COMPLETE LIST OF QUOTATIONS IN RANDOM ORDER

• I would rather die standing, than live a lifetime on my knees.

• Life is a long lesson in humility.

• Those who cannot hear the music think the dancer is mad.

• Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.

• Never say more than is necessary.

• I always thought that if you worked enough and tried hard enough, 
  things would work out. I was wrong. -Katherine Graham

• My life is my message.

• The key to achievement lies in being a how thinker, not an if thinker.

• It is never too late to be what you might have been.

• Do what you love. The rest will come.

• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, 
  and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as 
  to which may be true. -N. Hawthorne  "The Scarlet Letter"

• Only a life lived for others is worth living.  -Albert Einstein

• My friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy

• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein

• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes 
  are truly endless. -Mother Teresa 

• I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, 
  and they encourage me to grow. -Cher

• Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never 
  were and say why not? -Robert F. Kennedy

• The important thing is to not stop questioning. -Albert Einstein

• The best proof of love is trust. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on 
  the state of things within, as on the state of things without.  -Charlotte Bronte

• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. -Helen Keller

• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. -Mary Webb

• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. -Eleanor Roosevelt 

• Pain nourishes courage.  You can't be brave if you've only had 
  wonderful things happen to you. -Mary Tyler Moore

• Let us meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the 
  beginning of love. -Mother Teresa

• People wrapped up in themselves come in pretty small packages.

• Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar

• Love is like a violin.  The music may stop now and then, 
  but the strings remain forever. -June Masters Bacher

• The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -Mark Twain

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt 

• When two people love each other, they don't look at each other. 
  They look outward in the same direction. -Ginger Rogers 

• The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying 
  to those of us who do. -Harold Coffin 

• Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful. -Annette Funicello

• Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will ever pay attention 
  to their limitations again. -James R. Cook

• If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France

• When all think alike, no on is thinking very much. -Walter Lippman

• Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time 
  to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain

• Love dies only when growth stops. -Pearl Buck

• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and 
  not deserve them. -Mark Twain

• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, 
  because they have to say something. -Plato

• What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -Adolph Hitler

• No person can be a great leader unless he takes a genuine joy in the 
  successes of those under him. -W.A. Nance

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, 
  but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, 
  and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde 

• Don't say you don't have enough time.  You have exactly the 
  same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, 
  Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leondardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, 
  and Albert Einstein. -H. Jackson Brown

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney

• In three words I an sum up everything I've learned about life.  
  It goes on. -Robert Frost

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  
  Before him, I may think aloud. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -Samuel Paterson

• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people 
  falling in love. -Albert Einstein

• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -John Stuart Mill

• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely 
  rearranging their prejudices. -William James

• A prudent question is one half of wisdom. -Francis Bacon

• If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with a little rain. -Dolly Parton

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, 
  goodness, and truth. -Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after 
  others have let go. -William Feather

• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a 
  second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland

• Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your 
  position falls, your ego goes with it. -Colin Powell

• Optimism is an intellectual choice. -Diana Schneider

• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -Mother Teresa

• High expectations are the key to everything. -Sam Walton

• The miracle is this-the more we share, the more we have. -Leonard Nimoy

• The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment 
  to excellence, regardless of his chose field of endeavor. -Vince Lombardi

• Love is a great beautifier. -Louisa May Alcott

• He that always gives way to others will end in having no 
  principles of his own. -Aesop

• The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Talent is a flame.  Genius is a fire. -Bern Williams

• A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that 
  hasn't started yet. -George Burns 

• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments 
  of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge 
  and controversy. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. -Roy Disney

• No man was ever wise by chance. -Seneca

• Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -African proverb

• None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. -Benjamin Whichcote

• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then 
  we shall find the way. -Abraham Lincoln

• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by 
  making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington

• Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who 
  treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts. -GQ

• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.  
  Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely 
  what others think you are. -John Wooden

• If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep 
  getting what you've always gotten.

• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. -Abraham Lincoln

• If there is no wind, row.

• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

• If you would marry wise, marry your equal.

• Let him that would move the world, first move himself. -Socrates

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

• Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. -African proverb

• Saying "I love you" is a conversation, not a message. -Douglas Stone

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror 
  that reflects it. -Edith Wharton

• Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. -Les Brown

• Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible.

• Nobody can hurt me without my permission. -Mohandas Ghandhi
  

• Work like you don't need the money.  Love like you've never been hurt.   
  Dance like nobody's watching. -Satchel Paige

• A true friend stabs you in the front. -Oscar Wilde

• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people who weren't smart
  enough to know they were impossible.

• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does 
  not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb

• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for 
  something you are not. -Andre Gide

• To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting 
  where you placed it. -Timothy P. Childers

• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

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

• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is 
  attractive without zest. -Christian Dior

• Without Love intelligence is dangerous, without intelligence 
  love is not enough. -Ashley Montagu

• Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." 
  Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -Erich Fromm

• Don't just tell me what you think, tell me why you think it.

• Great spirits have always encountered violent 
  oppostion from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

• It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 
  "Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. -Ben Franklin

• Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time; for that's 
  the stuff life is made of. -Ben Franklin

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -John F. Kennedy

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about 
  things that matter. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of 
  the power to love. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's 
  character give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

• Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay for awhile, 
  leaving footprints on our hearts and we are never quite the same.

• You've got to stand for something or you will fall for anything.

• There is never a wrong time to do the right thing. -Rush Limbaugh

• They may forget what you said, but they will never forget 
  how you made them feel. -Carl W. Buechner

• There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than 
  in any profane history. -Sir Isaac Newton

• The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. 
  They just ran out of time. -Vince Lombardi

• People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by 
  those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw

• The way to become boring is to say everything. -Voltaire

• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, 
  but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Doroty Nevill

• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -Gertrude Stein

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of 
  thought which they never use. -Kierkegaard

• Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas 
  in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what 
  he cannot reveal to you.Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to 
  what he says, but rather to what he does not say. -Kahlil Gibran

• Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

• I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. -George Burns

• Still around the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. -J.R.R. Tolkien

• The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation and go to the 
  grave with the song still in them. -Henry David Thoreau

• A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -Lenin

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters 
  compared to what lies within us. -Oliver Wendall Holmes

• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, 
  than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration 
  and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. -Vincent Van Gogh

• Madam, tomorrow I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly. -Sir Winston Churchill

• Every closed eye is not sleeping and every open eye is not seeing. -Bill Cosby

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without 
  losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost

• Whatever you are-be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln

• One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen 
  to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world. -Dr. E.H. Mayo

• The most tragic words in any language are "too late".

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where 
  there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, 
  then we are a sorry lot indeed. -Albert Einstein

• And in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. 
  It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. -Karl Marx

• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

• An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. -Elbert Hubbard

• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -Henry Ward Beecher

• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries
  because you were born in it. -George Bernard Shaw

• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing 
  the means he uses to frighten you. -Eric Hoffer

• There are two kinds of men who never amount to much; 
  those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. -Cyrus H. Curtis

• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, 
  stop thinking and go in. -Napolean Bonaparte

• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be 
  suspected of doing everything for money. -Benjamin Franklin

• Do not be too timed and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln

• 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

• Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. 
  People will take you very much at your own reckoning. -Anthony Trollope

• Win hearts, and you will have all men's hands and purses. -William Cecil Burleigh

• If you really do put a small value on yourself, 
  rest assured the world will not raise your price. 

• Success is the ability to go from one failure to 
  another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill

• When the character of a man is not clear to you-look at his friends. -Japanese proverb

• Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. -Abraham Lincoln

• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -Carol Burnett

• Genuis is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -Thomas Edison

• ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, 
  however improbable, must be the truth. -Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong 
  impulse to see it tried on him personally. -Abraham Lincoln

• It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. 
  People are either charming or tedious. -Oscar Wilde

• Be wiser than other people if you can, 
  but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield

• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, 
  and delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape 
  those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allen Poe

• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, 
  cannot keep it from themselves. -Sir James M. Barrie