Quotes of the Day (Updated August 4th, 2007)

"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
-- Frank Knox

"To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing."
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth

"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
-- Frank Knox

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him."
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
-- Robert Frost

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
-- Jack London

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
-- Chinese proverb

"If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil."
-- James A. Garfield

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."
-- Joseph Conrad

"The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts."
-- Anatole France

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
-- Washington Gladden

"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life."
-- Sir William Osler

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
-- Joseph Joubert

"Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength."
-- Anonymous

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
-- Samuel Butler

"Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
-- F. Hawes

"There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands."
-- Victor Robinsoll

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
-- Henry James

"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside."
-- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life."
-- Michael Leboeuf

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away."
-- Elvis Presley

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-- Samuel Ullman

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
-- Jack Dempsey

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
-- Booker T. Washington

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

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
-- John Steinbeck

"To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing."
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
-- Alexander Pope

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
-- David Seabury

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires."
-- Randolph S. Bourne

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself."
-- A. Neilen

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton

"A hero is a man who does what he can."
-- Roman Rollard

"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."
-- Thomas N. Carruther

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
-- Sigmund Freud

"Laughter is the language of the Gods."
-- Buddhist saying

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
-- William F. Scolavino

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle.”
-- Arthur Rubinstein

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.”
-- Louis Nizer

“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
-- Helen Keller

"Courage is grace under pressure.”
-- Ernest Hemingway

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
-- Bernard Meltzer

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.”
-- Arnold H. Glasow

“Pain nourishes courage. You cant be brave if youve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
-- Mary Tyler Moore

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
-- Unknown

"You see things - and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things that never were - and I say 'Why not?'.”
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.”
-- Pearl S. Buck

"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
-- Bernard Williams

"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”
-- Alexis Carrel

"He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”
-- Arabian Proverb

"First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
-- Epictetus

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
-- Charles Schulz

"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."
-- Jack Wagner

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

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-- Oscar Wilde

"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like counting.”
-- David Letterman

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
-- Lily Tomlin

"It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-- George Eliot

"The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."
-- Maria Mannes

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: at is enough for one man's life.”
-- T. S. Eliot

"Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.”
-- E. Merrill Root

"What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this."
-- Epictetus

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
-- Howard W. Newton

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
-- Sophia Loren

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."
-- Malcolm Forbes

"Patience is passion tamed."
-- Lyman Abbott

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
-- J. Andrews

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
-- John Andrew Holmes

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly."
-- Mabel Newcomber

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do thing for them or to them"
-- Malcolm Forbes

"What is now proved was once only imagined.”
-- William Blake

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-- Chinese proverb

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
-- David Viscott

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

"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time...”
-- Andre Gide

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-- Samuel Ullman

"You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create a atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work."
-- Thomas Dreier

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ”
-- Confucius

"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside”.
-- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.”
-- Anonymous

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
-- Josh Billings

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
-- Andy Rooney

"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and the give him only two of them."
-- Phil Pastoret

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
-- John Steinbeck

"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Life is what happens when you are making other plans”
-- John Lennon

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
-- Christopher Darlington Morley

"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it”
-- George Eliot

"Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. "
-- Stanley Horowitz

"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
-- Eddie Rickenbacker

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. "
-- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
-- Mark Twain

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. "
-- Julia Sorel

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. "
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."
-- Thomas Paine

"Hindsight might be 20x20, but stupidity is always blind."
-- Me

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess."
-- Louis Nizer

"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen Keller

"Courage is grace under pressure."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."
-- Arnold H. Glasow

"Pain nourishes courage. You cant be brave if youve only had wonderful things happen to you."
-- Mary Tyler Moore

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
-- Unknown

"You see things - and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things that never were - and I say 'Why not?'."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
-- Pearl S. Buck

"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
-- Bernard Williams"

"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."
-- Alexis Carrel

"He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything."
-- Arabian Proverb

"First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do."
-- Epictetus

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him."
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
-- Frank Knox

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
-- John Steinbeck

"To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing."
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
-- Alexander Pope

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
-- David Seabury

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires."
-- Randolph S. Bourne

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself."
-- A. Neilen

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton

"A hero is a man who does what he can."
-- Roman Rollard

"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."
-- Thomas N. Carruther

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
-- Sigmund Freud

"Laughter is the language of the Gods."
-- Buddhist Saying

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
-- William F. Scolavino

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
-- Robert Frost

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle."
-- Arthur Rubinstein

"I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do."
-- Arthur Warwick

"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."
-- Dr. Frank Richards

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot

"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."
-- Unknown

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
-- Howard W. Newton

"To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."
-- John Henry Patterson

"Those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of old age, but they die young.
-- A.W. Pinero

"There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good."
-- Tillotson

"Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth."
-- Ruth McKenney

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
-- Henry Ford

"What was hard to bear is sweet to remember."
-- Portuguese proverb

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
-- Duguet

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."
-- Japanese proverb

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
-- English proverb

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
-- W.J. Slim

"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view."
-- Wilma Askinas

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
-- William Blake

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacFinan

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
-- David Viscott

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
-- Buddhist Proverb

"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
-- Harvey Fierstein

"At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable."
-- Christopher Reeve

"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
-- Brian Tracy

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."
-- Ann Landers

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
-- Julia Sorel

"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
-- Arab proverb

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
-- Aeschylus

"The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift."
-- Pierre Corneille

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-- Robert Brault

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
-- Allophones Karr

"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up."
-- J Peterman

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
-- Anonymous