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Favorite Quotes

Personal Quotes
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
    "What lies behind you, and what lies ahead of you, is of little importance when it is compared to what lies within you."
    "If determination lies within you, you'll be able to find a solution to all your problems."
  • Lou Holtz
    "Believe in yourself. You can't satisfy everyone. Just make sure that you please yourself."
  • Alfred North Whitehead
    "Seek simplicity and distrust it."
  • Henri Frederic Amiel
    "A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied."
  • Sam Keen
    "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
  • Mother Teresa
    "Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing GOD's gift of Himself."
  • Charles Irion
    "Do you know you have one purpose in life - To please GOD. How? Remember the 10 commandments. They are simple and please GOD. Now you have it."
  • Charles Irion
    "You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore!"

Business Quotes

  • Sir Winston Churchill
    "Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
  • Unknown
    "Don't itch for things you're not willing to scratch for."
  • Samuel Goldwyn
    "The harder I work, the luckier I get."
  • Zig Zigler
    "The things that count the most in life are the things that can't be counted"
  • Marcus Annaeus Seneca
    "For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
  • Laurel Cutler
    "There is no data on the future."
  • John Hays Hammond "Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success."

Author Quotes

  • Logan Pearsall Smith
    "Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast!"
  • Albert Einstein
    "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
  • Napoleon Hill
    "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Educational Quotes

  • William Butler Yeats
    "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
  • John Raskin
    "The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, --- not merely industrious, but to love industry, not merely learned, but to love knowledge, not merely pure, but to love purity, not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
  • Plato
    "If a man neglects education, he walks home to the end of his life."
  • Francis Bacon
    "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
  • Benjamin Franklin
    "He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner."
 

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