- Helen Keller "Everything has its wonders; even wonders and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therin to be content."
- Calvin Coolidge "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts... The slogan, 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind you, and what lies ahead of you, is of little importance when it is compared to what lies within you. If determination lies within you, you'll be able to find a solution to all your problems."
- Lou Holtz
"Believe in yourself. You can't satisfy everyone. Just make sure that you please yourself."
- Annie Smith Peck
"Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Seek simplicity and distrust it."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
"A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied."
- Helen Keller
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Sam Keen
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
- Mother Teresa
"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing GOD's gift of Himself."
- Charles Irion
"Do you know you have one purpose in life - To please GOD. How? Remember the 10 commandments. They are simple and please GOD. Now you have it."
- Charles Irion
"You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore!"
- Charles Irion
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, they can’t see you, and you have their shoes."
Business Quotes
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Unknown
"Don't itch for things you're not willing to scratch for."
- Samuel Goldwyn
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
- Zig Ziglar
"The things that count the most in life are the things that can't be counted"
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
- Laurel Cutler
"There is no data on the future."
- John Hays Hammond "Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success."
- Sir Winston Churchill "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Author Quotes
- Logan Pearsall Smith
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast!"
- Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
- Napoleon Hill
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
- John Updike
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
Educational Quotes
- William Butler Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
- John Raskin
"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, --- not merely industrious, but to love industry, not merely learned, but to love knowledge, not merely pure, but to love purity, not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
- Plato
"If a man neglects education, he walks home to the end of his life."
- Aristotle
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
- Francis Bacon
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Benjamin Franklin
"He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner."
PARAPROSDOKIANS:
Here is the definition: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation."
"Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian.
1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left..
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.a
20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
26. Where there's a will, there's relatives.