Quotes on Time

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Albert Einstein

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

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

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mohandas Gandhi

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

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

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
Steven Wright

I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.
Steven Wright

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Steven Wright

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will Rogers

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

Quotes on Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.  ~Philip K. Dick


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.  ~Albert Einstein


Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?  ~M.C. Escher


No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.  ~Samuel Johnson


How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.  ~Katharine Brush


There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.  ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology


Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.  ~Connie Miller


Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.  We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.  ~Sigmund Freud


How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?  ~Author Unknown


There are no facts, only interpretations.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


What is reality anyway!  It's nothing but a collective hunch.  ~Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin


What is a face, really?  Its own photo?  Its make-up?  Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?  That which is in front?  Inside?  Behind?  And the rest?  Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?  Deformations simply do not exist.  ~Pablo Picasso


I am a thread too slender
To suspend all this reality...
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Madness," Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.net


What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.  ~Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," The Conduct of Life, 1951


Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.  ~John Lennon


Humankind cannot bear very much reality.  ~T.S. Eliot


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.  ~Democritus


Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition.  Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.  ~Eleanor Perenyi


What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.  ~Louise Nevelson


It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.  ~Andy Warhol


Few people have the imagination for reality.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.  ~John Burroughs


I have a very firm grasp on reality!  I can reach out and strangle it any time!  ~Author Unknown


Reality is not always probable, or likely.  ~Jorge Luis Borges


Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?  ~Author Unknown


Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?  ~Author Unknown



Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.  ~Frank Tyger


Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas.  It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality."  ~William James


It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


I hate cameras.  They are so much more sure than I am about everything.  ~John Steinbeck


Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?  ~Calvin and Hobbes


Belief in God?  An afterlife?  I believe in rock:  this apodictic rock beneath my feet.  ~Edward Abbey


All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.  ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain


Reality bites... and doesn't let go.  ~Author Unknown


If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.  ~Francis Bacon


The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864


Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.  ~Astrid Alauda


How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!  ~Norman Douglas


There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.  ~B. Quilliam


Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.  I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.  ~M.C. Escher


There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.  ~Daniel J. Boorstin


Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night.  ~Author Unknown


I believe in a real, physical world.  I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.  ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960


Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.  ~Jules de Gaultier


Everything you can imagine is real.  ~Pablo Picasso


Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~Emily Dickinson, "Faith Is a Fine Invention," Poems, Second Series


Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.  ~Woody Allen


After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.  ~Author Unknown


One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight.  Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another.  A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys.  If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.  ~Author Unknown


Illusion is the first of all pleasures.  ~Voltaire


This is a work of fiction.  All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence.  Or lack thereof.  ~Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III


Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  ~Jessamyn West


Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.  ~Jennifer Yane


As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.
~Hughes Mearns


Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.  ~Jane Wagner


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes on Smile

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


A smile confuses an approaching frown.  ~Author Unknown


People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.  ~Lee Mildon


A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.  ~Phyllis Diller


Smile.  Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends?
Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.  ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997


The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.  ~Author Unknown


Start every day with a smile and get it over with.  ~W.C. Fields


Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.  ~Jim Beggs


A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.  ~Charles Gordy


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.  ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello


A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.  ~Author Unknown


If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.  ~Andy Rooney


If you smile at someone, they might smile back.  ~Author Unknown


Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.  ~Author Unknown


Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.  ~Author Unknown


Everyone smiles in the same language.  ~Author Unknown


If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.  ~Author Unknown


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown


Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.  ~George Eliot


She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.  ~Raymond Chandler


Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown


A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.  ~Loma Chandler


A laugh is a smile that bursts.  ~Mary H. Waldrip


Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth.  ~Author Unknown


The shortest distance between two people is a smile.  ~Author Unknown


If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.  ~Author Unknown


Is a smile a question?  Or is it the answer?  ~Lee Smith


Smiling is my favorite exercise.  ~Author Unknown


I have a tickle in my brain.  And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.
  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Wear a smile - one size fits all.  ~Author Unknown


No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer


Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.  ~Author Unknown


Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.  ~Mother Teresa


A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.  ~Author Unknown


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.  ~Washington Irving


Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.  ~Charles Reade


A smile is the universal welcome.  ~Max Eastman


Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to.  ~Author Unknown


You're never fully dressed without a smile.  ~Martin Charnin


A smile can brighten the darkest day.  ~Author Unknown


It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.  ~Author Unknown


Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.  ~Janet Lane


All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.  ~Chris Hart


If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.  ~Author Unknown


Smile - it increases your face value.  ~Author Unknown


Peace begins with a smile.  ~Mother Teresa


A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.  ~Author Unknown


Most smiles are started by another smile.  ~Author Unknown


A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you.  ~Author Unknown


A smile costs nothing but gives much.  It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it.
Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.
Some people are too tired to give you a smile.

Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.  ~Author Unknown


It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.  ~Author Unknown

Sometimes tears are a sign of unspoken happiness. . and smile is a sign of silenced pain..


Silence and smile are two powerful words. Smile is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to avoid many problems..

Quotes on World

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill


Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mohandas Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mohandas Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mohandas Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mohandas Gandhi

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare


I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald Reagan

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Wayne Dyer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Quotes On Fear

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  ~Mary Manin Morrissey


Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  ~Marie Curie


Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  ~Usman B. Asif


Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.  ~Henry S. Haskins


The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.  What he wants above everything else is safety.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.  ~George S. Patton


Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  ~Brendan Francis


There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp


There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.  ~Andre Gide


Fear is faith that it won't work out.  ~Sister Mary Tricky


Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.  ~Arnold Glasow


Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.  ~Henry H. Tweedy


Fear is the highest fence.  ~Dudley Nichols


Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.  ~Orison Swett Marden


Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.  ~James Hastings


To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved


Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.  ~Ruth Gendler


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.  ~Bertrand Russell


Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.  ~Brendan Francis


Fear cannot take what you do not give it.  ~Christopher Coan


Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug.  ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner


He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell




Fear makes us feel our humanity.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.  ~George Matthew Adams


There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.  ~Aeschylus


Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.  ~Samuel Butler


Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  I would like to see you living in better conditions.  ~Hafez


Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb


If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.  ~Lloyd Douglas


I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.  ~Rosa Parks


A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.  ~Arab Proverb


You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?  ~Maurice Freehill


Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real.  ~Author Unknown


Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.  ~Sophie Tunnell


I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.  ~Katharine Butler Hathaway


He who fears something gives it power over him.  ~Moorish Proverb


Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown


He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.  ~French Proverb


There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.  ~Mark Twain


Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.  ~Donald Dowes


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833


Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.  ~Betty Bender


To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.  ~T.A. Sachs


I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says:  turn back.  ~Erica Jong


The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.  ~Lady Bird Johnson

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