Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca

Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence

In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
John Adams

[LAWRENCE]

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
Confucius

Optimists make the best of it when they get the worst of it.
Unknown

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Harvey Mackay

[LAWRENCE]

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Winston Churchill

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. -Goethe

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George

[LAWRENCE]

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin


Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford


When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
J. Lubbock

[LAWRENCE]

The strongest warriors are these two: time and patience.
Leo Tolstoy

Success is not to be pursued. It is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[LAWRENCE]

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
- Charles Dudley Warner, 1829 - 1900

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Anthony Ciardi, 1916 - 1986

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
- May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
- Shigenori Kameoka

[savingJenniB]

"Of all the wild beasts of land or sea,
the wildest is woman."
~ Menander

[LAWRENCE]

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us.
Earl Nightingale

We learn to walk by stumbling.
Bulgarian proverb

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh

[LAWRENCE]

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
Unknown

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille

[LAWRENCE]

* I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
Mahatma Gandhi

" While you're throwing dirt, you're losing ground."
Letha Watts

" All that we are is a result of what we have thought."
Buddha