Famous Quotes

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charles Schulz

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch

All famous people have characteristics that make them unique and at the same time different.
Byron Pulsifer, from Quotes by Famous People

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli



If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
Linda Evans

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Anthony Robbins

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. Robert Browning

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. Henry Ward Beecher

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasgow

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. Jim Rohn

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live. Milton Berle

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. William Arthur Ward

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.Dwight Eisenhower

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mohandas Gandhi

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.Peter F. Drucker

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver. Tom Peters

None of us is as smart as all of us.Kenneth Blanchard

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. >Sam Walton

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese. John Paul Getty

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. George Harrison

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. Bob Hope

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Charles F. Kettering

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. Norman Vincent Peale

Everyone can think of the one thing that would make life better for them. But people are not so quick to answer the second question: "What are you doing to make that change come true".Catherine Pulsifer

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw

May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. Elizabeth Taylor

If you want to be happy, be.Leo Tolstoy

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

Successful people are simply those with success habits. Brian Tracy

Happiness and love are just a choice away. Leo Buscaglia

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! Louisa May Alcott

Life is about timing. Carl Lewis

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. Zig Ziglar

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. Dale Carnegie

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller

It ain't over till it's over. Yogi Berra

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain



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