The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry Truman

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good.
Abigail Van Buren

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the spiderweb of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone

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

He who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Ou patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Macaulay

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never.
Alexandre Dumas

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French proverb

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking.
Rutherford B. Hayes

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.
Irish saying

An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

A politician looks forward to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
Thomas Jefferson

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeates

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P.J. O’Rourke

What we think, we become.
Buddha

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
Will Rogers

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E.B. White

The man who can drive himself farther once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish proverb

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well.
Alexander Chase

Efficiency is doing the right thing. Effectiveness is doing the thing right.
Peter Drucker.

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.
Will Durst

There is noting so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

It is easier to fight for principles than it is to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Helen Keller

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

They have rights who dare maintain them.
James Russell Lowell

Where there is no desire, there is no industry.
John Locke

There isn’t a person anywhere that isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford

The greater the wealth, the thicker the dirt.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger

Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Krushchev

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Gert Boyle

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Leonardo Da Vinci

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. – Sun Tzu

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – George Washington

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. – King Edward VIII

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein

And of course…

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy
 

A Man of Words and not of Deeds,
Is like a Garden full of Weeds.

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

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert Humphrey

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
Jesse Jackson

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

The average dog is nicer than the average person.
Andy Rooney

…and my current favorite:

There is always a better way.
Thomas Edison

This is the best quote I’ve heard in a long time. Good for increasing production and doing the things you know you should be doing.

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
- Alfred Kahn

He who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian Proverb

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson

That government is best that governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

You will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it.
- Emerson

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

One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese Proverb

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot

He that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin

Sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
G.D. Boardman

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
- Unknown

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
- Ralph Marston

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
- Ling Po

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
- Will Rogers

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

Some good quotes that were sent to me by SMS:

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 comfuse 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