Maya Angelou

Take the blinders from your vision, take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Will Bridges

If there is something wrong in your life and you have looked up, down, left, and right, and still can't find out what is wrong, try looking right in front of you.

Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Pearl S. Buck

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man then you will be sure there is one rascal less in the world.

Elenor Chaffe

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Cicero

A man full of courage is also full of faith.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, then straightforward and simple integrity in another.

William DeMille

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

Demophilus

Your only treasures are those which you can carry in your heart.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Bernard Edmonds

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

Elisabeth Elliot

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t say things. What you are stands over you all the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

I do not wish to treat friendship daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we know.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

Truth is the property of no individual, but it is the treasure of all.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, and sets it free.

Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong things at the tempting moment.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Thomas Fuller

Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage can support him in it.

Patrice Gifford

It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.

Goethe

There is nothing so frightening as ignorance in action.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

The man with insight to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Horace

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life, for while we converse, the hours as if envious of our pleasure, fly away; enjoy therefore the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce.

William James

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

David Starr Jordan

Be a life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Wisdom is knowing what to next, virtue is doing it.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Robert Lauer

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determine to achieve...and as you keep at it until you have achieved.

George Horace Lorimer

Peter Marshall

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make right things happen.

David McKay

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Jeanne Moreau

Age doesn't protect you from love, but love, to some extent. protects you from age.

Joesph Fort Newton

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Sir William Olsen

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well.

Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection...he whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Parnell

Let those love who have never loved before. Let those who have always loved, love that much more.

Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second and understanding is the third.

Plato

Courage is knowing what to fear.

You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a life of conversation.

Proverbs

Act quickly; think slowly. ~~Greek proverb~~

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience ~~French proverb~~

He who forgives ends the quarrel. ~~African proverb~~

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom. ~~American proverb~~

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you can give.

Franklin Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a splendid torch...and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

Tom Snyder

If ignorance is bliss, a lot of people are walking around in orgasm.

Rebecca St. James

Don't wish for a better day--be glad and use the one you're in.

Charles R. Swindoll

You are responsible to do the best you can with what you’ve got for as long as you are able.

Man stays wise as long as he searches for wisdom; as soon as he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool.

Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Henry David Thoreau

To know that you know what you know, and to know that you do not know what you know, that is true knowledge.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple. It gives the power to conquer self, to overcome laziness, and to resist temptations. It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Love is a great transformer, turning ambition into aspiration, selfishness into service, greed into gratitude, getting into giving, and demands into dedication.

Oscar Wilde

When one is in love one begins to deceive oneself and one ends by deceiving others.

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

Woodrow Wyatt

Women fall in love through their ears and men fall in love through their eyes.

Zanthias

Let the music envelope you, flow through you, become you, lose yourself in the music, and let it find you again.