Elbert Hubbard Famous Quotes

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Famous Quotes

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~Author : David Eddings King of the Murgos Inspirational Sayings

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
~Author : George Pratt Shultz Nice Quotes

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
~Author : Baruch Spinoza The Ethics Great Sayings

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~Author : John Stuart Mill Meaningful Sayings

Common sense is not so common.
~Author : Voltaire Wise Quotes

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Motivational Sayings

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Famous Quotes

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Author : Confucius Inspirational Sayings

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore Nice Quotes

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
~Author : Alan B Watts Great Sayings

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Wise Quotes

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
~Author : Bible Proverbs 47 Motivational Sayings

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
~Author : Suntzu Famous Quotes

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
~Author : Ernest Hemingway in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Inspirational Sayings

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.
~Author : J R R Tolkien Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Nice Quotes

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Lombardi Winning is the only thing by Jerry Kramer Great Sayings

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
~Author : Rose Pastor Stokes Meaningful Sayings

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
~Author : John B Gough Wise Quotes

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph
~Author : Robert Browning Motivational Sayings

Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Author : Albert Camus Inspirational Sayings

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
~Author : Ogden Nash Nice Quotes

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
~Author : Thomas Sowell Editorial on WalMart 10Dec2003 Great Sayings

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
~Author : Jean Kerr Meaningful Sayings

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~Author : Samuel Butler Wise Quotes

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
~Author : Shelley incomplete poets Motivational Sayings