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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Walter Bagehot Quotes |
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| There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. Lou Dorfsman Quotes |
| When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn Quotes |
| There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Robert Half Quotes |
| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace Quotes |
| We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow Quotes |
| Behind an able man there are always other able men. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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| Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Sydney Smith Quotes |
| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Sydney Smith Quotes |
| There is nothing worse in this world than wasted talent. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. Author Unknown Quotes |
| They are able because they think they are able. Virgil Quotes |
| It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. Wilbur Wright Quotes |
| Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Zig Ziglar Quotes |
| To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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| Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
| Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
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| Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Sir William Alton Jones Quotes |
| If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton Quotes |
| More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. William Ashley Sunday Quotes |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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| Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke Quotes |
| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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| Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Malcolm Forbes Quotes |
| As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. Helen Keller Quotes |
| Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
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| Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera; it is the ego they cannot forgo. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| "Ability is of little account without opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| "A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations." William Feather Quotes |
| "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Quotes |
| "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." Martha Grimes Quotes |
| A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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| Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. Mary Lou Retton Quotes |
| Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. John Wooden Quotes |
| "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." John Wooden Quotes |
| The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. Tom Lehrer Quotes |
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| Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." Paul Graham Quotes |
| Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. Paul Graham Quotes |
| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas H. Huxley Quotes |
| The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Quotes |
| Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
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| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero Quotes |
| It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. Kareem Abdul-Jabar Quotes |
| Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Kareem Abdul-Jabar Quotes |
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| Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance. M. I. Abramowitz Quotes |
| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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| That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms... Samuel Adams Quotes |
| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Scott Adams Quotes |
| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| 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. Joseph Addison Quotes |
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| In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton Quotes |
| Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. Alcaeus Quotes |
| The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence. James Waddell Alexander, II Quotes |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George Herbert Allen Quotes |
| Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality. William R(ichard) Allen Quotes |
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| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen Quotes |
| The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways. Marco A. Almazan Quotes |
| Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. Joseph Alsop Quotes |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. Eric Anderson Quotes |
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| The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Jean Anouilh Quotes |
| Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Newton Anthony Quotes |
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| What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. Hannah Arendt Quotes |
| Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. Aristotle Quotes |
| Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle Quotes |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Quotes |
| The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' Richard Quotes |
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| Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. (Justin) Brooks Atkinson Quotes |
| The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. (Justin) Brooks Atkinson Quotes |
| To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
| It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
| The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be Quoted in order to give the data authenticity. Norman R. Augustine Quotes |
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| The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen Quotes |
| The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Sri da Avabhas Quotes |
| The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself. Alfred Jules Ayer Quotes |
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| Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes |
| Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot Quotes |
| There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. Thomas Andrew Bailey Quotes |
| Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
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| Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want. Clive Alexander Barnes Quotes |
| During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. Jacques Martin Barzun Quotes |
| Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. D. A. Battista Quotes |
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| It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. Charles Baudelaire Quotes |
| The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie Quotes |
| People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. Max Beerbohm Quotes |
| Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. Brendan Francis Behan Quotes |
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| What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself. Bernard Iddings Bell Quotes |
| Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family! Joachim du Bellay Quotes |
| Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
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| What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
| The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. Irving Quotes |
| All power in human hands is liable to be abused. Sarah Bernhardt Quotes |
| Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough. Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotes |
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| Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. Bible Quotes |
| Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies. 1 Timothy 1:4 Bible: New Testament Quotes |
| There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
| My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are. B. A. Billingsly Quotes |
| When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? Jim Quotes |
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| Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky Quotes |
| Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Niels Henrik David Bohr Quotes |
| An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. William Bolitho Quotes |
| When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| What is history but a fable agreed upon. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes |
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| The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono Quotes |
| The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun Quotes |
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| Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes |
| A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. Fawn M. Brodie Quotes |
| Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Sir Thomas Browne Quotes |
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| The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Jerome Seymour Bruner Quotes |
| This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. Jean de La Bruyère Quotes |
| Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. Buddha Quotes |
| To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha Quotes |
| Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. Buddha Quotes |
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| The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. (Carl) Frederick Buechner Quotes |
| There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting. Rudolf Karl Bultmann Quotes |
| When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running. Mary Ingraham Bunting Quotes |
| I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts. G. B. Burgin Quotes |
| He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. Dr. David M. Burns Quotes |
| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Robert Burton Quotes |
| One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. Barbara Bush Quotes |
| Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] George Walker Bush Quotes |
| It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. Horace Bushnell Quotes |
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| And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress. John Calvin Quotes |
| The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus Quotes |
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| Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp Quotes |
| Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. Alexis Carrel Quotes |
| In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. Alexis Carrel Quotes |
| If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. Alexis Carrel Quotes |
| You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Smith Carter Quotes |
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| The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. James Earl Quotes |
| I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. James Earl Quotes |
| Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey Quotes |
| It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Willa Sibert Cather Quotes |
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| As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett Quotes |
| Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in The Others Miguel Cerbantes Quotes |
| One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
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| The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. Oswald Chambers Quotes |
| To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. William Ellery Channing Quotes |
| The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable Advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is The Foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. Pierre Charron Quotes |
| The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever Quotes |
| The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotes |
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| Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotes |
| Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. Madame Chiang Quotes |
| The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. I Ching Quotes |
| I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
