Favorite quotes

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

 

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

 

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Jospeph Addison

 

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

 

It is easy to be wise after the event. - English Proverb

 

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

 

Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach

 

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

me i tend to be in the middle somewhere,lol

 

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander

 

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase

 

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

 

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one. H. C. Payne

 

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

 

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Burmese Saying

 

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

 

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Neitzsche

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi

 

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

 

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Ovid

 

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller