Does anybody know some really good quotes?

Question

...............Ones that can be discussed in class and that hold a really good idea or meaning, one which you can discuss into deeper understanding but one that can be easily understood by students. Thanx!

Answer 1

"Carpe Diem" - "Seize The Day"

Answer 2

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)

Answer 3

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein

Beware of letting a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection, to obliterate the whole sky.
Confucius

If you don’t like something, change it.
If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Henry Ward Beecher

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being, let me do it now. Let me not deter or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen Grellett

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Be lions roaring through the forests of knowledge.
Baha'i Scriptures

Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
Sir Walter Besant

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert Heinlein

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry van Dyke

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage to listen to his own goodness.
Pablo Casals

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Become who you are.
Friedrich Nietzche

Don't waste your time worrying. Worry is not preparation. Analyze the sitation and focus on solutions. There is always an answer.
Wally Amos

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Here's a test to find whether your misson on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

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.
Calvin Coolidge

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

The greatest strength is gentleness.
Iroquois proverb

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Herbert Allen

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Duguet

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks, bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan proverb

What lies behind us and what lies in front of us are but tiny matters as compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in almost everyone would blossom and the world would produce adundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
Sidney Madwed

To persevere, trusting in hope he has, is courage in a man.
Euripedes

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.
Scott Murray

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot…and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ashe

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
Emily Post

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Rumi

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
Sei Shonagon

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Ovid

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

We out to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

The house that is built after every man’s advice seldom gets a roof.
Swedish Proverb

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Sir Richard Steele

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and abserdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spitir to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Answer 4

You can do a search for sites that feature quotations, but this one is particularly useful, as you can select things by topic and author. Breeze through that for a while and you'll be able to amass a healthy handful in jig time.

http://www.quotationspage.com/

Hope that helps!

"One alligator, one chicken, one satisfied audience."
~ "Frasier"

Answer 5

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." (Friederich Neitzsche)

Answer 6

Check the link below. Wikiquote won't let you down.

Answer 7

"This world is a dangerous place to live in - not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen." ~ Albert Einstein ~

Answer 8

Try this site - it's excellent - it's got everything you could imagine and it's very attuned to those still in school!

http://www.boardofwisdom.com/

Answer 9

Try www.quoteland.com. It's groovy!

Answer 10

Yes.

Last Tuesday morning my milkman said, "Phew, it's a bit chilly this morning."

Not a great quote - but a good one.