Favorite Quotes

Some of My Personal Top Favorites

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright

When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Benjamin Disraeli

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Zen Proverb

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.
Benjamin Disraeli

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life
Winston Churchill

Play for more than you can afford to
lose and you will learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb

Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Neitzsche

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Ovid

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do.
His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now."
Joseph Ray

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller

There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.
Firdtjof Nansen

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cech

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

We don't live in a world of reality,
we live in a world of perceptions.
Gerald J. Simmons

The first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis