Quotations about Attitude

October 21, 2008

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.  ~George Santayana


Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.  ~Francesca Reigler

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.  ~The Eagles, “Already Gone”

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.  ~Foster’s Law

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.  ~Samuel Johnson

Quotations about Teamwork

October 21, 2008

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.  ~Author Unknown

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.  ~Vince Lombardi

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.  ~Margaret Carty

Many hands make light work.  ~John Heywood

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.  ~Jin Kwon

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.  ~John Donne

Quotations about Success

October 21, 2008

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.  ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now.  I might as well take a nap.”  ~Carrie Fisher

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.  ~David Frost

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.  ~Author Unknown

Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
~Author : BF Skinner Meaningful Sayings

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
~Author : Karl Marx Wise Quotes

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Motivational Sayings

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
~Author : Pythagorus Famous Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~Author : W B Yeats Inspirational Sayings

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great Sayings

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
~Author : Robert Frost Famous Quotes

You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn’t take long to call the roll.
~Author : Bum Philips Inspirational Sayings

Information is the currency of democracy.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

An idea is a feat of association.
~Author : Robert Frost Great Sayings

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~Author : Freya Madeline Stark Meaningful Sayings

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.
~Author : Eddie Cantor Wise Quotes

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic 1947 Motivational Sayings

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~Author : William Henry Hudson Famous Quotes

A word to the wise is infuriating.
~Author : Hunter S Thompson Inspirational Sayings

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Nice Quotes

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
~Author : Karen Horney Great Sayings

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Meaningful Sayings

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
~Author : Andre Gide Wise Quotes

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
~Author : Menander Motivational Sayings

Random Famous Sayings

October 9, 2008

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
~Author : Meg Cabot Meaningful Sayings

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
~Author : Orison Swett Marden Wise Quotes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
~Author : Sri da Avabhas Motivational Sayings

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. ‘Legend’ means, basically, ‘bullshit.’
~Author : Joel Rosenberg Famous Quotes

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.
~Author : Eubie Inspirational Sayings

For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we’ve made.
~Author : Carrie Jacobs Bond Nice Quotes

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
~Author : David Hume Great Sayings

Nice Life sayings

October 3, 2008

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.  ~Quentin Crisp


As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.  ~Author Unknown

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.  ~Charles Schulz

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.  ~Arthur Miller

Life is like a blanket too short.  You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.  ~Marion Howard

Famous Life Quotes

October 3, 2008

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ~Emily Dickinson


Yes, I will try to be.  Because I believe that not being is arrogant.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Famous Quotes

October 1, 2008

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
~Author : French Proverb Inspirational Sayings

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Nice Quotes

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another
~Author : Theodore Hesburgh Great Sayings

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
~Author : Paul Rudnick Meaningful Sayings

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.
~Author : Lester R Bittel Wise Quotes

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
~Author : Lewis Mumford Motivational Sayings