Life Skills: Favourite Quotations

Quotations starting with 'A'

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.....unless you fail to make the turn! ~ Anonymous
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. ~ John Maxwell
A drop of ink may make a million think. ~ Mark Twain
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Confucius
A leader is a dealer in hope. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. ~ John Gray
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~ Edward R. Murrow
A non-doer is very often a critic- that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
A politician has three hats- One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~ Carl Sandburg
A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for. ~ William G.T. Shedd
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~ David Brinkley
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. ~ Scott Adams
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. ~ Paulo Coelho
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. ~ Mitch Albom
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. ~ Marilyn Monroe
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~ William Shakespeare
Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. ~ Judy Garland
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. ~ Lord George Gordon Byron.
An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~ Anonymous
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ~ Winston Churchill
And on the eighth day God said, Okay, Murphy, you're in charge! ~ Anonymous
And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. ~ John Steinbeck
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~ Albert Einstein
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. No one can count the apples in a seed. ~ Robert H. Schuller
Anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~ George Carlin
At points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on. ~ Christa Allan
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~ Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Quotations starting with 'B'

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ George Jean Nathan
Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~ Walter Winchell
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. ~ Steve Jobs
Best friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. ~ Anonymous
Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. ~ Oscar Wilde
Be yourself. You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~ John Mason
Big egos have little ears. ~ Robert Schuller

Quotations starting with 'C'

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~ Richard Bach
Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Chaos is inherent in all composite things. ~ Gautam Buddha‎
Cheer up and keep smiling. That’s the thing to do. If you go through life with a smile on your face, you’ll be amazed how many people will come up to you and say, "What the hell are you grinning about? What’s so funny?" Make you a lot of new friends. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. ~ E.B. White
Conceit spoils the finest genius. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. ~ William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
Crying is an acceptable outlet, even if it makes you feel raw and empty inside; it is still better than that build up of resentment that grows from not letting your emotions out. ~ Dorothy Koomson
Curses are like chicken, they come home to roost! Susanna Moodie, (Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada)
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Quotations starting with 'D'

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. ~Dean Koontz
Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. ~ J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. ~ Baz Luhrmann
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~ Robert Frost
Don't have time for fitness? Sooner or later, you will have to find time for illness! ~ Edward Stanley
Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. ~ Donald Miller

Quotations starting with 'E'

Easter says, you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~ Clarence W. Hall
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. ~ Brian Tracy
Emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. ~ John Dryden
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.~ Hans Christian Andersen
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ~ Richard Bach
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch. ~ Peter McArthur
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~ Albert Einstein
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Everyone, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. ~ Samuel Richardson
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. ~ Amy Tan
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. ~ Marilyn Monroe
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ~ Will Rogers
Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted. ~ Albert Einstein
Expectation is the root of all heartache. ~ William Shakespeare

Quotations starting with 'F'

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Fashion changes, but style endures. ~ Coco Chanel
Five things in life you cannot recover:
A stone...after it's thrown.
A word...after it is said.
An occasion...after it's missed.
The time...after it's gone.
A person...after they die.
Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably; And never regret anything that made you smile
~ Anonymous
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~ Elie Wiesel
From a universal standpoint, there are always bigger and better things to worry about. ~ Albert Einstein

Quotations starting with 'G'

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. ~ William Shakespeare
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. ~ Denis Waitley
God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. ~ Dan Brown
God gave burdens, also shoulders. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~ Jewish Proverb
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~ John Luther
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience? Well, that comes from poor judgment. ~ Will Rogers.
Good work is never done in cold blood, heat is required to forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart. ~ Harry Truman
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ~ Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Quotations starting with 'H'

Happiness = Reality / Expectations. There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. ~ Jodi Picoult
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing. ~ Donna Hedges
He who puts up with insult invites injury. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. ~ Gerard Way
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Gautam Buddha
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people. ~ Warren Buffet

Quotations starting with 'I'

