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Great Quotes: Mark Twain on Honors

Trey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:36:00 +0000

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.” – Mark Twain

Great Quotes: John Stuart Mill on War

Trey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:49:17 +0000

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

– John Stuart Mill

Great Quotes: Socrates on Reputations

Trey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:23:37 +0000

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

– Socrates

Great Quotes: Ben Franklin on Wine and Happiness

Trey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:03:09 +0000

“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

– Ben Franklin

(The “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” quote is actually an urban myth.)

Great Quotes: George C. Marshall on Looking Forward

Trey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:34:15 +0000

“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.”

– General George C. Marshall

Great Quotes: Roosevelt on the Man in the Arena

Trey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:30:11 +0000

“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and… sweat and blood; who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Great Quotes: Pascal on Persuasive Ideas

Trey — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:44:48 +0000

To truly convince someone, don’t always spell things out–letting people come to their own conclusions can often be much more fruitful than proving a case. Abandoning the need to “own” ideas can enable others to truly take them on as their own.

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
– Blaise Pascal

Great Quotes: Lincoln on Vices and Virtues

Trey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:27 +0000

Daily Thought: Be patient with the gents around you…if anyone truly had their act together they’d probably be very, very boring.

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Great Quotes: Sir Francis Bacon on Shortsightedness

Trey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:44 +0000

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
– Sir Francis Bacon

Great Quotes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Theories

Trey — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:28:20 +0000

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Great Quotes: Franklin on Money & Values

Trey — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:22:37 +0000

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Great Quotes: Lindbergh on Daring

Trey — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:27:24 +0000

“Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?”

– Charles Lindbergh

Great Quotes: MLK on the Silence of Friends

Trey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:00:16 +0000

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great Quotes: Thomas Jefferson on Staying Unruffled

Trey — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:00:50 +0000

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

– Thomas Jefferson

Great Quotes: Galileo on The Use of God’s Gifts

Trey — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:00:43 +0000

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

– Galileo Galilei

Great Quotes: Mark Twain on Generalizations

Trey — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:00:24 +0000

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”

– Mark Twain

Great Quotes: Kierkegaard on Freedom of Speech

Trey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:00:44 +0000

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”

– Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Great Quotes: Pericles on What You Leave Behind

Trey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:00:02 +0000

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

– Pericles

Great Quotes: Patton on Doing Your Best

Trey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

– General George S. Patton, Jr.

Great Quotes: Golda Meir on Humility

Trey — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:33:13 +0000

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”

– Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

Great Quotes: Seneca on Disproportionate Fear

Trey — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:00:11 +0000

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

– Seneca

Great Quotes: Lincoln on Preparation

Trey — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:00:35 +0000

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Great Quotes: Oscar Wilde on Contradictions

Trey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:10:08 +0000

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

– Oscar Wilde

Great Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Respect

Trey — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:10:25 +0000

“Men are respectable only as they respect.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great Quotes: Einstein on Opposition to Intelligence

Trey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:14 +0000

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

– Albert Einstein

Great Quotes: Voltaire on Questions

Trey — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:09:43 +0000

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

– Voltaire

Great Quotes: Pascal on Why We’re Never Happy

Trey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:05:16 +0000

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

– Blaise Pascal

Great Quotes: Jefferson on Needless Talk

Trey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:01:37 +0000

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

– Thomas Jefferson

Great Quotes: Mark Twain on Schooling

Trey — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:02:26 +0000

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

– Mark Twain

Great Quotes: Franklin on Being Remembered

Trey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:28:15 +0000

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.

– Benjamin Franklin