Quotes

Every time I find a quote I like, I’ll add it to this page. I seem to throw quotes and cliches into my daily speech more often that I probably should. Well, what can I say… someone has to use them right? If not they wouldn’t be quotes or cliches.

I am the business.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over again?

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. -John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -John Wooden

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. - George Matthew Adams

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castenada

No human masterpiece was ever created without great labour. -Andre Gide

We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde

If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C. S. Lewis

The only true failure in life is to stop trying.

If you can’t be a good example, you’ll have to be a terrible warning.

The rainbow would not be without first the rain.

Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first and then the lesson.

Only those who risk going to far can possibly know how far one can really go. -T.S. Eliot

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -Margaret Atwood

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I’ll either find a way or make one).

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness is never decreased by being shared. -Buddha

It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so. -French Proverb

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles

A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it. -Jonathon Winters

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Helen Keller

If you do it you’ll regret it. If you don’t do it, you’ll regret it. Either way you’ll regret it, so you might as well just do it.

They say that time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare

Actions speak louder than words.

You can only go as far as you push.

To rise out of mediocrity, you must not be afraid to fail.

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.