123. Quotes of the Week

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
- Heather Armstrong

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
- Baltasar Gracian

122. Quotes of the Week

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be
- Paul Arden

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
- Shakti Gawain

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

121. Quotes of the Week

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart (1929 - )

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
- Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)

120. Quotes of the Week

The only certainty in life is the uncertainty.
- Ganz

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
- Gail Pool

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

119. Quotes of the Week

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
- Oprah Winfrey

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
- Joseph Farrell

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley

Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.
- Tupac Amaru Shakur, Smile

118. Quotes of the Week

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
- Frederick L Collins

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

117. Quotes of the Week

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
- Toni Cade Bambara

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
- Dr. Smiley Blanton

116. Quotes of the Week

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
- Frances Moore Lappe

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)

115. Quotes of the Week

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
- Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)

114. Quotes of the Week

Wake up. The world has changed. Wake up.
- Ganz

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
- The Belzer Rabbi

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

113. Quotes of the Week

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey

112. Quotes of the Week

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- Marian Evans

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
- John Lancaster Spalding

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

111. Quotes of the Week

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
- Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- Sidney J. Harris

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Gotama Buddha

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography

110. Quotes of the Week

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

109. Quotes of the Week

Memory feeds imagination.
- Amy Tan (1952 - )

Be not slow to visit the sick.
- Ecclesiastes

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

108. Quotes of the Week

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Hugh White (1773 - 1840)

107. Quotes of the Week

Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946)

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
- William Raspberry

106. Quotes of the Week

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
- Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990

Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.
- Hugh Macleod

105. Quotes of the Week

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

104. Quotes of the Week

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
- Jean Nidetch

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)