Quotes

Most of these quotes are not mine but I found them interesting and wanted to share. Some of them were written by famous people and others by people like you and me. I hope you enjoy them. Perhaps I'll throw in a few quotes or saying that I've made up.

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.---Frederick Buechner

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.----Marian Wright Edelman

Only do what your heart tells you.---Princess Diana

Sam Nunn:
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.


Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Blaise Pascal:
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything

Frank Crane:
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Our distrust is very expensive.

Elizabeth Gilbert:
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Jesse Jackson:
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

John Lennon:
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

Mark Twain:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

William Arthur Ward:
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you


Scott Alexander:
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Laurence J. Peter:
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Winston Churchill:
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm


Mary Wollstonecraft:
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks


Abraham Lincoln (attributed):
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Mark Twain:
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

Sir Walter Scott:
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

Thomas Jefferson:
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

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

Aristotle:
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Edith Wharton:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

James Oppenheim:
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Ramona L. Anderson:
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.


Blaise Pascal:
We are all something, but none of us are everything

Cardinal De Retz:
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Carla Gordon:
If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

John Steinbeck:
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Christopher Reeve:
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Robert G. Ingersoll:
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity


William Sloane Coffin:
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Winston Churchill:
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.


Clarence Darrow:
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.


Mark Twain:
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt

So here are a few random ones that I wrote.. feel free to comment or add some of your own.

"When the best laid plans fall Thur, hoping and dreaming is the best that you can do. You just might be surprised to find what the future holds for you."

"A great man is like a piece of art work and can be a million dollar masterpiece when hung right!"

"A great friendship is like a building. when the foundation is strong, it can last a lifetime."

"Life can be like a bulls pin, dangerous to walk through, and always full of BULLSHIT!"

"One man's drama is another man's fantasy."

"We all choices to make, chances to take and a hell of alot at stake, wisdom will guide you through."



"I'm a robot that has just been reprogrammed and had all the right buttons pushed."

"Grow to like me, Grow to hate, either way I'm growing on you."


Perhaps I'll add more of my own later...hope u liked these quotes.