Quotes and Sayings

Sayings about Business

2010-01-21T08:31:00.000-08:00

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

God Quotes and Sayings

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God’s in his heaven: All’s right with the world.

Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

’T is man’s to fight, but Heaven’s to give success.

The silent organ loudest chants, The master’s requiem.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Baby Quotes and Sayings

2010-01-18T08:59:00.000-08:00

A baby is born with the need to be love and never outgrows it.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Children reinvent your world for you.

A baby is a gift unwrapped that should only be given with LOVE.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

The worst feature of a new born baby is to have his mother’s singing.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have any.

The hardest job facing kids today is to learn good manners without seeing any.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Winter Quotes and Sayings

2010-01-18T08:40:00.000-08:00

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were all swept away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Every mile is two in winter.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Fire Quotes

2010-01-18T08:24:00.000-08:00

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

A neglected spark makes a mighty fire.

Fire is never a gentle master.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

You may fire when you are ready.

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he you down with the butt end of it.

If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Experience Sayings Quotes

2010-01-18T08:16:00.000-08:00

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
- Immanuel Kant

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Genius Quotes Sayings

2010-01-18T08:06:00.000-08:00

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Failure Quotes and Sayings

2010-01-18T08:03:00.000-08:00

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Failure is nothing more than a test to see how many times you will try again.

You always pass failure on your way to success.
- Mickey Rooney

Every building of success is founded with bricks of failure .

Truth Sayings and Quotes

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Truth fears no trial.

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.

And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The truth is more important than the facts.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
--Agnes Repplier

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Sayings about Mother

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother’s love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
~Victor Hugo

“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ”
~Emily Dickinson

“The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face.”
~D.W. Winnicott,

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
~ Joseph Stefano

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
~Aristotle

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
- Anonymous

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~Pearl S. Buck

Success Quotes and Sayings

2010-01-17T07:41:00.000-08:00

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.

When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.

Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.

Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Clever Quotes and Sayings

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Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Two things are infinite : the universe and human stupidity; I’m not sure about the universe.

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Give a man a match, and he’ll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb the fence!

Every time I get the urge to exercise, I lie down till the feeling passes.

People always travel faster when somebody's chasing them.

Do you know the punishment for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.

Pressure makes diamonds.

It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Beauty Quotes And Sayings

2010-01-17T07:18:00.000-08:00

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception.

A simple smile can make you beautiful .

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it .

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

The beauty of male has not yet been portrayed by the only one who can do so-the female.

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

And the truth about beauty, Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Family Quotes And Sayings

2010-01-17T03:00:00.002-08:00

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

In time of test, family is best.

Family is just accident. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Friendship Quotes and Sayings

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Life Quotes

2010-01-17T02:51:00.002-08:00

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

God, if I can't have what I want, let me want what I have.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.

Your life lies before you like a path of driven snow, be careful how you tread it cause every step will show.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Wise Quotes and Sayings

2010-01-17T02:51:00.001-08:00

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Bloom where you planted.

A good rest is half the work.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
Brian Tracy

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein

"Those who persevere through the hard times will reap great rewards when
the tide turns and tide always turns."
Joe Mitchell

"Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them."
Stephen Covey

"Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, “what is the most valuable use of my time right now?”
Brian Tracy

Cool Sayings Quotes

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
-Alfred Adler

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."
-Thomas Jefferson

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so.

Rules without relationship equals rebellion.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
-Anonymous

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so."

Life is half spent before one knows what life is.
-French Proverb

A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have.

Love Quotes And Sayings

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us.

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

A smile to put you on high... A kiss to set your soul alright...Would it be alright if I spent tonight being loved by you?

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

Don't forget to love yourself.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.

Love is loving what your lover loves

Where there is love there is life.

Cute Sayings

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine…

Alter your attitude and you can alter your life.

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

Men are like roses, watch out for all of the pricks.

Suicide is away of telling God, You can’t fire me I quit !!!!!

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.

Did you ever look into their eyes and say a little prayer?

The best way to get over a guy is to get under a new one.

I wasn’t kissing her I was whispering in her mouth .

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Sweet Sayings Quotes And Quotations

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There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched : they must be felt with the heart.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes…just be an illusion.

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Love waits for one thing, the right moment.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched , they must be felt with the heart.

My heart smiled when you kissed my lips What a sweet surprise.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

I don’t have to be your first love, but I do want to be your last , the sweetest thing someone could ever say.