Quotes By Which To Govern Your Dream
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them." ~Bernard Berenson
"A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~John Watson
"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."
"Nothing is to be more highly prized than the value of each day." ~Goethe
"All serious daring starts from within." ~Eudora Welty
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail."
"To err is human, to forgive divine." ~Alexander Pope
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank." ~Christina Rossetti
"Being ignorant is not so shameful as being unwilling to learn."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill
"Don't call it education unless it has taught you life's true values."
"Truth is so rare, it's delightful to tell it." ~Emily Dickinson
"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression."
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
"No one is so rich that he does not need another's help . . . ." ~Pope Leo XIII
"Excellence is never an accident."
"The only people to get even with are those who have helped you!"
"Most smiles start with another smile."
"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to deal with it."
"Failure is success if we learn from it." ~Malcolm S. Forbes
"Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~Albert Einstein
"Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Every noble life leaves its fiber interwoven forever in the work of the world." ~John Ruskin
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa
"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." ~Anne Frank
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." ~Benjamin Franklin
"The thing to try when all else fails is-again."
"You cannot do a kindess too soon for you never know when it will be too late." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." ~Japanese Proverb
"If your are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed." ~Kate Halverson
"Punctuality is a virtue of the bored." ~Evelyn Waugh
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." ~Samuel Goldwyn
"Never fight an inanimate object." ~PJ O'Rourke
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love; of kindness; of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the kingdom of God-the rest will be given." ~Mother Teresa
"Man is always more than he can know of himself, consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." ~Golo Mann
"Man can climb the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long." ~George Bernard Shaw
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." ~Walter Benjamin
"When we turn to another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies." ~Kahlil Gibron
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but we wish we didn't." ~Erica Jong
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age a regret." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." ~Sigmund Z. Engel
"Twenty years a child, twenty years running wild, twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." ~Irish Proverb
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." ~Andy Warhol
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and neccessity when unblunted by formal education." ~Maya Angelou
"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater." ~Maya Angelou
"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him." ~Pearl Bailey
"God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful." ~Mother Teresa
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it." ~Doug Larson
"A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still." ~Antoine Rivarol
"Intelligence is when you spot the flaw in your boss' reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from point it out." ~James Dent
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
"In this old world of give and take there aren't many willing to give all it takes."
"What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." ~Knute Rockne
"No man ever got lost on a straight road." ~Abraham Lincoln
"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow-Why then, oh why, can't I?" ~Edgar Y. Harburg
"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." ~Marcel Proust
"Nothing dries sooner than a tear." ~German Proverb
"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrow, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain." ~Joyce Cary
"Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives." ~A. Sachs
"I don't have the passion anymore and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away." ~Kurt D. Cobain
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. FAntasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life throught he wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." ~Dr. Seuss
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today." ~James Dean
"Many things are opened by mistake, but none so frequently as the mouth."
"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you get."
"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"So I cry sometimes when I lie in my bed just to get it all out, what's in my head."
"So little times. So many problems."
"Let me win, but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt." ~Special Olympics Motto
"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul." ~Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years
"Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?" ~Frank Giblin
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ~Herman Melville
"The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else." ~Walt Disney
"The reward of a thing well done is to have it done." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As long as you keep doing the same thing you're going to get the same results."
"If you're never the lead dog, the scenery's always the same."
