Famous Quotes Part # 3

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
-- Neil Armstrong
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
-- Marykay Ash

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of -- Isaac Asimov
us who do.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
-- Marcus Aurelius


It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
-- Francis Bacon
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
--Tallulah Bankhead

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

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-- P.T. Barnum


Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
-- Dave Barry


Get everything you need, and then give it up for what you want. Then you can
say you have had a fulfilling life.
--Candace Bastanchury
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
-- John Beecher


When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
-- Betty Bender
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
-- Robert F. Bennett

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
-- Warren G. Bennis


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Henri Bergson
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it
We have deep depth.
--Yogi Berra

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-- Josh Billings

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
-- Billy Bishop


When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-- Otto von Bismarck
There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
-- Paxton Blair


The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Kenneth Blanchard

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
-- Block's Murphy's Law

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth.
-- Niels Bohr

If it's free, don't buy it.
One day, each of us will have his own area code.
-- Alan Boinus

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Derek Bok


If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.


Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
-- Edward de Bono

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
-- Elias Boudinot

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
-- Ray Bradbury

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
-- General Omar Bradley


To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
-- Phillips Brooks


Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Dorothea Broude

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Brougham


A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower, Jr.
The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.
If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
You either make dust or eat dust.
-- H. Jackson Brown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
-- Les Brown

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown


The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- William Jennings Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
-- Paul Bear Bryant

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
-- Pearl S. Buck

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
-- William F. Buckley Jr.


Life moves pretty fast, If you don't take a look around once and awhile, you could miss it.
-- Ferris Bueller

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffett

Life is as a jelly roll. When you think you have it eaten, it comes out the other end.
-- Christopher P. Buonanno

Good order is the foundation of all things.
-- Edmund Burke

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns


An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler


You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
-- Charles Buxton


Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

-- Lord Byron

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
ames B. Cabell


I came, I saw, I conquered.
-- Julius Caesar
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
-- Michael Caine

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
-- Arthur Calwell

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
-- Joseph Campbell