Quote List Print This Page All I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. [445]  -- Abraham Lincoln We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. [446]  -- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one. [447]  -- Abraham Lincoln It is vital that people ‘count their blessings’ to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. [448]  -- Abraham Maslow This world is transitory and our life therein but a moment borrowed, our breaths numbered, yet our indifference reckless. [449]  -- Abu Bakr al-Saddiq It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. [450]  -- Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. [451]  -- Aesop Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. [452]  -- Aesop, The Frog and the Ox The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it. [453]  -- African proverb It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. [454]  -- Agatha Christie Whatever you think you are, that’s not what you are. [455]  -- Ajahn Sumedho A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. [456]  -- Albert Einstein All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. [457]  -- Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. [458]  -- Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is worth living. [459]  -- Albert Einstein The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. [460]  -- Albert Einstein What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. [461]  -- Albert Pine The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. [462]  -- Albert Schweitzer When you reflect that it’s the human mind that has invented space, time, and matter, picking them out of reality in a quite arbitrary fashion--can you attempt to explain a thing in terms of something it has invented itself. [463]  -- Aldous Huxley Structure follows stragegy. [464]  -- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. It is human to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. [465]  -- Anatole France The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. [466]  -- Andrew Carnegie Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. [467]  -- Andrew Jackson They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [468]  -- Andy Warhol Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” [469]  -- Ann Landers Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet. [470]  -- Anonymous Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds. [471]  -- Anonymous He who thinks most of heaven will do most for earth. [472]  -- Anonymous Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel. [473]  -- Anonymous I am too blessed to be stressed! [474]  -- Anonymous If it were not for the last minute, nothing would get done. [475]  -- Anonymous If you are good, be better. [476]  -- Anonymous If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you.re going to be cockeyed today. [477]  -- Anonymous Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger. [478]  -- Anonymous Some pursue happiness, others create it. [479]  -- Anonymous The only people to get even with are those who have helped you. [480]  -- Anonymous The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. [481]  -- Anonymous You are unique. Just like everyone else. [482]  -- Anonymous If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea. [483]  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Always think of the end, and you will never do amiss. [484]  -- Apocrypha: Ben Sira 7:36 Delight not in excessive luxury, for double is its poverty. [485]  -- Apocrypha: The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 18.32 I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. [486]  -- Aristotle A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. [487]  -- Arnold Glasgow One man believes in existence, Another says, “There is nothing!” Rare is the man who believes in neither. He is free from confusion. [488]  -- Ashtavakra Gita 18:42 Patience is also a form of action. [489]  -- Auguste Rodin If we do not try, we will not know. [490]  -- Ayya Khema, Be An Island It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. [491]  -- Babe Ruth A person is always liable for his actions, whether awake or asleep. [492]  -- Babylonian Talmud, Bava Kamma 3b A man must always be exceedingly careful to show honor to his wife. [493]  -- Babylonian Talmud, Bava Mezia, 59a A person is prohibited to eat until he first feeds his animals. [494]  -- Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 40a A person’s nature can be recognized through three things: his cup, his purse, and his anger. [495]  -- Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 65b A man should not act as a judge either for someone he loves or for someone he hates. For no man can see the guilt of someone he loves or the good qualities in someone he hates. [496]  -- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Ketubbot Words are the shell, meditation the kernel. Words are the body of the prayer, and meditation its spirit. [498]  -- Bahya, Hobot HaLebabot, 1040 Days are scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered. [497]  -- Bahya, Hovot HaLevavot To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. [499]  -- Baruch Spinoza Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. [500]  -- Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success is constancy to purpose. [501]  -- Benjamin Disraeli Criticism has few terrors for a man with a great purpose. [502]  -- Benjamin Disraeli, Life of Lord George Bentinck A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. [503]  -- Benjamin Franklin He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. [504]  -- Benjamin Franklin A heart without affection is like a purse without money. [505]  -- Benjamin Mandelstamm, Russian Jewish writer and Hebraist Never follow the crowd. [506]  -- Bernard M. Baruch Without heroes, we are all plain