"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."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."
Paul Harvey
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller
"Heat and cold, the wind and rain, sickness, prison, beatings - I will not fret about such things, for doing so will aggravate my troubles."
Buddha
"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait - you can kick their ass right now."
Cameron Diaz
"Let me win, but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt."
Special Olympics motto
"I know we're all going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it. I love you, honey."
Thomas Burnett, Jr. to his wife over the phone from United Flight 93
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
Wayne Dyer
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
Albert Einstein
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Judy Garland
"Funny thing about most people when they dance, they all sort of move together, to one beat or something. I'm the only one creative enough to really leave the music behind."
Myra in "Left Foot Blue" by Allison Wyss
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
Stephen Covey
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them."
Malcolm Forbes
"Integrity is when what you say, what you do, what you think, and who you are all come from the same place."
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie
"We can often do more for others by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."
Francis Fenelon
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
John Dryden
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent into the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Winston Churchill
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
Kimberly Johnson
"It is easy to be great when you get around great people."
Bob Richards (Olympic Athlete) in Chicken Soup for the Soul
"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can."
Michel de Montaigne
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken."
Norman Douglas
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being."
Goethe
"No man or woman, even of the humblest sort, can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it; without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
Phillip Brooks
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer."
Anonymous
"I'm not schooled in the science of human factors, but I suspect surprise is not an element of a robust user interface."
Chip Rosenthal
"Computing is the only field in which we consider adding a wing to the building to be maintenance."
Anonymous
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
Michael Sinz
"Destiny is not a 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
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Agnes De Mille
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
James Dean
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
Charles William Dement
"Dreams are the soul's pantry. Keep it well stocked and your soul will never hunger."
Cindy Williams
"It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble."
Mark Twain
"Peabody also provides an academic haven for football players who otherwise might not be up to Vanderbilt's rigorous academic standards."
The Fiske Guide to Colleges, 1999
"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
"We shall never cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot
"Day after day, we discover our own lives. Because we never know what we will find, every discovery is an unexpected gift we give to ourselves."
Barbara J. Esbensen
"Some experiences simply do not translate. You have to go to know."
Kobi Yamada
"Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
Basho
"It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason."
Blaise Pascal
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
"God always has another custard pie up his sleeve."
Lynn Redgrave
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
Kahlil Gibran
"What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God."
Anonymous
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
Mark Twain
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations."
Elton Trueblood
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
Mahatama Gandhi
"Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts."
Anthony Robbins
"If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody."
Malcolm Bane
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets."
Nido Qubein
"You must take action now that will move you toward your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
Les Brown
"A successful person is one who went ahead and did the thing the rest of us never quite got around to."
Anonymous
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill
"There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence."
Anonymous
"It is the triumph of reason to get along well with those who possess none."
Voltaire
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart... and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes."
Anonymous
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
G. Randolph
"A real friend is someone who makes you feel good about yourself."
Kevin Markham
"And remember, friends will get you through times of little sleep better than sleep will get you through times of few friends."
Erika Brown's Dad
"There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another."
Oliver Schreiner
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
George Elliot
"Have a happy day. You have so much to give to people around you, and they will graciously accept your offering of yourself. Take what others are sharing and also rejoice in it - this is what makes the day worth living. And it is this interactive sharing that makes humans great."
Rashi Dhawan
"But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."
Irving Blitzer (John Candy) in Cool Runnings
"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future."
Norman O. Brown
"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."
Anonymous
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
Willa Cather
"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Peace: It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
Anonymous
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman
"However long the night, the dawn will break."
African Proverb
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
Helen Keller
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln
"True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome."
Walter Anderson
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
Groucho Marx
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"My kid had sex with your honor student."
Bumper sticker
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."
Bumper sticker
"Jesus died for my sins and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Bumper sticker
"No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats – approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less."
Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
Groucho Marx
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary."
Jules Feiffer
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
Robert Benchley
"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her."
W.C. Fields
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction to carry on."
Walter Lippmann
"Go to the people, work with them, learn from them, respect them, start with what they know, build with what they have. And for a great leader, when his aims are accomplished and his purposes fulfilled, the people will say, 'We have done this ourselves'."
Lao Tzu
"It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the differences that they can make not only in their own lives but in the lives of others by simply giving of themselves."
Helen Boosalis
"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"Live it up; this is not a rehearsal."
Anonymous
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
"Life is an opportunity - not an obligation."
Anonymous
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley
"What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high."
Anonymous
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow – what a ride!'"
Anonymous
"Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for...life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience...and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways."
Hamilton Wright Mabie
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
Robert Frost
"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours... that's relativity."
Albert Einstein
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?"
Homer Simpson
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Anonymous
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that the world is transformed."
J. Krishnamurti
"They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind."
Native American Proverb
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
Pearl Bailey
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it."
Swedish proverb
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."
Miyamoto Musashi (Japanese warrior)
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Max Lerner
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
Ambrose Redmoon
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
Stephen Levine
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, a chance word, a tap on the shoulder... I am tempted to think... there are no little things."
Bruce Barton
"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."
Marie Osmond
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
C.S. Lewis
"We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed."
Ivy Baker Priest
"We are here, and it is now. What else is there?"
Kobi Yamada
"If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon makes you furious; if you like him, he can turn his plate over into your lap and you won't mind."
Irving Becker
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
Olin Miller
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality."
Khalil Gibran
"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit."
Wade Davis
"Let your ears hear what your mouth says."
Jewish Proverb
"Well done is better than well said."
Anonymous
"When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out."
Otto von Bismarck
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
Harold Nicholson
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Helen Keller
"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Alfred North Whitehead
"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do very few things ill, but he will do very few things."
Lord Halifax
"It takes balls to conquer the world."
Vinny Pazienza
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions, and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones."
Machiavelli in The Prince
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"The only way you will ever change the world is to trust, absolutely and completely, that the good you are doing is making a difference."
Kevin Markham
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Duboise
"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 I can do."
Edward Everett Hale
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank
"Some people might call me idealistic, but I consider myself a realist. I believe that realistically, change does not occur on its own, change will not occur unless we all participate in it, and change will inevitably occur once we realize this."
Kevin Markham
"To accomplish something important, two things are necessary: a definite idea, and not enough time."
Evan Esar
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
Arundhati Roy
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
Robert Fritz
"Don't let the best you have ever done be the standard for the rest of your life."
Anonymous
"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
Susan Jeffers
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Native American Proverb
"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."
D.H. Lawrence
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
Sydney J. Harris in Strictly Personal
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
Rabindranath Tagore
"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion."
Thomas Jefferson
"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie
"A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers."
Chinese Proverb
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Ghandi
"We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection."
Pindar
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
Lilla Watson
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure."
Mack Douglas
"Let us not talk of karma, but simply of responsibility toward the whole world."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection."
Richard Lewis
"It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up."
Joan Rivers
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
Groucho Marx
"Lord give me chastity - but not yet."
Saint Augustine
"Dance is a vertical expression of horizontal desire."
Anonymous
"If you start criminalizing fantasies, it would be like living in Alabama."
Ally (Calista Flockhart) in Ally McBeal
"Hey, you're a tall drink of water, aren't you."
Antonio Scarpacci (Tony Shalhoub) in Wings
"Tall drink of water."
Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) in Law & Order, speaking about a woman
"Aren't you some tall cool glass of lemonade."
Lesbian prostitute talking to a female detective in Law & Order
"That tall drink of water with a silver spoon up his ass."
Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) in The Shawshank Redemption, talking about Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)
"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
T.S. Eliot
"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work."
Eugene Gallagher
"There's nothing on [television] worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household."
Philo Farnsworth (inventor of television) to his son in "Time Magazine" 29 March 1999
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
Albert Schweitzer
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
Ben Sweetland
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
Marianne Williamson
"The work of an individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward."
Igor Sikorsky
"We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes."
Jean Juares
"The difference between a smart person and a wise one is that a smart person knows what to say, but a wise persons knows whether or not to say it."
Anonymous
"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment."
Malcom Hein
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Naguib Mahfouz