Favorite Quotes
Some of My Personal Top Favorites
If
we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted
as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville
Wright
When
I want to read a novel, I write one.
Benjamin Disraeli
In
questions of science, the authority of a thousand is
not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
You
have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life
Winston Churchill
Play
for more than you can afford to
lose and you will learn the game.
Winston Churchill
Patience
and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
Never
say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
There
comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it
because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther
That
which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Neitzsche
It
is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
Anyone
who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
We
always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the
things refused us.
Ovid
The
Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic,
asked Demosthenes what to do.
His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now."
Joseph Ray
If
you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra
When
one door closes another opens. But often we look so
long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail
to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
There
is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
Every
generation laughs at the old fashions,
but religiously follows the new.
Henry David Thoreau
I
demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice
but to move forward.
Firdtjof Nansen
Nothing
can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something
that is gone, or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
You
cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters
are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
Happiness
does not depend on outward things, but on the way we
see them.
Leo Tolstoy
The
art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles
than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
The
shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing
at a time.
Richard Cech
Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
We
don't live in a world of reality,
we live in a world of perceptions.
Gerald J. Simmons
The
first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
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