Quotes - Life's Teachings Page 1

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can
become great.
--  Mark Twain

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you;
but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
--  Alfred North

True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.
--  Mohandas Gandhi

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a
sense of humor to console him for what he is.
--  Sartasia

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
--  Sir Francis Bacon

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
--  Marilyn vos Savant

Society will ignore almost any form of unacceptable public behavior except
getting into the express line with two extra items.
--  Author Unknown

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
--  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
--  Auguste Rodin

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
--  Dwight D. Eisenhower

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
--  Albert Einstein

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.
--  Roger Staubauch

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
--  Don Herold

There is nothing so annoying as arguing with somebody who knows what he
is talking about!
--  Author Unknown

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that
counts, but how much it digests.
--  Albert Jay Nock

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
--  Ansel Adams

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
--  Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what
happens to you.
--  Aldous Huxley

The best way to save face is to keep the lower part of it shut.
--  Author Unknown

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay
attention to their limitations again.
--  James R. Cook

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.
--  Cowboy Wisdom

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
--  Walt Disney

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client
to plant vines.
--  Frank Lloyd Wright

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.
--  Harry Oliver

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
--  Cardinal De Retz

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--  Robert Frost

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
--  Author Unknown

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
--  Mark Twain

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he
has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
--  Harvey Mackay

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
--  Helen Keller

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win.
--  Tom Hopkins

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
--  Author Unknown

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
--  Arnold H. Glasgow

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.
--  Albert Einstein

A wise man cannot be insulted. If the insult has no meaning, he ignores it.
If the insult does have meaning, he deserves it.
--  Aristotle

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage--  half shut afterwards.
--  Benjamin Franklin

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
--  Author Unknown

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
--  Harry S. Truman

Fans don't boo nobodies.
--  Reggie Jackson

Anyone with money to burn will always find himself surrounded by people with
matches.
--  Joe Ryan

Nothing shows a person's character more than what he laughs at."
--  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a
decision.
--  Gary Collins

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.    
--  Albert Einstein

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
--  Dudley Moore
 
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
--  Jesse Conrad

Being your best isn't as much about overcoming the barriers other people
place in our way as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front
of ourselves.
--  Kieran Perkins

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody
grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting
their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
--  Douglas MacArthur

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
--  Jim Ellliot

Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't
even know if you owe.
--  Mark Twain

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.
--  Groucho Marx

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
--  Charles H. Spurgeon

To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone
else has looked, but to see what no one else has seen.
--  Author Unknown

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did
it wrong.
--  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In all this world, there is nothing more upsetting than the
clobbering of a belief.
--  Charles M. Schulz

I knocked several times, but you weren't in.
--  Opportunity

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--  Mark Twain

I am not young enough to know everything.
--  Oscar Wilde

I've seen the Ghost of Christmas Past and he's shaped like a
credit card.
--  Author Unknown

You have two choices in life you can stay single and be miserable, or
get married and wish you were dead.
--  W.W.Renwick

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write
things worth reading or do things worth writing.
--  Benjamin Franklin

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't
be afraid to hit the ball.
--  Billie Jean King

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all
our tomorrows.
--  Alexandra Stoddard

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself
--  Chief Seattle

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
--  Albert Einstein

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.  That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut.
--  Ernest Hemingway

If you don't know what you're doing, you don't know when to stop.
--  Author Unknown

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent
behavior.  Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid
behavior.
--  Dee Hock

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater one.
--  William Hazlitt

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize
that out of the three R's, only one begins with an R.
--  Dennis Miller

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
--  Benjamin Franklin.

There are two types of knowledge.  One is knowing a thing.  The other is
knowing where to find it.
--  Samuel Johnson

He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
--  Benjamin Franklin.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any
accomplishment I wanted to.  The first was to walk without braces.
--  Wilma Rudolph (The first American woman to win three gold medals
    in one Olympics)

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
--  Naguib Mahfouz

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your
own future.
--  Zig Ziglar

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've
decided to see beyond the imperfections.
-- Author Unknown

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
--  Woody Allen.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together.  It is
when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
--  Dave Meurer

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
--  Adrienne Gusoff

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt
the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
--  Pearl S. Buck

If you are going through hell, keep going.
--  Winston Churchill

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you
won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll
find that you're never sorry you were kind.
--  Herbert Prochnow

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be
unpopular.
--  Adlai E. Stevenson

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
--  Benjamin Franklin

It's not the bulls and bears (in the stock market) you need to avoid --
it's the bum steers.
--  Chuck Hillis

My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
--  Socrates

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has
wasted 30 years of his life.
--  Muhammad Ali

Good words do not last long until they amount to something.
--  Chief Joseph

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
--  Alvin Toffler

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
--  T.H. White

Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then
beats you with experience.
--  Author Unknown

Reality is subordinate to perception.
--  David B.Cole Jr.

Don't let a lack of qualifications stop you from pursuing your career
goals. I was never qualified for any of the positions I achieved.
--  U.S. Representative Sonny Bono

Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something.
--  Plato

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness
or misery depends upon our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
--  Martha Washington

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
--  Thomas Carlyle

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
--  D. H. Lawrence

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
--  Theodore Roosevelt

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--  Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
--  Harry S Truman

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
--  Christian Morgenstern

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
--  John Lubbock

History doesn't repeat itself nearly as much as historians repeat
one another!
--  Author Unknown

Character is made by many acts; it can be lost by a single one.
--  Author Unknown

The impossible is often merely the untried.
--  William S.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the
chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar
alarm, it's too late
--  Rita Coolidge

You have no control over what the other guy does.  You only have
control over what you do.
--  A J Kitt

I don't care what you do for a living.  If you love it, you are a success.
--  George Burns

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other
person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
--  Eugene Kennedy

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a
thousand times as true.
--  Prentice

No one grows old by living -- only by losing interest in living.
--  Marie Beynon Ray

The worst men often give the best advice.
--  P.J.Bailey

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
--  Anna Freud

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
--  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
--  Karl Wallenda

Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited,
imagination encircles the world.
--  Albert Einstein

Always behave like a duck--keep calm unruffled on the surface but
paddle like the devil underneath.
--  Jacob Braude

Wisdom begins in wonder.
--  Socrates

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get
knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
--  Margaret Thatcher

When I hear somebody sigh, 'life is hard', I am always tempted to
ask, compared' to what'?
--  Sydney Harris

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right
efforts inevitably bring about right results
--  James Allen

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
--  Author Unknown

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
--  Site James Goldsmith

If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying
about one year ago today.
--  E. Joseph Cossman

It is easier to stay out than get out.
--  Mark Twain

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a
repair job to be done around the house.
--  Joe Ryan

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so
highly prized as that of character.
--  Henry Clay

Regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties.
--  Jonathan Carroll

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
--  Lord Tennyson

You should not confuse your career with your life.
--  Dave Barry

If everything seems to be coming you're way, you're probably in the
wrong lane.
--  Michael McDaniel

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
--  Dave Barry

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
--  Dave Barry

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
--  Orson Rega Card

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
--  Ehrlich

First say what you would be.  Then do what you have to do.
--  Author Unknown

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved
off the dessert cart.
--  Erma Bombeck

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit
for doing them.
--  Benjamin Jowett

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to
wonder whether you are happy or not.
--  George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
--  Jim Bishop

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
--  Margaret Mead

We are not the sum of our possessions.
--  George Bush

Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called Mom's.
Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
--  Nelson Algren

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you
repeatedly do.
--  Shaquille O'Neal

It isn't whether you get knocked down,
It's whether you get back up.
--  Vince Lombardi

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
--  Bette Davis

A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.
--  Author Unknown

The truth is more important than the facts.
--  Frank Lloyd Wright

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in
which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
--  Fran Lebowitz

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away
from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
--  Benjamin Franklin

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
--  Martin Luther King

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
--  Winston Churchill

I gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know.'
--  Mark Twain

Good plans shape good decisions.  That's why good planning helps
to make elusive dreams come true.
--  Lester R. Bittle

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
--  Henry Giles

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
--  Don Herold

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
--  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
--  Henry Boye

Action is the antidote to despair.
--  Joan Baez

When one door closes another one opens; but we often look so long
and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones
which open for us.
--  Alexander Graham Bell

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
--  William Shakespeare

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life.
--  John Homer Miller

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
--  John F. Kennedy

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
--  Author Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you
just sit there.
--  Will Rogers

Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and
your belief will help create the fact.
--  William James

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard;
but our own is worth a hundred of it.
--  Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--  Mark Twain

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.
--  Eleanor Roosevelt

Every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use
their minds.  For one thing is sure:  If they don't make up their
own minds, someone will do it for them.
--  Eleanor Roosevelt

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it,
and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
--  Jake Simmons

Talking with a man is like trying to saddle a cow.
You work like hell, but what's the point?
--  Gladys Upham

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle
dog, and that goes for women too.
--  Pablo Picasso

Experience is a hard teacher.  First comes the test, then the lesson.
--  Author Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work
--  Thomas A. Edison

A problem is never as permanent as a solution.
--   Author Unknown

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
--  Andrew Carnegie

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying
up all night looking for them that does you in.
--  Casey Stengel

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from
life is, often, merely the will to try it and the faith to believe
that it is possible.
--  Richard M. DeVos

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
--  Oscar Wilde

Thanks to Esther Gallieshaw for the next 2 quotes.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he
has overcome while trying to succeed.
--  Booker T. Washington

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony.  In
the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
--  Albert Einstein

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding
you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
--  Charles F. Kettering

Never do tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
--  Mark Twain

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
--  Anna Freud

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--  Henry Adams

People who are late are often happier than those who have to wait for them.
-- a fortune cookie

It goes without saying that you should never have more children
than you have car windows.
--  Erma Bombeck

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
--  George Halas

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
--  Vidal Sassoon

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
--  Confucius

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
--  John Churton Collins

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is
how you use them.
--  Author Unknown

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.  Push it,
and it will go nowhere at all.
--  Dwight D. Eisenhower

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the
bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
--  Anais Nin

Never fight an inanimate object.
--  P.J.O'Rourke

Never think you've seen the last of anything.
--  Eudora Welty

Never eat anything whose listed ingredients cover more than a third
of the package.
--  Joseph Leonard

Education is what you get from reading the fine print.
Experience is what you get from not reading it.
-  Author Unknown

We really need only five things on this earth. Some food, some sun,
some work, some fun, and someone.
--  Author Unknown

Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are
rude to you.  Remember that you show compassion to others not
because of who THEY are but because of who YOU are.
--  Andrew T. Somers

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
--  Malcolm S. Forbes

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
--  Josh Billings

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand
what little chance you have in trying to change others.
--  Jacob M. Braude

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom.
--  H.L. Mencken

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea
to turn off the sound.
--  Author unknown

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
--  Henry Ward Beecher

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection
is demoralizing.
--  Harriet Braiker

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
--  James Bennis

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's
what he descends to that shames the human race.
--  Mark Twain

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.
--  Philip Larkin