The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. —J. Arthur Thomson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. —Johann Georg von Zimmermann More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. —David P. Mikkelson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. —Oriental Proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My friends are my estate. —Emily Dickinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice. —Hugh Macleod More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Promote yourself, but do not demote another. —Israel Salanter More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. —José Ortega y Gasset More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best of us must sometimes eat our words. —J. K. Rowling More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. —Robert S. McNamara More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All appears to change when we change. —Henri-Frederic Amiel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. —Morrie Schwartz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. —Isaac Bashevis Singer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email