Quotes and Sayings

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spence

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Robert P. Vanderpoel

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann von Goethe

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Gustav Jung

We must as second best... take the least of the evils.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.

James Dean

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

William Shakespeare

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palme

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

Jimi Hendrix

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

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

James Olive

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.

Uta Hagan

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

James Lileks

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius K. Nyerere

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Thomas Fulle