851 Quotations Found

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: O’Toole’s Axiom | Subjects: Family & Friends, Gratitude

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subjects: Life & Society, Success / Failure

I would rather have it said ‘He lived usefully,’ than ‘He died rich’.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Material Possessions

America is a place where people do not enquire of a stranger, What is he? But, What can he do?

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Culture, International

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Author: Winston Churchill | Source: Churchill’s Commentary on Man | Murphy’s Law | Subjects: Culture, Gratitude, Perception | Observation

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Author: Franklin P. Jones | Source: Jones’s Law | Murphy’s Law | Subjects: Experience, Gratitude

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. […] Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, … [ Read more ]

Author: M. Scott Peck | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges | Subject: Love

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Author: Samuel Johnson | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Author: Booker T. Washington | Subjects: Culture, Race Relations

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

Author: Nicholas Sparks | Source: The Notebook | Subject: Love

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Author: Mother Teresa | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Author: Oscar Wilde | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation

The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Philosophy

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Author: Abraham Maslow | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Author: William Shakespeare | Subjects: Life & Society, Wisdom

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Author: Walker Percy | Subjects: Life & Society, Meaning

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Character, Family & Friends, Life & Society, Miscellaneous, Relationships

It’s safe to say that if everyone thinks you’re normal in every area of your life, you are probably not on the path to extraordinary achievement.

Often, a better barometer of your potential success would be those who criticize you as opposed to those who applaud your normality. Extraordinary and unusual effort is very popular after you achieve greatness, but while you’re on the road, average … [ Read more ]

Author: Jim Stovall | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Author: Les Brown | Subjects: Experience, Psychology | Behavior