Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

self devolpment

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

 

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

dreams

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

 

 

Man Ray,

happy ending

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

 

 

Gilda Radner

wisdom

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

 

Louis L'Amour,

trust

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

 

 

Benjamin Disraeli

motivational

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

trust on someone honest

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

 

 

Edward Chapin

motivational

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.

 

The William Feather

motivational

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

 

 

Charles Dickens

motivational

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

motivational

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.

Meladee McCarty

motivational

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan

wisdom

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

love

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

motivational

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone,

motivational

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Colette,

sad

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

success

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama,

success

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

friendship quotes

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
 Jewish saying

friendship quotes

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Cindy Lew

hurt qutations

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
Angelina Jolie

hurt qutations

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

hurt qutations

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

bussiness quotes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

bussiness quotes

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

bussiness quotes

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

bussiness quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

bussiness quotes

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney

bussiness quotes

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

bussiness quotes

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather