Great Quotations for the Ages

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to-day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago. – Samuel Smiles

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. – Mahatma Gandhi

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, and not as they are said to be. – George Bernard Shaw

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. – Mark Twain

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allen Poe

Be led by reason. – Greek Proverb

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world – .Mahatma Gandi

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. – Michael Corleone, in The Godfather

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

I buy when other people are selling. – J. Paul Getty

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. – H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings)

I dreamed a thousand new paths…I woke and walked my old one. – Chinese Proverb 

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. – Mignon McLaughlin

 

 

 It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.  – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.  – Ralph Marston

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. – Joseph Epstein

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. – Benjamin Disraeli

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. – Gerry Sikorski

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. – Joseph Campbell

Learn by practice. – Martha Graham

You don’t just stumble into the future. You create your own future. – Roger Smith

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. – William Makepeace Thackeray

We need to listen to one another.  – Chaim Potok

You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.” It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

 My favorite quote is “Life is too short to be little,” written by israeli. Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. – Andre Maurois