quotes

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” Judy Garland (1922-1969) American singer, actress

“When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” Rene Descartes

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa

“A child is like an empty bucket. As a parent, you want to make sure you fill that bucket up as much as you can. The more time you spend with kids, the more you fill those buckets.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Bob Hope

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, you gain in strength and knowledge.” Joseph Sugarman

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” Zig Ziglar

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer

“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.” Robert G. Ingersoll

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” Jacques Maritain

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.” John Berry

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.” Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. “ Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer

“Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills.” Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W. B. Yeats