A Collection of Quotes:
Some of which I have read, some of which I have heard, some of which I have thought. Some I have found and some have found me.

To be yourself in a world that tries night and day, to make you just like everybody else, is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight and never stop fighting.

— E. E. Cummings

A woman is like a teabag; you don't know her strength until she's in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr

Life is not cured. It's managed.

— Dr. Phil McGraw

Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening.

— Franklin P. Jones

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

— Lisa Kirk

A professional is someone who gets paid.

— Anonymous

Judge a man not by his answers, but by his questions.

— Voltaire

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.

— Anonymous

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

— Edith Wharton

Positive thinking, without the acceptance of reality and the feelings it triggers, is nothing more than self-deception.

— Christine Delorey

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes— most of which have never happened.

— Mark Twain

To see and acknowledge the negative in a situation and embrace whatever positive is there—that is the true definition of courage.

— Anonymous

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure—the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

— Robert McKee

Anything you do inconveniences somebody.

— Anonymous

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

— Benedette Croce

Religion is for people who are afraid of hell and spirituality is for people who have already been through it.

— Anonymous

Passive indifference is as bad as active malice.

— President Barack Obama

The absence of critical feedback is what creates tyrants, dictators, and bad decisions.

— Sally Kempton

Failure is no reflection on the individual. It just means that now is not the right time.

— Anonymous

Commandment number one of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

— David Grayson

You are what you eat, what you think and what you read.

— Anonymous

An individual without information cannot take responsibility; an individual who is given information cannot help but take responsibility.

— Jan Carlson

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

— Anonymous

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

— Anonymous

Don't change your behavior, change your beliefs. And the rest will naturally follow.

— Christina Hazelwood

Our duty is to not see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Anonymous

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did this ourselves.

—Lao-Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, 6th Century B.C.

Experience is not the best teacher. It's the teacher of last resort.

— Christina Hazelwood

Winners do what losers don't want to.

— Dr. Phil McGraw

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly, because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

— Michael Caine

A pessimist is an optimist with experience.

— Anonymous

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

— Bill Cosby

Experience, of itself, does not provide wisdom. It is reflecting on one's experiences that offers wisdom.

— Unknown

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

— Rebecca West

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

— Anais Nin

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

— Dr. Michael Beckwith

Money is a barometer of what our society values.

— Anonymous

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