A Bunch of Quotes

Post date: May 08, 2013 2:34:57 PM

I know that it has been a while since I posted some quotes so today I am posting a whole lot of 'em.  These are all great quotes with a lot of meaning...

5/8/2013

“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all."

-- Mignon McLaughlin,

American author and journalist

“Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him."

-- Lord Chesterfield,

British statesman

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

-- George Bernard Shaw,

Irish playwright

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

-- Diane Ackerman,

American author, poet and naturalist

“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles."

-- Scott Adams,

American cartoonist

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

-- Joseph Addison,

British essayist, poet, playwright and politician

 “A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."

-- Rita Mae Brown,

American writer

“Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one."

-- Charles de Gaulle,

French general and statesman

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

-- Douglas Adams,

British writer, humorist and dramatist

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-- James Baldwin,

American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet