I love thiss quote.?

Question

the older i get, the greater power i seem to have to help the world; i am like a snowball- the further i am rolled the more i gain.

-susanB.Anthony.

thats my fav. quote from a older famous person.

whats yours?

Answer 1

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." --Will Rogers

"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done." –Unknown

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." --Christopher Lasch

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --J. Danforth Quayle

"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept." –Thucydides

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." --William Pitt

"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." --Thich Nhat Hanh

"Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears." --Jim Dietz, Rowing Coach, USCGA

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --Albert Einstein

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." --Denis Waitly

"When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything." --Shunryu Suzuki

"We must accept the truth, even if it changes our point of view." –Unknown

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." --Sonya Friedman

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling throuhg the mind. If you don't take action, it cut's a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." –Unknown

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at." --Don Marquis

"To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing." --Mark Twain

"Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." –Baslo

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." –Aristotle

"If you tell the truth you don't have anything to remember." --Mark Twain

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you." –Unknown

"I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it." –Unknown

"Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows deep." –Unknown

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." --Albert Einstein

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke

"Don't waste your youth growing up." –Unknown

"We mock the things we are to be." –Unknown

"Who gossips to you will gossip of you." --Turkish Proverb

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On." --Robert Frost

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way to become boring is to say everything." –Voltaire

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." --Albert Einstein

"We alternate between desire and regret." –Seneca

"Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy." –Unknown

"The more you know, the less you understand." --Tao Le Ching

"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." --Oscar Wilde

"We are what we repeatedly do." –Aristotle

"Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom." –Unknown

"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes form intelligence." –Baslo

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." --Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

You have enemies?  Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

"Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." --Charles Schultz

"Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." --Henry Emerson Fosdick

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times." --Mark Twain

"An intellectual hate is the worst." --William Butler Yeats

"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." --J.D. Salinger

"For in its innermost depths, youth is lonelier than old age." –Unknown

Conquer yourself not the world." –Descartes

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." --John Wooden

"A pessimist is someone who waits for rain.  But I am already soaked to the skin."-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Answer 2

"Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments that take your breath away."

Answer 3

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

-Benjamin Franklin

So very true.

Answer 4

"Diamonds are forever....we humans are not" -- Self.

Answer 5

Love is like the wind you can feel it but you can't see it

_ A walk to remember

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

W. Edwards Deming

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.

W. Edwards Deming

All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

We think in generalities, but we live in details.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.

Diego Marchi

About happiness There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

About being oneself If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Yiddish proverb

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates (1863-1951)

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

James R. Cook

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

About the necessity of compromise Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Kathleen Norris

About standing up for one's opinion One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

Proverb from Romania and Russia

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

About humbleness My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

© Ashleigh Brilliant

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Harold Coffin

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns (1896-1996)

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerszy Lec (1909- )

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Olin Miller

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

About tolerance Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Chinese proverb

I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today.

Sheldon S. Maye

About hypocrisy We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

About clearness The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Chinese proverb

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

About tact The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

T. H. White

About chatterboxes Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Thomas Neill

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato (429-347 BC)

The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.

Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

About learning from history Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana (1863-1952)

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.

John Cage (1912-1992)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

About exaggerated realism Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

About change Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

The important thing is never to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

About leadership No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

W. A. Nance

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Börne

Miscellaneous The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

You must believe in free will; there is no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Elias Root Beadle

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

George Wallace

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

hen I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;

Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.

Answer 6

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

Gandhi.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Genuine harmony must come from the heart, it can't come from the barrel of a gun."

The Dali Lama

"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington