Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Markham

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

Edwin Louis Cole

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Edwin Land

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edmund Wilson

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book.

Bill Moyers

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

Bertolt Brecht

If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.

Bertolt Brecht

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Benjamin Jowett

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Benjamin E. Mays

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

Benjamin Spock

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Bertrand Russell

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Bernard Cornwell

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Baruch

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Bernard Baruch

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch

Never follow the crowd.

Bernard Baruch

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

Celeste Holm

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

Cat Deeley

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Carol P. Christ

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Carlos Mencia

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.