Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.– John Wayne
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.– James Russell Lowell
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.– George C. Marshall
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.– Freya Madeline Stark
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.– Henry Ford
An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.– Will Rogers
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.– Steven Weinberg
…it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.– Woodrow Wilson
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.– John Mitchell Mason
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.– David Reisman
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.– Joseph P. Thompson
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.– Dan Quayle
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.– Bette Davis
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.– Joe E. Lewis
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?– Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Live forever or die in the attempt.– Joseph Heller
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.– Samuel Goldwyn
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.– Cynthia Ozick
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.– George Shelley
Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.– April Foiles
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.– Thomas Moore
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.– J. K. Rowling
Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn’t come from inside.– Chris Messina
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.– Wilfred A. Peterson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.– Philip K. Dick
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.– Katherine Mansfield
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.– Allard Lowenstein
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.– Joseph Conrad
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.– Jawaharlal Nehru
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.– Robert Ingersoll
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.– Michael Hanson
A man can do all things if he but wills them.– Leon Battista Alberti
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.– Harrison Ford
Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never.– Marguerite de Valois
Complain to one who can help you.– Yugoslav Proverb
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.– Walker Percy
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.– Boris Pasternak
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.– Anonymous
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.– Stanislaw J. Lec
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.– Bertrand Russell
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.– George Bernard Shaw
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.– Ogden Nash
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.– B. F. Skinner
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.– Henry Kissinger
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.– Rene Descartes
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.– George Bernard Shaw
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.– Alan Kay
You’re never too old to become younger.– Mae West
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.– Charles M. Schulz
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.– Aristotle
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.– Henry David Thoreau
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.– Garth Brooks, Country Music
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.– Archibald MacLeish
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.– Samuel Johnson
Some things have to be believed to be seen.– Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.– Maurice Maeterlinck
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.– Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41:12)
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.– John Abrams
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.– Blaise Pascal
I dream, therefore I become.– Cheryl Renée Grossman
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.– Wendell Johnson
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.– Peter Ustinov
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.– Jean-Paul Sartre
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.– John Ciardi
There is no remedy for love but to love more.– Henry David Thoreau
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.– Seneca
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.– Dag Hammarskjold
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.– Dr. David M. Burns
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.– Frances Willard
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.– Edgar Allan Poe
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.– Lyndon B. Johnson
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.– Robin Norwood
Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions.– Holly Lisle
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.– Ken Kesey
Live always in the best company when you read.– Sydney Smith
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?– Walt Whitman
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.– Paul “Bear” Bryant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.– Oscar Wilde
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.– John Burroughs
The best way to get approval is not to need it.– Hugh Macleod
Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.– Kurt Cobain
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.– Henry David Thoreau
Realism…has no more to do with reality than anything else.– Hob Broun
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.– Jules Renard
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.– Pierre Corneille, ‘The Cid,’ 1636
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.– George Burns
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.– Og Mandino
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.– James Branch Cabell
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.– Charles Du Bos
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.– Galileo Galilei
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.– Walter Pater, 1873
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.– Henry Miller
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.– Jonathan Winters
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.– Monica Baldwin
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.– e e cummings
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.– George Bernard ShawDestiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.– William Jennings Bryan
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.– George Sand
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.– Walter Anderson
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.– H. L. Hunt
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.– La Fontaine
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.– Meladee McCarty
You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.– Sacha Guitry
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.– Thomas Szasz, “The Second Sin”
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.– Woody Allen
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.– George Herbert
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.– Erica Jong
Our heroes are those… who… act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us…. America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.– David Mahoney
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.– Irving Berlin, 1958
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.– Storm JamesonCheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.– Charlotte Bronte
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.– Jean de La Fontaine
You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.– Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.  — Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.  — Frank Herbert
The best way out is always through.  — Robert Frost
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.  — John Henry Cardinal Newman
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.  — Mary Tyler Moore
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.  — Meredith Willson
The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.  — Paul Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.  — Samuel Johnson
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.  — Scott Adams, ‘The Dilbert Principle’
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?  — Seneca
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.  — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.  — William Arthur Ward
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.  — Bernard M. Baruch
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.  — Rebecca Beard
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.  — Shimon Peres
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.  — Fran Lebowitz
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.  — Pablo Picasso
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.  — Mark Twain
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.  — Erica Jong
The greater man the greater courtesy.  — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Things are only impossible until they’re not.  — Jean-Luc Picard
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.  — Evan Esar
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?  — Ray Bradbury
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.  — George Ade
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.  — Albert Camus
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.  — Unknown
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.  — Charles F. Kettering
If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?  — Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.  — Dick Werthimer
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.  — Benjamin Disraeli
In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.  — Randy K. Milholland
Here’s a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds ‘though life is hard, we carry on, livin’ in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.  — Tupac Shakur
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.  — Franz Kafka
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.  — Rene Descartes