Some Useful Quotations!

*You can buy the physical beauty but you can't afford to buy inner beauty!
Alvaro Luis Figo

*Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Jason Mcgovern

*Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.


George Jean Nathan



What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock



Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain



Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern



Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison S. Marden



Emotions are naught to be tormented, for they can kill a person in more ways than one.

David Garrison



Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert



Example is always more effacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]



Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Ingersoll



The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James ['Principles of Psychology', 1890]



Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley 1928



True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Thoms Hobbes ['Leviathan', 1651]



Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills



If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse ['Demian', 1919]



An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.

William Heisenberg



If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Napoleon Hill



Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams



Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

George Allen



Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison



If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.



Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.



Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.



Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.



He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Tom J. Connelly



I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle



The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers



You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei



He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

C.C. Colton



The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein



Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Benjamin Franklin



The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson



Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Goethe



To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William M. Thackeray



The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran