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Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Blaise Pascal:
We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Felix Adler:
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

An Ethical Philosophy of Life

Felix Adler:
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

An Ethical Philosophy of Life

Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Izaak Walton:
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

John Dewey:
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.

Margaret Laurence:
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Marian Wright Edelman:
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Conservatism is more candid to behold another’s worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

The Conservative

Robert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Sogyal Rinpoche:
…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

Virginia Satir:
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Woolf:
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

William Ellery Channing:
I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves…. Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.

William Ellery Channing:
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.

William Lyon Phelps:
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

M. Scott Peck:
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Rumi:
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

Stanley C. Allyn:
There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying.

Swedish proverb:
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Unknown:
Symptoms of Inner Peace

Aeschylus:
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Anne Bradstreet:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Henry David Thoreau:
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau:
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Kin Hubbard:
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.

Lane Kirkland:
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Maimonides:
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity’s golden ladder.

Mark Twain:
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Michael Harrington:
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Mother Teresa:
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Norman Thomas:
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Samuel Adams:
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Sarah Bernhardt:
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from “The Matchmaker”

Wendell Phillips:
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Abraham Joshua Heschel:
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Abraham Lincoln:
Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Bertrand Russell:
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Eleanor Holmes Norton:
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

Eric Hoffer:
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

Eric Hoffer:
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

John Godfrey Saxe:
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

1887: referring to the Buddhist fable of the Blind Sages and the Elephant, found in the Udana, chapter 6, section 4

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others’ religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world’s religions is a sacred duty.

Paul McCartney:
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul Ricoeur :
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

Rene Dubos:
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Celebrations of Life, 1981

Robert F. Kennedy:
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Susan B. Anthony:
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon.

on the Women’s Suffrage platform

Thomas Jefferson:
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
All … religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Voltaire:
What is tolerance? — it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly — that is the first law of nature.

Peter F. Drucker:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Abraham Lincoln:
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Schweitzer:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Anna Pavlova:
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Barbara Jordan:
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you’ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you’re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Benjamin Disraeli:
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Franklin:
There are no gains without pains.

Bernadette Devlin:
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bessie Stanley:
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

published 11/30/1905 in the Lincoln (Kansas) Sentinel – an adaptation of this is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, though nothing like it has been found in his writings.

Bessie Stanley (adapted; erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson):
Success
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley. No version of it has been found in Emerson’s writings. For more information see http://www.transcendentalists.com/success.htm

Bruce Feirstein:
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Coco Chanel:
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Corita Kent:
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

David Brinkley:
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

Demosthenes:
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Elaine Maxwell:
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Elbert Hubbard:
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

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Emily Dickinson:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

G. K. Chesterton:
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Havelock Ellis:
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Henry David Thoreau:
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry Ford:
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

J.C. Penney:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.

James A. Froude:
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

John C. Maxwell:
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

Lily Tomlin:
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Louis L’Amour:
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Margaret Mead:
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:
Conquer, but don’t triumph.

Maya Lin:
To fly, we have to have resistance.

Michael Korda:
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Pablo Picasso:
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck:
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Richard Bach:
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Robert F. Kennedy:
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Samuel Smiles:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910

Thomas Alva Edison:
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Wolfe:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Ursula K. Le Guin:
Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Vanessa Redgrave:
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Vince Lombardi:
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

William Lloyd Garrison:
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

William Lyon Phelps:
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

William M. Winans:
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Winston Churchill:
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Benjamin Franklin:
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.

C. S. Lewis:
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

played by Patrick Stewart, from the film “Star Trek: Generations”

Colette:
Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Emily Dickinson:
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Eudora Welty:
Events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Henry David Thoreau:
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Horace Mann:
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Jane Welsh Carlyle:
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jesse Jackson:
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Kenneth Patton:
By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour.

Mark Twain:
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Mark Twain:
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mary Parrish:
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Mrs. Manley:
No time like the present.

Paul Bowles:
… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Rumi:
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.

Salman Rushdie:
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems — but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Peter F. Drucker:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Arnold Toynbee:
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Bible:
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 15:22, NIV translation

Carl Sandburg:
Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Daniel H. Burnham:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir people’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that your children and grandchildren are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Attributed to Daniel H. Burnham, 1910. Slightly modified by Jone Johnson Lewis.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Light tomorrow with today!

Epictetus:
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Gloria Steinem:
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

J.R.R.Tolkien:
It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.

The Hobbit

John Lennon:
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Louis Pasteur:
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Robert Burns:
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft a-gley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain
For promis’d joy.

Thomas Alva Edison:
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

W. Clement Stone:
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Albert Einstein:
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

C. Wright Mills:
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.

Demosthenes:
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Douglas MacArthur:
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

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

Irving Kristol:
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

James F. Bymes:
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

Ovid:
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Thomas Alva Edison:
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Winston Churchill:
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Everett Dirksen:
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

Frank Adams:
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Izaak Walton:
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

James Russell Lowell:
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Jane Austen:
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jean Anouilh:
God is on everyone’s side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Katherine Whitehorn:
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Marian Wright Edelman:
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Mark Twain:
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Thomas Wolfe:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from “The Matchmaker”

Voltaire:
When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Woody Allen:
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons