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May these quotes about Quotation inspire and motivate you.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Quotations are dead unless a spur for inquiry.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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