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My 101 Favorite Quotations

Tue Jun 21 22:09:58 2011

My select 101 quotations. Reap the wisdom and wit of the great minds.

Those of you who are friends with me on Facebook know that I frequently read various quotations, and post them onto Facebook. To preserve part of my labours, I've decided to simply post 101 of my favorite quotations, here on this website, for everyone in the world to enjoy.

The order of the list does not reflect which quotations I like most, and of course, doesn't include every quotation that deserves to be here.

Be sure to post your favorite quotation in the comments.

Enjoy!

  1. "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." — Henry Ford
  2. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the universe." — Albert Einstein
  3. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln
  4. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." — Winston Churchill
  5. "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." — Thomas Jefferson
  6. "Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." — Victor Kiam
  7. "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. "Every artist was first an amateur." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  9. "Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  11. "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  12. "A great man is always willing to be little." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  13. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." — e. e. cummings
  14. "I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance." — e. e. cummings
  15. "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning." — Maya Angelou
  16. "Nothing will work unless you do." — Maya Angelou
  17. "I believe that every person is born with talent." — Maya Angelou
  18. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." — Henry David Thoreau
  19. "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." — Tony Robbins
  20. "To get what we never had, we must do what we've never done" — Author Unknown
  21. "One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." — Tony Robbins
  22. "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." — Tony Robbins
  23. "Justifying a fault doubles it" — French Proverb
  24. "This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction" — Henry David Thoreau
  25. "A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." — Tony Robbins
  26. "If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner." — Zig Ziglar
  27. "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." — Zig Ziglar
  28. "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." — Mark Twain
  29. "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." — Mark Twain
  30. "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain
  31. "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." — Mark Twain
  32. "There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world." — Thomas Jefferson
  33. "The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory." — Thomas Jefferson
  34. "Power is not alluring to pure minds." — Thomas Jefferson
  35. "One man with courage is a majority." — Thomas Jefferson
  36. "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more." — Thomas Jefferson
  37. "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." — Thomas Jefferson
  38. "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good." — Thomas Jefferson
  39. "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness." — Thomas Jefferson
  40. "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." — Thomas Jefferson
  41. "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." — Thomas Jefferson
  42. "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." — Thomas Jefferson
  43. "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." — Thomas Jefferson
  44. "I cannot live without books." — Thomas Jefferson
  45. "He who knows best knows how little he knows." — Thomas Jefferson
  46. "Delay is preferable to error." — Thomas Jefferson
  47. "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." — Aristotle
  48. "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." — Aristotle
  49. "No one loves the man whom he fears." — Aristotle
  50. "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." — Aristotle
  51. "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." — Aristotle
  52. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." — Thomas A. Edison
  53. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison
  54. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." — Winston Churchill
  55. "It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive." — Winston Churchill
  56. "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." — Winston Churchill
  57. If you are going through hell, keep going." — Winston Churchill
  58. "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." — Benjamin Franklin
  59. "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." — Plato
  60. "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" — Sydney J. Harris
  61. "The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang." — Mary Kay Ash
  62. "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." — E. Joseph Cossman
  63. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
  64. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
  65. "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
  66. "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" — Erich Fromm
  67. "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life." — Ernest Renan
  68. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." — Aristotle
  69. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." — Victor Hugo
  70. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." — Malcolm Forbes
  71. "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  72. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." — Edward Everett
  73. "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." — Anthony J. D'Angelo
  74. "It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." — Epictetus
  75. "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  76. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  77. "A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool." — Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  78. "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." — Abraham Lincoln
  79. "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." — Abraham Lincoln
  80. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
  81. "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." — Abraham Lincoln
  82. "Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." — James C. Dobson
  83. "Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too." — H. L. Mencken
  84. "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." — Kyle Chandler
  85. "Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." — Victor Kiam
  86. "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." — Mother Teresa
  87. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." — Wayne Dyer
  88. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." — Pablo Picasso
  89. ‎"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." — Henry Winkler
  90. "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." — Jessamyn West
  91. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." — Mohandas Gandhi
  92. "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." — Garrison Keillor
  93. "A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable." — Robert Fripp
  94. "Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man." — Helen Rowland
  95. "You will never win if you never begin." — Helen Rowland
  96. "Failure is success if we learn from it." — Malcolm Forbes
  97. "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  98. "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." — Chanakya
  99. "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience." — Elbert Hubbard
  100. "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." — George Eliot
  101. "You cannot open a book without learning something." — Confucius

Bonus 20 Quotations!

  1. "There is no failure except in no longer trying." — Elbert Hubbard
  2. "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." — Benjamin Disraeli
  3. "Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure." — Ambrose Bierce
  4. "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it." — Glenn Beck
  5. "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." — Lyndon B. Johnson
  6. "Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal." — Mike Ditka
  7. "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." — Napoleon Hill
  8. "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." — Napoleon Hill
  9. "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." — George Burns
  10. "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." — Bill Cosby
  11. "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." — Dale Carnegie
  12. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." — Anatole France
  13. "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." — M. Scott Peck
  14. "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." — William Penn
  15. "There's time enough, but none to spare." — Charles W. Chesnutt
  16. ‎"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." — Dion Boucicault
  17. "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." — Jim Carrey
  18. "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." — Lana Turner
  19. "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." — Confucius
  20. "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." — Arthur Helps

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