people and don.t know how far we can go. [507]  -- Bernard Malamud Discontent is the source of trouble, but also of progress. [508]  -- Berthold Auerbach, On the Heights, 1865 It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. [509]  -- Bertrand Russell When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us. [510]  -- Bertrand Russell To God, our journey is as important as our destinations. [511]  -- Beth Moore Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses. [512]  -- Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano, Landscapes of Wonder There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners, and the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. [513]  -- Blaise Pascal Creativity is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God. [514]  -- Bob Moawad Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. [515]  -- Bono Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. [516]  -- Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. [517]  -- Bruce Crampton Induce your competitors not to invest in those products, markets and services where you expect to invest the most...that is the fundamental rule of strategy. [518]  -- Bruce Henderson, founder of BCG ‘He insulted me, he hurt me, he defeated me, he robbed me.’ Those who think such things will not be free from hate. [519]  -- Buddha And from all other cares released, the mind set on collecting my own spirit, to unify and discipline my spirit will I strive. [520]  -- Buddha Even as a great rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise man is not shaken by praise or blame. [521]  -- Buddha Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. [522]  -- Buddha He who for himself or others craves not for sons or power or wealth, who puts not his own success before the success of righteousness, he is virtuous, and righteous and wise. [523]  -- Buddha If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. [524]  -- Buddha Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. [525]  -- Buddha O let us live in joy, although having nothing! In joy let us live like spirits of light! [526]  -- Buddha The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you. [527]  -- Buddha Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. [528]  -- Buddha Don.t postpone joy. [529]  -- Bumper Sticker Imaging the future may be more important than analyzing the past. I daresay companie today are not resource-bound, they are imagination-bound. [530]  -- C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth. [531]  -- C.S. Lewis It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. [532]  -- C.S. Lewis Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. [533]  -- Calvin Coolidge Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. [534]  -- Carl Bard Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. [535]  -- Carl Jung He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks within, awakens. [536]  -- Carl Jung The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. [537]  -- Carl Rogers If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up somewhere else. [538]  -- Casey Stengel God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope. [539]  -- Catherine Marshall The single most important element in any human relationship is honesty--with oneself, with God, and with others. [540]  -- Catherine Marshall The grand essentials for happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for. [541]  -- Chalmers You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. [542]  -- Charles Allen It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy. [543]  -- Charles H. Spurgeon There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought. [544]  -- Charles Kingsley You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-range failure. [545]  -- Charles Nobel When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. [546]  -- Charles Varlet Marquis de La Grange Rabbi Michal once said to his sons: “my life was blessed, because I never needed anything until I had it.” [547]  -- Chasidic, 18th century If you want happiness for an hour.take a nap. If you want happiness for a day.go fishing. If you want happiness for a month.get married. If you want happiness for a year.inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime.help others. [548]  -- Chinese Proverb The fish is last to know if it swims in water. [549]  -- Chinese proverb When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. [550]  -- Chinese Proverb When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart. [551]  -- Chinese Proverb Any company needs a strong, unifying sense of direction. But that need is particularly strong in an organization in which tasks are differentiated and responsibilities dispersed. [552]  -- Christopher A. Bartlett At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. [553]  -- Christopher Reeve I criticize by creation, not by finding fault [554]  -- Cicero If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes. [555]  -- Clement of Alexandria Good and evil do not befall men without reason. Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct. [556]  -- Confucius The more a man knows, the more he forgives. [557]  -- Confucius To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. [558]  -- Confucius Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. [559]  -- Confusius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising ever time we fall. [560]  -- Confusius Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. [561]  -- Dale Carnegie When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. [562]  -- David Orr Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. [563]  -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. [564]  -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. [565]  -- Dodie Smith Success is not what you think it is... it is what you believe it is...and most never believe... [566]  -- Doug Firebaugh Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket. [567]  -- Doug Horton Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. [568]  -- Douglas Jerrould The highest mountain of all to overcome is one’s own preconceptions. [569]  -- du Gabriel Plans are nothing, planning is everything [570]  -- Dwight D. Eisenhower To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight . . . and never stop fighting. [571]  -- E. E. Cummings I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes. [572]  -- e.e. cummings A man cannot say to the Angel of Death, “Wait till I make up my accounts.” [573]  -- Ecclesiastes Rabbah 8 Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. [574]  -- Edmund Burke Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. [575]  -- Elbert Hubbard There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. [576]  -- Elie Wiesel When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. [577]  -- Elie Wiesel He who created the day has also provided for it. [578]  -- Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, Mekilta, to Exodus 16:4 Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. [579]  -- Ella Wheeler-Wilcox I used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I thought, “Look what’s telling me that.” [580]  -- Emo Philips People are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of things that happen [581]  -- Epitetus Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded. [582]  -- Executive Speechwriter Newsletter Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them--every day begin the task anew.  [583]  -- Francis de Sales Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art. [584]  -- Frank Tyger All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is. [585]  -- Frederick Buechner I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. [586]  -- Fritz Perls A shortcut into the path is to be inwardly empty and outwardly quiet, like water that is clear and still, myriad images reflecting in it, neither sinking nor floating, all things spontaneously so. [587]  -- Fu-jung Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. [588]  -- G.K. Chesterton One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. [589]  -- Gail Godwin There is more to life than increasing its speed. [590]  -- Gandhi Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful. [591]  -- Gen. Robert E. Wood Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. [592]  -- General George Patton Just when I figured out the meaning of life, they changed it. [593]  -- George Carlin Man does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination. [594]  -- George Gurdjieff He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. [595]  -- George Herbert During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. [596]  -- George Orwell Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it. [597]  -- Georges Bernanos We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. [598]  -- Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794), Statesman Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude. [599]  -- Georges Lefevre Our mind is like an onion, and each day and month of practice progressively peels away the layers of delusion. [600]  -- Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Advice From a Spiritual Friend Forgiveness creates an obligation for which there are no exceptions allowed. [601]  -- Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. [602]  -- Glenn Clark Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. [603]  -- Goethe Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. [604]  -- Golda Meir The anchor of hope is sunk in heaven, not on earth. [605]  -- Gregory Floyd If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. [606]  -- H.H. XIV Dalai Lama Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. [607]  -- Hal Lindsey The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity’s flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve. [608]  -- Hasidic saying Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. [609]  -- Helen Hayes Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye. [610]  -- Helen Keller Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. [611]  -- Henri Nouwen I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. [612]  -- Henry David Thoreau Strategic planning isn’t strategic thinking. One is analysis and the other is synthesis. [613]  -- Henry Mitzberg, McGill University It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. [614]  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reply to their crimes with other crimes. We should reflect that by the law of karma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come, and that our duty to them, as to every being, is to help them to rise towards Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth. [615]  -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama At a time when people are so conscious of maintaining their physical health by controlling their diets, exercising and so forth, it makes sense to try to cultivate the corresponding positive mental attitudes too. [616]  -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1963 The ultimate source of peace in the family, the country, and the world is altruism. [617]  -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Meaning of Life He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. [618]  -- Horace Those who want much, are always much in need. [619]  -- Horace God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies. [620]  -- Hudson Taylor The fear of God kills all other fears. [621]  -- Hugh Black A man is led the way he wishes to follow. [622]  -- Huna, Talmud: Makkot, 10b Love can’t be hid by hiding. [623]  -- Indian proverb There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. [624]  -- Indira Gandhi A little