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Some of the great sayings by the wise ...

A Great Song (if you like)

My adage and maxim archive ...



  • "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined", Henry David Thoreau

  • "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be doubts of today", Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds", Albert Einsten

  • "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great", John D. Rockefeller

  • "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful", Joshua J. Maine

  • " Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”", Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • " There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.”, "Russian Proverb

    “Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”," By Robert Anthony

  • " The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”, " by Elisabeth Foley

  • "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." by Epicurus
  • "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream", Harry Kemp

  • "Optimism is essential to achievement, and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress", Nicholas Murray Butler

  • "Above all, challenge yourself. you may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish", Cecile M. Springer

  • "When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that need expressing, then we truly live", Greg Anderson

  • "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it", Lou Holtz

  • "The man with confidence in himself gains the confidence of others", Jewish proverb

  • "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent", Eleanor Roosevelt


  • Hey, hey. Take a break....Read these quotes to understand, not to finish!,


  • "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back", Albert Einsten

  • "Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success", Denis Waitley

  • "The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better", Barbara Pletcher

  • "The difficulties and struggles of today are the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow", William J. H. Boetker

  • "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible", Arthur C. Clarke

  • "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity", Ayn Rand

  • "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle", Abraham Lincoln

  • "Things turn out the best way for the people who make the best of the way things turn out" , John Wooden

  • "Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought", John Charles Salak

  • "If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right ", Mary Kay Ash

  • "There is no way to peace; peace is the way", A. J. Muste

  • "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly", Robert F. Kennedy

  • "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference", Tom Brokaw
  • "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it", Margaret Thatcher

  • "Your success and happiness lie in you", Helen Keller

  • "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have, you'll never have enough", Oprah Winfrey

  • "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. " Robert Frost

  • "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless". Mother Teresa

  • "Happiness is a direction, not a place" Sydney J. Harris


  • Hey, hey. Take a break....Read these quotes to understand, not to finish!,



    Another Great Song

  • "No great thing is created suddenly" Epictetus

  • "The only way to enjoy anything in life is to earn it first", Ginger Rogers

  • "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure", Colin Powel

  • "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow", Robert H. Goddard

  • "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great", Orison Swett Marsden

  • "The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends", Shirley MacLaine

  • "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled", Plutach

  • "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises", Demosthenes

  • "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity", Elmer Letterman

  • "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you", Frank Tyger

  • "I'm the master of my fate; I'm the captain of my soul", William Ernest Henley

  • "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments", Rose Kemedy

  • "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody ", Bill Cosby


  • Hey, hey. Take a break....Read these quotes to understand, not to finish!,


  • "From what we get, we make a living; what we give, however, makes a life", Arthur Ase

  • "A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou

  • "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think", Benjamin Disraeli

  • "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins -- not through strength but by perseverance", H. Jackson Brown




  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going., Beverly Sills

  • “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind., Dr. Seuss

  • I am easily satisfied with the very best., Winston Churchill

  • The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it., Epicurus

  • “Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis., Mary Anne Radmacher

  • All that we are is the result of what we have thought., Buddha

  • Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today, James Dean

  • I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail, Woodrow Wilson

  • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage, Anais Nin

  • We become brave by doing brave acts, Aristole

  • Whoever is happy will make others happy too, Anne Frank

  • I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship, Louisa May Alcott

  • In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail, Vincent T. Lombardi

  • Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve, Martin Luther King

  • I change myself, I change the world, Gloria Anzaldua


  • Hey, hey. Take a break....Read these quotes to understand, not to finish!,


  • A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success, Dr. Joyce Brothers

  • Never give up, for that is just the place and time that tide will turn, Harriet Beecher Stove

  • Leadership is action, not position, Donald H. McGannon

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

  • If you can imagine, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become, William Arthur Ward

  • Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there, Will Rogers

  • We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough, Helen Keller

  • Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm, Winston Churchill

  • The reward of a thing well done is to have it done, Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Life is a promise; fulfill it, Mother Teresa

  • It may be that those who do most dream most, Stephen Leacock

  • Success is never final, Winston Churchill

  • I haven't failed, I have found 10,000 ways that don't work, Ben Franklin

    You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist, Indira Gandhi

  • “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”, Epic..

  • People with goals succeed because they know where they're going, Earl Nightingale

  • Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom General George Paton

  • We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right, ! Nelson Mandela

  • As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG, Donald Trump

  • If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain Maya Angelou

  • There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

  • Be yourself -- who else is better qualified? Frank J. Giblin II

  • Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus
  • I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.. Jimmy Dean

  • IThe problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. .. Jimmy Dean


    Another Great Song

  • Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht

  • A few more lows and I'll remain high in all dimensions, Caesar Ogole

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