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ~ Maya Angelou
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. ~ Jack Handey
I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei
I know why people tag graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratch the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. They want to destroy something they can never have. ~ Janet Fitch
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~ J.D. Salinger
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~ Augusten Burroughs
I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. ~ P.C. Cast
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” ~ John Henry Newman
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. ~ Johnny Depp
I touch the future. I teach. ~ Christa McAuliffe
I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ~ Bernard Berenson
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ~ H. L. Mencken
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~ Johann von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.~ Eoin Colfer
If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, and it can unwittingly change the world. ~ Jim Butcher
If we are all worms, I do believe that I am the glow worm. ~ Winston S. Churchill
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. ~ Ray Bradbury
If you aren't certain what to say, shut up. It's OK. Really. ~ Kevin Berchelmann
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ~Neil Gaiman
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. ~ Nora Roberts
If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart. ~ Cesar Chavez
If you see your dreams turning to dust, it’s time to vacuum! ~ Anonymous
If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit.~ Kristen Crockett
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ~ The 14th Dalai Lama
If you wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down. ~ Toni Morrison
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! ~ Dolly Parton
If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. ~ African proverb
If you were going to die soon, and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call? And why are you waiting? ~ Stephen Levine
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time. ~ Henry C. Link
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams
Improvement begins with ‘I’. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ~ Confucius
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different. ~ Coco Chanel
In order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ~ A. Einstein
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but that it is gratefulness that makes us happy. ~ Albert Clarke
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ~ J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~ Salvador Dali
Isn't it ironic? We ignore the ones who adore us, adore the ones who ignore us, love the ones who hurt us and hurt the ones that love us. ~ Stewie Stewart
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ~ Bertrand Russell
It is better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Mark Twain
It is not wealth one must ask for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.~ W. Somerset Maugham
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. ~ Helen Walton
It is not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ~ Dale Carnegie
It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things. ~ Theodore Roosevelt.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle

Quotations starting with 'J'

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems. ~ John Gray

Quotations starting with 'K'

Karma Cafe - We don't have a menu. We give you just what you deserve. ~ Jan Veder
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad! ~ Miles Kington

Quotations starting with 'L'

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ~ Walt Disney
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ~ Ayn Rand
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost. ~ Betty Smith
Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time... ~ Anonymous
Life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. ~ Mike DeWine
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein
Life is like topography. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. ~ Bill Watterson
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. ~ C. JoyBell C.
Life is very similar to a boxing ring. Defeat is not declared, when you fall down. It's declared, when you refuse to get up. ~ Anonymous
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Life may not be exactly the party we hoped for, but now that we are here, what does it hurt if we dance?! ~ Anonymous
Live and learn from fools and from sages. ~ Aerosmith Band, (Dream On)
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Don’t wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll be ever again ~ Suzanne Collins
Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ~ Virginia Wolfe
Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you anywhere. ~ Albert Einstein
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart. ~ Deepak Chopra
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ~ Joan Crawford
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost
Love is many things, none of them logical. ~ William Goldman
Loving someone requires a leap of faith, and a soft landing is never guaranteed. ~ Sarah Dessen
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. ~ Mark Twain

Quotations starting with 'M'

Make your promises small enough to deliver, then deliver more than you promise. ~ Anonymous
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Andre Gide
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~ George Orwell
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Market leaders need to continually look at the different aspects of their business to spot any weakness and move quickly to fix it before someone else solves it. Brand leadership today is no guarantee of success tomorrow. There’s always someone out there with a dream and passion waiting for her/his chance. ~ Harish Vasudevan
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. ~ Thomas R. Dewar
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Money is like manure, it’s only good if you spread it around. ~ Winston S. Churchill
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. ~ Charles Chaplin
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Quotations starting with 'N'

Napping is a noble pursuit: It's good for you, it's good for the environment, and it's good for world peace! ~ Jennifer Eyre White
Never change who you are because someone has a problem with it. ~ Anonymous
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead
Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river. ~ Cordell Hull
No excuses, no explanations! Your friends do not need them and your enemies will not believe them anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard
No vision, and you perish,

No ideal, and you're lost,

Your heart must ever cherish

Some faith at any cost.

Some hope, some dream to cling to,

Some rainbow in the sky,

Some melody to sing to,

Some service that is high.

~ Harriet Du Autermont
Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts them...even if they don't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.~ Mercedes Lackey
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. ~ Marisha Pessl
Nothing succeeds like success....nothing recedes like success too! ~ Walter Winchell

Quotations starting with 'O'

O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. ~ Thomas Hood, (Miss Kilmansegg- Her Dream
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~ Michael Jordon
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once the game is over, the King and the Pawn go back in the same box. ~ Italian Proverb
Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. ~ Haruki Murakami
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. ~ Ouida
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ~ Milton Friedman
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Quotations starting with 'P'

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~ Haruki Murakami
Parents are the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you have to earn it.~ Ann Brashares
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~ Joseph F. Newton
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. ~ Jean Dominque Martin
People have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ~ Oscar Wilde
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. ~ Alan Moore
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~ Will Rogers
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it- those are the real heroes. ~ Dean Koontz
People will believe anything if you whisper it. ~ The Whispered Rule
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozol
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~ José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev
Politics, (n) = Poly many + tics blood-sucking parasites ~ Larry Hardiman
Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten. ~ Charles Rolls (Co-founder of Rolls-Royce
Power said to the world, "You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Proficiency in argument can easily be used to overpower others, even when you are dead wrong. If you learn a few tricks of logic and debate, you can refute the obvious, and defend the ridiculous! If the people you’re arguing with aren’t as smart or as arrogant as you are, they may even give in and agree with you. ~ Scott Berkun
Progress is not made by the cynics or doubters. It is made by those who believe everything is possible. Carly Fiorina

Quotations starting with 'Q'

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ~ Ernest J. Gaines
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Quotations starting with 'R'

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. ~ Ayn Rand
Razors pain you, rivers are damp,
Acids stain you and drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful, nooses give,
Gas smells awful; you might as well live.
~ Dorothy Parker
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Richard Steele
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. ~ Brennan Manning
Religion is deadly because it makes people willing to die and kill for it without a shred of evidence to back up their beliefs. ~ Richard Dawkins
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~ Maya Angelou
Rules for Happiness:
- Something to do
- Someone to love
- Something to hope for
~ Immanuel Kant
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. ~ Madame Dudevant

Quotations starting with 'S'

Said an old Crab to a young one, “Why do you walk so crooked, child? Walk straight!” “Mother,” said the young Crab, “Show me the way, will you? When I see you taking a straight course, I will try and follow.” ~ Aesop's Fables
Science shows no gender discrimination, and in that sense offers hope to a society where discrimination is practised. ~ Tessy Thomas, Scientist
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist?

Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while, a layer of scum floats to the top. ~ Edward Abbey.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson II
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ~ Bob Marley
Some people live in a dream world, some face reality, and then there are some who turn dreams into reality. ~Douglas H. Everett
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~ Miles Franklin
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. ~ Steve Toltz
Speak in anger and you'll give the greatest speech you'll ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, And words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. ~ Phyllis McGinley, 'Ballade of Lost Objects'
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. ~ Richard Lovelace
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ~ Bill Gates
Success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce back when you hit the bottom. -George S Patton
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
‎Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. ~ WilliamShakespeare

Quotations starting with 'T'