light will dispel much darkness. [625]  -- Isaachar Eilenburg, Tzeda LaDerek God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. [626]  -- Izaak Walton When we have done our best, we should await the result in peace. [627]  -- J. Lubbock The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose [628]  -- J. Martin Kohe Don’t manage, lead. [629]  -- Jack Welch, GE If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. [630]  -- Jack Welch, GE Food is our common ground, a universal experience. [631]  -- James Beard A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery. [632]  -- James Joyce Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong. [633]  -- James Leo Herlihy Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. [634]  -- Jean Cocteau We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? [635]  -- Jean Cocteau Love is an act of endless forgiveness. [636]  -- Jean Vanier If you don’t think you can do it, who will" You control the most important tool in success, your mind. [637]  -- Jeffrey Gitomer Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. [638]  -- Jeremiah 29:5 Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. [639]  -- Jewish proverb Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord. [640]  -- Jim Elliot As long as there is life, there is hope. [641]  -- Johanan. Talmud J: Berakot, 9.1 For daily need there is daily grace; for sudden need, sudden grace, and for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace. [642]  -- John Blanchard Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. [643]  -- John C. Bogle The world sets the agenda for the professional man; God sets the agenda of the spiritual man. [644]  -- John Piper One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests. [645]  -- John Stuart Mill Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. [646]  -- John Tukey, Statistician We only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it. [647]  -- Jon Blais Death was decreed for all, so that men may not be righteous just for the sake of life. [648]  -- Jonathan ben Eleazar, Jewish scholar of the third century, Palestine Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. [649]  -- Jonathan Swift Disaster comes only because of ignorance. [650]  -- Judah HaNasi, Talmud: Baba Bathra It is not what WE do for God, but what HE does through us. [651]  -- Judy Sexton Keep away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. [652]  -- Kahlil Gibran Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use of what you have. [653]  -- Karl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832 To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. [654]  -- Katherine Paterson The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduced yourself to had life not done it for you. [655]  -- Kendall Hailey Each of us bears responsibility for all who look up to us. [656]  -- Kent Krive Compassion is the best healer. [657]  -- Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ultimate Healing Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past. [658]  -- Landrum Bolling A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live. [659]  -- Lao-Tzu To see things in the seed, that is genius. [660]  -- Lao-Tzu I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. [661]  -- Laura Ingalls Wilder Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. [662]  -- Lawrence J. Peter All education starts with forbidding. [663]  -- Leo Baeck, Essence of Judaism Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. [664]  -- Leo Tolstoy Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. [665]  -- Leo Tolstoy Every time I think I’m getting old, something else happens. [666]  -- Lillian Carter Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat. [667]  -- Lilly Tomlin For fast acting relief, try slowing down. [668]  -- Lily Tomlin When all is said and done, more is said than done. [669]  -- Lou Holtz Chance favors the prepared mind. [670]  -- Louis Pasteur It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise. [671]  -- Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747), Moralist and essayist It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. [672]  -- M. Scott Peck Be the change you wish to see in the world. [673]  -- Mahatma Gandhi In the attitude of silence what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. [674]  -- Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. [675]  -- Mahatma Gandhi When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. [676]  -- Mahatma Gandhi When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. [677]  -- Mahatma Gandhi A wise man will carefully avoid excess, lest he give the impression of haughtiness. [678]  -- Maimonides Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. [679]  -- Maimonides A truth does not become greater by frequent repetition. [680]  -- Maimonides, Tehiyat HaMethim The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. [681]  -- Margaret Fontey We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. [682]  -- Marianne Williamson Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe. [683]  -- Mark Victor Hansen All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. [684]  -- Martin Buber Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts. [685]  -- Martin Buxbaum Christian life consists of faith and charity. [686]  -- Martin Luther It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for. [687]  -- Mary H. Waldrip Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [688]  -- Matthew 11: 28 Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner! [689]  -- Max Lucado God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them. [690]  -- Max Lucado Be not like those who honor their gods in prosperity and curse them in adversity. In pleasure or pain, give thanks! [691]  -- Mekhilta on Exodus 20.20 My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. [692]  -- Mel Weldon This is what the Lord asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God. [693]  -- Micah 6:8 All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. [694]  -- Michael Carr All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. [695]  -- Michael Carr Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. [696]  -- Michael Iapoce I live and love in God’s peculiar light. [697]  -- Michaelangelo A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be temperate and furious at the same time. [698]  -- Mohandas Gandhi My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet. [699]  -- Mohandas Gandhi An individual is a person, when and because he knows himself as such; a group is a people, when and because it knows itself as such. [700]  -- Mordechai Kaplan, Future of the American Jew, 1948 I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. [701]  -- Mother Teresa We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. [702]  -- Mother Teresa An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. [703]  -- Niels Bohr All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. [704]  -- Noam Chomsky Change your thoughts, and you change your world. [705]  -- Norman Vincent Peale Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. [706]  -- Oprah Winfrey Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. [707]  -- Oprah Winfrey Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. [708]  -- Oprah Winfrey A truly generous man is he that always gives, whether it be much or little, before he is asked. [709]  -- Orchot Tsadiqim A small act done modestly is a thousand-fold more acceptable to God than a big act done in pride. [710]  -- Orhot Tzaddikim, 15C Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. [711]  -- Oscar Wilde Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. [712]  -- Ovid To be loved, be lovable. [713]  -- Ovid I am always doing things I can’t do; that’s how I get to do them. [714]  -- Pablo Picasso The mind is an object of perception like the eternal world. The Atman, the real seer, remains unknown. [715]  -- Pantanjali Are you humbly grateful" Or grumbly hateful" [716]  -- Pastor Roland Smith To build your business, hire only the already motivated. [717]  -- Patricia Fripp Those that implement the plans must make the plans. [718]  -- Patrick Hagerty, Texas Instruments The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. [719]  -- Paul Fix (1901-1983), Actor A poorly observed fact is more treacherous than a faulty train of reasoning. [720]  -- Paul Valéry, French philospher What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [721]  -- Pericles Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. [722]  -- Peter Drucker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. [723]  -- Philip K. Dick Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. [724]  -- Philo A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful--five years later. [725]  -- Phyllis Battelle Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. [726]  -- Pindar It is impossible for anyone to learn that which he thinks he already knows. [727]  -- Plutarch We have met the enemy and he is us. [728]  -- Pogo Where there is no wind, row. [729]  -- Portuguese proverb Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones. [730]  -- Proverbs 16:24 Listen to instruction, and do your best to learn. [731]  -- Proverbs 23:10 Wisdom is the honey of your life - if you find it, your future is bright. [732]  -- Proverbs 24:26 Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. [733]  -- Pubilius Syrus A kind word with forgiveness is preferred over charity followed by injury. Allah is Absolute, Clement. [734]  -- Qur’an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:263 Do not barter away the covenant of God for a trifling price. His reward is better than any financial gain-if only you knew it. Worldly wealth is fleeting, but God’s reward lasts for ever. [735]  -- Qur’an, An-Nahl, Surah 16:95 In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up. [736]  -- R.H. Grenville A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. [737]  -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel A person should make ladders for himself by which he can sometimes go up to heaven. [738]  -- Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro A Religion is as much a progressive unlearning of false ideas concerning God as it is the learning of the true ideas concerning God. [739]  -- Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan All souls stood at Sinai, each accepting its share in Torah. [740]  -- Rabbi Moses ben Hayyim Alshekh But how can you say, ‘It was only talk, so no harm was done"’ Were this true, then your prayers, and your words of kindness, would be a waste of breath. [741]  -- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy. [742]  -- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. [743]  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. [744]  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest homage to truth is to use it. [745]  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. [746]  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Desires must be purified and idealized, not exterminated. [747]  -- Rav Eliyahu of Vilna (The Vilma Gaon) All beginnings require that you unlock a new door. [748]  -- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Always remember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital. [749]  -- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing. [750]  -- Regis McKenna There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. [751]  -- Richard Nelson Sell a customer what they Want, Deliver what they Need. [752]  -- Rick Beneteau Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. [753]  -- Robert Bringle Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. [754]  -- Robert