Archive for the 'Quotes by Subject' Category

21 Apr

“A baby is born with…” Frank Howard Clark

“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.” Frank Howard Clark
Popularity: 40% [?]

Popularity: 40% [?]

19 Apr

“A life spent making mistakes…” George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but most useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw
Popularity: 42% [?]

Popularity: 42% [?]

09 Oct

“A man who does not…” Confucius

“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.” Confucius
Popularity: 22% [?]

Popularity: 22% [?]

07 Nov

“A man with a watch…” Segal’s Law

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” Segal’s Law
Popularity: 73% [?]

Popularity: 73% [?]

25 Aug

“A number of our…” Seneca

“A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear, while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.”   - Seneca
Popularity: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

05 Oct

“A person’s ability to…” Anonymous

“A person’s ability to forgive is in proportion to the greatness of his soul.” Anonymous
Popularity: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

21 Nov

“A taste for irony has…” Jessamyn West

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” Jessamyn West
Popularity: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

18 Oct

“A wise man can see…” Anonymous

“A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.” Anonymous
Popularity: 42% [?]

Popularity: 42% [?]

21 Apr

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee…” Mary Kay Ash

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble been doesn’t know it and goes on flying anyway.” Mary Kay Ash
Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

25 Aug

“All beings are equal…” Dalai Lama

“All beings are equal in both their desire for happiness and their right to obtain it.”   - Dalai Lama
Popularity: 5% [?]

Popularity: 5% [?]

09 Nov

“All human situations have their…” Benjamin Franklin

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” Benjamin Franklin
Popularity: 78% [?]

Popularity: 78% [?]

21 Jul

“All progress is based upon…” Samuel Butler

“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.” Samuel Butler
Popularity: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

08 Nov

“All that is necessary for…” Edmund Burke

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
Popularity: 83% [?]

Popularity: 83% [?]

19 Jun

“All those who have…” Orison Swett Marden

“All those who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” Orison Swett Marden
Popularity: 27% [?]

Popularity: 27% [?]

18 Oct

“Always do right…” Mark Twain

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 20% [?]

Popularity: 20% [?]

27 Jul

“An eye for an eye…” Mohandas K. Gandhi

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”     - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Popularity: 7% [?]

Popularity: 7% [?]

26 Oct

“Any fool can criticize, condemn…” Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” Dale Carnegie
Popularity: 44% [?]

Popularity: 44% [?]

21 Apr

“Anyone who has never…” Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
Popularity: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

21 Jul

“As an adolescent I aspired…” M. Cartmill

“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” M. Cartmill
Popularity: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

21 Nov

“As long as you are…” Donald Trump

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.” Donald Trump
Popularity: 100% [?]

Popularity: 100% [?]

09 Oct

“Be a friend to thyself…” Thomas Fuller

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” Thomas Fuller
Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

19 Apr

“Be who you are and…” Dr. Seuss

“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
Popularity: 46% [?]

Popularity: 46% [?]

25 Aug

“Because we all share an…” Dalai Lama

“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.”   - Dalai Lama
Popularity: 14% [?]

Popularity: 14% [?]

25 Aug

“Believe each day that…” Horace

“Believe each day that has dawned is your last, and some hour for which you haven’t been expecting will prove lovely.”   - Horace
Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

29 Jun

“Champions aren’t made in…” Muhammad Ali

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” Muhammad [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]

18 Nov

“Courage is resistance to fear…” Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 77% [?]

Popularity: 77% [?]

15 Jul

“Courage is resistance to…” Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 28% [?]

Popularity: 28% [?]

21 Oct

“Derive happiness in oneself from…” Henri Matisse

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” Henri Matisse
Popularity: 45% [?]

Popularity: 45% [?]

19 Apr

“Do not follow where the…” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Popularity: 51% [?]

Popularity: 51% [?]

08 Oct

“Don’t let life discourage…” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Popularity: 37% [?]

Popularity: 37% [?]

02 Jun

“Don’t let life discourage…” Lao-Tzu

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.” Lao-Tzu
Popularity: 30% [?]

Popularity: 30% [?]

19 Apr

“Education is a companion which…” Joseph Addison

“Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what [...]

Popularity: 39% [?]

21 Nov

“Education is what survives when…” B. F. Skinner

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner
Popularity: 83% [?]

Popularity: 83% [?]

30 Jul

“Egotism is the anesthetic…” Frank Leahy

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” Frank Leahy
Popularity: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

08 Nov

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of…” Anonymous

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” Anonymous
Popularity: 85% [?]

Popularity: 85% [?]

29 Jun

“Even if you are…” Will Rogers

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
Popularity: 25% [?]

Popularity: 25% [?]

21 Jul

“Even if you’re on the…” Will Rogers

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
Popularity: 27% [?]

Popularity: 27% [?]

26 Sep

“Every exit is…” Tom Stoppard

“Every exit is an entry somewhere.” Tom Stoppard
Popularity: 22% [?]

Popularity: 22% [?]

25 Aug

“Everything hangs on one’s…” Seneca

“Everything hangs on one’s thinking. […] A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”   - Seneca
Popularity: 10% [?]

Popularity: 10% [?]

10 Jul

“Everything is either an…” Wayne Dyer

“Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 28% [?]

Popularity: 28% [?]

25 Aug

“Everything that will happen…” Seneca

“Everything that will happen belongs to the domain of the uncertain. Live now.”   - Seneca
Popularity: 15% [?]

Popularity: 15% [?]

26 Sep

“Everything you can imagine…” Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso
Popularity: 32% [?]

Popularity: 32% [?]

08 Oct

“Failure is the only…” Henry Ford

“Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” Henry Ford
Popularity: 29% [?]

Popularity: 29% [?]

30 Jul

“First there is a time when…” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Popularity: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

25 Aug

“For people of feeling…” Gustav Flaubert

“For people of feeling, the aim of the arts is to conjure away the burden of bitterness.”   - Gustav Flaubert
Popularity: 4% [?]

Popularity: 4% [?]

25 Aug

“Friendship dances around the world…” Epicurus

“Friendship dances around the world, proclaiming to us all to rouse ourselves to give thanks.”   - Epicurus
Popularity: 5% [?]

Popularity: 5% [?]

25 Aug

“Friendship is a virtue…” Aristotle

“Friendship is a virtue, and the most necessary thing.”   - Aristotle
Popularity: 6% [?]

Popularity: 6% [?]

25 Aug

“Friendship is one soul…” Aristotle

“Friendship is one soul inhabiting two bodies.”   - Aristotle
Popularity: 6% [?]

Popularity: 6% [?]

21 Oct

“Friendship is the hardest thing…” Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” Muhammad Ali
Popularity: 47% [?]

Popularity: 47% [?]

25 Aug

“Friendship redoubles joys…” Francis Bacon

“Friendship redoubles joys and cut grieves in halves.”   - Francis Bacon
Popularity: 5% [?]

Popularity: 5% [?]