Quotes

I really really like good quotes, but I can never remember them all and they can't all fit into my Facebook info, so I'm going to make a post to keep them all where I can look back and remember them. Feel free to contribute to the collection. (:

"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

"To love anything, it has to make you sad too."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

“Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."

"You are the handicap you must face.
You are the one who must choose your place."

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

"You are never a loser until you quit trying."

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."

"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."

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”

"Life is short, break the rules, forgive sooner, kiss slowly, laugh without control and always keep smiling!
Maybe life is not the party that we were expecting, but in the mean time, we're here and we can still dance....."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life
around."

"Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet..."

"Whom we love best, to them we can say the least..."

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."

"Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of."

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

"i should be inside doing my homework right now. in the short term, i'd be happier here, outside playing in the snow. in the long term, i'd be better off inside doing my homework so i can get a good education. but in the very long term, i know which will make the best memories."

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"Inspiration and genius--one and the same."

"Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it."

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will."

"Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."


"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success."

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart."

"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own."

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

"What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"You don't really know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both are tested by adversity."

"You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try."

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“The only... real failure in life is the failure to try.”

"Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person."

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by
realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity
to write a new page"

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it."

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"


"Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far..."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important"

"To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures"

"One only understands the things that one tames,' said the Fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore."

"People can be the wind beneath your wings or the anchor for your ship"


"When I was young and free my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it too, seemed immovable. As I grew in my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, but alas, they would have none of it. And now as I lie on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed my self first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country and, who knows, I may even have changed the world."

"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand"

"The difference between a flower and weed is a judgement"

"Push as far as you can go; give it 100 percent. And once you've gotten there, push harder. Don't get comfortable."

"It takes alot to step out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you that you shouldn't even have done it in the first place. But angry crowds and screaming fans are basically the same. They're all just making a bunch of noise. It's all about how you take it. If you pretend that the angry crowd is a crowd of screaming fans, someday they will be."

"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."


"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

"Never frown because you never know who is falling in love with your
smile."