With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
14 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
16 Great Quotes From Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Friday, March 8, 2013
12 Neil Armstrong Quotes
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
The Eagle has landed.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
The Eagle has landed.
Monday, March 4, 2013
12 Delightful Ogden Nash Quotes
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
20 Great Albert Einstein Quotes
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Great Mark Twain Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Quotes from Walt Disney
A selection of quotes by Walt Disney...
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."
"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either."
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."
"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either."
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