Famous Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Lived:	May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882
Known To Be:	American essayist, Lecturer, Poet, Philosopher
Wiki Link:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Notable Ideas:	Self-reliance, Over-soul, Individualism, mysticism

Famous Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson -

1. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
2. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
3. A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
4. A great man is always willing to be little.
5. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
6. A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
7. A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
8. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
9. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
10. All diseases run into one, old age.
11. All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
12. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
13. All mankind love a lover.
14. As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
15. As soon as there is life there is danger.
16. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
17. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
18. Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
19. Beauty without expression is boring.
20. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
21. Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
22. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
23. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
24. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
25. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
26. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
27. Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
28. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
29. Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
30. Earth laughs in flowers.
31. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
32. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
33. Every artist was first an amateur.
34. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
35. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
36. Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
37. Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
38. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
39. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
40. Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
41. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
42. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
43. Genius always finds itself a century too early.
44. God enters by a private door into every individual.
45. God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
46. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
47. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
48. Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
49. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
50. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
51. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
52. I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
53. I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
54. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
55. In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
56. In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
57. It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
58. It is not length of life, but depth of life.
59. It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
60. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
61. Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
62. Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
63. Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
64. Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
65. Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
66. Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
67. Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
68. Men are what their mothers made them.
69. Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
70. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
71. Money often costs too much.
72. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
73. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
74. Nature hates calculators.
75. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
76. No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
77. No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
78. No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
79. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
80. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
81. Nothing external to you has any power over you.
82. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
83. Our best thoughts come from others.
84. Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
85. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
86. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
87. People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
88. People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
89. Pictures must not be too picturesque.
90. Power and speed be hands and feet.
91. Science does not know its debt to imagination.
92. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
93. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
94. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
95. The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
96. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
97. The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
98. The first wealth is health.
99. The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
100. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
101. The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
102. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
103. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
104. The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
105. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
106. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
107. The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
108. The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
109. The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
110. The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
111. The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
112. The years teach much which the days never know.
113. There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
114. There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
115. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
116. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
117. To be great is to be misunderstood.
118. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
119. Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
120. Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
121. Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
122. Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
123. Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
124. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
125. We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
126. We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
127. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
128. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
129. We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
130. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
131. When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
132. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
133. Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
134. Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
135. With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
136. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Famous Quotes By Mitt Romney

About Mitt Romney -

Lived:	March 12, 1947 –
Known To Be:	American Politician, Nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election, Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, Management Consultant, Venture Capitalist
Wiki Link:	Mitt Romney
Alma mater:	Stanford University, Brigham Young University, Harvard University (J.D./M.B.A.)

Famous Quotes By Mitt Romney

Quotes By Mitt Romney -

1. All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
2. America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
3. And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
4. And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
5. And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.
6. And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
7. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
8. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
9. By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
10. Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
11. Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
12. Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
13. Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
14. Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
15. Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
16. Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
17. Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
18. I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.
19. I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.
20. I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
21. I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
22. I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
23. I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
24. I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.
25. I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
26. I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.
27. If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
28. Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
29. Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
30. Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
31. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
32. It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
33. It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
34. It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!
35. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
36. Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
37. Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
38. Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
39. Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
40. Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.
41. My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
42. My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
43. My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
44. My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.
45. No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
46. Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
47. Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
48. On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
49. Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.
50. Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
51. Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.
52. People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
53. Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
54. President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
55. President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
56. President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.
57. President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
58. Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
59. Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
60. Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
61. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
62. The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
63. The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
64. The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
65. The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
66. The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
67. The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
68. The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
69. Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
70. This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
71. This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
72. Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
73. Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
74. Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
75. We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
76. We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
77. We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
78. We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
79. What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result
80. When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'
81. When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
82. You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Famous Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

About Henry David Thoreau -

Lived:	July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862
Known To Be:	American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian
Wiki Link:	Henry David Thoreau
Notable Ideas:	Abolitionism, tax resistance, development criticism, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, direct action, environmentalism, anarchism, simple living
Free Audio Books:	Walden

Famous Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Quotes By Henry David Thoreau -

1. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
3. The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
4. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
5. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
6. The perception of beauty is a moral test.
7. Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
8. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
9. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
10. The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
11. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
12. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
13. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
14. Things do not change we change.
15. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
16. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
17. Faith never makes a confession.
18. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
19. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
20. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
21. God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
22. Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
23. A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
24. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
25. Be not simply good - be good for something.
26. As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
27. I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
28. That government is best which governs least.
29. How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
30. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
31. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
32. Being is the great explainer.
33. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
34. 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
35. It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
36. This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
37. It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
38. Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
39. Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
40. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
41. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
42. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
43. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
44. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
45. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
46. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
47. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
48. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
49. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
50. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
51. Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
52. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
53. The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
54. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
55. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
56. Live the life you've dreamed.
57. There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
58. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
59. There is no remedy for love but to love more.
60. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
61. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
62. Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
63. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
64. Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
65. May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
66. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
67. Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
68. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
69. I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
70. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
71. Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
72. While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
73. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
74. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
75. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
76. The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
77. We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
78. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
79. I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
80. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
81. To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
82. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
83. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
84. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
85. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
86. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
87. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
88. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
89. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
90. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
91. The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
92. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
93. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
94. There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
95. Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
96. The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
97. To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
98. Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
99. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
100. There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
101. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
102. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
103. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
104. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
105. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
106. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
107. Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
108. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
109. As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
110. I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
111. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
112. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
113. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
114. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
115. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
116. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
117. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
118. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
119. Men have become the tools of their tools.
120. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
121. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and en
122. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
123. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
124. The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
125. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
126. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
127. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
128. It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
129. No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
130. The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
131. The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
132. What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
133. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
134. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
135. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
136. Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
137. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
138. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
139. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
140. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
141. Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
142. If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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Motivational Videos

Life is beautiful. I hope below videos will make you realize it. Being sad is easy, be brave by being Happy.

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• Very Inspiring Speech by Siddhu (Indian Cricketer)

1. You got to be believer first then you become achiever
2. Doubt creates a mountain and faith tunnels through the mountain
3. Sympathies are for the weak, and the weak goes to the cooking pot.
4. Biggest room in this world, is the room for improvement
5. दुनियामे सबसे बड़ा रोग, मेरे बारे में क्या कहेंगे लोग !!! (The biggest disease in the world is keep wondering what people thing about you)
6. Don't compete with others, compete with yourself

• Philosophy for a happy life by Sam Berns. RIP!!

1. Don't waste your energy feeling bad for yourself
2. Surround yourself with the people you like and keep moving forward
3. Be OK with what you ultimately can't do, because there is so much which you CAN do

• Believe me, Pain is temporary!!

1. It is not about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. It’s How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.
2. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.
3. Don't ever, ever give up! Don't be a quitter!!

• What are the secretes of Happy Life?

1. Can we please stop being negative about ourselves?
2. Engage yourself in something you like. Remember, Empty mind is devil's home.
3. Focus on what you have rather than regretting about what you don't have
4. It's YOUR life, no one else is responsible for that. Every one is on their own. So stop expecting favors from others, right now!
5. Forget about bad things happened in past. Yeah, it is possible!

• Can we all be kind towards each other?

1. Hug some one
2. Spread Love
3. Make people smile
4. Help someone in need
5. Yeah, it feels a lot better

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Inspirational Movies

Each one of following MUST_SEE_BEFORE_YOU_DIE movies alarm that ' Life is precious, don't waste it'

• Forest Gump
  


• A very refreshing feel-good movie that is always entertaining and compelling. Epic in scope and triumphant in spirit, Forrest Gump is a master piece of film-making.It scored impressive 6 Oscars in 1995, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role.
• "Life is like a box a chocolate, you never know what your going to get."
• "Stupid is as stupid does."



• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• A story about hope and dreams and a 'life affirming' tale about life imprisonment. Watching it is both spiritually uplifting and cathartic. You will get that inspirational jump-start frame after frame.
• "Get busy living or get busy dying."
• "Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."


• The Pursuit Of HappYness
  
• A brilliant and sweet inspiring film that really shows that if you try hard enough you can get almost whatever you want. You may come out rebuking yourself for your laziness or your choices or your fatalism or your fears, but you will come out glad you saw this movie.
• "You got a dream. You gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period."
• "Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something. Not even me. All right?"


• Rudy
  


• Gladiator
  


• The Social Network
  


• Remember The Titans
  


• BraveHeart
  


• 12 Angry Men
  


• If Only
  


• Pride & Prejudice
  

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Funny One Liners

• If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong


• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt


• You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice


• When in doubt, mumble


• Never tell your problems to anyone. 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them


• You’re never too old to learn something stupid


• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine


• Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button


• Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate


• Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted


• Impotence: Nature’s way of saying “No hard feelings”


• It matters not whether you win or lose: what matters is whether I win or lose


• If you can’t convince them, confuse them


• Unless you’re the lead dog, the view never changes


• No one is listening until you fart


• Only dead fish go with the flow


• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it


• AWESO__ is incomplete without ME


• Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you are abusing the privilege!


• A hard thing about a business is minding your own

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