Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Example is leadership.

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.''

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.