quote of the day

Quote of the Day

Quote 1"Like a ten-speed bike, most of us

have gears we do not use.“

-- Charles Schulz

Quote 2"Everyone must row with the oars

he has."

-- English proverb

Quote 3"When spiderwebs unite, they can

tie up a lion."

-- Ethiopian proverb

Quote 4"Reading is to the mind what

exercise is to the body.“

-- Joseph Addison

Quote 5"You can't win unless you know how

to lose."

-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Quote 6"You cannot shake hands with a

clenched fist."

-- Indira Gandhi

Quote 7"He that is good at making excuses

is seldom good at anything else."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Quote 8"Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams

die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."

-- Langston Hughes

Quote 9"Don't worry about knowing people;

just make yourself worth knowing."

-- Unknown

Quote 10"If you have much, give your wealth.

If you have little, give your heart."

-- Arab proverb

Quote 11"An angry man opens his mouth and

shuts his eyes."

-- Cato the Elder

Quote 12"There is a great distance between

said and done."

-- Puerto Rican proverb

Quote 13"Beware of a wolf in sheep's

clothing."

-- Aesop

Quote 14"Make friends before you need

them."

-- Unknown

Quote 15"Give a man a fish and you feed him

for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

-- Chinese proverb

Quote 16"The way to be nothing is to do

nothing."

-- Nathaniel Howe

Quote 17"If you were another person, would

you like to be a friend of yours?"

-- Unknown

Quote 18"To speak kindly does not hurt the

tongue."

-- proverb

Quote 19"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

-- Mark Twain

Quote 20"Thinking is the hardest work there

is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

-- Henry Ford

Quote 21"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-- English proverb

Quote 22"The reason a dog has so many

friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue."

-- Unknown

Quote 23"You will never have a friend if you

must have one without faults."

-- Unknown

Quote 24"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

-- Unknown

Quote 25"You can encounter many defeats,

but you must not be defeated."

-- Maya Angelou

Quote 26"We haven't failed. We now know a

thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding

what will."

-- Thomas Edison

Quote 27We must be authors of the history of

our age."

-- Madeleine Albright

Quote 28"You can't unscramble eggs."

-- John Pierpont Morgan

Quote 29"A book is like a garden carried in a

pocket."

-- Chinese proverb

Quote 30"No individual has any right to come

into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him

distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."

-- George Washington Carver

Quote 31"We may all have come on different

ships, but we're in the same boat now."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote 32"Choose your socks by their color

and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their

color is unthinkable.“

-- Unknown

Quote 33"Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99

percent perspiration."

-- Thomas Edison

Quote 34"Each life is like a letter of the

alphabet. Alone it can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a

great meaning."

-- Unknown

Quote 35Your children need your presence

more than your presents."

-- Jesse Jackson

Quote 36“A friend who lies for you may also

lie against you."

-- Unknown

Quote 37"The price of your hat isn't the

measure of your brain."

-- African American Saying

Quote 38"The wastebasket is a writer's best

friend."

-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quote 39"We are wiser than we know."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote 40"Friendship with oneself is all

important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone

else in the world."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote 41"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear

each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each

other."


Quote 42"You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any

direction you choose.You're on your own.

And you know what you know.And you are the guy

Who'll decide where you go."

-- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Quote 43"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster

than labor wears, while the used key is always bright."


Quote 44"He that flings dirt at another dirties

himself most."

-- Thomas Fuller

Quote 45"Be kind; everyone you meet is

fighting a hard battle."

-- John Watson

Quote 46"The trouble with life isn't that there

is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

-- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

Quote 47"The sleeping fox catches no

poultry."


Quote 48"A failure is a man who has

blundered but is not able to cash in the experience."

-- Elbert Hubbard

Quote 49"One machine can do the work of 50

ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary

man."

-- Elbert Hubbard

Quote 50"Statistically 100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in."

-- Wayne Gretsky

Quote 51"If a man empties his purse into his

head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in

knowledge always pays the best interest."


Quote 52"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument

as one goes on.…"

-- Samuel Butler

Quote 53"You can't build a reputation on

what you are going to do."

-- Henry Ford

Quote 54"This thing we call 'failure' is not the

falling down but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford

Quote 55"If you're going to do good work, the

work has to scare you."

-- Andre Previn

Quote 56"We must be careful what we say.

No bird resumes its egg."

-- Emily Dickinson

Quote 57"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,

the lesson afterwards."

-- Vernon Saunders Law

Quote 58"For all of us today, the battle is in

our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There

are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick

solutions. We must keep going."


Quote 59"Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get

anything out of it."

-- W.C. Handy

Quote 60"To err is human, to forgive is

divine."

-- Alexander Pope

Quote 61"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you

are slightly cracked."

