THOUGHTFUL QUOTATIONS

SONGS

QUOTES

PROVERBS

PHRASES

LIMERICKS

JOKES

 

            "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no
further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is
likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."

- Alan Ashley-Pitt

"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."

-
John Wesley

"Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be."
-
President Abraham Lincoln

"Don't take yourself too seriously.
And don't be too serious about not taking yourself too seriously.
"
-
Howard Ogden

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
The only real security that a man can have is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
"
-
Henry Ford

Today's dreams become tomorrow's realities.
Do not belittle the practical dreamer,
for he or she is the forerunner of civilization.

"I do the best I know how, the very best I can,
and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
"
-
President Abraham Lincoln

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

 This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
"
-
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
"
-
Henry Ford

"It is better to wear out than rust out."
-
George Whitefield

"If Columbus had had an advisory committee, he'd probably still be at the dock."
-
Arther Goldberg - former Supreme Court

The people that are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones that do.

 

"I would like to be allowed to admire a man's opinion as I would his dog -
without being expected to take it home with me.
"
-
Frank A Clark

 

"Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right."
-
Henry Ford

 

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
"
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating

than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King Jr

"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."
-
Pete Seeger

"There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
"
-
Albert Einstein

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
-
Oscar Wilde

 

"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
-
Alvin Toffler

 

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
-
Bob Dylan

 

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. "
-
Mark Twain

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
"
-
Martin Luther King

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man
and I will show you a failure.
"
-
Thomas Edison

No rain, no rainbows

 

Experience is something you don't usually get until just after you need it.

 

Tell the truth, there's less to remember

 

"Not all readers become leaders. But all leaders must be readers."
- Harry Truman

 

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-
Confucius

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
-
Merle Miller - writer