Quotes

Quotes
-Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. (Bariness Amandine Lucile Dupin or George Sand)

-One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things that are not worthy of being known. (Crates)

-You can not legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating wealth away from the wealthy. You can not multiply wealth by dividing it. (Adrian Rogers 1931)

-Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible (Unknown)

-If you don't seize the moment, the moment passes and someone else seizes it.

-Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin

-The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Robert Cushing

-If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. Lord Chesterfield

-He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb

-Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

-Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein

-Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson

-The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell

-Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi

-Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality.
Practical dreamers do not quit. Napoleon Hill

-Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Aldous Huxley

-Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert

-Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill

-People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. Alexander Hamilton

-In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins

-A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb

-What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. Proverb

-The middle course is the best. Cleobulus

-By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander

-The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great

-If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Zen Proverb

-When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli

-You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life Winston Churchill

-Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

-You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi

-That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche

-I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen

-Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy

-The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. Richard Cech

-We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. Gerald J. Simmons

-Everybody dies, but not everyone lives.

-Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. Ayrton Senna

-I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna

-On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. Ayrton Senna

-And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. Ayrton Senna

-Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. Ayrton Senna

-I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.  Ayrton Senna

-We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.  Ayrton Senna

-It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore. Ayrton Senna

-If something is hard, it will take two days. If its impossible, it will take another day.  Jim Justice (The Justice Group)

-If you can't get it done in 24 hours, you're going to have to work nights. Jim Justice (The Justice Group)

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)

He who has the gold makes the rules (The Golden Rule)

We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made
only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other. (John Adams)

Please feel free to critize the quality of my work but do not dare doubt my honesty and integrity. That are and have have been more important to me than winning races. Whan I put on the fia shirt and sit in the stewarts room I feel such a responsibility that I woulnt be biased even if my son would be racing. Enjoy the race. This is a wonderful sport. (Emanual superio)

I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved.  (Anon)

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helder Camara)

"Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." (Satchel Paige)

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." (Chinese Proverb)

"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time" (Buddhist Quote)

"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" (Winston Churchill)

"The greatest freedom of all - is not having the fear of losing" (Unknown)

"Failure is not in falling down, it's in not getting up again" (Unknown)

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself." (Galileo )

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing." (Winston Churchill)

The Paradoxical Commandments!
People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." (Harold Wilson)
"Press On!
Nothing can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent.
This slogan "Press On" has solved, always will solve, the problems of the human race." (Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President)

"May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you." (Hungarian Proverb)

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." (J. C. Watts)

"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." (Socrates)

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." (The Dalai Lama)

"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." (Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones." (Old Chinese Proverb)

"I am still learning." (Michelangelo)

"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." (Unknown)

"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter." (Laura L. Hirschfeld)

Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go." (T.S. Eliot)

"An extraordinary person is just an ordinary person doing the right thing." (Unknown)

"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." (Joy J. Golliver)

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better? (GC Lichtenberg)

One of the most important things in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities. (Hazel Hawke)

"If you love something... set it free.
If it returns... you never lost it.
If it disappears and never comes back.
It was never yours to begin with." (Anon)

"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." (Confucius (551-479 BC))

"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." (Epicurus (341-270 BC))

"If we lose kindness and affection from our life, we have lost all that gives it charm." (Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC))

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." (George Washington)


"See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little." (Pope John XXIII)

"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." (Hindu Proverb)

"However true love is, true friendship is rarer." (Unknown)

"The one thing we can give and still keep is our word." (Unknown)

".....Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, bring them down to your level - it's much cheaper ..." (Quentin Crisp)

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

"There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." (Logan Pearsall Smith)

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." (Buddha)

"Live with great expectations and great things will happen." (Art Fettig)

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." (Goethe)

"When you run out of red, use blue!" (Pablo Picasso on flexibility and imagination)

"All children behave as well as they are treated." (Jan Hunt)
Thats what life is, a bunch of dreams, and you do what you can to try to make them happen. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)

There are no limits, only the one you place on yourself. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)

Your life is the way it is today because of you own actions and the decisions you have made.

Money does not change a person. It reveals who they really are.

"Take a lesson from the music industry and don't spend all your time suing people for misusing what you believe is your content — think instead about why they are doing this, and what it says about how your business is changing, and then try to adapt to that."

"He dropped me off, and he was like, 'Go! Live your life. I'm very proud of you.' And, 'Have a great time!'" she revealed. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)

"Well, he always tells me to look people in the eye and tell the truth and that's what I sort of tried to bring to this role," she said. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)

Children don't always listen, but they always watch.