| category | quote | author |
|---|---|---|
| Development is programmable; discovery is not. | Buckminster Fuller | |
| ... the word education has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force. | Hannah Arendt | |
| Four eyes see more than two. | ||
| A book is a mirror: if an Ass peers into it you can t expect an apostle to look out. | G.C. Lichtenberg | |
| A child eduated only at school is an uneducated child. | George Santayana | |
| A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter. | ||
| A student can understand only what he has been prepared to understand; a teacher can teach only what he knows; and the meeting of the prepared student with the artful teacher is as unforgettable encounter for both. | RDS | |
| A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest are not always the same. | ||
| Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere. | Gilbert Chesterton | |
| Don't let schooling interfere with your education. | Mark Twain | |
| Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. | Daniel J. Boorstin | |
| Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. | William Butler Yeats | |
| Everyman has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. | Alphonse Karr | |
| Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. | Jim Rohn | |
| History is a race between education and catastrophe. | H. G. Wells | |
| I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. | Tre Cool - Green Day Band member | |
| If you haven t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. | Bob Hope | |
| In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. | Pliny the Elder | |
| Information is not knowledge. | Albert Einstein | |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. | Albert Einstein | |
| It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy. | ||
| Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. it is automatic, it is thoughtless. | Duckworth | |
| Knowledge is a power. | Thomas Hoffes | |
| Learning grows out of child's direct actions on materials. | Homann & Weikart, 1992 p. 38 | |
| Life is like a fire; it begins in smoke, and ends in ashes. | ||
| Misery aqquaints a man with strange bedfellows. | Wm Shakespeare | |
| My education was interrupted only by my schooling. | Winston Churchill | |
| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. | John F. Kennedy | |
| Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. | Chinese Proverb | |
| The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | |
| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires | William A. Ward | |
| The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. | Plutarch | |
| The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. | Jean Piaget | |
| Turth generally is kindness, but where the tow diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. | Samuel Butler | |
| When a critical mass of people believe a myth of inevitability true, it becomes reality. When existing beliefs are challenged a critical mass must be reached to achieve change. | R. D. Sweetland | |
| Myths can be dispelled when a critical mass of people see it as false. | ||
| Where there is no struggle there is no progress | Frederick Douglass | |
| business politics humor | Business will be better or worse. | Calvin Coolidge |
| character | A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. | Torquato Tason |
| character | A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter. | |
| character | A truth told with a bad intent beats all he lies you can invent. | Wm. Blake |
| character | Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. | Adlal E. Steveson |
| character | Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. | Eruipides |
| character | Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere. | Gilbert Chesterton |
| character | Beauty isn t its own reward, being a form of peace. | Robert Nichols |
| character | Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. | Sam Paterson |
| character | Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. | Austikn O Malley |
| character | Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. | Elizabeth Clarke Dunn |
| character | Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. | Robert Friedman |
| character | Character is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. | Henri Amriel |
| character | Character is simply habit long continued | Plutarch |
| character | Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. | Charles Hole |
| character | Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. | St. Francis De Sales |
| character | Everyman has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. | Alphonse Karr |
| character | Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy |
| character | Gossip is telling more then you heard. | |
| character | He who has done his best for his own time has done his best for all time. | Johann von Schiller |
| character | I don t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong never do anything. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| character | I like to be able to win without bragging and loose without crying | Julius Irving |
| character | If I am not for myself who will be. But if I am only for myself, what am I. | Hillel |
| character | If you haven t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. | Bob Hope |
| character | Let us not say that every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character. | G. D. Boardman |
| character | Live your own life, for you will die your own death. | |
| character | Man is of ordinary things and habit is his nurse. | Johann von Schiller |
| character | Now that the old lion is dead, every ass thinks he may kick at him. | Boswell |
| character | One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows | Torquato Tassc |
| character | Positive anything is better than negative nothing. | Elbert Whitehead |
