Some of My Favorite Quotes

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

-Ben Stein

Stick to the fight when you are hardest hit, it's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

-Unknown ( Poem: Don't Quit )

The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war. 

-Sun Tzu 

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. 

-Soren Kierkegaard 

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. 

-Confucius 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 

-Confucius 

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. 

-Soren Kierkegaard 

He is able who thinks he is able. 

-Buddha 

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

-Mahatma Gandhi 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. 

-Mahatma Gandhi 

Ambition is like love, impatient.. both of delays and rivals. 

-Buddha 

Try not to become a man of success, rather try to become a man of value. 

-Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. 

-Albert Einstein 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.  

-Albert Einstein 

It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. 

-Soren Kierkegaard

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

-Alan Kay

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

-Unknown

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool gets from his friends.

-Baltasar Gracian
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

-George Bernard Shaw

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. 

-Edmund Hillary

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. 

-Winston Churchill


Nothing succeeds like success. 

-Alexandre Dumas

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

-Washington Irving

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

-Neil Gaiman

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. 
-Alexandre Dumas


The best and the most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-Helen Keller

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!"

-Rudyard Kipling ( Poem: If )

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. 

-Robert Frost