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~ Murphy's Law
Tell someone that you've got a drink problem, or an eating disorder, or your dad died when you were a kid even, and you can almost see their eyes light up with the sheer fascinating drama and pathos of it all, because you've got an issue, something for them to get involved in, to talk about and analyse and discuss and maybe even cure! ~ David Nicholls
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. ~ John Green
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~ Ross Perot
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up! ~ Paul Valeryv
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ~ George Orwell
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ~ Winston S. Churchill
The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. ~ John Steinbeck
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ~ Bertrand Russell
The future will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive! ~ John Sladek
The governments's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. When it stops moving, subsidize it ~ Ronald Reagan
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangeo
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. ~ Karen S. Magee
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. ~ Ambrose Bierce
The heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained in sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upwards in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens, they need a kick in the seat of the pants. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy, the girl came. ~ Jonathan Antin
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~ Osho Rajneesh
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ~ Alice Walker
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.~ Johnny Depp
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~ Anonymous
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change and the realist adjusts the sails.~ William Arthur Ward
The real trap of fame is its irresistibility. ~ Ingrid Bengis
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ~ Ayn Rand
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. ~ Rita Mae Brown
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. ~ Leo Tolstoy
The time/value ratio, “Is what I am doing now worth the time it’s taking me to do it?” ~ Anonymous
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. ~ Spinoza
The world's happiest friends never have the same nature; they just have the best understanding of their differences! ~ Anonymous
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. ~ Christopher Morley
There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be? ~ Steve Backley
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. ~ Dean Koontz
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go, if there are no doors or windows, he walks through a wall. ~ Bernard Malamud
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ~ John Holmes
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sand
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.
There is no place like the old place, where you and I were born.
There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ~ Ernest Hemingway
There is the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And then there is the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Johannes Tillich
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ~ Aristotle
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take. ~ Blaize Clement
Those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. ~ Veronica Roth
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ~ George Gordon Byron
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. ~ H. L. Mencken
To succeed in life, you need these things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~ Reba McEntire
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. ~ David Ivke
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. ~ Mark Twain
Two men looked out through prison bars. One saw mud, the other stars. ~ Frederick Langbridge
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I choose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost
Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people. ~ Bernard M. Baruch

Quotations starting with 'U'

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. ~ African Proverb
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~ R. I. Fitzhenry

Quotations starting with 'V'

Very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because that person was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Quotations starting with 'W'

Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny. ~ Lao Tzu
We all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~ Emily Kimbrough
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.~ Stephen Covey
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
We become what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~ Maya Angelou
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. ~ Paulo Coelho
We must all make a choice between what is right and what is easy.~ J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ~ Ernest Hemingway
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Henry David Thoreau
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. ~ Victor Hugo
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. I am a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ~ Nelson Mandela
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~ Dale Carnegie
When I born, I black. When I grow up, I black. When I go in Sun, I black. When I scared, I black. When I sick, I black. And when I die, I still black!
And you white fellow!. When you born, you pink. When you grow up, you white. When you go in sun, you red. When you cold, you blue. When you scared, you yellow. When you sick, you green. And when you die, you gray. And you calling me colored?.
~ Anonymous
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ~ Jess C. Scott, 1: The Intern
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. ~ George R.R. Martin
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A motheralways has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~ Sophia Loren
When you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's. ~ Craig Ferguson
When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin. Why? Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. ~ Anonymous
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~ Anonymous
Whenever I climb the ladder of success I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever you fall, pick something up! ~ Oswald Avery
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Whether you think you CAN or whether you think you CAN’T, you’re right! ~ Henry Ford
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ~ Plato
Work! Because it keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need! ~ Voltaire
Worry is like a rocking chair- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Anonymous
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where..."

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

~ Lewis Carroll, (Alice in Wonderland)

Quotations starting with 'X'

Xmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Xmas. ~ Dale Evans Rogers

Quotations starting with 'Y'

Years of love are forgotten in the hatred of a minute. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Yes, I do touch. I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals. I believe that everyone needs that.
~Diana, Princess of Wales.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ~ Kālidāsa, (The complete works of Kalidasa)
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. ~ Bill Keane
You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ A.A. Milne
You are never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ~ Lou Holtz
You are NOT your thoughts unless you choose them. ~ Reuben Lowe
You can be a king or a sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper. ~ Anonymous
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. ~ Woody Allen
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie
You can never love people as much as you can miss them. ~ John Green
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions. ~ Emily Giffin
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ~ A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt – and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? ~ Bob Moawad
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Golda Meir
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~ Oscar Wilde
You laugh because I am different, but I laugh because you all are the same. ~ Jonathan Davis
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
You need other people. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you. ~ Blake Nelson
You really shouldn't say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~ Anonymous
You see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~ Rosemonde Gérard (The Eternal Song)
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found. ~ Kid Cudi
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.~ John Green
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. ~ Zig Ziglar
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. ~ J. K. Rowling, (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

Quotations starting with 'Z'

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.” ~ Thomas Fuller

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