Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Quotes

None of my deep thought provoking wisdom today. Now don't be disappointed. I have something even better. Yes better is possible. I picked out some quotes I like and make me think. Enjoy!


Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. 
-Joshua Marine


Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde


Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt


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


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


Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
-Winston Churchill


You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
-Albert Einstein


Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile
-Albert Einstein


Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results
-Albert Einstein


If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
-Albert Einstein


There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle
-Albert Einstein


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


The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become
-Mark Twain


The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter
-Mark Twain


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear (So true, I think about this a lot when I feel fear but choose to overcome it)
-Mark Twain 


Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
-Mark Twain


It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt
-Mark Twain


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong
-Mahatma Gandhi


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


You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time
-Abraham Lincoln


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much
-Oscae Wilde


I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work
-Thomas Edison


When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you                                                                -African Proverb

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.                                  -Arab Proverb


So many great ones, that's all for now!

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