30 years later”.
-General George S. Patton-


LIGHT
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by
another human being. Each of us owes deepest
thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer-


CHOICES
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

-Eleanor Roosevelt-



SUNSHINE

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves."
-James Matthew Barrie-


LIGHT
"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
-Unknown-


SUCCESS

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion,
you must set yourself on fire first.
- Reggie Leach-
"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
-H. Boetcker-


AGE

Old age begins and middle age ends
The day your descendants outnumber your friends.
- Ogden Nash-

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. -Anonymous-


HELPING
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
 



COMMITMENT
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world;
indeed it's the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American Anthropologist


COMMUNITY
What a man does for himself dies with him. What he does for his community lives long after he is gone.
-Theodore Roosevelt-


WRITING
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
-Benjamin Franklin-



SMELL
A nickel will get you on the subway,but garlic will get you a seat.
-New York Yiddish Proverb-


IDEA
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo-


GOOD
The greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.
-Ulysses S. Grant-


GENERATION
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great.
You can be that great generation.
Let your greatness blossom."
-Nelson Mandela -


GROWING

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Author: Abraham Lincoln


HEROES

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes
are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs
whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
-Florence Nightingale-

WOMEN
If ever the world sees a time when women shall come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a power such as the world has never known.
-Matthew Arnold, British poet (1822-1888)-
 


TIME

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time
which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
-Charles Caleb Colton-

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
-Dion Boucicault-

The bad news is time flies
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Altshuler-

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin-


WEALTH

There are two ways to increase your wealth.
Increase your means or decrease your wants.
The best is to do both at the same time.
- Benjamin Franklin-

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound
to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
-ANDREW CARNEGIE-


HONEST

There are very few honest friends--
the demand is not particularly great.

-Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach-
 


LUCK

I am a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson-


BLINDNESS

It is the eye of other people that ruin us.
If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes,
fine houses or fine furniture.
-Benjamin Franklin-


 


TODAY

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie -


BEING SMART

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein-


ENTHUSIASM

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Henry David Thoreau

Enthusiasm is the daily food of successful people.
Marie Svistunovs


MISTAKES

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing
because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
-Sydney Smith-



BEAUTY

The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and wonder of the world...

-John Buroughs
-


THOUGTS

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.  The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

-Alexander Graham Bell-


FAILURES

Many of life's failures are people who did not
realize how close they were to success when they gave  up.
- Thomas Edison-


 

MISTAKE

If you have made mistakes,
there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford-

Mistakes are painful when they happen,
but years later a collection of mistakes
is what is called experience.
- Denis Waitley-

"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
-Ralph Nader -


POLITICS

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best.
-Will Rogers-

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-Henry Cate VII-
 

I once said cynically of a politician,
'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
-Oscar Levant-

The reason there are so few female politicians is
that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
-Maureen Murphy -

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-Alfred E. Newman-


POVERTY

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness;
poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard-
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle


POWER

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-Stewart L. Udall-


PUBLIC OFFICE

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop-


END

When you get to the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on."
-Franklin Roosevelt-

ENVY

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him
Won’t have time to envy the man above him.
- Henrietta Mears-


REPUTATION

You can't build a reputation
on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

SECRET

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

--Benjamin Franklin

 

SPENDING

On the subject of spending, it's interesting to note what Benjamin Franklin
thought of the topic. Of course, it was written in his earlier years, he was much more liberal with his money later on.

You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then can be no great matter but remember what Poor Richard says "Many a little
makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship."
- Benjamin Franklin-

A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings
and twenty years can never be spent.
-Benjamin Franklin-

 

THINKING

"Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably
why so few people engage in it.”
- Henry Ford-


TROUBLES

I have known a great many troubles,
but most of them never happened.
-Mark Twain-

YESTERDAY

Now that it's all over,
what did you really do yesterday
that's worth mentioning?
-Coleman Cox-


WAR

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars
for young men to die in.
-George McGovern -

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
-A. J. P. Taylor-

We can best help you to prevent war
not by repeating your words and following your methods
but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- Virginia Woolf-


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