Today's Quotes

Post date: May 25, 2013 5:36:51 PM

Sorry I haven't been posting regularly, but here are some more GREAT quotes.

“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,

                                                                                    German writer, artist and politician

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

                                                                                                           --Nicholas Murray Butler,

                                                                                             American diplomat and educator

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

                                                                                                                 -- Thomas à Kempis,

                                                                                                              Dutch religious scholar

“That which is always within our reach is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all."

                                                                                                                              --L.E.Landon,

                                                                                                                British writer and poet

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth."

                                                                                                                              -- C.S. Lewis,

Irish writer

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

                                                                                                                      --René Descartes,

                                                                                  French mathematician and philosopher

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

                                                                                                                          --Robert E. Lee,

                                                                            American soldier and Confederate general

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."

                                                                                                              -- H. Jackson Brown,

                                                                                                                        American writer

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

                                                                                                                            -- Beverly Sills,

                                                                           American opera singer and opera manager

“Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them."

                                                                                                                -- Clarence Birdseye,

                                                                      American inventor, entrepreneur and naturalist