Great Quotes!?

Question

Anyone leave your favorite quote! i need one for my yearbook. If you know one leave it and tell me where it is from or who said it then i will pick the best one. Thanks!

Answer 1

A lot of chocies. These are some from my yearbooks. I have picked out some of my favorites from my page. I save the quotes i like. HEre they are



When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

You are the handicap you must face.
You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen




what doesn`t kill you
only makes you stronger.

There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Nothing succeeds like success.
Proverb

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar

Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James



The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius




The history of the world is but the
biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus


A leader is a deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson

A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce /
Do not command.
Sophocles

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche


It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb

have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau


A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.
Joseph Joubert

Hope is the dream of a man awake.
French Proverb

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb

Answer 2

Have you read Great Expectation by Dickens?here are some quotes:

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."

" . . .suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Isn't the 2nd last one b'ful, if you have read this novel, you;ll appreciate these like they should be, but if you haven't please do read.

Answer 3

“Perhaps as you went alongside you probably did be taught whatever. I didn't care what it used to be all approximately. All I desired to grasp used to be the right way to are living in it. Maybe should you discovered the right way to are living in it you discovered from that what it used to be all approximately.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises "What makes you give up, in case you have stopped, simply in which you have got stopped? What is it, what? Is it whatever, or is it not anything? Why now not a backyard brief, why now not a backyard extra? Why simply there in which you're, and nowhere else? Some say: It’s simply blind risk, and should you hadn’t stopped there, you could have stopped on the subsequent situation. Your tale could were exceptional then. You weave your possess tale as you move alongside. But others say: You might now not have stopped any situation else however this although you had desired to. It used to be decreed, it used to be ordered, you had been supposed to give up at this spot and no different. Your tale is there looking ahead to you, it's been looking ahead to you there 100 years, lengthy earlier than you had been born, and also you are not able to difference a comma of it. Everything you do, you need to do. You are the twig, and the water you waft on swept you right here. You are the leaf and the breeze you had been borne on blew you right here. This is your tale, and also you are not able to get away it; you're best the participant, now not the level supervisor. Or so a few say…….." - Cornell Woolrich I Married A Dead Man “Experts in old Greek tradition say that persons again then didn’t see their ideas as belonging to them. When that they had a notion, it happened to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo used to be telling them to be courageous. Athena used to be telling them to fall in love. Now persons pay attention a business for bitter cream potato chips and rush out to shop for. This is what passes without spending a dime will at the moment. Between tv and radio…I don’t realize what I quite wish anymore. If I even feel myself, I don’t realize. I don’t realize the change among what I wish and what I’m proficient to wish. I can’t inform what I quite wish and what I’ve been tricked into in need of. What I’m speaking approximately is unfastened will. Do we have now it, or does God dictate and script the whole lot we do and say and wish? Do we have now unfastened will, or do the mass media and our tradition manipulate us, our wants and movements, from the second we’re born?” -Chuck Palahniuk, LULLABY

Answer 4

There are numerous people who would make fun of the possibility of altering their destinies. This is because it believes that no one gets more that what is put in his destiny.

Answer 5

A=A, Ayn Rand

Answer 6

Ladies and gentlemen , take my advice,pull down your pants and slide on the ice!...DR. Sidney Friedman..4077 TH M.A.S.H.

Answer 7

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 8

to be the best you have to be subject to change


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