Favorite Quotations

Favorite Quotations

Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. I enjoy all types of books. Among my favorites are Sue Grafton, Nevada Barr, J.A. Jance and Erlene Fowler. I also enjoy reading motivational books.

I enjoy reading and collecting quotations. On this page you will find a few of my favorites.

"What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more important than what you profess. Whom you inspire, is more significant than whom you impress."

- William Arthur Ward

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

- William Shakespeare

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right."

- Henry Ford

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."

- J. Martin Kohe

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

- William Ernest Henley

"Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can."

- Richard Bach

"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because they are right."

- Theordore Hesburgh

"My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things, said my uncle, You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, BUT you must spit out the air." And, as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow."

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

"He is richest who is content with the least."

- Socrates

"There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"If man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

- Seneca

"March on, do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

- Kahlil Gibran

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Socrates

"This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap..."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mohandas Ghandi

"Never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stow

"Never, never, never, never give up."

- Winston Churchill

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed."

- Sebastian R.N. Chamfort

"I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages hence; two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"The highest result of education is tolerance." Helen Keller

"There is only one corner of the universe that you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."

- Albert Einstein

"Reading is to the mind that exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"We shouldn't teach great books, we should teach a love of reading."

- B.F. Skinner

"The training of children is a profession where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"The secret of education is respecting the pupil."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be able to be caught up in the world of thought, that is being educated."

- Edith Hamilton

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Brooks Adams