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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: When we love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho.
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G K Chesterton: Not absentminded
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Korda: Momentum
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” —Michael Korda.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Above the mark
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Michael Phelps: There are no limits
“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps.
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W Clement Stone: Aim for the moon
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” —W. Clement Stone.
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George Whitefield: Strive for the mark set before you
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield.
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George Herbert: Start where you stand
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert.
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Pauline Kael: Pry the door open
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” —Pauline Kael.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Believe in yourself
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Miriam Margolyes: Walk off the stage
“What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.” —Miriam Margolyes.
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Rachel Riley: Compliments
“It’s always flattering when you get compliments, but it’s more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.” —Rachel Riley.
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Madhubala: Shock so great
“It is true that one learns something from every experience but when the experience is evil, the shock is so great that one feels as though one can never recover from it.” —Manju Gupta, Madhubala: I don’t want to die….
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Bill Cosby: In a deeper voice
“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.” —Bill Cosby.
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Denise Richards: Loving a person
“Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.” —Denise Richards.
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Miranda Lambert: Heartbreak
“Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.” —Miranda Lambert.
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Ryan Adams: Soft time
“There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It’s a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over…
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Ogden Nash: They really don’t want it
“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.” —Ogden Nash.
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Christopher Dawson: Indistinguishable
“As soon as men decide all means are permitted to fight an evil, their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Edmond About: Duel in midst of battle
“Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.” —Edmont About.
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Joseph Sobran: Conformity
‘”Diversity” now means conformity. It means making sensible people afraid to contradict nonsense so obvious as to insult their intelligence.’ —Joseph Sobran.
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Duke Ellington: Own language
“Every man prays in his own language.” —Duke Ellington, jazz composer.
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Simon Sinek: When we go to something
“Never opt for change simply to leave something we don’t like. Change works best when we go to something, even if it is the unknown.” —Simon Sinek.
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Katrina Kaif: Trends
“There’s no such things as trends. Every time you follow a trend, something new will happen and that will become the new trend.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Roald Dahl: Television
Television The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, …
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Jordan B Peterson: Capacity for good and evil
“I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” —Jordan B. Peterson.
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Ogden Nash: Wolves, shepherds and butchers
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash.
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Chinese proverb: Knowing and doing
“It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.” —Chinese proverb.
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Rebel Wilson: Comic stereotype
“In comedy, it’s not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They’re either every man or every woman, they’re either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.” —Rebel Wilson.
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G K Chesterton: Grace
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Kelly: No garbage trucks in space
“It’s important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don’t have that in space.” —Mark Kelly.
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Seneca: Honest heart
“An honest heart possesses a kingdom.” ~ Seneca.
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Jennifer Nini: More sustainable world
“We can’t just consume our way to a more sustainable world.” – Jennifer Nini.
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Luther Standing Bear: Old Lakota was wise
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Luther Standing Bear.
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Lungs of our land
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Katy Perry: Miley Cyrus
“If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus!” —Katy Perry.
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Robert Jackson: Infallible
“We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” —Robert Jackson.
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Ekta Kapoor: Great basic thoughts
“Yes, I am an entrepreneur but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education. You need to evolve and re-evolve to align yourself with changing tastes and great content is all about great basic thoughts!” —Ekta Kapoor.
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott: No greater glory, no greater honour
“No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived.” —Robert Sengstacke Abbott.
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Edward Abbey: Patriot
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.” —Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989).
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Richard Gere: Meditation
“Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.” —Richard Gere.
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Simon Sinek: Optimists
“Great leaders are optimists. This is not the same as being positive. Positive is finding the light in the now; optimists see the light always.” —Simon Sinek.
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Aldo Leopold: Conservation
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” – Aldo Leopold.
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Thomas Sigsgaard: Solve a problem that hasn’t been solved
“The most sustainable way is to not make things. The second most sustainable way is to make something very useful, to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved.” – Thomas Sigsgaard.
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Stewart Udall: Plans to protect man
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Mirror reflection
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
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Thomas Fuller: Worth of water
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller.
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Terry Swearingen: Another one to go to
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” – Terry Swearingen.
