Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.

In a false quarrel there is no true valour.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Living well is the best revenge.

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task

There is no god higher than truth.

In every man is a cry for self expression. He either expresses this by contributing to society's good, or if gagged, by pulling at the very fabrics that hold society together.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

We must become the change we want to see.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

All colors will agree in the dark.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.

If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Ring around the collar.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours Respectfully, A. Lincoln

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man: he loves to see him work.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

People usually are the happiest at home.