Quotes and Sayings
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.J. Russel Lynes
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.Abraham Lincoln
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.Hubert H. Humphrey
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.Edmund Burke
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
This hath not offended the king.Sir Thomas More, As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From Bacon
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.Portuguese Prove
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.Susan M. Watkins
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.Edward Irving Koch
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.Charles Knight
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.Samuel McChord Crothers
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.Josh Billings
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.Oren Arnold
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.William Hazlitt
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit.Heinrich Heine
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.Kahlil Gibran
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal".
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.John Keats
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.Andrew Schneide
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
