My Famous Sayings Weblog

Famous living sayings

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:24:56 +0000

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
~sayings about work by Johann Pestalozzi

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude
~quotes about Veterans Day by Cynthia Ozick

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
~inspirational work quotes by W.C. Fields

The easiest and quickest way to change ourselves is to set a lofty goal and work for it.
~saying on Goals by

Famous education sayings

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:24:03 +0000

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
~sayings about work by Bishop Mandell Creighton

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~quotes about Curmudgeons by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength
~inspirational work quotes by Thomas A Kempis

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom
~saying on Anniversaries by Marcel Proust

Famous happiness quotes

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:22:38 +0000

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
~inspirational work quotes by H. Jackson Browne

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
~work by Wallace Stevens

Every second is of infinite value.
~sayings about work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.
~quotes about Perspective by Mexican Proverb

inspirational work quotes

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:21:45 +0000

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
~inspirational work quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against
~work by W.C. Fields

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air
~sayings about work by W.T. Ellis

Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
~quotes about God by Author Unknown

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
~inspirational work quotes by Charles Darwin

Famous action sayings

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:20:48 +0000

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
~inspirational work quotes by Anthony Robbins

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
~work by Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace
~sayings about work by Hamilton Fish

It costs more to avenge an injury than to forgive.
~quotes about Relationship by

Famous enthusiasm sayings

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:20:02 +0000

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~work by Samuel Ullman

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.
~sayings about work by John Alfred Landford

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~quotes about Nature by Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
~inspirational work quotes by Gerald W. Johnson

Famous life sayings

berrygool — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:19:08 +0000

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
~quotes about Life by Stacy

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting
~inspirational work quotes by Author Unknown

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
~saying on Career by Stephen Covey

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty… is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
~inspirational work quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

Listening Sayings & Quotes

berrygool — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:31:21 +0000

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. - Bernard Mannes Baruch

Skilful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis. - William Arthur Ward

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. - Andre Malraux

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Self-Respect Sayings & Quotes

berrygool — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:51:54 +0000

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honour, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. - Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. - Gail Sheehy

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. - George Bernard Shaw

Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. - Henry Louis Mencken

Famous Inspirational Motivational Quotes 2

berrygool — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:54:00 +0000

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the battlefield of victory.
- Vince Lombardi

I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It’s disastrous. It’s incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there’s a lot of people trying to prolong their youth, in disastrous ways. It just doesn’t work. The human body has finite limits.
- John Savage

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Chinese Proverb

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo