 | Welcome to Vellickara.org's Quotes page.The Goal of this page is to provide you Famous Quotes at your finger tips. May it be helpful for all our visitors. |
|
| ||
|
| ||
|
| ||
|
| ||
|
| ||
|
| ||
|
| Dont worry be happy |
| Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. |
| John G. Whittier |
| It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
| Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's. |
| William Shakespeare |
| Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. |
| Jonathan Edwards |
| Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful. |
| Horace |
| The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. |
| Seneca |
| Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. |
| William Shakespeare |
| Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen. |
| James Russel Lowell |
| It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep. |
| Chas. Austin Bates |
| Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
| We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight. |
| Junvenal |
| Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. |
| Lucan |
| I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. |
| Albert Einstein |
| It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid. |
| Publius Syrus |
| Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. |
| Horace |
| He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all. |
| Marquis of Montrose |
| The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. |
| Walter Scott |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| DREAMS |
| I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
| W.B. Yeats |
| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
| All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. |
| T.E. Lawrence |
| Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
| The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. |
| William Faulkner |
| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. |
| Patrick Henry |
| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. |
| Lanston Hughes |
| You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. |
| Henry D. Thoreau |
| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
| The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. |
| Paul Valery |
| A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. |
| Anonymous |
| Hope is the dream of the waking man. |
| French Proverb |
| To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. |
| William Shakepeare |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Enthusiasm |
| Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. |
| ARNOLD TOYNBEE |
| None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. |
| SOPHIA LOREN |
| When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. |
| W. CLEMENT STONE |
| Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Fear of Failure |
| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
| Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. |
| Thomas Hood |
| Go back a little to leap further. |
| John Clarke |
| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. |
| William Shakespeare |
| There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.The fearful are the failing. |
| Sarah J. Hale |
| We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. |
| Samuel Smiles |
| I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. |
| John Keats |
| He that is down needs fear no fall. |
| John Bunyan |
| Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. |
| George Herman "Babe" Ruth |
| One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. |
| Henry Ford |
| The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
| Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. |
| Washington Irving |
| Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
| Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. |
| Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? |
| Vincent van Gogh |
| Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. |
| James A. Froude |
| It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures. |
| Alfred Mercier |
| A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. |
| Georges Clemenceau |
| He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
| There is no failure except in longer trying. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
| There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. |
| Sarah J. Hale |
| Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. |
| Johann C. F. von Schiller |
| Failure teaches success. |
| Japanese Saying |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Friendship |
| Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN |
| Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. |
| ALBERT CAMUS |
| No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. |
| ALICE WALKER |
| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. |
| ANAÏS NIN |
| I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. |
| ANN RICHARDS |
| The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. |
| ANNA GARLIN SPENCER |
| If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. |
| ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH |
| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. |
| ARISTOTLE |
| The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. |
| AUDRE LORDE |
| True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value. |
| BEN JONSON |
| A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL |
| Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. |
| BLAISE PASCAL |
| Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." |
| C.S. LEWIS |
|
A brief candle; both ends burning An endless mile; a bus wheel turning A friend to share the lonesome times A handshake and a sip of wine So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last. |
| CHARLIE DANIELS |
| Silence is the true friend that never betrays. |
| CONFUCIUS |
| To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. |
| CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER |
| Truth springs from argument amongst friends. |
| DAVID HUME |
| Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever. |
| DENG MING-DAO |
| You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. |
| E. B. WHITE |
| One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. |
| E.M. FORSTER |
| It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. |
| E.R. BULWER-LYTTON |
| A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. |
| ECCLESIASTICUS 6:14 |
| When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. |
| EDGAR WATSON HOWE |
| Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world. |
| ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |
| Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. |
| ELIE WIESEL |
|
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. |
| ELLA WHEELER WILCOX |
|
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know! |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. |
| EPICURUS |
| We need not think alike to love alike. |
| FRANCIS DAVID |
| It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. |
| FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE |
| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. |
| GEORGE ELIOT |
| What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? |
| GEORGE ELIOT |
| Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. |
| GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. |
| GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. |
| GORE VIDAL |
| When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. |
| HENRI NOUWEN |
| True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. |
| HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? |
| HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. |
| HENRY WARD BEECHER |
| You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. |
| INDIRA GANDHI |
| Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. |
| JANE AUSTEN |
| Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. |
| JANE AUSTEN |
| Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. |
| JESSAMYN WEST |
| I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. |
| KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
| A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. |
| LA ROCHEFOUCAULD |
| "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. |
| LOUISA MAY ALCOTT |
| Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. |
| MARCEL PROUST |
| [W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. |
| MARGARET GUENTHER |
| The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. |
| MARK TWAIN |
| The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. |
| MARK TWAIN |
| Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. |
| MARK TWAIN |
| Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
| In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
| Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff. |
| MAY SARTON |
|
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. |
| MAYA ANGELOU |
| It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. |
| MOHANDAS K. GANDHI |
| To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two. |
| NORMAN DOUGLAS |
| I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. |
| OSCAR LEVANT |
| Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. |
| RABINDRANATH TAGORE |
| If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. |
| RACHEL CARSON |
| The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. |
| RACHEL NAOMI REMEN |
| I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ADAPTED |
|
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit. |
| ROBERT FROST |
| We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
| We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
| How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. |
| ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN |
| There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever. |
| ROLLO MAY |
| Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
| SAMUEL COLERIDGE |
| There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. |
| SAMUEL JOHNSON |
| Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. |
| SAMUEL JOHNSON |
| Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. |
| SARAH ORNE JEWETT |
| Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. |
| SENECA |
|
Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it! |
| SHEL SILVERSTEIN |
| The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend." |
| SHUSHA GUPPY |
| The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?" |
| SIMONE WEIL |
| Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it. |
| SIMONE WEIL |
| There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. |
| SIR FRANCIS BACON |
| We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. |
| SIR FRANCIS BACON: |
| But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. |
| UNKNOWN |
| Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. |
| UNKNOWN |
| It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. |
| W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
| Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. |
| WARREN G. HARDING |
|
The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship. |
| WILLIAM BLAKE |
| It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. |
| WILLIAM BLAKE |
| It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. |
| ZORA NEALE HURSTON |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Happiness |
| When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. |
| Helen Keller |
| Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. |
| Aristotle |
| Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. |
| Democritus |
| In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
| Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. |
| Aldous Huxley |
| The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
| Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles. from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, |
| Arnold Bennett |
| Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. |
| Epictetus |
| Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
| There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. |
| Epictetus |
| I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. |
| John Stuart Mills |
| You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. |
| Robert F. Kennedy |
| Action may not always bring happiness;but there is no happiness without action. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
| Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. |
| William Ellery Channing |
| The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. |
| Henry W. Longfellow |
| Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. |
| Douglas Jerrold |
| Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. |
| J. Petit Senn |
| To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. |
| Albert Camus |
| Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
| Aristotle |
| Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours. |
| Thomas Fuller |
| Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. |
| George Santayana |
| No man is happy who does not think himself so. |
| Publilius Syrus |
| Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Inspirational Quotes |
| Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. |
| Albert Einstein |
| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
| Inspiration and genius--one and the same. |
| Victor Hugo |
| To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton |
| If you would create something, you must be something. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every artist was first an amateur. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
| Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. |
| Leon J. Suenes |
| The power of imagination makes us infinite. |
| John Muir |
| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
| Epictetus |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Leadership Quotes |
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| Harold R. McAlindon |
| Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| There go the people.I must follow them for I am their leader. |
| Alexandre Ledru-Rollin |
| The history of the world is but thebiography of great men. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
| The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way. |
| Henry Miller |
| Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. |
| Lao Tzu |
| He who has never learned to obeycannot be a good commander. |
| Aristotle |
| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. |
| Publilius Syrus |
| A leader is a deal in hope. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
| It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. |
| Danish Proverb |
| Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. |
| Woodrow Wilson |
| The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. |
| Publius Syrus |
| A bold onset is half the battle. |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg. |
| James Thomas |
| He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. |
| Solon |
| When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
| It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. |
| Seneca |
| No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
| What you cannot enforce / Do not command. |
| Sophocles |
| To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
| A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. |
| Polybius |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Life Quotes |
| Life on the planet is born of woman. |
| ADRIENNE RICH |
| Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. |
| ALAN BENNETT |
| True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. |
| ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
| Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical. |
| ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
| Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. |
| ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
| Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. |
| ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
| Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. |
| ALICE WALKER |
| Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. |
| ALICE WALKER |
| Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. |
| AMELIA BURR |
| Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. |
| ANAIS NIN |
| People living deeply have no fear of death. |
| ANAIS NIN |
| The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. |
| ANAIS NIN |
| Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. |
| ANAIS NIN |
| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
| ANNIE DILLARD |
| How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. |
| BARRY LOPEZ |
| A good life is a main argument. |
| BEN JONSON |
| Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. |
| BENJAMIN DISRAELI |
| Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of. |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. |
| BUCKMINSTER FULLER |
| If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. |
| BUDDHA |
| Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. |
| CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD |
| There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. |
| CARL JUNG |
| Our lives are like a candle in the wind. |
| CARL SANDBURG |
| Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. |
| CARL SANDBURG |
| Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. |
| CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
| When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. |
| CHINESE PROVERB |
| I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. |
| COLETTE |
| Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers. |
| COLETTE |
| Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. |
| CORITA KENT |
| Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. |
| CORITA KENT |
| Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. |
| DOROTHY THOMPSON |
| Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. |
| DOROTHY THOMPSON |
| You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. |
| E. B. WHITE |
| Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |
| EDITH WHARTON |
|
My candle burns at both its ends; It will not last the night; But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light. |
| EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... |
| EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| Life is just one damned thing after another. |
| ELBERT HUBBARD |
| Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. |
| ELBERT HUBBARD |
| I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
| ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |
|
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. |
| ELIE WIESEL |
| The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. |
| ELIZABETH DREW |
|
Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth— |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
|
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive. |
| ERNEST BECKER |
| [W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation. |
| ERNEST BECKER |
|
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. |
| ERNEST DOWSON |
| Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. |
| F. FORRESTER CHURCH |
| Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. |
| FRANKLIN P. JONES |
| The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. |
| FREDERICK BUECHNER |
| And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. |
| FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE |
| I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. |
| GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
| What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? |
| GEORGE ELIOT |
| Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. |
| GEORGE SAND |
| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. |
| GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. |
| GERMAINE GREER |
| A useless life is an early death. |
| GOETHE |
| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. |
| HELEN KELLER |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. |
| HENRI FREDERICK AMIEL |
| However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. |
| HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
| Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. |
| HENRY JAMES |
| Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. |
| HENRY VAN DYKE |
|
I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all. |
| JONI MITCHELL |
| What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. |
| LEO BUSCAGLIA |
| Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. |
| MARCUS AURELIUS |
| An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
|
Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done... |
| MATTHEW ARNOLD |
| A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. |
| RALPH ELLISON |
| Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
|
What is this talked-of mystery of birth But being mounted bareback on the earth? |
| ROBERT FROST |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| LOVE QUOTES |
| Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
|
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. |
| ALFRED TENNYSON |
| The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. |
| ALLAN K. CHALMERS |
| Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. |
| AMBROSE BIERCE |
| Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. |
| AMY BLOOM |
| I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. |
| AMY TAN |
| Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. |
| ANAIS NIN |
| If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. |
| ANN LANDERS |
| Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. |
| ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY |
| Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. |
| BARBARA DE ANGELIS |
| Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. |
| BARBARA DE ANGELIS |
|
I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars grow old... |
| BAYARD TAYLOR |
| A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL |
| Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. |
| C.S. LEWIS |
| Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. |
| CARL JUNG |
|
Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will tell you who you are. |
| CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE |
| Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... |
| E.M. FORSTER |
|
For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace. |
| ECCLESIASTES |
| I love humanity but I hate people. |
| EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| The love we give away is the only love we keep. |
| ELBERT HUBBARD |
|
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. |
| ELIE WIESEL |
| Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. |
| ELIE WIESEL |
|
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. |
| ELLA WHEELER WILCOX |
| That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
|
Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to min, His furniture is love. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
|
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." |
| ERICH FROMM |
| Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. |
| FELIX ADLER |
| Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. |
| FRANKLIN P. JONES |
| Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. |
| GEORG C. LICHTENBERG |
| There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. |
| GEORGE SAND |
| Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. |
| GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. |
| GOETHE |
| When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. |
| HH THE DALAI LAMA |
| The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. |
| HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN |
| Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. |
| HELEN KELLER |
| Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. |
| HENRI NOUWEN |
| You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. |
| HERMANN HESSE |
| A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. |
| INGRID BERGMAN |
| On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. |
| ISHA MCKENZIE-MAVINGA |
| The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. |
| JAMES BALDWIN |
| Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. |
| JAMES THURBER AND E.B. WHITE |
| Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. |
| JANE AUSTEN |
| We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. |
| JEAN BAPTISTE HENRY LACORDAIRE |
| Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. |
| JEANNE MOREAU |
| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
| JESSAMYN WEST |
| When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. |
| JIMI HENDRIX |
| Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. |
| JOAN VINGE |
| Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. |
| JOHN LENNON |
| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
| JONATHAN SWIFT |
| If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? |
| LILY TOMLIN |
| Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. |
| M. SCOTT PECK |
| Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. |
| MADELEINE DE SCUDERY |
| In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. |
| MARGARET ANDERSON |
| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. |
| MARK TWAIN |
| After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. |
| MARK TWAIN |
| Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
| 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. |
| Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. |
| MARY PARRISH |
| I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. |
| MARY S. CALDERONE |
| Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. |
| MOHANDAS K. GANDHI |
| Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire. |
| MOLLEEN MATSUMURA |
| Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right." |
| MOLLEEN MATSUMURA |
| The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. |
| MOTHER TERESA |
| Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. |
| MOTHER TERESA |
| Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me? |
| OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, II |
| Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. |
| OSCAR WILDE |
| The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. |
| PEARL S. BUCK |
| I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. |
| PEARL S. BUCK |
| For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. |
| RAINER MARIA RILKE |
| Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. |
| ROBERT FROST |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. |
| ROBERT FULGHUM |
|
Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven and we are gods. |
| ROBERT G. INGERSOLL |
|
I love you Not only for what you are But for what I am When I am with you |
| ROY CROFT |
| It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. |
| THOMAS MERTON |
| The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. |
| TRUMAN CAPOTE |
| A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how." |
| VICTOR FRANKL |
| We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. |
| WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE |
|
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. |
| WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
| Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. |
| ZORA NEALE HURSTON |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Motivational Quotes |
| If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. |
| St. Clement of Alexandra |
| We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. |
| Thornton Wilder |
| The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. |
| Aristotle |
| Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. |
| Voltaire |
| Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
| You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. |
| Author Unknown |
| The best way out is always through. |
| Robert Frost |
| Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. |
| William B. Sprague |
| Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. |
| Samuel Johnson |
| Fortune favors the brave. |
| Publius Terence |
| Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. |
| Confucius |
| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Albert Einstein |
| Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls. |
| Winston Churchill |
| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For hope is but the dreamof those that wake. |
| Matthew Prior |
| Constant dripping hollows out a stone. |
| Lucretius |
| Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. |
| Mary Shelley |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Personal Growth |
| The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. |
| Socrates |
| The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. |
| Robert Cushing |
| The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. |
| Cicero |
| The only journey is the journey within. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. |
| Menander |
| Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. |
| Juvenal |
| Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. |
| Abd-el-Kadar |
| If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. |
| Lord Chesterfield |
| If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? |
| Lord Chesterfield |
| Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. |
| William Thackeray |
| God ever works with those who work with will. |
| Aeschylus |
| Insist on yourself. Never imitate. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Heaven never helps the man who will not act. |
| Sophocles |
| Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. |
| Aristotle |
| Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton |
| In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. |
| Philip Gilbert Hamilton |
| What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. |
| Hecato, Greek philosopher |
| Everybody wants to be somebody;nobody wants to grow. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. |
| Herbert Otto |
| Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. |
| Marquise du Deffand |
| Energy and persistence conquer all things. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
| If we all did the things we are capable of,we would astound ourselves. |
| Thomas Edison |
| A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. |
| La Rochefoucauld |
| Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. |
| Miguel de Cervantes |
| The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. |
| Sir William Temple |
| Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. |
| Samuel Johnson |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |
| Success Quotes |
| There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. |
| PETER F. DRUCKER |
| Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. |
| ALBERT SCHWEITZER |
| If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. |
| ALEX NOBLE |
| To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. |
| ANNA PAVLOVA |
| All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life. |
| BARBARA JORDAN |
| There are no gains without pains. |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. |
| CORITA KENT |
|
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. |
| FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT |
| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. |
| G. K. CHESTERTON: |
| Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. |
| WILLIAM MENNINGER |
| Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. |
| WILLIAM SAROYAN |
| Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. |
| VINCE LOMBARDI |
| Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. |
| URSULA K. LE GUIN |
| It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. |
| SAMUEL SMILES |
| TOP |
| www.vellickara.org |