Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Albert Schweitzer

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

Corita Kent

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Corita Kent

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

David Berkowitz

We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your future depends on what you do today.

Og Mandino

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Omar Khayyam

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Epicurus

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Epictetus

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Emily Dickinson

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Adlai Stevenson

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Herbie Hancock

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Henry David Thoreau

find your eternity in each moment

Ernest Hemingway

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Immanuel Kant

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Hugh Downs

Life begins when you do.

Horace

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Horace

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Hank Aaron

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

Jean Anouilh

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.