Quotes

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
-- Unknown

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
--Henry Ford, 1863 - 1947

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them
anymore.
-- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
-- Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999

There must be more to life than having everything.

-- Maurice Sendak

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

-- Bethania McKenstry

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

-- Dorothee Solle

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- J. G. Holland

When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner, 1876 - 1933

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
- Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894 - 1963

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when
you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
-- Josh Billings

You can sort of be married, you can sort of be divorced, you can sort of be living together, but you can't sort of have a baby.
- David Shire

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard

The only true happiness comes from squandering（浪费） ourselves for a purpose.

-- William Cowper

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
-- Jeff Valdez

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

Respect a man, he will do the more.
-- James Howell

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
-- William Jennings Bryan

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

-- Arnold Palmer

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

-- Josh Billings

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
-- Toni Cade Bambara

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
-- Wilfred A. Peterson

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
-- J. S. Bryan

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense

A friend is a second self.

-- Aristotle

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

-- Henry Ford

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
-- Virginia Kelley

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

-- Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

-- Edna Buchanan

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

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

-- Henry C. Link

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

-- Aaron Rose

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944

The more you know the less you need to say.
Jim Rohn

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
- Frank A. Clark

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
---Charles Kettering

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
---Ingrid Bergman

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
----Anais Nin

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

All people want is someone to listen.
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Goddard

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
- Edsger Dijkstra

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney J. Harris, 1917 - 1986

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Without discipline, there's no life at all.
-- Katharine Hepburn

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
-- John Milton

Where facts are few, experts are many.

-- Donald R. Gannon

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

-- Jackie Mason

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Ratliffe

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-- George Eliot

Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
-- Gustave Flaubert
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
-- Paul Fix

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
-- Peter Ustinov

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Rodin

All things are difficult before they are easy.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
-- Henry Fielding
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
-- Plutarch

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

-- Garrison Keillor, in Salon.com

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

-- Poul Anderson

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

-- Jane Wagner

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

-- Flip Wilson

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

-- Woodrow Wilson

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

-- Baltasar Gracian

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

-- Plato

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

-- Katharine Hepburn

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
- Andrew Lang

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

-- William G. McAdoo

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Life is just one damned thing after another.

-- Elbert Hubbard

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

-- Margery Cuyler

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

-- The Talmud

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- Gloria Steinem

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
-- John Wayne, Advice on acting

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm, 1900 - 1980

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
-- Marilyn Ferguson

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
- Jean Cocteau, 1889 - 1963