One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. —Horace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. —Demosthenes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. —David Starr Jordan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family. —Madeleine Albright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death likes it when you play hard to get. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. —Kathryn L. Nelson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. —John Stuart Mill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles. —Elizabeth Aston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. —Anatole France More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want. —Ali Vincent More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. —Lucy Maud Montgomery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. —Henry Kissinger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. —Ruben Studdard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email