Orison Swett Marden

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden

John Keats

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion, I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more, I could be martyred for my religion, Love is my religion, I could die for that.
- John Keats

Tao Te Ching

When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
- Tao Te Ching

Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Richard Bach

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
- Richard Bach

James Abram Garfield

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
- James Abram Garfield

Porterfield

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
- Sir Thomas Browne

Barbara Sher

You don't have to get it right the first time.
- Barbara Sher

Gaston Bachelard

There is no original truth, only original error.
- Gaston Bachelard

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pierre Beaumarchais

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
- Pierre Beaumarchais

C. E. Montague

"To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations."
- C. E. Montague

Homer Simpson

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
- Homer Simpson

Israel Zangwill

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
- Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)

Adrienne Gusoff

Girls just want to have funds.
- Adrienne Gusoff

Blaise Pascal

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
- Blaise Pascal

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Michael Jordan

I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

Terry Pratchett

“In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. ”
- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Bertrand Russell

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
- Bertrand Russell

A. Whitney Brown

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- A. Whitney Brown

Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Bernadette Devlin

Proverb

Short judgments make long friends.
- Proverb

Aline Murray Kilmer

I'm sorry you are wiser, I'm sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.
- Aline Murray Kilmer

William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- William James

Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso

Mark Twain

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances.
- Mark Twain