20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
FAVORITE QUOTES
The third-rate
mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The
second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
You
can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the
time.
Abraham Lincoln
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Adolf Hitler
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African proverb
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Alan Kay
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
Imagination
is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we
now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
When
you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside
always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to
worry about.
Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Albert Einstein
When
you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute.
But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours.
That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
There
are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them,
are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.
Albert Guinon
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
Amanda Cross
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Anais Nin
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.
André Gide
People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
André Gide
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Anon
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it
is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
Aryeh Frimer
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Ayn Rand
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Basho
Trying
to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is
like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
The
whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
If
a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will
refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something
which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he
will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is
explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Bill Lyon
Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.
Bill Raeder
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
Bill Vaughan
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.
Bill Watterson
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Bo Bennett
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
Bob Hope
The less you know, the more you believe.
Bono
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Buddhist Proverb
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
Cale Yarborough
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