Famous Quotes by Famous People

"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming..."

Japanese Proverb, from "Lilies" Words and Music: Annie Walker, October, 1999

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

-E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
--Dale Carnegie

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. "

-Lee Iacocca

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

-Jim Ryun

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

"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 Morley

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
--James M. Barrie "

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

--Aristotle

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

William Arthur Ward quotes

" It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." ---- William Shakespeare.

" The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." ---- Mark Twain.

" Women are made to be loved, not understood. " ------ Oscar Wilde.

" The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do."------ Sigmund Freud.

" No one has ever become poor by giving." --------- Anne Frank.

" Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities."-- Albert Einstein.

" The weak can never forgive . Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."-- Mahatma Gandhi.

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only neccesary to be rich."
--Alan Alda

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring family in another city."
--George Burns

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

" There are only two forces in this world, the sword and the spirit. And one day spirit will ultimately conquer the sword. "---------- Napoleon Bonaporte.

" In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. "---- Dereke Bruce.