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"You have brains in your head, you have feet
in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're
on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll
decide where to go."
Dr. Seuss
"It was a high counsel that I once heard
given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'"
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"The minute you choose to do what you really
want to do it's a different kind of life."
Buckminster Fuller
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With
it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis."
Henry Ford
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than
bravery will."
James
Stephens
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take
hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
Henry Ward Beecher
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
William
James
"You find that you have piece
of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know
that it was a 100% effort that you gave -- win or lose."
Gordie Howe
"Life is a maze in which we
take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk."
Cyril
Connolly
"We all walk in the dark. And it is up to each
one of us to turn on our own light."
Katherine Hepburn
"If you want others to be happy, practice
compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"Life can only take place in the present
moment, if we lose the present moment we lose life."
Buddha
"Hold fast to your illusions. for without them,
you may exist, but you will cease to live."
Mark Twain
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"If we are not following our hearts,
where are we going?"
Nett Hart
"We all have ability. The Difference
is how we use it."
Stevie Wonder
"A friend is one who knows all about
you and likes you anyway."
Christi Mary Warner
"The Answer to the
Great Question of...Life, the Universe, and Everything....Is....Forty-Two."
Douglas
Adams
"My one
regret in life is that I am not someone else."
Woody
Allen
"Never
play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep
with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
Nelson
Algren
"Do not
fold, spindle, mutilate, or staple."
Anonymous
"Life
is a sexually transmitted disease."
Anonymous
"There
was one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's
own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process
of a rational mind."
Joseph
Heller
"Very
interesting...but stupid."
Dan Rowan
and Dick Martin, usually said by Arte Johnson
"Shoot
all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill
a mockingbird."
Harper Lee
"Life
is a gamble at terrible odds--if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it."
Tom
Stoppard
"Life
is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."
Christopher
Morley
"How
often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
"You
have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a
totally efficient contraceptive."
Anthony
Burgess
"I
love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."
Francis
Ford Coppola
"You
can observe a lot by watching."
Yogi
Berra
"If
you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
John
Galsworthy
"A
community is like a ship; every one ought to be prepared to take the helm."
Henrik
Ibsen
"Win
without boasting. Lose without excuse."
Albert
Payson Terhune
"We
are here to add to what we can to, not to get what we can from, life."
Sir
William Ostler
"Nil
carborundum illigitimi."
Anonymous
"Nobody
sees a flower, really--it is so small--we haven't time, and to see takes time,
like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia
O'Keeffe
"We
should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest
of our lives there."
Charles
Kettering
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will appear when I've put new quotes up. This the new quotes are green.The quotes
have links on the names to let you know more about the person who
said them. The anonymous quotes have anonymous links. Hope you enjoy.