Plato

To be is to do.
Plato

Publilius Syrus

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

Socrates

To do is to be.
Socrates

Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes

Anne Archer

Perfection is out of the question.
Anne Archer

Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

Pindar

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
Pindar

Mark Twain

I was selom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Jessamyn West

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Jessamyn West

Ovid

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid

Mary Case

No pressure; no diamonds.
Mary Case

John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton

Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson

Jacob A. Riis

Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. yet at the hundred-and-first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis

Samuel Johnson

Despair is criminal.
Samuel Johnson

Miriam Schiff

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff

John Donne on Life and Love

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove,
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
John Donne

Geraldo Rivera on Jobs, Pants and Winter Winds

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
Geraldo Rivera

Wilfred Beaver

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
Wilfred Beaver

Alex Hailey

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Hailey

James Brown on God and Time

Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once.
James Brown

Noel Coward

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noel Coward

Albert M. Wells, Jr.

Both choices are painful, but only one is theraputic.
Albert M. Wells, Jr.

Tommy Lasorda

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Tommy Lasorda

Rosalynn Carter

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
Rosalynn Carter

Alfred Lord Tennyson on Love

Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson




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Aristotle on Love, Souls and Bodies

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

William Shakespeare on Love, Sunshine and Rain

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare

Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

John Lennon and Paul McCartney on Love

All you need is love.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Steven Wright on Nights and Evenings

What a nice night for an evening.
Steven Wright

Mark Twain on the World

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Kermit the Frog on Time, Fun and Flies

Time's fun when you're having flies.
Kermit the Frog

Ray Bradbury on the Universe

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury

Larry Kelly

Do it big or stay in bed.
Larry Kelly

Jerome Weidman

I write out of instinct.
Jerome Weidman

Teresa of Avila

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Teresa of Avila

Windston churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat, tears, and sweat.
Sir Winston Churchill

General Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur

Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman

Merry Browne

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Merry Browne

Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

Dolly Parton

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Our way is not soft grass. It's a mountain path with lots of rocks. but it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joe Kapp

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
Joe Kapp

Muriel Rukeyser

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser

Anais Nin

There were always in me, two women at least: One woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning; and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessnesses, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
Anais Nin

Wilson Mizner

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

Honore de Balzac

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de Balzac

Lee Iacocca

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca

Harry S Truman

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep, I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
Harry S Truman

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Billy Wilder

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder

Teddy Pendergrass

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Teddy Pendergrass

William Allen White

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bridget O'Donnell

Your luck is how you treat people.
Bridget O'Donnell

Louise Erdrich

Here I am, where I ought to be.
Louise Erdrich

Lennon and McCartney

I'll get by with a little help from my friends.
The Beatles' songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

We all need friends. Luckily, they are easy to find. You just need the courage to meet them.

Muriel Rukeyser

The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser

She is right. It isn't a destination. Life is a journey, and your home depends on where you are in your life. Live it. It is yours.

Claude McDonald

What isn't tried won't work.
Claude McDonald


Good old Claude. Short, sweet, and to the point.

"Nuff said.

Helen Gurley Brown

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.
Helen Gurley Brown

Yes, yes, yes. You have heard it many times in many ways: The mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Sarah Palin's Lipstick Quote

Do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick!!
Sarah Palin


Way to go, Sarah!!!!

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Every day is a new day. Look for the opportunities. They are there waiting for you.

Cardinal Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
Cardinal Newman

Every day is a new one. Are you ready to meet the challenge?

Arthur Rubinstein

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

There is beauty everywhere. Seek it out, and make it part of your life.

Truman Capote

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down he drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
Truman Capote

Keep fighting!!

You have not lost as long as you don't quit.

Johan von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johan von Goethe


Deep in your heart, you know what you want.

Live it.

Be it.

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

Anais was speaking to a specific group, but the advice pertains to all of us. We should not wait for someone else when we can act on our own. It is our duty to ourselves.

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General Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton

Do not fault yourself because you do not win every time. Judge your worth by how hard you tried.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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