Quotes to inspire and reflect

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. An Ursula K.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it.

Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Where I am nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and angrier to the end.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Cogito ergo sum.

The mind is not sex-typed.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

We are living beyond our means.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a no world.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.