Some Thoughts I like:
"The greatest thing in life is love and the second is laughter." - G.Y. Morgan
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore
"Never flinch, never weary, never despair." - Winston Churchill
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
"Those who trim themselves to suit everybody will soon whittle themselves away." - Charles M. Schwab
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other." - George Eliot
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." - J. Bronowski
"Go ahead and do it, it is easier to apologize than to get permission." - Admiral Grace Hopper
"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world." - Publilius Syrus
"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten." - Andre Mairaux
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." - Martha Grimes
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." - Betrand Russell
"Make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus
"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" - Coleman Cox
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightening that does the work." - Mark Twain
"Action is eloquence." - Shakespeare
"The season always gives me the blues in spite of myself, though I manage to get a good deal of
pleasure from thinking of the multitudes of happy kids in various parts of the world." - Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase
"Less advice and more hands." - German Proverb
"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning." - Hesiod
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." - T.S. Eliot
"It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." - Thornton Wilder
"In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I'm not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up beacuse I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone." - Martin Niemoller
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it ... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience." - George Santayana
"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel." - Heywood Broun
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." - Arnold Toynbee
"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." - Josiah Quincy
"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them." - Robert Henri
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." - Vince Lombardi
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." - Sir Ralph Richardson
"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." - Epictetus
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward." - Patricia Sampson
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love." - Spanish Proverb
"What worries you masters you." - Haddon W. Robinson
"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end." - Dr. Thomas Dooley
"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." - Brendan Francis
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington, on Friends
"Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." - Jewish Proverb
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach." - Demosthenes
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
"Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." - Thomas Henry Huxley
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." - William James
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." - James Russell
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"Friends, and I mean real friends, reserve nothing. The property of one belongs to the other." - Euripides
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is human nature cannot change you." - Barrows Dunham
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." - Lillian Hellman
"...that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." - Ernest Hemingway
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
"We love too much, hate in the same extreme." - Homer
"Force without mind falls by its own weight." - Horace
"Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"Avaritia Facit Bardus - Greed makes you stupid" - Anon