Quick Albert Einstein Quote
“Only a life lived for others is worth living” – Albert Einstein
Five Rules for Happiness
Robert Frost Quotes
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
Maya Angelou Quotes
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
All great achievements require time.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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.
Effective action is always unjust.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I believe that every person is born with talent.
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Bruce Lee Quotes
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
As you think, so shall you become.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Real living is living for others.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Making people love you
“Don’t ever try to make people love you. All you can do is be nice. Leave the rest up to them” – Unknown
Quick Dale Carnegie Happiness Quotes
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.”
How to Motivate Yourself
The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. –John Burroughs
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. –Dale Carnegie
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. –John Henry Newman
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao-Tzu
Things do not change; we change. –Henry David Thoreau
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. –G.K. Chesterton
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. –Elbert Hubbard
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. –James Gordon
You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing. –Arthur Ashe
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. –Louis Pasteur
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. –Ambrose Redmoon
Often you just have to rely on your intuition. –Bill Gates
It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret. –Andre Agassi
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. –J. Pierpont Morgan
Death Quotes
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mohandas Gandhi
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mohandas Gandhi
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. — Socrates
Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (June, 1944) — George S. Patton
Arthur: “Marvin, any ideas?”
Marvin: “I have a million ideas. They all point to certain death.” — Douglas Adams
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right. From his speech at Stanford University during graduation in the spring of 2005. — Steve Jobs
“I don’t want to die now. I’ve still got a headache. I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it” — Douglas Adams
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. — Kurt Vonnegut
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci
4 lies a day
“The average person tells 4 lies a day, and 1460 a year. A total of 88,000 by the age of 6. And the most common lie is I’m fine.” – Unknown