Nice Quotes

Here are some quotes in which I truely beleive. This is not a comprehensive list and I keep updating it.


A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. -Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. -Chuang-tzu (B.C. 350)

Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatsoever power a mortal may acquire, there would be mortal more powerful to belittle him.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. - Emerson

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. -Mark Helprin

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. -Burton Hills

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. -Dwight D Eisenhower

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. - Barry Neil Kaufman

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Rodin

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.-Victor Frankl

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. -Voltaire

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. -Les Brown

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.-Albert Einstein

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein




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