Sunday, January 29, 2012

Quotes

Ever have those days when you just need to read something that makes you want to be better person? I'm in need of that... so I found a couple quotes to get me through the week.

The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
– Socrates

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
-Cardinal Newman

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it
-Henry Ford

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathon Swift

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
-Unknown

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: "If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"
-Denis Waitley

There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have.
-Mark Twain

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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Stephen Leacock

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
-Madonna

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
-Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
-Emily Zola J 'accuse

Attitudes are more important than facts.
-Carl Menninger

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet 1664

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
-Emmett Fox

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle