Quotes

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
-- Marva Collins



 I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
--  Thomas Jefferson



Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
-- William Van Horne



"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
-- Jim Rohn




If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable. 
-- Anton Chekhov



If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
-- Anton Chekhov




Man is what he believes. 
-- Anton Chekhov




Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. 
-- Anton Chekhov






Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason. 
-- Anton Chekhov


Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
-- M. F. K. Fisher


War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
-- M. F. K. Fisher




We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
-- Anton Chekhov, 1897
 


I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)



People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)



Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. 
--Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)




One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)



A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)










The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.  -- William Van Horne






 "It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." - Steve Jobs  



    
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye


 "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm  






"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval







 "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." - Solon


 
"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world." - Samahria Lyte Kaufman




    
"I am open to receive with every breath I breathe." - Michael Sun




 

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." - Madeleine L'Engle




 "Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body." - Cher



"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler





 "We are advertis'd by our loving friends." - William Shakespeare 



    
"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." - Kevin Kelly




    
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin





 
"True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self." - Joseph Addison


  
"Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace." - Ruth Stout





    
"We go where our vision is." - Joseph Murphy



    
"Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable." - Georg W. Hegel



"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." - Sir William Osler



"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright


 

"Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak." - Laura Moncur 



 
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.




"You create your opportunities by asking for them." - Patty Hansen 


"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." - Sara June Parker