Quotes of the Day

[Mohamed]

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962

[Mohamed]

When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides 484 BC - 406 BC

[Mohamed]

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773

[jackluis2008]

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

[Mohamed]

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

[Mohamed]

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato 427 BC - 347 BC

[Mohamed]

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt 1844 - 1923

[Mohamed]

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks 1835 - 1893

[Mohamed]

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

[Mohamed]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

[Mohamed]

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919

[Mohamed]

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

Arnold Glasow

[Mohamed]

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

[Mohamed]

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Mohamed]

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

Lillian Eichler Watson