It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-- Eddie Cantor
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-- Al Capone
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
-- Thomas Carlyle
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
-- Dale Carnegie
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-- Rosalynn Carter
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
-- Carlos Castaneda
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-- Eddie Cantor
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-- Al Capone
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
-- Thomas Carlyle
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
-- Dale Carnegie
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-- Rosalynn Carter
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
-- Carlos Castaneda
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
-- Viscount Cecil
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
-- Charles A. Cerami
Learn and think imperially.
-- Joseph Chamberlian
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Richard Chamberland
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
-- Kyle Chandler
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- W. E. Channing
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
-- Maurice Chevalier
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."
-T'ao Ch'ien
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
-- Chilton
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-- Chinese Proverb
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
In time of war the law falls silent
-- Cicero
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C Clarke
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
the same one."
--Frances Clark
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-- Mark A. Clement
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-- Peter Cochrane
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-- Samuel Coleridge
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
-- Todd Coomber
Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.
-- Chad Coombs
Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.
-- Michael Corleone
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
-- Stephen Covey
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
-- Thomas Cowan
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
-- George Crane
One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done
-- Marie Curie
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all ot
her alternatives.
Abba Eban
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
– Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
-- Thomas A. Edison
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
Imagination is more important than knowledge
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner's chains.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let
them have it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
members.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
A man is known by the books he reads.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Epictetus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
-- John Erskine
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
-- Viscount Cecil
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
-- Charles A. Cerami
Learn and think imperially.
-- Joseph Chamberlian
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Richard Chamberland
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
-- Kyle Chandler
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- W. E. Channing
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
-- Maurice Chevalier
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."
-T'ao Ch'ien
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
-- Chilton
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-- Chinese Proverb
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
In time of war the law falls silent
-- Cicero
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C Clarke
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
the same one."
--Frances Clark
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-- Mark A. Clement
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-- Peter Cochrane
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-- Samuel Coleridge
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
-- Todd Coomber
Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.
-- Chad Coombs
Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.
-- Michael Corleone
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
-- Stephen Covey
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
-- Thomas Cowan
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
-- George Crane
One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done
-- Marie Curie
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all ot
her alternatives.
Abba Eban
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
– Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
-- Thomas A. Edison
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
Imagination is more important than knowledge
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner's chains.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let
them have it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
members.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
A man is known by the books he reads.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Epictetus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
-- John Erskine
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides
