The more I know

The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

Being wrong

One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings others.

Only Human

To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.

Arguing with an idiot

When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing.

Open mind

Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open.

Ignorant

Don't confuse me with facts, I prefer to remain ignorant.

The sail

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust the sail.

Understanding fractions!

7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.

Choice

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

Taken chances

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you have never taken chances.

Hot water

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water.

Give up

People don't fail, they give up.

Thought for the day-Oversleep

If you want your dream to come true, don't oversleep.

Role Models

Children need more role models than critics.

Recycle

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Purchased

The future is purchased by the present.

Least persistence

Failure is the path of least persistence.

A lifetime

The pursuit of happiness is a chase of a lifetime.

Disposition

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Within a dream

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Calculated risk

Taking a leap of faith and calculated risk is often required to achieve genuine success.

Only difference

The only difference between an ordeal and an adventure is your attitude.

Oblivious

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

Preparation

When preparation meets with opportunities, destiny is born.

Safe

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you're playing it safe.

Thought for the day-Open space

I believe that behind ever closed door, there is an open space.

Seek

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.

Thought for the day-To be happy

There is no reward so great as having the courage to be happy.

Motivational quote-Till the end

I won't sink. I won't die. I will fight till the end and make it to the other side.

Success quotes-Diligence

Diligence is the master key that opens the doors of success.

Probability

If you missed your possibility, do not lose your probability.

Breakfast

I eat problems and obstacles for breakfast.

Change the World

Don't let the world change your smile, let your smile change the world.

Cloudy day

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

So pleasant!

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Need not be perfect

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

I have learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Normal times

Most of us have never lived in normal times.

Apprentices

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Farther

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Interrupt

Never interrupt someone doing what you said could not be done.

Act

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Solve problems

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Right things

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

Success quotes-Inner energy

Success is an inner energy; only winners can release it.

Positive quotes-Do for others

Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and from where you are.

Worthwhile

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Destined

You cannot shoot a person who is destined to be hanged.

Thought for the day-Perceptions

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Don't waste time

Don't waste your time hating my success. We have the same 24 hours.

Dream big

Dream big like the Atlantic Ocean but remember to always swim away from the sharks of mediocrity.

Monkey

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

Reinvent

You don't need to reinvent the wheel; you need to make it spin.

Everyday

What you do everyday matters more than what you do every once in a while.

Bridge

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Strong man

A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others.

Prisoner

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

The written word

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Great things

We can't necessarily do great things in this life, but we can certainly do small things with great love.

Illusion

Many people live under the illusion that they have none.
 

Positive quotes-Now

Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Flow with life

Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen.

Logic

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Thought for the day-Educate your children

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up they will know the value of things and not the price.

Perfectly

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Interrupted

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Food for thought

Eat your food as your medicines, otherwise you will have to eat medicines as your food.

Changed

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

What's right

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

What you want

“If you don’t know what you want, you may end up with a lot you don’t.”

Contradictory

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers.  The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.  

- Leo Rosten

The scientist

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. 

- Erwin Schrodinger, 1967

The whole leap

Many important things shouldn't be done half-way. Think of getting married, having children, starting a business, changing your career. There are times to gather your courage and make the leap, the whole leap.

Famous people quotes-Mental attitude

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Funny thoughts-Kiss strangers

We use mistletoe as an excuse to kiss strangers during the holidays. Haven't people ever heard of chloroform?
- Scott E. Roeben

Motivational thoughts-What you see

Let this season of joy truly be a season of joy. It is far too easy to get caught up in the Doing, and forget to relax, to love, and to enjoy. Stop, look around, breathe, be grateful for everything. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer

Devote yourself

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Famous people quotes-Own common sense

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Positive quotes-Powerful dreams

Live a life of bold and courageous action inspired by powerful dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thoughts on life-Not a race

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot. Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander - watching the view to left and right - above and below - as  the days slowly move past in dress review.

Content

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Poetic quotes

I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- E. E. Cummings

Sexual quotes-Like money

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. 
- John Updike

Humor quotes-If you were a chicken

Imagine if you were a chicken, and you got the other chickens mad, and they decided to tar and feather you. No one would notice.

- Scott E. Roeben

An Inspired life

Living an inspired life comes from the living of it - the taking action - and not from the wanting, or the hoping, or even from the dreaming and the planing, unless the dreams and plans are followed by bold action. Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Deep thoughts-The sea

Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The next planting

Have gratitude for the harvest.
Rejoice in the peace that follows, and prepare for the next planting.

Fear of difference

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Funny thoughts-The little things

I got a miniature abacus for my birthday. It's the little things that count.

- Scott E. Roeben

Dream anything

To dream anything that you want to dream.
That's the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do.
That is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits.
That is the courage to succeed.
- Bernard Edmonds

Motivational thoughts-When everything goes wrong

It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thought for the day-Commitment to excellence

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vincent Lombardi

Independence day quotes-Patriotism

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.  

- Erma Bombeck

Blessings of peace

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William Gladstone

Thought for the day-Borrow the earth

Treat the earth well. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Wrinkles

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.  

- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Same pillow

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.  

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Famous people quotes-Immeasurable cares

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
- George Eliot

Humor quotes-A new drug

I read a story about a new drug that's the first to be FDA-approved to treat bipolar disorder. That news makes me so enraged and ecstatic!
- Scott E. Roeben

Peace

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

- Coleman McCarthy

Thought for the day-Character

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Beautiful quote

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play in your hair.

- Kahil Gibran

Own road to happiness

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Positive quotes-Dreams of the future

I like dreams of the future better than history of the past.

- Patrick Henry

Motivational quotes-Follow your dreams

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.
- Mary Manin Morrissey

Political quotes-America

America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.  

- Adlai Stevenson

Life Cycle Of Democracy

Life Cycle Of Democracy

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had  said.

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

Good fortune

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.  

- Paul Sweeney

For financial reasons

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

Distraction

Some opportunities are a Calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
- Rick Warren

Paranoid exhibitionist

I'm a paranoid exhibitionist. I always feel like I'm being watched, but I don't particularly care.
- Scott E. Roeben

Philosophical quotes-Rewarding joy

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller

Own country

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!  

 - Daniel Webster

Better than dreams

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because  reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

Inspirational quotes-Take control

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over, instead of craving control over what you don't.

- Steve Maraboli

Marriage quotes-Passionate friends

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.

- Harville Hendrix

Greatest pre-nuptial agreement

We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world.  It's called love.  

- Gene Perret

If dreams die

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. 

- Langston Hughes

An awkward stage

I'm going through an awkward stage. You know, the one between birth and death.

- Scott E. Roeben

Indomitable will

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational quotes-Understand more

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

A hundred harvests

If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung

Positive quotes-Appreciate

Appreciate everyone in your life. Appreciate everything you have. Appreciate your whole life. It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
- Oriah

Famous people quotes-The prize

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power of word

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Famous people quotes-Begin to end

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What we live for

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Funny thoughts-Turn to dust

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
- Julia Cameron

Humility

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.    

- George Arliss

A relentless journey

Let this life be not a struggle, but a relentless journey, not of mediocrity, but towards the impossible.

- Kevin Eck

Keep your dreams alive

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.  Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
- Gail Devers
 

Motivational thoughts-Keep playing

Champions keep playing until they get it right
- Billie Jean King

Freedom quotes-Guard

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  

- Thomas Paine

An insult

This guy told me he thought I was attractive, and when I get a nice compliment I like to take it in, swish it around in my brain... until it becomes an insult.

- Sheila Wenz

Serenity of your heart

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your heart.
- Horace

Constant learning

Great leaders build a workforce for the future. They are human capital developers. Great leaders always ask themselves: 'Am I prepared for what's next?' They invest in themselves by constantly learning.

- Jonathan Fietzer

Thought for the day-Judge less

No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their little mistakes, you will always be alone. So judge less and love more.

- George Wachirah

Funny thoughts-Money and happiness

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

- Spike Milligan

Italian proverb

Think much, speak little, and write less.
- Italian Proverb

Full of beauty

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind.  Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

Positive quotes-Less time

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Peculiar virtue

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.

- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Leadership quotes-Blessings of freedom

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. 

- Thomas Paine

Hilarious quotes-Claustrophobic

I’m definitely claustrophobic. I have a morbid fear of tight spaces. Thankfully, with my girlfriend, I’ll never have a problem with that. 

