More Good Quotes

January 8, 2007 – 10:48 pm

Every morning I look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.
Pope John XXIII

Love all, trust few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

What is the indentation in the bottom of a wine bottom called?
A. Punt

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Lao Tse

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillip Brooks

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

There’s only one way to fail and that’s to quit.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Contentment is worth more than riches.
German proverb

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.
Chinese proverb

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Motto of Christopher Society

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Chruchill

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

It is a bad plan that cannot be changed.
Publilius Syrus

Little strokes fell big oaks.
Benjamin Franklin

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King

The creation of a thousand forests is one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one. Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahil Gibran

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

Either you have your dreams or you live your dreams.
Zoe Koplowitz

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fall seven times; stand up eight.
Japanese proverb

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Speak little, do much.
Benjamin Franklin