Quotes

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

“To speak of ‘mere words’ is much like speaking of ‘mere dynamite’!” – C.J. Ducasse

“Circumstances? I make circumstances!” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.” – William Shakespeare

“The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” – Thomas Carlyle

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendship.” – Abraham Lincoln

“To thy own self be true.” – Polonius

“Thought are funny little things, they can make paupers or make kings.” – Sidney Madwed

“We are what we do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“He that can have patience, can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it’s not true.” – Dorothy Parker

“No noble thing can be done without risks.” – Montaigne

“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.” – Gerard Barzan

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.” – Japanese Proverb

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“All men who achieved great things have been dreamers.” – Unknown

“Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.” – Budda

“Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.” – Harvey MacKay

“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson

“Every calling is great, when greatly pursued.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

“A goal is a dream with a due date.” – Brian Martin

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best friendship.” – Budda

“A man is not finished when he’s defeated, he’s finished when he quits.” – Richard M. Nixon

“The real winners in life are the losers who keep trying.” – Unknown

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – G.W.F. Hegel

“Change is not only likely, it is inevitable.” – Barbara Sher

“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we can hear twice as much as we speak.” – Epicetus

“He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.” – Confucius

“Great minds have purposes … others have wishes.” – Washington Irving

“Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes.” – Elder Kofford

“Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, Think Big!” – Donald Trump

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

“Take a chance! All life is a change. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” – Dale Carnegie

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.” – Jim Rohn

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” – Anonymous

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” – Edward Gibbon

“Chance favors the trained mind.” – Louis Pasteur

“Integrity is a keystone characteristic.” – Unknown

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” – Jonathan Winters

“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.” – Ludwig Erhard

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” – Blaise Pascal

“Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there’.” – Jef Mallett

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Picasso

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have Won Some Victory for Humanity.” – Horace Mann

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” – Frank Herbert

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“Decisions determine destiny.” – President Thomas S. Monson

“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.” – Evan Esar

“God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.” – Thomas Jefferson

“A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.” – Anonymous

“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick

” ‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Edward Young

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon

“The journey we maybe called to serve, may not be the one we envisioned.” – @ir0nw1l

“Our five senses are incomplete without the 6th, a sense of humor.” – Unknown

“Play … so that you may be serious.” – Anacharsis

“Work is therapy for the soul.” – Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” – Samuel Johnson

“Our greatest glory is not falling, but rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Never let them make you crawl.” – John Dillinger