Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Dale Evans

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Jim Elliot

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Izaak Walton

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Edwin Louis Cole

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

St. Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Joseph Campbell

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Casey Stengel

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Dorothy Day

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Henry Drummond

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

John Barrymore

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Saadi

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Franklin P. Adams

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Christopher Morley

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Roy L. Smith

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Charles Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Pliny the Elder

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Stuart Chase

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Ralph Marston

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Mason Cooley

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Minna Antrim

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Billy Graham

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

John Churton Collins

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

William Morris

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Langston Hughes

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

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Desmond Tutu

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.