quotes

“How well we communicate is

“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood.” Andy Grove

“People are like stained glass

“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“If people bring so much

“If people bring so much courage to the world, the world has to kill them to break them. Sometimes it kills them. The world breaks everyone. Afterwards many are strong at the broken places, but those it will break it kills. It kills the very good, the very brave, the very gentle, impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you too. But there will be no special hurry.” Ernest Hemingway

“If you touch one person’s

“If you touch one person’s life and you die, you are alive as long as that person’s alive. What you do with your life, who you touch, that’s what it’s all about.” Studs Terkel

“Men never do evil so

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

“Poetry is language surprised in

“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.” Stanley Kunitz

“It is what a man

“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.” Henry David Thoreau

“Genius is nothing but a

“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” George-Louis DeBuffon

“Your assumptions are your windows

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” Alan Alda

“Do what you feel in

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only thing necessary for

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

“Don't fear failure so much

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” Louis E. Boone

“How far you go in

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver

“Friendship is born at that

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.” Clive Staples Lewis, novelist and essayist (1898-1963)

“I hear and I forget.

“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”
Confucius

“To improve is to change,

“To improve is to change, to succeed is to change often.” Winston Churchill

“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly

“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.” Nietzsche

“Nothing would be done at

“Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” Cardinal Newman

“Anyone who dares waste one

“Anyone who dares waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin

“If you bungle raising your

“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“If we have no peace,

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Theresa

“I saw the angel in

“I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled till I set him free.” Michelangelo

“A person without a sense

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road.” Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)