Quotes


“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why Not?’”
~George Bernard Shaw

“Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.”
~John Eldredge

“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.”
~Unknown

“A poor workmen quarrels with his tools.”
~Unknown

"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs" 

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“I find television very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
~Groucho Marx

“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but walk on the earth.”
~Chinese Proverb

“It’s better to be someone who is told to wait than be someone who waits to be told.”
~Unknown

“Preach the Gospel at all times, when necessary use words.” 
~St. Francis

“Do or do not, there is no try.”
~Yoda

“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”
~Yoda

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether his is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.”
~James Michener

“Small minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.”
~Unknown

“You can measure the size of a person by what makes him angry.”
~Dale Carnegie

“The ultimate definition of success in life is that your spouse likes and respects you ever more as the years go by.”
~Jim Collins

"In truth, we are what we read as much as we are what we eat." 
~Mary R. Jalongo

“The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.”
~Jim Collins

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
~Unknown

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”
~William A. Ward

“Most people would rather die than think. Many do.”
~Bertand Russell

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
~Aldous Huxley

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.” 
~ Russian Proverb

“If there is no wind, row.”
~Polish Proverb

“Men give advice. God gives guidance.”
~Unknown

“Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.”
~C.S. Lewis

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not what he is capable of receiving.”
~Albert Einstein

“We like people for their qualities, we love then for their faults.”
~Unknown

“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true of money, a smile, love, friendship.”
~Robert T. Kiyosaki

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but revel to him his own.”
~Benjamin Disreali

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.”
~Lou Holtz

“If you’re unable to change your mind, are you certain you still have one?”
~Unknown

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
~Tallulah Bankhead

“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing.”
~Unknown

“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.”
~Ashleigh Brilliant

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
~Pablo Picasso

“If you don’t give appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
~David Allen

“The mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
~David Allen

“Use what talents you posses: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
~Henry Van Dike

“Now with God’s help I shall become myself.”
~Soren Kierkegaard

“Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
~William Morris

“Treat a man as he is and you make him worse than he is. Treat a man as he has the potential to become and you make him better than he is.”
~Goethe

“When God made time, he made enough of it.”
~Celtic Saying

“Evermore people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
~Viktor Frankl

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tell me something I know but didn’t know I knew- then talk me into it.”
~Frank L. Cioffi

“Good people need big projects. Good students do too.”
~Richard Byrne

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the external hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
~William James

“Wether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it.’”
~Isaiah 30:21

“Nothing destroys truth like stretching it.”
~Unknown

“The circumstances of life, the events of life, and the people around me in life, do not make me the way I am, but reveal the way I am.”
~Dr. Sam Peeples