Monday, October 3, 2011

More quotes :) with commentary :)

I personally LOVE quotes.... Not sure about the rest of you, but yes I am quote crazy.. :) So here is yet another post about quotes :) Also, please forgive me if I already used some of these.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~ Bruce Feirstein



Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ~ Virginia Woolf 
Psychological....


The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
~ William Arthur Ward


 Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
~ Frederick E. Crane


Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ~ Samuel Smiles

A good home must be made, not bought. ~ Joyce Maynard

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. ~ Tommy Lasorda


The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~ Somerset Maugham

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. ~ Bill Cosby

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~ Dale Carnegie


Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
~ Anonymous


Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold


There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion ~ Thomas Browne

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~ Chester W. Nimitz
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm
~ Swedish Proverb... not sure about this one, but I thought it was amusing :)



When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift ...rofl :D


If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present ~ James Petersen

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Kahlil Gibran .. if it is a real friendship!


Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line. and adding to one's liberty.
~ Henri Frédéric Amiel


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~ William Arthur Ward.. sooooo true! :)


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William Arthur Ward

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