Heinlein To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. [755]  -- Robert M. Pirsig It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out--it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. [756]  -- Robert Service Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. [757]  -- Ronald Osborn Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but moments. [758]  -- Rose Kennedy Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. [759]  -- Rumi A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. [760]  -- Ruth Bell Graham Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. [761]  -- Ruth Bell Graham Do not reveal to friends all the secrets you possess; they may one day become enemies. Do not inflict on enemies every injury in your power; they may one day become friends. [762]  -- Sadi, Gulistan All those who walk with God reach their destination. [763]  -- Sai Baba The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page. [764]  -- Saint Augustine Every man is the architect of his own fortune. [765]  -- Sallust Bodies come and go like clothes. [766]  -- Sankara If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being" [767]  -- Sarada Devi Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. [768]  -- Satchel Paige A man is only as good as what he loves. [769]  -- Saul Bellow, Seize the Day All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [770]  -- Schopenhauer Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. [771]  -- Schopenhauer All my days I have been raised among the Sages, and I found nothing better for oneself than silence; not study, but practice is the main thing; and one who talks excessively brings on sin. [772]  -- Shimon ben Rabban Gamliel, Ethics of the Fathers 1:17 The highest religion is the extinction of evil desires. [773]  -- Siddhartha Gautama Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. [774]  -- Simone Weil The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. [775]  -- Socrates A man without comrades is like the left without the right. [776]  -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim Good fortune--remember it’s fickle; misfortune--remember it’ll pass. [777]  -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim Death is experienced only once, but he who fears it dies each minute. [778]  -- Solomon Rubin, Sefer HaMiddot It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. [779]  -- Somerset Maugham One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. [780]  -- Sophocles Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. [781]  -- Soren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. [782]  -- Soren Kierkegaard Feed on goodness, and your soul will delight in its richness. [783]  -- St. Bernard of Clarivaux Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. [784]  -- St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. [785]  -- St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself. [786]  -- St. Francis de Sales A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. [787]  -- St. Francis of Assisi God commands you to pray, but he forbids you to worry. [788]  -- St. John Vianney Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. [789]  -- St. Peter Julian Eymard Pray with the mind in the heart. [790]  -- St. Theophan the Recluse You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. [791]  -- Stanislaw J. Lec Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. [792]  -- Stanley Marcus It may be that those who do most, dream most. [793]  -- Stephen Leacock Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. [794]  -- Stevie Wonder All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can se is the strategy out of which great victory is evolved. [795]  -- Sun-Tzu, Chinese military strategist Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us. [796]  -- Suztes40 Don’t cross the stream to look for water. [797]  -- Swedish Proverb We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. [798]  -- Sydney Smith All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it. [799]  -- Syrus Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. [800]  -- T.S. Eliot All who mourn over (the destruction of) Jerusalem merit to see her in her joy. [801]  -- Ta’anit 30b A human being must either climb up or climb down. [802]  -- Talmud: Erubin, 21a All that the righteous have accomplished, they have accomplished through the Holy Spirit. [803]  -- Tanhuma, VaYehi The greatest carver does the least cutting. [804]  -- Tao Te Ching We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. [805]  -- Terrance McKenna Eat what you want and dress up as you desire, as long as extravagance and pride do not mislead you. [806]  -- The Prophet Muhammad He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good. [807]  -- The Prophet Muhammad Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience. [808]  -- The Prophet Muhammad Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow! Grow!” [809]  -- The Talmud The highest wisdom is loving kindness. [810]  -- The Talmud The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it. [811]  -- The Talmud When you add to truth, you subtract from it. [812]  -- The Talmud The purpose of an enterprise is to create and keep a customer. [813]  -- Theodore Levitt Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. [814]  -- Theodore Roosevelt There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. [815]  -- Thich Nhat Hanh. First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. [816]  -- Thomas a Kempis The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. [817]  -- Thomas A. Edison Today is yesterday’s pupil. [818]  -- Thomas Fuller There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. [819]  -- Thomas Jefferson I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone. [820]  -- Thomas Merton My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. [821]  -- Thornton Wilder Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. [822]  -- Tim McCarver Prosperity is not for the envious, Nor is greatness for men of impure conduct. [823]  -- Tirukkural 14:135 Before advancing against men weaker than yourself, ponder when you stood before those more powerful. [824]  -- Tirukkural 25:250 Aid an enemy before you aid a friend, to subdue hatred. [825]  -- Tosefta: Baba Metzia All things are free-flowing, untrammeled.what bondage is there, what entanglement" You create your own difficulty and ease therein. The mind source pervades the ten directions with one continuity; those of the most excellent faculties understand naturally. [826]  -- Tzu-hu A fool sees an enemy. A wise man sees a lesson to be learned. [827]  -- Unknown A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. [828]  -- Unknown A truly happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. [829]  -- Unknown Angels may not dress the part, With robes and wings that soar, Often angels come as friends Knocking at your door. [830]  -- Unknown Children are natural mimics--they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners. [831]  -- Unknown Don’t cry because it’s over...smile because it happened. [832]  -- Unknown Even God doesn’t plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I? [833]  -- Unknown Events make known the will of God. [834]  -- Unknown Fear not tomorrow, for God is already there. [835]  -- Unknown Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. [836]  -- Unknown God’s answers are wiser than our prayers. [837]  -- Unknown Happiness does not come from doing what you want, but wanting what you do. [838]  -- Unknown How many times do we miss God’s blessings because they are not packaged as we expected" [839]  -- Unknown If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. [840]  -- Unknown Live in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they know you. [841]  -- Unknown Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money. [842]  -- Unknown Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. [843]  -- Unknown One definition of insanity is to keep doing what you did before, and expect different results. [844]  -- Unknown People who can agree on what’s funny can usually agree on other things. [845]  -- Unknown Some people are willing to give the Lord credit but no cash. [846]  -- Unknown The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing. [847]  -- Unknown The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. [848]  -- Unknown The greater the struggle the greater the achievement. [849]  -- Unknown The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad! [850]  -- Unknown The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. [851]  -- Unknown The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails. [852]  -- Unknown There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. [853]  -- Unknown There is only one person God cannot forgive. The person who refuses to come to Him for forgiveness. [854]  -- Unknown To fear death is to misunderstand life. [855]  -- Unknown Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. [856]  -- Unknown We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. [857]  -- Unknown Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. [858]  -- Unknown Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. [859]  -- Unknown Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present. [860]  -- Unknown Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. [861]  -- Victor Borge The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. [862]  -- Victor Hugo When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. [863]  -- Vietnamese saying Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. [864]  -- Viktor Frankl Inches make champions. [865]  -- Vince Lombardi Love truth, but pardon error. [866]  -- Voltaire If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. [867]  -- W. Beran Wolfe The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. [868]  -- Walter Bagehot Persons of true godly character are neither optimists nor pessimists, but realists who have confidence in God. [869]  -- Warren W. Wiersbe You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take. [870]  -- Wayne Gretzky The greatest privilege God gives to you is the freedom to approach Him at any time. [871]  -- Wesley L. Duewel Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home. [872]  -- Wilbur D. Nesbit Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. [873]  -- Will Rogers That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. [874]  -- William Feather The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. [875]  -- William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), Historian and writer The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [876]  -- William James A good laugh is sunshine in a house. [877]  -- William Makepeace Thackeray Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. [878]  -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. [879]  -- William Wordsworth It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day. [880]  -- Willie Mays If you are going through hell...keep going. [881]  -- Winston Churchill There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. [882]  -- Winston Churchill A man is what he is, not what he used to be. [883]  -- Yiddish proverb Him who pelts you with stones, you pelt with bread. [884]  -- Yiddish proverb People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.that’s why we recommend it daily. [885]  -- Zig Ziglar A poor man’s prayer breaks through all barriers and storms its way into the presence of the Almighty. [886]  -- Zohar, Genesis All human beings, endowed with the spirit of holiness, are of the category of tzaddik. [887]  -- Zohar, Genesis 33a One finds great comfort in good dinners. [888]  -- Zora Neale Hurston