| character | Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas. | |
| character | Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they look indispensable | Kin Hubbard |
| character | The absent are always in the wrong. | English proverb |
| character | The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. | Wilhelm Stekel |
| character | There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. | |
| character | Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. | Albert Schweitzer |
| character | What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. | Sappho |
| character | When you start to sling mud you re loosing ground. | |
| character | You are only what you are when no one is looking. | Robert C. Edwards |
| character conflict | I sometimes talk when I should not. So before I do I ll try to stop. | |
| character conflict | I would rather be right then be president | Henry Clay |
| character conflict | People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. | Gilbert Chesterton |
| character conflict | When right, keep right, when wrong, put right. | Carl Schurz |
| character economics | A horse must be broke before he ll work. So must some people. | |
| character economics | Fair exchange is no robbery. | John Heywood |
| character economics | Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. | Ben Franklin |
| character education | A wise son maketh a glad father. | Proverbs 10:1 |
| character education | Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest. | Mark Twain |
| character education | People believe only what they want to believe. | |
| character education | Success has ruined many a man | Ben Franklin |
| character education | We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the grain. | Wm. Alger |
| character education conflict motivation | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. | M. Twain |
| character humane | Greater love havth no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. | John 15:13 |
| character humane | I never met a man I didn t like. | Will Rogers |
| character humane | Indeed, a friend is ne-er known till a man have need. | J. Heywood |
| character humane | It is more blessed to give than to receive. | Acts 21:35 |
| character humane | One good turn deserves another. | J. Heywood |
| character humane | Truth generally is kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. | Samuel Butler |
| character motivation | A bone to a dog is not a charity, charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog. | Jack Londom |
| character motivation | As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. | Vicot Hugo |
| character motivation | Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Some people go through life creaking. | H. W. Byles |
| character motivation | He that waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. | Samuel Johnson |
| character motivation | It is not how long we live but how well we live. | John Hay |
| character motivation | Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. | Epicurus |
| character motivation | Nothing is so good as it seems before hand. | George Eliot |
| character motivation | The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. | Samuel Butler |
| character motivation | These three soon pass away: the echo, the rainbow, and the beauty of a woman. | |
| character motivation | You stand in your own light | J. Heywood |
| character motivation education | I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall here after inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. From a letter of John Adams and inscribed on the mental of the white house dining room. Nov. MDCCC | John Adams Nov. MDCCC |
| character motivation humane | To forget the good that others do us is not good. To forget that ever day the evil done to us is good indeed. | Kural XI |
| character politics | Censorship reflects a society s lact of confidence in itself. | Potter Stewart |
| character politics | Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. | Ben Lindsay |
| conflict | A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. | Proverbs 15:1 |
| conflict | Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. | Robert G. Ingersoll |
| conflict | Anger is a stone cast into a wasp nest. | Malabar Proverb |
| conflict | Be strong and quiet yourself like a man. | Samuel 4:9 |
| conflict | Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point is all response is the desire to control environment. | John Dewey |
| conflict | He that is not with me is against me | Luke 11:23 |
| conflict | The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. | Charles Reade |
| conflict | The best way I know of winning an argument is to start by being in the right. | Lord Hailsham |
| conflict | The weather cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. | Heinrich Heine |
| conflict | Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. | Mark Twain |
| conflict | What ever begins in anger ends in shame. | Ben Franklin |
| conflict | When a man is wrong and won t admit it, he always gets angry. | Haliburtion |
| conflict | When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, 100 | Tom Jefferson |
| conflict | When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. | E. G. Stakman |
| conflict | You have not convinced a man, you have silenced him. | John Morley |
| conflict | You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue agree with him. | Ed. Howe |
| conflict character | Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| conflict character | It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| conflict character | You can t hold a man down with out staying down with him. | Booker T Washington |
| conflict character humane | If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. | Mark 3:25 |
| conflict character motivation | Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive. | Sir Walter Scott |
| conflict education | Beware of those who fall at your feet they maybe reaching for the corner of the rug. | |
| conflict education | Even a clock is right twice a day | |
| conflict education | I we open a quarrel between the past and the present; we shall find that we have lost the future. | Winston Churchill |
| conflict education | We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not sured by another running mad also. | Antisthenes |
| conflict education character | One who is ruled by emotions often stumbles before reaching the goal. | |
| conflict education motivation | We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall hand separately. | Ben Franklin |
| conflict humane character | The better part of valour is discretion. | WM. Shakespeare |
| conflict motivation | Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most like it the least. | Lord Chesterfield |
| conflict motivation | To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, where as if we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent and silently steals away. | William James |
| conflict motivation character | Life is a theater in which the worst people often have the best seats. | Aristonymus |
| conflict motivation education character | There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. | Phyllis Bottome |
| conflict politics | Whoever seeks to see one race against another seeks to enslave all races. | F. D. Roosevelt |
| economics | Business is a combination of war and sports. | Andre Maurois |
| economics | Business is like riding a bicycle: either you keep moving or you fall down. | |
| economics | I haven t any time to make money, and I don t want any anyhow. Money is more trouble than it s worth. | Horace Greenley |
| economics | The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. | Henry Ford |
| economics | The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the man who borrow, and the men who lend. | Charles Lamb |
| economics character | A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | J. D. Rockefeller |
| economics character motivation | Leap out of the frying pan into the fire | J. Heywood |
| economics character motivation education | Haste makes waste | J. Heywood |
| economics conflict | When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. | Wm. Wrigley Jr. |
| economics education | A dollar invested in a bank will earn five cents each year. A dollar invested in a good book will completely change a life. | H. Ford |
| economics humane | Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them & it annoys one not to give to them. | Fredrick W. Nietzseh |
| economics humor | A person could get along just fine without money if other people weren t so crazy about it. | |
| economics humor | There are three faithful friends- an old wife, and old dog and ready money. | Ben Franklin |
| economy politics character | There are three faithful friends- an old wife, an old dog and ready money. | Ben Franklin |
| eduation media motivation | Advertising promotes that discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. | Ralph Butler |
| education | A child mis-educated is a child lost. | John F. Kennedy |
| education | A book is a mirror: if an Ass peers into it you can t expect an apostle to look out. | G. C. Lichtenberg |
| education | A man only learns in 2 ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. | Will Rogers |
| education | A student can understand only what he has been prepared to understand; a teacher can teach only what he knows; and the meeting of the prepared student with the artful teacher is as unforgettable encounter for both. | R. D. Sweetland |
| education | A thinking person is guided by the facts no matter how unreal they may be. | |
| education | A word to the wise is sufficient. | |
| education | Ability is of little account with out opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| education | After the event the fool is wise. | Homer |
| education | All change is not growth; all movement is not forward | Ellen Glasgow |
| education | All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. | |
| education | All the experiences is an arch to build upon. | Henry B. Adams |
| education | All the modern inconveniences | Mark Twain |
| Education | An idea is salvation by imagination. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| education | Beware the fury of the patient man | John Dryden |
| education | Books are windows through which our souls look out. | Beecheer |
| education | Children are our most valuable natural resource. | Herbert Hoover |
| education | Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. | Marcelence Cox |
| education | Children learn to creep before they learn to go. | J. Heywood |
| education | Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. | H. F. Amiel |
| education | Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. | |
| education | Experience is the fool s best teacher; the wise do not need it. | |
| education | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upoon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. | Albert Einstein |
| education | I have but one lamp by which to guide my feet, and that is the lamp of experience. | Patrick Henry |
| education | If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. | West osterlichen Diwan |
| education | If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, the same as everywhere. | Werthers |
| education | Imagination rules the world. | Naboleon I |
| education | Isn t it strange how much we ve got to know before we know how little we know? | |
| education | It is better to learn late than never. | Publius Syrus |
| education | It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are you busy about? | Henry David Thoreau |
| education | It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy. | |
| education | Knowledge brings the responsibility of choice. | |
| education | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| education | Knowledge is a power. | Thomas Hoffes |
| education | Life is before you; not an earthly life alone, but an endless life; a thread running interminably through the work of eternity. | J.G. Holland |
| education | Life is real! Life is earnest! And they grave is not the goal; Dust thou art, to dust returneth, Was not spoken of the soul. | Henery W Longfellow |
| education | Mrs. Woodrow Wilson boasted that Woodrow spent more money for books than the family spent on clothes. | |
| education | One who finds fault but does not learn is likely to repeat others errors. | |
| education | Repetition is the mother of education | Jean Paul Richter |
| education | Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. | Mark Twain |
| education | Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. | Francis Bacon |
| education | The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that ppicture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit, but steadily building, steadily building. | Robert Coller |
| education | The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can t read | Mark Twain |
| education | The man who has no imagination has no wings. | Muhammad Ali |
| education | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | Albert Einstein |
| education | The question Who ought to be boss is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. | Henry Ford |
| education | The trust of life is to know the life that never ends. | Penn |
| education | There is many a slip (between) twixt the cup and the lip | Wm. Hazlitt |
| education | There s none so blind as they that won t see | Jonathan Swift |
| education | Thinking is hard work. | |
| education | Those who don t read have no advantage over those who can t. | |
| education | To teach is to learn twice. | Joseph Jaubert |
| education | To wonder is to begin to understand. | |
| education | Two head are better the one. | J. Heywood |
| education | Two roads diverged into the woods, and I-I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. | R. Frost |
| education | We don t know one millionth of one per cent about anything. | T. Edison |
| education | What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. | George Heged |
| education | What was valid yesterday is obsolete tomorrow. | |
| education | What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| education | Where there is no vision the people perish. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| education | You have to learn more to remember less. | R. D. Sweetland |
| education character | Is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants | Isaac Newton |
| education character | One who is merely clever feels he has nothing to learn from others. | |
| education character | The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. | Charles F. Kettering |
| education character | There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. | |
| education character | There is nothing permanent except change. | Heraclitus |
| education character | We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. | L.L. Bryson |
| education character motivation | Look before you leap | J. Heywood |
| education conflict | A smart aleck is a fellow who thinks he knows as much as you know you do. | |
| education conflict | For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. | Isaih 55:8 |
| education conflict | The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured | Konrad Ademauer |
| education conflict | To be able to listen to others in a sympathetic and understanding way is perhaps the most effective mechanism in the world for getting along with people and tying up their friendship for good. | Olover Wendell Holmes |
| education conflict motivation | If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| education economics | An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | Ben Franklin |
| education humane | A thinking person learns from the mistakes of others with out rejoicing in their mistakes. | |
| education inspiration work | Geniuses 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. | Tom Edison |
| education media | Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. | Fred Allen |
| education media | Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. | Stephan B. Leacock |
| education media | Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but know one else does. | Steuart Britt |
| education motivation | Misery aqquaints a man with strange bedfellows. | Wm Shakespeare |
| education motivation | The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving | O Wendell Holmes |
| education motivation | The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. | Laurence Lee |
| education motivation | When you dream dream big. | |
| education motivation | Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life. | Samuel Ullman |
| education motivation | Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - Would ye both eat your cake and have cake? | J. Heywood |
| errors | The physician can buy his mistakes but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. | Frank Loyd Wright |
| history politics human | Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. | Eugene Debs |
| holidays | Christmas would mean nothing if it were not shared with someone. | Charles Towne |
| holidays | Thirty days hath November, April, June and September; February hath twenty-eight alone and all the rest have thirty-one. | |
| humane | Caution human beings here handle with care. | |
| humane | Home is where the heart is | |
| humane | Man s inhumanity to can makes countless thousands morn. | Robert Burns |
| humane | Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. | John H. Payne |
| humane | The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. | W. R. Wallace |
| humane | The worst thing that can happen is that a person doesn t count. | Sidney Jourard |
| humane | We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. | Martin Luther King |
| humane | When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. | Oscar Wilde |
| humane | You don t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. | A. Schweitzer |
| humane character | Courtesy: Good manners may in seven words be found: Forget yourself and think of those around. | |
| humane character | In sleep we are all equal. | |
| humane character | The only way to have a friend is be one. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| humane character | The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. | A. Lincoln |
| humane character | You must look into people as well as at them. | Lord Chesterfield |
| humane character motivation | The greatest kindness we can offer each other is the truth. | |
| humane conflict | If you win brag little, show well, crow gently,- if loose pay up, own up. These are virtues of a sporting man | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| humane conflict | We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law but we do want them for our brothers. | Booker T. Washington |
| humane education | Accept me as I am so I may learn what I can become. | |
| humane education | Many hands make work light | J. Heywood |
| humor | Beauty is only skin deep, but it s a valuable asset if you re poor or haven t any sense. | Kin Hubbard |
| humor | If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. | Mrs. Pablo Picasso |
| humor | The mouth is 1% teeth and 99% bad breath | Ted Hoffman |
| humor | Women s faults are many, Men have only two; everything they say and everything they do. | |
| humor conflict resolution | I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. | Zsa Zsa Ganor |
| humor sports | Ability is the arto of getting credit for all the homeruns somebody else hits. | Casey Stengel |
| morals | Virtue has always been conceived as victorious resistance to one's vital desire. | James Branch Cabell |
| motivation | 4 eyes see more than 2 | |
| motivation | A baby is god s opinion that the world should go on. | Carl Sandburg |
| motivation | A good dog deserves a good bone | |
| motivation | A man can bring a horse to water, but he can not make him drink. | |
| motivation | Beauty is but skin deep. | Phillip James Bailey |
| motivation | Behold the turtle only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. | |
| motivation | Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. | William James |
| motivation | Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. | Philander Johnson |
| motivation | Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. | Josh Billings |
| motivation | Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. | |
| motivation | Do you know why lighting never strikes twice in the same place? It doesn t have to. | |
| motivation | Don t worry about getting old. When you stop getting old you re dead. | |
| motivation | Each dawn is a new beginning. | |
| motivation | Everything in the world can be borne except a series of beautiful days. | |
| motivation | Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. | |
| motivation | I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. | Wm Allen White |
| motivation | I never could any luster see in eyes that would never look on me. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| motivation | I m only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| motivation | I ve never met a person, I don t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire , he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lives within. | Preston Bradley |
| motivation | If a child annoys you quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn t work, use the other side of the brush on the other side of the child. | |
| motivation | If only the people who say they feel fine would let their faces know. | |
| motivation | If you only try to be as good as the next guy, you ll never be better than anyone. | R. D. Sweetland |
| motivation | If you run after two hares you will catch neither | |
| motivation | In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. | John Lubbock |
| motivation | Life affords no higher pleasure then that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. | Samuel Johnson |
| motivation | Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse. | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| motivation | Life is one long process of getting tired. | Sam Butler |
| motivation | Old age is not for sissies. | |
| motivation | Out of the strain of the doing, into the strain of the done. | Julia Woodruff |
| motivation | Pain is short and joy is eternal | Johann von Schiller |
| motivation | Praise makes good men better and bad men worse | Thomas Fuller |
| motivation | The early bird catches the worm | |
| motivation | The sweetest of all sounds is praise | Zenophon |
| motivation | They can because they think they can. | |
| motivation | Up sluggard and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. | Ben Franklin |
| motivation | When life hands you a lemon make lemonade. | |
| motivation | While there s life there s hope | |
| motivation | Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. | Johann von Schiller |
| motivation | Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| motivation | You have two voices, Your outdoor voice is fine, I d say, For shouting out of doors, at play; but in the house we d all rejoice if you would use your indoor voice. Your outdoor voice is big and gruff and loudest when your games are rough. You indoor voice is soft and low when you re indoors, please keep it so. | Lillian Eichler Watson |
| motivation | You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. | |
| motivation | Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. - Make yourself necessary to somebody. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| motivation character | A little neglect may bread mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse rider was lost. | Ben Franklin |
| motivation character | I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. | Jonas Salk |
| motivation character | If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every phone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. Why wait until the last five minutes. | Christopher Morley |
| motivation character | It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one s lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. | Percy Johnson |
| motivation character | It never matters how a man dies, but how he lives. | Sam Johnson |
| motivation character | There is no such thing as a self made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. | George M. Adams |
| motivation economics | My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington. |
| motivation education | A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. | Samuel Butler |
| motivation education | A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest are not always the same. | |
| motivation education | Anticipation is the greatest joy | |
| motivation education | What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. | Wm H. Davies |
| motivation humane | Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. | Henry Burton |
| motivation humane | Make yourself necessary to somebody. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| motivation humane | The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. | Mark Twain |
| motivation humane | The lord prefers common looking people. That is reason he makes so many of them. | Abe Lincoln |
| politics | Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies | Honore de Balzac |
| politics | Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. | Mark Twain |
| politics | Every nation has a government it deserves. | Joseph De. Marstre |
| politics | Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the U.S. | Porferio Diaz |
| politics | The first requisite of a good citizen is this republic of ours is that he should be able to pull his own weight. | T. Roosevelt |
| politics | The responsibilities of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. | Harry S Truman |
| politics | We should reshape our society so that we all would be trained from birth to do what society wants us to do. | James V. McConnell |
| politics | What experience and history teach is this - that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. | G. Hegal |
| politics | World history is the world s court. | Johann von Schilleer |
| politics | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores |
| politics character education | In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. | Pliny the Elder |
| politics conflict | As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. | A. Einstein |
| politics conflict | Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way | Isaac Goldberg |
| politics education | Knowledge is ruin to my young men. | Adolf Hitler |
| politics education | A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. | Henrik Ibsen |
| politics education | If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. | Tom Jefferson |
| politics humane | Disregard for human beings is the 1st qualification of a dictator | Milton S. Eisenhower |
| politics humane | The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. | Winston Churchill |
| politics humane | We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. | L. B. Johnson |
| politics multicultural poverty | Freedom is not enough. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| politics peace philosophy | I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| politics philosophy | Justice is incidental to law and order. | J. Edgar Hoover |
| politics philosophy | A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry, and by a common hate of its neighbors. | Dana William Inge |
| politics philosophy | Un-American is simply something that somebody else does not agree to. | Maury Maverick |
| politics philosophy | I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. | Harry Truman |
| riddle | A girl was born the summer, but now has her birthday in the winter. How can this be? | |
| riddle | Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever thinking, all in mail, never clinking. | |
| riddle | I occur once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet not once in a hundred thousand years. | |
| riddle | I often murmur, but never weep. Lie in bed but never sleep; My mouth is larger than my head, In spite of the fact I m seldom feed; I have no feet, yet swiftly run; shimmering, Saying dancing in the sun. | |
| riddle | I ll give you my first letter, my second letter and my third letter. In fact I ll give you all my letters, yet I ll always be the same. What am I? | |
| riddle | I m as round as the moon, people crush me, drink my blood and throw my skin away. | |
| riddle | It can t be seen, can t be felt, can t be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. | |
| riddle | This thing all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, and flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel: grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down. | |
| riddle | Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters toothless bites, mouthless mutters. | |
| riddle | You saw me where I never was and where I can t be; and yet within that very place, my face you often see. | |
| wisdom | I am not young enough to know everything. | James Barrie |
| wisdom | Don't ever look back something might be gaining on you. | Satchel Page |
| wisdom | Being intelligent is not having some magic formula which one can apply to every problem. It is, rather, having a number of ideas and not being as much in love with one that it cannot be dropped for another. |