- Scott E. Roeben

The art

Life is the art of drawing insufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler

To learn about money

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

- Katharine Whitehorn 

Inspirational quotes-Fundamentals

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals.

- Jim Rohn

Romance

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
- Drew Barrymore

Thoughts-Trouble tree

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet the family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

After opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His face was wreathed in smiles, and he hugged his two small children and then gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward, he walked me to my car. We passed the tree, and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied. “I know I can’t help having troubles on the job, but one thing for sure, troubles don’t belong in the house with my wife and children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning, I pick them up again.”

“Funny thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren’t nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.”

Valentine's Day quote-One smile

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
- Maya Angelou

Famous people quotes-Men of good quality

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it's better to be alone than in bad company.

- George Washington

Hilarious quotes-Use of happiness

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

- Henry Youngman

Greatest results

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.

- Owen Feltham

Sexual quotes-Polygamist

I guess you could call me a polygamist. Sometimes I switch hands. 

- Scott E. Roeben

Deep thoughts-Shared

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
- Buddha

Funny thoughts-Useful things

"Bart, with $10000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... love!

- Homer Simpson

Positive quotes-What direction

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

- Oliver W Holmes

Inspirational quotes-Perturb

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."

-  Mother Teresa

Positive quoties-Winning

"Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you are doing better than you have done before"
 - Bonnie Blair

Thought for the day-A rich heart

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. 

- Henry Ward Beecher

Good fortune

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”

- Evan Esar

The significant problems

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

 - Albert Einstein

Seize the opportunity

Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.

- Rodney Williams

Inspirational quotes-In the face

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hilarious quotes-Finance

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

- Robert W. Sarnoff

The best job

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- Napoleon Hill

The right mental attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

Visionary

Vision is a mental image of what the future will/could look like. It is equally the privilege to foresee the outcome of an event prior to the event. Visionaries are far much insightful than the ambitionaries. Visionaries sees the future with an eye like that of an eagle whereas, ambitionaries only sees the present. Moreover, ambition often leads to frustration but on the contrary, vision certainly brings provisions to the visionary.


- Emeasoba George

Valued

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

- Jean de la Bruyere

Be glad

Be glad today if you have grass to walk on... or a flower to smell... or a sky to look at... or a meal to eat... or a child to hear... or a hand to touch! Be glad today for another day of living! Be glad today for another day of giving! Do it every day and DO IT BIG!!!


- Jimmy Hagewood

Wise man

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

- Euripides

Leaving behind joy

“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.”
- Fredrick Faber

Famous people quotes-Crayons

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

- Barack Obama 

Creative imagination

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

- Ruth Ross

Positive quotes-Leader

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

Difficult moments

If you are going through difficult moments, it's not to kill you but to make you stronger for future challenges. Gold is not passed in the Blast Furnace to kill it but to separate impure metals from it."

- Chebe Ambe Ayanji

Inspired by vision

Your future is influenced by the vision you have, not by the qualifications you acquire. Men are inspired by vision rather than qualifications.

- Kenneth Rumi Imu

Thought for the day-The real man

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

-  Thomas Paine

Inspirational quotes-Place responsibility

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ”  

- Booker T. Washington

The basic things

 If leaders are careless about basic things - telling the truth, respecting moral codes, proper professional conduct - who can believe them on other issues?"
- James L. Hayes

Motivational thoughts-Alive

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

-  Robert H. Schuller

History of mankind

In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.


- Charles Darwin

Complete

Smile will be complete when it begins with your heart, reflects in your eyes and ends with a glow on your face!!"

- Dave Marony

Humor quotes-Not the most important thing

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
- Jackie Mason 

Let the mind be universal

“The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.”
 - Rabindranath Tagore

Grow up

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.
-  Ethel Barrymore

Child

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves”
- Carl Jung

Limits of the possible

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
-  Arthur C. Clarke

Diversity

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

- Michel Yquem de Montaigne

Deep thoughts-Without hope

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck

Thoughtful quotes-Plant trees

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Famous people quotes-Single word

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Thought for the day-A hug

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
- Bil Keane

Sexual quotes-More interesting

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley