what are some of your favorite political quotes?

Question

Liberals love to boast that they are not "religious," which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. – Ann Coulter

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan

Answer 1

Nixon - I'm not a crook.

Bush Sr - Read my lips no new taxes.

Oh and then there was Reagan

"Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything."
--Ronald Reagan, in Newsweek, April 21, 1980.

"[Not] until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together. There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this."
--President Reagan revealing a disturbing view about the "coming of Armageddon," December 6, 1983

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
--California Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1966

"...a faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
--Ronald Reagan, 1965. (Description of Medicaid recipients.)

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

"I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself."
--President Reagan, in an interview with foreign journalists, April 19, 1985. ("In costume" is more like it. Reagan spent World War II making Army training films at Hal Roach Studios in Hollywood.)

"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1980. (The U.S. Department of Transportation calculates that a 14-car train traveling at 80 miles per hour gets 400 passenger miles to the gallon. A 1980 auto carrying an average of 2.2 people gets 42.6 passenger miles to the gallon.)

"I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Detroit Free Press, March 23, 1980. (According to the USGS, the Saudi reserves of 165.5 billion barrels are 17 times the proven reserves--9.2 billion barrels--in Alaska.)

"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the Sacramento Bee, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, March 3, 1966

Answer 2

"I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so"-Abraham Lincoln

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -Sir Winston Churchill

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." -Sir Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." -Sir Winston Churchill

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." -Ronald Reagan (How True... Clinton, Carter....)

"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." -Ronald Reagan

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."-Benjamin Disraeli

"Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side." -Anonymous

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." -Robert Frost

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." -Willis Player

"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen."-Bob Edwards

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." -Theodore Roosevelt



There are more...

Answer 3

"Politicians are a lot like babies they should be changed often and for the same reason." Unknown "For every good idea there is an equal and opposite government bureaucracy" unknown "Trying to tax a country into prosterity is like a man standing in a large bucket trying to lift himself off the ground by pulling on the handle" unknow but a smart person

Answer 4

I always thought Ronald Reagan was an idiot. thank you for confirming that. He should have stayed an actor - at least then he was only saying other peoples rubbish.

Answer 5

Harry truman. The buck stops here.

Answer 6

Winston Churchill to Lady Astor

"Sir, you're drunk!"

"Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

Answer 7

"Walk softly but carry a big stick"..Teddy Rooseveldt

Answer 8

I,can not rember said by all of them liers

Answer 9

Liberals do have religion - It's the Atheists that don't believe. So your quote by Ann Coulter makes no sense.

Kindness is a blindmans way of seeing the future.
DTB.

"The heart of the dreamer requires persistence to survive"
TR.

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
-St. Francis de Sales

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
-Arnold Glasgow

If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?
-Sarada Devi

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life. -Brother David Steindl-Rast

Angels offer us their hearts and souls; we must respond by offering ours in return.
- Kathryn Schein

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge

Anyone who helps you grow is an angel to you.
- Kathryn Schein

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
-Sydney Smith

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
-Maurice Setter

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
-Unknown

Angels listen deeply with genuine intent, compassion, and love.
- Dan Martell, "About Angels"

Growing older is mandatory, Growing up is optional

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.
-Rose Kennedy

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
-Will Rogers

Some pursue happiness, others create it.
-Anonymous

When one teaches, two learn.
-Robert Half

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine Aird

Unblest is one who thinks themself unblest.
-Seneca

What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful.
-Unknown

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
-Elie Wiesel

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
-Vernon Law

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot

Angels give us faith to wait for mysteries to be revealed.
- Kathryn Schein

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
-James Dean

"Love is a chain"

"Look for love to find a way thru barriers and into your heart"

"Honor your self-imposed caution, but don't let it prevent you from taking the leap."

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses

So much has failed humanity that the world has turned to a higher spiritual belief, a gentler belief. And what could be more gentle than an angel?
- Sylvia Brown

"Your new best friend could be the stranger that you pass on the street, met online, or one that's been overlooked...Everyone secretly wishes that they were this person"

"Doing small things with great love can make a difference"

Angels are found all over the world, for they do not recognize boundaries of countries, language, creed or race.

Reflecting our need to find deep meaning in our individual lives, often we get to live our lives right out in the open where what you see is what you get. But we reach beneath the surface of appearances and touch what lurks within the cosmic and mythic proportions. Sometimes what we find is not as pleasant as we'd wish, but it is our awareness which can change darkness into light or fear into love.

The universal heartbeat keeps its own pace…When we are in sync with the heavens, we are operating in unison with the angels. - Terry Lynn Taylor,
"Angel Days"

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
- General Omar Bradley

Heaven comes to people--and their loved ones--when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace. Angels. - Gary Kinnaman,
"Angels Dark and Light"

It is very important to pray for others; because when you pray for someone, an angel goes and sits on the shoulder of that person. - The Virgin Mary to the children at Medjugorje
Open your heart. The angels will count you among their peace-loving, warm-hearted friends. -Suzanne Siegel Zenkel,
"Your Secret Angel"

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
- e.e. cummings

'New' doesn't equate with 'happy,' or there wouldn't be any antique stores.
- Wilfred Ford

It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schultz

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
-Marie Curie

For even in imagining the nature of angels, we are drawing from ideas that already exist within ourselves, within the range of human potential. By comparing ourselves to the angels, we reflect on our own better natures, our own capacity to experience a higher value of life.
- David Connolly, "In Search of Angels"

Beauty... sometimes takes the form of a white cloud, and goes dancing over the green fields or the deep blue sea, where her misty form, marked out in a momentary darkness, looks like the passing shadow of an angel’s wing.
- G. A. Sala,
"Beauty of the Universe"

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lee Holz

Angels help you laugh at life, even when you don't think it's funny.
- Karen Goldman,
"The Angel Book: A Handbook for Aspiring Angels"

Treat your loved ones as your angel treats you - with compassion, respect, and generosity.
- Suzanne Siegel Zenkel,
"Your Secret Angel"

"It's one thing to have the mind of a genius, the soul of a poet & the heart of a dreamer; but you have to take every chance & make it pay."

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
-Vesta M. Kelly

Happiness does not come from doing what you want, but wanting what you do.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
-Rumi

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

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
- Saint Theresa of Lisieux

Angelic assistance is part of God's universal plan of salvation...Angels...are like God's agents in the field. He purposely uses them to introduce images, tendencies, and desires that lead us to do what is right and good.
- Mary Drahos,
"Angels of God, Guardians Dear"

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What tremendous encouragement to know that we are surrounded on every side by loving and powerful protectors. Thinking of angels can ease our sorrows, strengthen our faith, and lighten our hearts.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle.
-Walt Whitman

All the loneliness inside of you Will completely disappear; When you realize that you’re not alone, That your angel is very near.
- Teryl Seaman,
“Let an Angel Hold Your Hand”

We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are.

There are two ways to look at life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is.
-Albert Einstein

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
-Helen Walton

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.
-Maimonides

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
-Anonymous

Acceptance is the art of making peace with life, of leaving all our expectations and projected ideals at the door and entering a new world of truth and beauty...

He who forgives ends the quarrel.
-African proverb

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
-Buddha

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-David Ben Gurion

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.
- Hafiz

Acceptance is better than judgment.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Will Henry

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- William Faulkner

"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
- Trina Paulus

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
- Alice Paul

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao-Tzu

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
- Harold J. Smith

There are no more hours in a bad day than in a good one!
- Unknown

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
- Carl Sandburg

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- G.K. Chesterton

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
- Sioux Indian prayer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
- Arnold Glasgow

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

Experience comes from doing and seeing, not reading in a book.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
- Golda Meir

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
- Charles C. West

Getting a different perspective is easy by taking a short trip across town. A new group of friends emerge. There is a sudden realization that you are being taken care of, followed by a pleasant feeling of relief.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
- John Marks Templeton

Love and time—those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
- Gary Jennings

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s cornbread--stale and dry.
- Loretta Lynn

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
- Dennis Green

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.
- Harper Lee

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
- General Omar Bradley

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
- John Wanamaker

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
- Henri Matisse

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
- Rumi

Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Silent gratitude isn’t much good to anyone.
- Gladys Browyn Stern

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.
- Oprah Winfrey

Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
- Doug King

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
- W.J. Slim

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
- Edward B. Butler

Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.
- Unknown

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
- John A. Shedd

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.
- J.F. Wright

The only joy in the world is to begin.
- Cesare Pavese

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
- John Hay

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
- Bob Newhart

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
- Unknown

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
- Stanley Horowitz

Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
- Thich Nhat Hanh

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- Sophocles

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein

We are all in this together, by ourselves.
- Lily Tomlin

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
- Havelock Ellis

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- Steve Bartkowski

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
- Woody Allen

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
- J. Askenberg

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
-Vernon Law

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
-Samuel Johnson

The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them.
-Unknown

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
-Morris West

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
-Charles A. Dana

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
-Sylvia Robinson

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there.
-Robb Sagendorph

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-Dr. Seuss

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
-Edwin Markham

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
-Vincent Van Gogh

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems--so that they should not recur again.
-Yogi Bhajan

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
-Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
-Arthur H. Prince

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-Vince Lombardi

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott

'Twas her thinking of others that made you think of her.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
-Annette Funicello

Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
-Motto of the Special Olympics

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
-Philip K. Dick

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
-Hadia Bejar

Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes. Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar.
-Stephen Carter, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-Pamela Vault Starr

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-Ann Landers

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
-Storm Jameson

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
-Pearl Bailey

Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing.
-Nancy Otto

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Erin Majors

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
-Wilson Mizner

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
-Goethe

Liberals love their country like people love their partners: you know they are not perfect, but you love them because they are yours and they are special. You can see flaws, but also the potential for what they can do and the things you can achieve together, however difficult it may be.

Criticism and change are not hatred and liberals do not support terrorism.

To get what you've never had, you have to do what you've never done.

You might find that the thing you hate the most is the very thing you miss the most when it's gone.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
-Jack Penn

"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower."
-Hans Christian Anderson

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
-Albert Schweitzer

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
-Annie Lennox

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
-Tao saying

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Erin Majors

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-Kahlil Gibran

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
-Ethiopian proverb

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
-Lou Holtz

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
-Warren Buffet

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.
-Grace Murray Hopper

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-Lois McMaster Bujold

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
-Bern Williams

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-G.K. Chesterton

Two kinds of people on earth can be seen: the people who lift and the people who lean.
-Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
-Andre Gide

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.
-Anonymous

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
-Adele Brookman

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
-Booker T. Washington

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
-Bernard M. Baruch

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-G.K. Chesterton

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
-Plutarch

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
-Anonymous

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
-Benjamin Franklin

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
-Frank Tyger

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese

Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
-Thich Nhat Hanh

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
-Anne Frank

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori proverb

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
-Babe Ruth

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-Matt Groening

Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
-Zora Neale Hurston

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
-Helen Keller

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
-Polish Proverb

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful.
-Unknown

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-Bill Gates

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
-Will Cuppy

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.
-Lucretius

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
-Marian Wright Edelman

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
-Ovid

The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.
-The Talmud

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

There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.
-Zora Neale Hurston

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
-William Dean Howells

Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.
-Unknown

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
-Norman Vincent Peale

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
-Mother Teresa

No pressure, no diamonds.
-Mary Case

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
-Chaim Weizmann

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Carl Jung

You don't just luck into things...You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
-Barbara Bush

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-Lady Bird Johnson

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
-Unknown

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.
-Bono

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
-Pindar

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-Christopher Robin to Pooh

Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-Oscar Wilde

Life is overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
-Eileen Caddy

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
-Doug Larson