Confucius

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
- Confucius

Thomas Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
- Thomas Edison

Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore

C. S. Lewis

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
- C. S. Lewis

Karl Marx

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
- Karl Marx

Sanford Sherizen

Lawyers should be buried 35 feet underground since, deep down, they are very nice people.
- Sanford Sherizen

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
- Samuel Johnson

William Lyon Phelps

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps

Spanish Proverb

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
- Spanish Proverb

Sir Edward Appleton

"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
- Sir Edward Appleton

Ronald Reagan

"Facts are stupid things."
- Ronald Reagan

Charles J. Givens

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
- Charles J. Givens

Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
- Sir Winston Churchill

Bertrand Russell

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
- Bertrand Russell

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson

G. Harrison

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there.”
- G. Harrison

Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Robert Byrne

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne

Robert Spector

It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.
- Robert Spector

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Joe Baca

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca

Michel De Montaigne

"To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately."
- Michel De Montaigne

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurus

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1913)

Agnes Repplier

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."
- Agnes Repplier

James Anthony Froude

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
- James Anthony Froude

Mark Twain

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.
- Mark Twain