Favorite Quotes

Success has many parents, but failure is always an orphan.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Innocence is a gift to be cherished, and not a fault to be fixed.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
The only true failure in life is to stop trying.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
We all like to forgive, and we love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
A thousand mile journey begins with one step.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go.
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more.
Doing nothing in fear of making a mistake, is the greatest mistake one can make.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
There is nothing constant, but the change itself.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
An extraordinary person is just an ordinary person doing the right thing.
There is no darkness, but ignorance.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.
Don’t use big words, they mean so little.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you want to know what a man is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Experience is the only thing in life where the test comes before the lesson.
Never look down on a person unless you are picking them up.
The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.
To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Youth is the Lord of life.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The longest day you’ll ever have is only 24 hours long.
There are two eternities that can really break you down – yesterday and tomorrow. One is gone and the other doesn’t exist yet…so live today.
The ‘yes’ answers determine the direction of life. ‘No’ answers don’t get you anywhere.
A ‘NO’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘YES’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
A smile costs nothing, but gives much.
Happiness is a way of travelling, not a destination.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The way to love anything is to realise it might be lost.
There is no love where there is no will.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think (Okrut).
Be a professional: let every success be a lesson, and every failure an opportunity.
Weakness, though, that stems from a desire to avoid doing harm, is strength. Strength shown out of a desire to look good – is weakness!
Listen to your heart. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.
Remember to keep your thoughts positive, for your thoughts become your words; remember to keep your words positive, for your words become your actions; remember to keep your actions positive, for your actions become your habits; and remember to keep your habits positive, because your habits become your destiny.
“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.”- Oscar Wilde
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.” – Oscar Wilde
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle.
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. -Mother Teresa
Le bonheur n’est pas un gros diamant, c’est une mosaique de petites pierres harmonieusement rangees. – Alphonse Karr
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. – Stephen Covey
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. – Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. – Haniel Long
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
Improving your process won’t move you from good to great design. It’ll move you from bad to average. – Fred Brooks
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:4-8a
The most beautiful day: Today. The easiest thing: Equivocate. The biggest obstacle: Fear. The gravest error: give up, to despair. The root of all evils: Egoism. The most beautiful occupation: Work. The worst route to follow: Faintheartedness. The best teachers: Children. The first necessity: TO communicate. The greatest happiness: To be useful to others. The greatest mystery: Death. The worst defect: Bad temper. The most dangerous being: The liar. The most wretched feeling: The grudge. The most beautiful gift: Forgiveness. The most indispensable: home. The quickest way: The correct one.The most comfortable feeling: Interior peace. The most powerful weapon: The smile. The best remedy: Optimism. The greatest satisfaction: The duty done. The most powerful force: Faith. The most needed beings: The parents. The most beautiful of all: Love. Mother Teresa
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. Margaret Thatcher