Tuesday, July 07, 2009

A collection of few good quotes

  1. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
  2. Life is a sum of all your choices.
  3. Making peace is much harder than making war.
  4. I can disapprove what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
  5. Don't indulge yourself in anger; it is whetting a sword to wound your own breast.
  6. The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.
  7. A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
  8. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
  9. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
  10. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
  11. The only alternative to coexistence is co-destruction.
  12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
  13. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
  14. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
  15. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
  16. If you judge people, you don't have the time to love them.
  17. Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
  18. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
  19. Nothing is permanent in this world; not even our troubles
  20. The only people who fail are those who don't try.
  21. Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
  22. Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
  23. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
  24. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret
  25. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes
  26. How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
  27. If you would be loved, love and be lovable
  28. 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
  29. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time
  30. The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
  31. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
  32. Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
  33. We improve ourselves by victories over ourself.
  34. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
  35. Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.
  36. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness in the world.
  37. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else for it.
  38. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it
  39. To help is not a virtue, but a pulse of existence.
  40. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
  41. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.
  42. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  43. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
  44. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
  45. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
  46. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have
  47. Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
  48. To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.

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