Interesting Famous Quotes (Proverbs)"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may
be preserved by quotation.” "A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
QUOTES ABOUT MOTIVATION, LEADERSHIP & POWER"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when
his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will
enable you to attain the success you seek.” "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting
along with people, of getting things done.” "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because
once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him (by fear),
he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”
"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion,
kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old
and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon
of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first
convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop
of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the
great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find
but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause,
if indeed that cause is really a good one.” "God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.”
"Time is really the only capital
that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford
to waste or lose.” "Power consists in one's capacity
to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and
a gift of cooperation.” "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership." "The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; INVOLVE ME me and I'll understand.” "It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
QUOTES ABOUT PERSISTENCE, TENACITY, HARD WORK, EXPERIENCE & GENIUS"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems
longer.” "The three things that are most essential to achievement,
are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.” "Eighty percent of success is showing up.” "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.” "Genius is 1% inspiration and
99% perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely
a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
"If we all did the things we
are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” "Many of life's failures are
experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up.” "Ninety-nine percent of failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” "I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience." "Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." "Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." "Misfortunes often sharpen the genius."
QUOTES ABOUT EDUCATION"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate." "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education." "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
QUOTES ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE), CAUSES & SPEAKING OUT AGAINST WRONGS"The failure to condemn an activity is indeed, an offer of
tacit approval. All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men
to do nothing.” "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of evil
people, but because ordinary people do nothing about it.”
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.” "In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's
responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” "I submit that 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."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win.” "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on
certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle, ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the
fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.” "The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple
act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations
of legal bigotry.” "To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make
things right, is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will
eat you last--but eat you he will.” "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter.” "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger
and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the
danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will
reduce the danger by half.” "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself
a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle
for independence.” "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes
a revolutionary act.” "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have
never been in bed with a mosquito.” "The hope of a secure and liveable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are
wrong, you cannot be too conservative.” "Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.”
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting
against it is really cooperating with it.” "I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ." "Your silence gives consent." "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." "Never do anything against conscience -- even if the state demands it." "Neutral men are the devil's allies." "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." "This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. The saving of our world from pending doom will come not from the actions of a conforming majority but from the creative maladjustment of a transformed minority.” "Each person must live their life as a model for others."
QUOTES ABOUT MAKING CHANGES & SOLVING PROBLEMS"…the current paradigm is so thoroughly established
that the only way to change is to start over again.” "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that
created it.” "The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far, has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them." "The significant problems we face, cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." "Never take a no from someone who is not empowered to give you a yes in the first place” "The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt
the person doing it.” "It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors." "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem
brings us face to face with another problem.” "The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done,
the greater will be his power of knowing what to do." "There is only one road to human greatness, through the
schools of hard knocks." "You must be the change you want to see in the world." "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." "If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement." "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." "I listen more to what you DO, than what you SAY." "He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought, will never be able to change reality." "Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart." "Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship."
QUOTES ABOUT ATTITUDE & PERSPECTIVE"Nothing is impossible, unless you think it is.” "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or
sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human
spirit.” "We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old
because we stop playing.” "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and
you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” "A house divided against itself cannot stand.” "When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter
make sense.” "Having the fewest wants, I am
nearest to the gods.” "Better to remain silent and
be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
"If you love life, don't waste
time, because time is what life is made of.” "I have no special gift. I am
only passionately curious.” "Travel is fatal
to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome,
and charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one tiny
corner of the globe.” "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." "People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.” "People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things." "A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism." "It always seems impossible until its done." "I believe someone once defined a compromise as a solution that neither side is happy with." "A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted." "Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent." "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." "I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you." "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life." "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." "The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." "To Achieve Your Dreams Remember Your ABC's.
Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Believe in yourself. Consider things from every angle. Don't give up and don't give in. Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come. Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches. Give more than you planned to.
Hang on to your dreams. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Just do it. Keep trying no matter how hard it seems, it will get easier. Love yourself first and most. Make it happen. Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal. Open your eyes and see things as they really are. Practice makes perfect. Quitters never win and winners never quit. Read, study and learn about everything important in your life.
Stop procrastinating. Take control of your own destiny. Understand yourself in order to better understand others. Visualize it. Want it more than anything. ‘Excellerate’ your efforts. You are unique of all God's creations, nothing can replace YOU. Zero in on your target and go for it!" "If you are asking
the wrong question, it doesn’t matter how good the answer is,
you aren’t going to get where you want to go." "Just remember, 100% of the shots you don't take, don't go in." "No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." "Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play."
QUOTES ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBLE"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS, HEALTH, OPTIMISM & SUCCESS"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds
to be.” "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements
of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to
be enthusiastic about.” "Success consists of going from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm.” "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation
which give happiness.” "I'm going to be f___ing happy no matter what.” "Fake it 'til you make it.” "Nothing will benefit human health,
or increase the chances for survival of life on earth, as the evolution
to a vegetarian diet .” "Never spend your money before
you have it.” "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,
and wise." "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind." "The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control, makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny." "The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." "To be happy, make other people happy" "Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration." "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
QUOTES ABOUT SELF-WORTH OR SELF-RESPECT"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." "It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy
of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!" (note: it is actually self-worth but the two are similar) "Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting." "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without" "Respect yourself and others will respect you." "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves" "We teach people how to treat us.” "If you do not believe you are worthy of being loved, you
will not believe others can love you even if they say they love
you. Ultimately, you will sabotage your relationships to make your
belief come true.” "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." "Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy." "Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."
QUOTES ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
QUOTES ABOUT CONTROL & TYRANNY"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." "Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny." "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
QUOTES ABOUT PRINCIPALS"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
principle, stand like a rock.” "A people that values its privileges above its principles
soon loses both.” "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." "Never promise more than you can perform." "Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles."
QUOTES ABOUT CHARACTER, MORALITY, INTEGRITY & TRUTH"Character cannot be developed in ease and quite. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired and success achieved.” "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power.” "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.” "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The
test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” "May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth,
ever speak the truth and serve justice.” "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become
a man of value.” "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences,
than by those one has had.” "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private
fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean
as they are empty.” "The gift of Truth excels all other gifts.” "I pronounce it as certain, that there was never a truly
great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” "A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” "Once you reach 'the age of accountability' and you make
a mistake, you don't have any excuses; but there are explanations,
& only a fool does not seek to understand why he or she makes
a mistake.” "Morality can not be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain
the heartless.” "If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference." "Integrity is the essence of everything successful." "Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in large ones either" "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." "Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue" "The SIZE OF THE LIE is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." The fuller version of the above quote by Adolf Hitler: "In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying." ''Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive'' "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." "A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it." "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but
it ain't goin' away.” "Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it." "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." "Or by misleading the innocent." "A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic." "Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.” "Only one who keeps a continually open mind can find the Truth." "There are a lot of people who lie & get away with it." "It is not truth that matters, but victory. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
QUOTES ABOUT FLAWED HUMAN BEINGS"With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course
is a very common phenomenon.” "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he
will not bite you, that is the principal difference between a dog
and a man.” "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike
people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love
and hate.” "Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision
for the limits of the world.” "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of
the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices,
have very few virtues.” "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and
hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything,
except our mode of thinking.” "He who will not economize will
have to agonize.” "Human beings are almost unique
in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, but
they are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do
so.” "You can always rely on the U.S. to do the right thing, once it has exhausted the alternatives". "We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
QUOTES ABOUT ACCEPTING THE DIVINE OUTCOME or DIVINE PROVIDENCE"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of
small things brought together.” "We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so
as to have the life that is waiting for us.” "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain
of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” "How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else." "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change" "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it knows and loves the One who is leading."
QUOTES ABOUT ANGER, BITTERNESS, REVENGE & HATRED"Anyone can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry
with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for
the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy.”
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
"Holding a resentment is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill your enemy." "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. "When anger rises, think of the consequences.” "Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst." "It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways." "For hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life-and-death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity. I hope therefore … to counter the hostility of the regime with the best of intentions, and defuse hate with love.” "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
QUOTES ABOUT USING OUR MIND, THINKING FOR OURSELVES, IDEAS & DREAMS "What luck for rulers, that men do not think”. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect, has intended us to
forego their use.” "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let people
have guns …why should we let them have ideas?” "The right to figure things out for yourself is the only
true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.” "I not only use all the brains
that I have, but all that I can borrow.” "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.” "All great truths begin as blasphemies.” "Imagination is more important than knowledge.” "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,
and that is an idea whose time has come.” "Not to dream more boldly, may turn out to be in view of
present realities, simply irresponsible.” "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
"You're only
given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.” "The best way
to become acquainted with a subject, is to write a book about it.”
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." "Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions" "He who knows not history is doomed to repeat it." QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM & LEARNING"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." "Common sense is not so common." "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." "Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving." "Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." "When you know better, you do better."
QUOTES ABOUT SMALL MINDS"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.” "Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great." "Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
QUOTES ABOUT INVENTION & SHARING"As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others,
we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention
of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do…
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart
people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't
violate too many of Newton's Laws!” "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas
are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
"The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around
us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”
"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." "Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."
QUOTES ABOUT KINDNESS, DOING GOOD & BEING NICE"By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern
for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source
of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness which is a natural
source of goodness.” "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true
happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through
fidelity to a worthy purpose.” "The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time
have given me the energy to face life, have been Kindness, Beauty
and Truth.” "I want you to be the good news to those around you. I want
you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your
next door neighbor?” "You can disagree without being disagreeable." "A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "Hate the sin, love the sinner." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life.... that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
QUOTES ABOUT CHOOSING THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR YOUR LIFE"Have no friends not equal to yourself.” "When someone shows you who they are, believe them…
the first time!” "People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a
lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly
what to do.” "I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply
to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know
is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you
forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.” "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those
few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship
is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks
of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” "If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if
they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
"Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.”
"If they will do it with you, they will do it to you.”. "Do not bite
at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
"True friends stab you in the front. "Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them"
QUOTES ABOUT GOVERNMENT"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business
would hire them away.” "No man is good enough to govern another man without that
other's consent.” "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.”
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over
men, you must first enable the government to control the governed;
and in the next place oblige it to control itself." "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must
be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government." "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future." "You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." "Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do." "What Washington needs is adult supervision." "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government
has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." "The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes." "Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" "To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." "America's leadership and prestige depend not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Love your country, but never trust its government."
QUOTES ABOUT FACISM"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information." "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public, but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power." "They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjugation." "The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism." "If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States." "The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned." "Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery." "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
QUOTES ABOUT THE LAW"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always
to remain unaltered." "A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that
there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."
"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."
"What power has law where only money rules." "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive." "Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. "Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one." "Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law." "In our judicial system, you only get the amount of justice you can afford."
QUOTES ABOUT FEAR & WORRY"Never let us negotiate out of fear but never let us fear
to negotiate.” "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have
to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified
terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
"As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey.
I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could
do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard
at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.” "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
QUOTES ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY, BULLYING, & ABUSE OF POWER"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power
over his fellow citizens.” "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations." "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the
guise of fighting a foreign enemy." "Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally
be done." "Threats are the absolute measure of last resort, only to
be used when nothing else works & only if appropriate &
legal, not the first thing you start out with. A Bully starts out
with a threat.” "What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us." "A real free market does not allow one person to damage another person with impunity." "All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
QUOTES ABOUT IRONIC HUMOUR"I sent the club a wire stating, please accept my resignation.
I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
(Known as ”Groucho Marx syndrome”.) "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”
(After his ideas lead to development of the atomic bomb) "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me
an authority myself.” "I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one
agree with me.” "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a
civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be
safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our
lead into the future!” "In my country we go to prison first and then become President." "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." "Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts." "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." "I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should
relax and get used to the idea." "Translations are like women. If they are pretty, chances
are they won't be very faithful." "A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she
is until she gets in hot water." "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." "There are three things men can do with women: love them,
suffer for them, or turn them into literature." "All human relationships must be purchased with money." "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never her age." "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have
no meaning." "The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet." "The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God." —Woody Allen (born 1935) "Of course I like women. Historically, man has always been
attracted to Evil. "It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than
to share a house with a contentious woman." "No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick &
tired of putting up with her shit." "A man will pay $20. for a $10. item he needs. A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need." "A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." "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." "A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does." "A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that, is the beginning of a new argument."
QUOTES ABOUT RELIGION & GOD"I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves
the existence of an intelligent creator.” "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself
alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:
if it has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which
has regulated it cannot be a bad one.” "When I do good, I feel good;
when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” "Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower." "You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt." "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." "After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
QUOTES ABOUT INTERESTING PREDICTIONS"Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides,
imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.”
"When china wakes, it will shake the world.” "By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
QUOTES ABOUT WAR & PEACE"A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.” "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's
the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always
a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy,
a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism,
and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the
same way in any country.” "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger
and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed…”
"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war." "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness,
consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn
of eternal peace.” "I like to believe that people in the long run are going
to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think
that people want peace so much that one of these days, governments
had better get out of the way and let them have it.” "People don't start wars, governments do.” "History teaches that wars begin when governments believe
the price of aggression is cheap.” "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how
necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn
how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy,
or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the
tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields
to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no
longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable
events.” "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” "What luck for rulers, that men do not think.” "Terrorism is the war of (by) the poor, and war is the terrorism
of (by) the rich.” "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual
warfare." "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have
become the instruments of tyranny at home." "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." "Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals." "There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." "Only Americans can hurt America." "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." "Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade." "With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world." "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace" "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." "We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves." "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies." "The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. ” (in "Real Peace" 1983) "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.” "The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without." "War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means." "War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events." "The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends," "Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars" "There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy, there is nothing good in war, except its ending." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster."
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