The Quotes Page
I love quotes. I love reading them, I love collecting them, I love using them in my writing and presentations and everyday conversation. Yep, I love quotes.
So, I'm building a page of them. Haven't decided on a format yet, or whether to use tables, or what. For now, this is just a repository so I won't lose any I find that I want to keep. Check back every so often for new ones, and if I make a big change I'll note it in the blog. Enjoy!
Bruce
This is a test of doing quotes in a table.
| Quote | Topic | Source |
|---|---|---|
| A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. | Opposition | -- John Neal |
| A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. | Committees | -- Barnett Cocks |
| A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. | Heroism | -- Joseph Campbell |
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. -- John Neal
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -- Barnett Cocks
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. -- Joseph Campbell
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he’s crossing a one-way street. -- Laurence J. Peter
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. -- John Shedd
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. -- Cicero
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own. -- H.G. Wells
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -- Malcolm S. Forbes
All your strength is in union - all your danger is in discords. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas. -- Victor Hugo
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -- Franz Kafka
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. -- John Dewey
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. -- Steve Jobs
Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato
Character --- the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life --- is the source from which self-respect springs. -- Joan Didion
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. -- Neil Postman
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. -- Hubert Humphrey
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- Sir Winston Churchill
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. -- Erich Fromm
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. -- Mark Twain
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. -- William Butler Yeats
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. -- Horace
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure. -- Benjamin Franklin
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him. -- Booker Washington
Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. -- John F. Kennedy
He is a self-made man and worships his creator. -- John Bright
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. -- George Savile Halifax
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. -- William James
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly, it is not a sufficient condition. -- Milton Friedman
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. -- Blaise Pascal
Ideas without action are worthless. -- Harvey Mackay
If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- Edgar Howe
If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision,’ you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. -- Mary McCarthy
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. -- Albert Einstein
If your vision is for a year, plant wheat.
If your vision is for ten years, plant trees.
If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. -- Chinese Proverb
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. -- Renata Adler
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. -- Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -- William G. McAdoo
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -- Jerome K. Jerome
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -- J.K. Rowling
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. -- Winston Churchill
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. -- Anthony Robbins
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. -- Anais Nin
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
My experience is what I agree to attend to. -- William James
Never say no to adventure, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life. -- Ian Fleming
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- George Patton, Jr.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. -- Samuel Johnson
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. -- George Santayana
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison
Patience is the companion of wisdom. -- St. Augustine
Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way. -- Hugh Roe O’Donnell
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. -- Albert Einstein
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -- Robert Frost
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. -- Sir William Osler
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -- J.H. Boetcher
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. -- Edith Sodergran
The Interstate highway system has made it possible to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything. -- Charles Kuralt
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -- Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is only one success Â… to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. -- Christopher Morley
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. -- Cicero
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. -- e.e cummings
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. -- Confucius
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life! -- Garth Brooks (submitted by Dave Kaskie)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -- Mark Twain
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -- Jonathan Swift
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. -- Aneurin Bevan
We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -- Rutherford Rogers
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- Carl Jung
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. -- Edith Sitwell
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. -- Norman Cousins
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -- Jack London
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. -- Samuel Johnson
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. -- Samuel Ullman