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| Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. John Anthony Ciardi Quotes |
| For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity? Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism. Frank A. Clark Quotes |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C(harles) Clarke Quotes |
| Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. Henry Clay Quotes |
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| Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. Glenda Cloud Quotes |
| I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. Frank Moore Colby Quotes |
| If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
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| The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. Edwin Conklin Quotes |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
| The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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| The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
| If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. Barbara Cook Quotes |
| We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Charles Horton Cooley Quotes |
| Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (John) Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created." (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule) L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Quotes |
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| The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses. Bryce Courtenay Quotes |
| An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. M. Shawn Covey Quotes |
| Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward Quotes |
| Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. Quentin Crisp Quotes |
| Love is not enough. It must be The Foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Quentin Crisp Quotes |
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| Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. Philip Quotes |
| Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question. Aleister Crowley Quotes |
| I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Quotes |
| It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world. Curtis Dahl Quotes |
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| One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. Author Unknown Quotes |
| It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves. Jefferson Davis Quotes |
| That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it. Miles Dewey Davis Quotes |
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| Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself. Miles Dewey Davis, Jr. Quotes |
| The graveyards are full of indispensable men. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
| If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
| No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
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| If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes Quotes |
| People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
| But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| 'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' Charles Dickens Quotes |
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| There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate. John Sloan Dickey Quotes |
| In a progressive country change is constant, change is inevitable. Benjamin Quotes |
| Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. Benjamin Quotes |
| It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. Benjamin Quotes |
| The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire. Tibetan Doctrine Quotes |
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| Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Quotes |
| When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes |
| When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes |
| When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes |
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| Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes |
| Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. Maurice Druon Quotes |
| Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden Quotes |
| Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future. Diane Elizabeth Duane Quotes |
| The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois Quotes |
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| The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. John Foster Dulles Quotes |
| There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. Lawrence George Durrell Quotes |
| It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Max Forrester Eastman Quotes |
| If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next. Johathan Edwards Quotes |
| What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race? Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Quotes |
| We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. T. S. Eliot Quotes |
| It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. Professor Elledge Quotes |
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| Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. Epictetus Quotes |
| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus Quotes |
| Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. Louise Erdrich Quotes |
| I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity. M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher Quotes |
| Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripides Quotes |
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| Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. Marsha Evans Quotes |
| A sense of humor … is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman Quotes |
| Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. William Faulkner Quotes |
| Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. F(rancis) Scott Quotes |
| Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F(rancis) Scott Quotes |
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| Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F(rancis) Scott Quotes |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F(rancis) Scott Quotes |
| Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. Zelda Quotes |
| If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you. Ken Flaton Quotes |
| Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Jean Pierre Claris De Florian Quotes |
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| Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
| History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Bertie Forbes Quotes |
| It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. Eugene Forsey Quotes |
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| I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. Edward Morgan Forster Quotes |
| An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Quotes |
| Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud Quotes |
| American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. Betty Naomi Friedan Quotes |
| If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz Quotes |
| Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
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| We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. (Sarah) Margaret Fuller Quotes |
| The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. G Gaia Quotes |
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| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.' John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. Albert Gallatin Quotes |
| Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
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| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
| I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards) Lizzy Gardiner Quotes |
| True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
| The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
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| Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to. Stuti Garg Quotes |
| With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
| Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes |
| The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay Quotes |
| Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb Quotes |
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| True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry Quotes |
| It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti Quotes |
| The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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| Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. André Gide Quotes |
| The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Quotes |
| Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies Quotes |
| Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. Allen Ginsberg Quotes |
| Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
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| For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. Malcom Gladwell Quotes |
| One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasgow Quotes |
| God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| A man's errors are what make him amiable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The man of understanding finds everything laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all. Lavina Goodell Quotes |
| Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. Annette Goodheart Quotes |
| Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion…. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Rémy de Gourmont Quotes |
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| In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period? Antonio Gramsci Quotes |
| More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. Amy Grant Quotes |
| The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. Bernard Grasset Quotes |
| Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life. Greenday Quotes |
| What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? Bette Greene Quotes |
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| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. Russell Greene Quotes |
| Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. Vartan Gregorian Quotes |
| It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite; it makes the rebuke personal; the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. Paul Gruchow Quotes |
| Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter. Henry Anatole Grunwald Quotes |
| Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe. Henry Anatole Grunwald Quotes |
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| Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again. B. J. Gupta Quotes |
| Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists. Calvin S. Hall Quotes |
| Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence. Margaret Halsey Quotes |
| In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated. Edith Hamilton Quotes |
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| If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred?' And they'll say, 'Fred who?' And you say, 'Fred of snakes?' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's `fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why? Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable?' Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes? Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!! Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. John W. Hanley Quotes |
| It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
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| As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the grace of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life! In the words of the old hymn: Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey. David Havard Quotes |
| Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. Václav Havel Quotes |
| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Václav Havel Quotes |
| The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes Quotes |
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| To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt Quotes |
| There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. William Hazlitt Quotes |
| The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes |
| Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. Amanda Heggs Quotes |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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| A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
| Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel. Suzanne Heller Quotes |
| Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotes |
| Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotes |
