On this page you will find some great quotes from some great folks, as well as some quibbles that will make you think. Enjoy!

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Quotes

Famous quotations can inspire you to new heights and motivate you to action.

If I knew I was gonna live this long, I would've taken better care of myself.
-- Mickey Mantle --

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau --

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein --

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill --

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
-- William Boetcker --

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
-- George Van Valkenburg --

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato --

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard --

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost --

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr --

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-- Charles R. Swindoll --

Good is not good where better is expected.
-- Thomas Fuller --

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-- Abraham Lincoln --

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
-- Chinese Proverb --

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-- David Brinkley --

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
-- Richard Bach --

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings --

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-- Lucretius --

A man always have two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason.
-- John Pierpont Morgan --

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
-- Joseph Roux --

We see things not as they are, but as we are.
-- H. M. Tomlinson --

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
-- Hugh Walpole --

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
-- Ben Franklin --

Income these days is something you cannot live without or within.
-- Anonymous --

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E. M. Forster --

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-- Don Herold --

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.
-- Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. --

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
-- Henry David Thoreau --

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot --

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson --

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.
-- Balzac --

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.
-- William Howard Taft --

You can only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis --

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock --

I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
-- Abe Lincoln --

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain --

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt --

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison --

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings --

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown --

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi --

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abe Lincoln --

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

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.
-- Charles Luckman --

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Winston Churchill --

Wisdom begins in wonder.
-- Socrates --

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart --

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead.
The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill --

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-- Napolean Hill --

Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare.
-- Japanese Proverb --

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain --

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe --

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
-- William Lloyd George --

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
-- Doug Firebaugh --

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
-- Stephen Covey --

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abe Lincoln --

Hope is a waking dream.
-- Aristotle --

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
-- Winston Churchill --

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
-- Ben Franklin --

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
-- Swami Vivekananda --

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.
-- J.B. Matthews --

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night.
-- Longfellow --

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein --

You gotta have goals!
-- Zig Ziglar --

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
-- Les Brown --

Quibbles

"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."
-- Dean Ornish, MD --