-- Bernard Meltzer

Quote 62"Truth may be stretched but cannot

be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above

water."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Quote 63"Each time a man stands up for an

ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against

injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each

other from a million different centers of energy and daring,

those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest

walls of oppression and resistance."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

Quote 64"My opinion is that you never find

happiness until you stop looking for it."

-- Chuang-tzu

Quote 65"Make new friends, but keep the old.

One is silver, the other gold."

-- Anonymous

Quote 66"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

-- James Russell Lowell

Quote 67"Wherever you are, it is your own

friends who make your world."

-- William James

Quote 68"The art of being wise is the art of

knowing what to overlook."

-- William James

Quote 69"The main thing is to care. Care very

hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."

-- Billie Jean King

Quote 70"What lies behind us and what lies

before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Unknown

Quote 71"Life is too short to be small."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Quote 72"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may

also be only the beginning."

-- Ivy Baker Priest

Quote 73"The older I get, the greater power I

seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I

am rolled the more I gain."

-- Susan B. Anthony

Quote 74"The bird a nest, the spider a web,

man friendship."

-- William Blake

Quote 75"[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why

someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed

healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much."

-- Condoleezza Rice

Quote 76"You have to be true to yourself, but

you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other

people."

-- Stephen Gaskin

Quote 77 "He who opens a school door, closes

a prison."

-- Victor Hugo

Quote 78"Even monkeys fall out of trees."

-- Japanese proverb

Quote 79"To the uneducated, an A is just

three sticks."

-- A. A. Milne

Quote 80"Things turn out the best for people

who make the best of the way things turn out."

-- John Wooden

Quote 81"Children act in the village as they

have learned at home."

-- Swedish proverb

Quote 82"The more he cast away, the more

he had."

-- John Bunyan

Quote 83"Eyes of youth have sharp sight but

commonly not so deep as those of elder age."

-- Elizabeth I

Quote 84"Genius without education is like

silver in the mine."


Quote 85"If we were meant to talk more than

listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."

-- Mark Twain

Quote 86"The reason a lot of people do not

recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard

work."

-- Thomas Edison

Quote 87"Read, read, read. Read everything

-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a

carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the

master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write."

-- William Faulkner

Quote 88"Drawing on my fine command of

the English language, I said nothing."

-- Robert Benchley

Quote 89"Talent is like electricity -- we do not

understand electricity. We use it."

-- Maya Angelou

Quote 90"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a

better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his

house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."


Quote 91"There's a great power in words, if

you don't hitch too many of them together."

-- Josh Billings

Quote 92"He who will not economize will

have to agonize."

-- Confucius

Quote 93"Make the most of yourself, for that

is all there is of you."


Quote 94"If you haven't got any charity in

your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

-- Bob Hope

Quote 95"The best way to cheer yourself up

is to try to cheer somebody else up."

-- Mark Twain

Quote 96"A long dispute means both parties

are wrong."

-- Voltaire

Quote 97"Behind every able man, there are

always other able men."

-- Chinese proverb

Quote 98"Talk does not cook rice."

-- Chinese proverb

Quote 99"The unfortunate thing about this

world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the

bad ones."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

Quote 100"When you see a rattlesnake poised

to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote 101"Flattery is like cologne water, to be

smelt of, not swallowed."

-- Josh Billings

Quote 102"Have more than thou showest,

speak less than thou knowest.

-- William Shakespeare

Quote 103"A man of words and not of deeds /

Is like a garden full of weeds."

-- Mother Goose

Quote 104"The best way I know of to win an

argument is to start by being in the right."

-- Lord Hailsham

Quote 105"Every man is the architect of his

own fortune."

-- Sallust

Quote 106"Some books are to be tasted;

others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."

-- Francis Bacon

Quote 107"When you have faults, do not fear

to abandon them."

-- Confucius

Quote 108"Speak when you are angry, and you

will make the best speech that you will ever regret."

-- Ambrose Bierce

Quote 109"So you see!There's no end

To the things you might know,Depending how far beyond Zebra

you go."

-- Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra

Quote 110"Every artist was first an amateur."


Quote 111"A journey of a thousand miles

begins with a single step."

-- Lao-Tze

Quote 112"If you don't know where you want

to go, any road will take you there."

-- African American proverb

Quote 113"A thousand friends are few; one

enemy is too many."

-- Russian proverb

Quote 114Luck is a matter of preparation

meeting opportunity."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Quote 115"Great oaks from little acorns grow."

-- Latin proverb

Quote 116"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a

good time."

-- Nancy Astor

Quote 117"The foolish man seeks happiness in

the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet."

-- James Oppenheim

Quote 118"A happy heart is better than a full

purse."

-- Italian proverb

Quote 119"No one is useless in this world who

lightens the burdens of others."

-- Charles Dickens

Quote 120"When you clench your fist, no one

can put anything in your hand."

-- Alex Haley

Quote 121"A rich child often sits in a poor

mother's lap."

-- Spanish proverb

Quote 122"Appearances may be deceiving."

-- Aesop

Quote 123"Anger is as a stone cast into a

wasp's nest."

-- Malabar proverb

Quote 124"Home is where one starts from."

-- T.S. Eliot

Quote 125"I complained that I had no shoes

until I met a man who had no feet."

-- Persian proverb

Quote 126"I must say I find television very

educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

-- Groucho Marx

Quote 127"Life can be understood only backwards, but it must be lived

forwards."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

Quote 128"Like snowflakes, the human pattern

is never cast twice."

-- Alice Childress

Quote 129"Many hands make light work."

-- English proverb

Quote 130"Oh, what a tangled web we weave /

When first we practice to deceive!"

-- Sir Walter Scott

Quote 131"Mercy to the criminal may be

cruelty to the people."

-- Arab proverb

Quote 132"My grandfather once told me that

there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there

was much less competition."

-- Indira Gandhi

Quote 133"No one can make you feel inferior

without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote 134What goes around comes around."

-- African American saying

Quote 135"What its children become, that will

the community become."

-- Suzanne La Follette

Quote 136"Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets

there."

-- Josh Billings

Quote 137"What you do speaks so loud that I

cannot hear what you say."


Quote 138"Nothing can be loved or hated

unless it is first understood."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

Quote 139"Time heals all wounds."

-- Geoffrey Chaucer

Quote 140"Two heads are better than one."

-- John Heywood

Quote 141"When I was a boy of 14, my father

was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had

learned in seven years."

-- Mark Twain

Quote 142"The Earth is given as a common for

men to labor and live in." (Note: For students to understand this

one, teachers might need to explain to students a little about

the history of town commons, common lands set aside for the common use and enjoyment of

all.)

-- Thomas Jefferson

Quote 143"Happiness isn't something you

experience; it's something you remember."

-- Oscar Levant

Quote 144"To hate fatigues."

-- Jean Rostand

Quote 145"Beware of little expenses; a small

leak will sink a great ship."


Quote 146"The educated differ from the

uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

-- Aristotle

Quote 147"There has never yet been a man in

our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth

remembering."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Quote 148"Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled

down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction."

-- Sydney Harris

Quote 149"If a man does not keep pace with

his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the

music which he hears, however measured or far away."

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote 150"My advice to you is not to inquire

why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy."

-- Thornton Wilder

Quote 151"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

-- Edward Phelps

Quote 152"One thorn of experience is worth a

whole wilderness of warning."

-- James Russell Lowell

Quote 153"The eye of the master will do more

work than both his hands."


Quote 154"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

-- Thomas A. Edison

Quote 155"Avoid flatterers, for they are

thieves in disguise."

-- William Penn

Quote 156"Fortunes made in no time are like

shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."

-- Douglas Jerrold

Quote 157"Friendship is one mind in two

bodies."

-- Mencius

Quote 158"Genius is an African who dreams up

snow."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

Quote 159"Even doubtful accusations leave a

stain behind them."

-- Thomas Fuller

Quote 160"While grief is fresh, every attempt

to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then

amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote 161"Every man is guilty of all the good

he didn't do."

-- Voltaire

Quote 162"The chains of habit are too weak to

be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote 163"No man is hurt but by himself."

-- Diogenes

Quote 164"Be happy while you're living, for

you're a long time dead."

-- Scottish proverb

Quote 165"The heart of a fool is in his mouth,

but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart."


Quote 166"Nothing makes one feel so strong

as a call for help."

-- George MacDonald

Quote 167"It is better to deserve honors and

not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

-- Mark Twain

Quote 168"A misty morning does not signify a

cloudy day."

-- ancient proverb

Quote 169"Some of us are like wheelbarrows --

only useful when pushed and very easily upset."

-- Jack Herbert

Quote 170"Two things are infinite: the

universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

-- Albert Einstein

Quote 171"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in

society."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

Quote 172"Most of the things worth doing in

the world had been declared impossible before they were

done."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

Quote 173"As long as I can conceive

something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless I am

striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."

-- George Bernard Shaw

Quote 174"While the mind is in doubt, it is

driven this way and that by a slight impulse."

-- Terence

Quote 175"It is better to wear out than to rust

out."

-- Richard Cumberland

Quote 176"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm

thanked enough."

-- Henry Fielding

Quote 177"To inherit property is not to be born

-- it is to be still-born, rather.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote 178"The injury we do and the one we

suffer are not weighed in the same scale."

-- Aesop

Quote 179"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

-- May Smith

Quote 180"Perfection never exists in reality,

but only in our dreams."

-- Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

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