Friday, November 20, 2015

Quotes For Thoughts

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra

"I must follow my people, for I am their leader" -Mahatma Gandhi

" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." – Alice Walker

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

"The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing" - Mahatma Gandhi

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." – Kevin Kruse

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." – Babe Ruth

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra

"I may be despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am Invincible." - Mahatma Gandhi

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King Jr, Theodore Parker

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George S. Patton

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost