Some Great Quotes for All Time

Great Quotations for the Ages

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Each day of our lives we make deposits in
the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins

I dreamed a thousand new paths...I woke and walked my old one.
Chinese Proverb

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let go of your attachment to being right,
and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique
viewpoints of others, without being crippled
by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss

You cannot depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The place to be happy is here,
the time to be happy is now.
Robert Ingersoll

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom Robbins

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald

You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' "
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
British Playwright

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
(Walden)

Within this realm of choicelessness,
we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein

The greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir

The big question is whether you are going to be able to
say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

Learn by practice.
Martha Graham

You don’t just stumble into the future.
You create your own future.
Roger Smith

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray

We need to listen to one another.
Chaim Potok

You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and
want it badly enough I can have it." It’s called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written by Disraeli.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget.
We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time,
will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile
actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
Andre Maurois

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