The Quotes Page
Well welcome one welcome all to my quotes page, i have a "thing" for quotes and think they are pretty grand. Well ye all canst have a lookest aroundth sitest. I havedest gotest somest good quotes. (man that is a pretty crappy try at olde english eh? heh heh ;-)
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great
achievement.
-- Thomas N. Carruther
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a
hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at
the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it
was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone
before.
-- Jacob A. Riis
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-- Anne Frank
The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't
know what to do.
-- John Holt
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does
to have tried and succeeded.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
-- Thomas Carlyle
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it
anywhere else.
-- Paula A. Bendry
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
-- Helen MacInness
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if
you don't try.
--Beverly Sills
. . . if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
Faith in oneself is the best . . . and safest course.
--Michelangelo
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as
playing a poor hand well. "
--H. T. Leslie
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was
sixty - she's ninety-seven today and we don't know where the
hell she is.
--Ellen Degeneris
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
--Erma Bombeck
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men
take to the woods.
--Elbert Hubbard
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain
If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to
get there?"
--Basil S. Walsh
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on
reaching it.
--Col. Michael Friedsman
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
--Anon.
Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything."
--Franklin P. Adams
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,
say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are
yours.
--Anon.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that
which what they are not."
--Giacomo Leopardi
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
--Muhammid Ali
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do
that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to earth.
--Pearl Buck
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek
what they sought.
--Matsuo Basho
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
--Susan Sontag
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue
what they are.
--Malcolm Forbes
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet
must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What a man can be, he must be.
--Abraham Maslow
I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put
it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of
someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a
breath and go ahead.
--Anita Baker
Concern should drive us into action and not into
depression.
--Karen Horney
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both
consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more
nor less.
--William Hazlitt
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be
content with what you have.
--Doris Mortman
Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your
own, instead of someone else's.
--Billy Wilder