- Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
- Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Making peace is much harder than making war.
- I can disapprove what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Don't indulge yourself in anger; it is whetting a sword to wound your own breast.
- The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.
- A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
- A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
- The only alternative to coexistence is co-destruction.
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
- If you judge people, you don't have the time to love them.
- Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
- Nothing is permanent in this world; not even our troubles
- The only people who fail are those who don't try.
- Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret
- Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
- If you would be loved, love and be lovable
- Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression;in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population
- You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time
- The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
- Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
- We improve ourselves by victories over ourself.
- Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness in the world.
- A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else for it.
- We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it
- To help is not a virtue, but a pulse of existence.
- The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have
- Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
- To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
A collection of few good quotes
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