“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.” – Sophie Tucker
“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.” – Liv Tyler
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
1. “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
2. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot
5. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot
6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
10. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown
14. “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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
15. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown
17. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch
18. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White
20. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
- “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
- “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
- “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan
- “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
- “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
- “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
- “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis
- “It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
- “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou
- “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein
- “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
- “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis
- “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “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
- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan
- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan
- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis
- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas
- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault
- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown
- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown
- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers
- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell
- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett
- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain
- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt
- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault
- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb
- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace
- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott
- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown
- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler
- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows
- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg
- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket
- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown
- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague
- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca
- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour
- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb
- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock
- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner
- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton
- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff
- “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius
- “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
- “It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” – Unknown
- “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, «Mother, what was war?»” – Eve Merriam
- “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein
- “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” – David Friedman
- “«There are no atheists in foxholes» isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow
- “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” – Colonel Potter
- “All the arms we need are for hugging.” – Unknown
- “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” – Napoleon
- “A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” – German Proverb
- “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.” – Arthur Koestler
- “Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy
- “Draft beer, not people.” – Bob Dylan
- “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy
- “What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.” – Unknown
- “Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.” – Pacifist Badge, 1978
- “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” – George Herbert
- “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeanette Rankin
- “You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” – David Lloyd George
- “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg
- “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky
- “We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.” – James Russell Lowell
- “Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.” – Adrienne Gusoff
- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
- “Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein
- “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
- “Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” – Unknown
- “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown
- “The four most important words in any marriage…«I’ll do the dishes.»” – Unknown
- “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown
- “Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way.” – Unknown
- “When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires.” – Unknown
- “Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say!” – Unknown
- “You can’t buy love on eBay.” – Unknown
- “If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” – Bette Midler
- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
- “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” – Cathy Carlyle
- “Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.” – Cecilia Egan
- “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.” – Cher
- “Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.” – Cher
- “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying -
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying.” – Dorothy Parker
- “I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.” – Dudley Moore
- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” – Fran Lebowitz
- “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon
- “Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- “Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin
- “Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” – Glenn Beck
- “I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx
- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland
- “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger
- “When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.” – James Fineous McBride
- “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” – Jean Kerr
- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
- “It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.” – Joan Rivers
- “Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.” – Joan Rivers
- “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll
- “No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers
- “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn
- “True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.” – La Rochefoucauld
- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” – Lily Tomlin
- “The only people who make love all the time are liars.” – Louis Jordan
- “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” – Natalie Wood
- “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Love is a grave mental disease.” – Plato
- “Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner
- “Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.” – Sandra J. Dykes
- “All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.” – Shelley Winters
- “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin
- “A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.” – Thomas Hardy
- “Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions.” – Tommy Dewar
- “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham
- “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney
- “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.” – Woody Allen
- “The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen
- “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.” – Woody Allen