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50 Top Quotations

Entered here in no specific order 

(1) "Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day,  for it and it alone is life."

~ Sanskrit poem

(2) “We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”

--E. B. White

(3) “The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”

-- Hannah Whitall Smith

(4) "No birth is an accident, no experience is without meaning, and no life is without value."

~ Gary Zukav

(5) "There seems to be an innate quality in humans to want to serve others. Those who fulfill that need tend to lead the happiest lives."

-- Eva Gregory

(6) The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

~~ Karen S.Magee

(7) "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments."

~ Napoleon Hill

(8) "We should make sure that our own house is in order before we give advice to others."

-- Aesop's Fables

(9) Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful.

- - Raquel Welch 

(10) "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

~ H. Jackson Browne

(11) It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

(12) 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

(13) There is…nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

-- Diana Nyad

(14) "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." - Flora Edwards

(15) "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires." - Abigail Van Buren

(16) "Our greatest glory consists not in ever falling... but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(17) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

(18) One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. -- Rabbi Harold Kushner

(19) Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

 -- Mark Twain

(20) Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

(21) "Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it." - - Les Brown, Author and Speaker

(22) There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette, 'Freedom,' 1908

(23) If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark

(24) We are most alive when we're in love. -- John Updike

(25) "It is our perception of events that causes stress; not the events themselves." -- Eva Gregory

(26)

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn;

If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight;

If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy;

If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty;

If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient;

If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence;

If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate;

If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice;

If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith;

If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself;

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns

to find love in the world.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

           -- Ayn Rand

(27) A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. -- Louis L'Amour, 'Bendigo Shafter'

(28) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

(29) Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso

(30) The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

-- John Ruskin

(31) When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett

(32) "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - - Erica Jong, Author

(33) A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. -- Charlotte Bronte

(34) Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

(35) "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain

(36) "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks." - Charles Dickens

(37) "The hours that make us happy make us wise." - John Masefield

(38) "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell

(39) "Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." - Jim Rohn

(40) "If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence." - Aristotle

(41) "Business is a great teacher: It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it." - Joe Vitale

(42) It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. -- Sally Kempton

(43) "There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again." –Eva Gregory

(44) Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

(45) If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

-- Cicero

(46) When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. -- Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

(47) "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - - Alan Ashley-Pitt, Author

(48) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."- - Warren Buffett, Investment Entrepreneur

(49) Every artist was first an amateur. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

(50) Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

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