atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the
tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep,
where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,
blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has
given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may
prepare to ascend to him. ~Giuseppe Mazzini
Quotations for Goodbyes
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can
meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain
for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach
We only part to meet again. ~John Gay
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really
like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone
would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say
good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
~Charles M. Schulz
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie
Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!
~Author Unknown
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest
Quotations about Happiness
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to
pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prvert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But
there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L.
Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of
temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is
not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy
you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can
pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
Quotations about Success
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin
I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
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! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business
on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment
he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming,
with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August
1896
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King
Quotations about Courage
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man
has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel
Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at
the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne
Radmacher
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is
brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and
had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce
Quotations about Thinking
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your
windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the
light won't come in. ~Alan Alda
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~James Douglas
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ~H.G. Wells
Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~Author Unknown
Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. ~G. Behn
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. ~Josiah Royce
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. ~Luther Burbank
Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. ~Martin H. Fischer
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange
Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make
the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by
thinking. ~Author Unknown
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The
mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichs. ~H.L.
Mencken, Prejudices, 1925
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an
international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George
Bernard Shaw
...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of
other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the
healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes
blowing round it... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Quotations about Equality and Difference
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more
susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors,
since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social
inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that
all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand
Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is
neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~John James Ingalls
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. ~Bernard M. Baruch
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. ~Joseph Farrell
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or
think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know
what you know today. ~Malcolm X
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. ~Albert Einstein
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The
same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt
princes. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in
order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that
everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as
those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. ~Ren Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)
All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
~Rudyard Kipling, We and They, 1926
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal
element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
~Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully
like other people. ~James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Address,"
Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884
There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. ~Shri Haidakhan Babaji
The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. ~Martin H. Fischer
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. ~Isa Upanishad
Death and dice level all distinction. ~Samuel Foote, The Minor
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with
each other, we are all of us always in the right. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most
have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and
rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the
infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon
Quotations about Humankind
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know
how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson* (Thank you, Frank Lynch of SamuelJohnson.com)
Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~Christopher Morley, Human Being
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly
obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. ~Lemuel K.
Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if
so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ~Bertrand Russell
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~Turkish Proverb
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But
with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into
a repulsive caterpillar. ~Anton Chekhov
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. ~Nan Fairbrother
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. ~Author Unknown
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the
geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our
purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history.
Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
~Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. ~Mark Twain
There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~Robert Zend
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to
be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches
on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~George Bernard Shaw
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all
attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility
that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless
mistakes. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
Men! The only animal in the world to fear. ~D.H. Lawrence
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis
Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a
mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate. ~Martin
H. Fischer
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain
its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the
wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless
saints. ~Oswald Chambers
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Quotations for St Valentine's Day
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.
When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short,
chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time,
destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author
Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of
the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to
glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across
fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they
won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find
someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them
and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents
worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a
dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me
feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I
have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too
long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for
those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Quotations: Best Friends Forever
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and
sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H.
Glasgow
Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere
in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your
shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be
happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be
me. ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never
saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best
conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author Unknown
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes,
Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to
be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while,
leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
~Flavia Weedn, Forever, Flavia.com
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to
the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself
he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels