Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Cowley

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

Abraham Cowley

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Maslow

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Abraham Maslow

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

Famke Janssen

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

Wale

My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.

Willie Robertson

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

Wayne Huizenga

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

Gloria Steinem

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Alicia Keys

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

Amy Carter

I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.

Anatoly Karpov

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Amanda Bynes

I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.