Quotes On Values

Some good quotations, sayings, snippets of wisdom that I have came across collected here …. and growing …

  • Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will
  • Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire
  • The fragrance always stays in the hands the gave the rose
  • All the glories of the world are not worth a good friend
  • It is a great misery not to have enough wit to speak well, nor enough judgement to keep quiet.
  • The less you talk the more you are listened to
  • Pain nourishes courage; you can’t be brave, if you had only wonderful things happen to you
  • A man who procrastinates in his Choosing, will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance
  • One does not make friends one recognizes them
  • You are what you are when nobody is looking
  • To have a place in someone’s heart is to be never alone
  • Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom
  • A pessimist is a man who wears both suspenders and belt at the same time
  • If you are not failing now and then, it is a sign you are taking no chances
  • When the press is free and everyman able to read, all is safe
  • In spite of the cost of living, it is still popular
  • Life is for one generation, good name is for ever
  • Integrity has no need for rules
  • The treacherous unexplained areas of the world, are not in continents or seas, they are in the minds and hearts of men.
  • I value the friend, who for me finds time on his calendar. But I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
  • Weariness has no pain equal to being rested, but with nothing to do.
  • The reason why most of us don’t live within our income is because we don’t consider that living.
  • ½ the books printed are not sold, ½ the books sold are not read, ½ the books read are not understood,  ½ the books understood are understood the wrong way.
  • Imagination exaggerates, reason understates, sense moderates
  • May you have the greatest two gifts these holidays, someone to love and someone who loves you.
  • Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
  • When you need salt, sugar won’t do
  • He who knows others is learned, he who knows himself is wise
  • In the new year may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.
  • Equality is a futile pursuit; equality of opportunity is a noble one.
  • One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.
  • There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face
  • To be clever enough to have all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
  • I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning
  • When flatterer’s meet devil goes to dinner
  • He who cannot change the very fabric of thought will never be able to change reality
  • Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to hear an injustice without wanting to get even.
  • There are many paths to the top of the mountain but the view is always the same
  • After all is said and done, along comes somebody who wants to know what happened
  • The man who offers an insult writes it on sand, but for the man who receives it, it is chiselled in bronze.
  • Humour is laughing at what you haven’t got, when you ought to have it.
  • Being taken for granted can be a compliment, It means that you have become a comfortable and trusted element in another man’s life
  • Good ideas need landing gear, as well as wings
  • A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth, the first time he bites of more than he can chew.
  • When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers
  • The real secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime
  • Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty
  • You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough
  • One volunteer is better than 10 forced men
  • Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage
  • People who want to cover up their own flaws look for weak points in others.
  • Always keep the wicked divided, the safety of the rest of the world depends on it
  • The day will happen whether or not you get up.
  • When a resolute man steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly to the beard, he is often surprised to find that the beard comes off to his hand and that it was only tied to frighten away timid adventurers
  • Knowledge is the child of experience
  • What force destroys, will rebuilds
  • Stupidity won’t kill you, but it can make you sweat
  • All growth depends upon energetic activity, there can be no development without effort and effort means work. The country can do with dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
  • In our life there is a single color as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and this is the color of life .
  • It takes very little to fill up a big heart
  • Seize the day trust the morrow as little as possible
  • Every man is a train which carries his ancestors
  • Self-knowledge is beginning of self-improvement
  • I see god in every human being
  • As long as you keep a person down, some part of yourself has to be down there to hold him down. So it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
  • 99% of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
  • No symphony orchestra has ever played music like a two year old girl laughing with a puppy
  • There is no distance in this earth as far away as yesterday
  • Hope smiles on the threshold of years to come, whispering that it will be happier.
  • Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful. They are sunshine food and medicine to the soul
  • This is the true measure of love :- when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us and no one will in the same way after us.
  • Self-discipline is when your consciousness tell you to do something and you don’t talk back.
  • Age appears best in four things, old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  • A man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.
  • There are two things that experience should teach, the first is that one must correct a lot, second is that one must not correct too much.
  • The only nice thing about being imperfect is the jot it brings to others
  • Cosmic upheaval  is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in  the corner of a barn.
  • What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other
  • In my friend I find a second self
  • Printing press is the artillery of thought
  • Thunder is good, Thunder is impressive, but It is Lightening that does the work
  • Accept me as I am, only then will we discover each other
  • Life is not a brief candle, It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handling it on to future generation.

  • Becoming no. 1 is easier than staying No. 1

  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  • Our fathers teach us what we should become our mothers teach us what we are

  • When we have provided against cold, Hunger and Thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess

  • A few people get up bright and early most of us just get up early

  • Use what talent you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best

  • You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm

  • The meeting of two personalities is like contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed

  • If I were to begin life again I should want it as it was I would only open my eyes a little more

  • It is difficult to win a friend in a year it is easy to lose one in an hour

  • And there is even a happiness which makes the heart afraid

  • I have noticed that when chicken stop quarrelling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I often wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race.

  • Keep some souvenirs of your past or how will you ever prove that it was not a dream

  • Ignorance is the night of the mind (without moons and stars)

  • A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself

  • Those blinded by ambition see even less than those blind by birth

  • Your worth is not measured by what you have got, but by what you give

  • Serendipity is looking at a haystack for a needle and discovering the farmer’s daughter

  • You are permitted at times of great danger to walk with the devil, until you have crossed the bridge.

  • Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little, but needs that little so much.

  • A difference in taste of jokes is a great strain on the affection

  • A lot of what passes these days is nothing more than a body saying it needs more work

  • Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are

  • Everyone is trying to accomplish something big not knowing that life is made up of little things

  • A holiday gives me a chance to look forward and backward, reset oneself by an inner compass

  • To do violence to consciousness is to harm men seriously. It is the most painful blow inflicted on human dignity. It is in a certain sense worse than killing

  • Words once they are printed have a life of their own

  • There are those who think a Toy is a waste of money, but the giving of a toy to a little child who has never before had one is an act of worship

  • Lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness

  • We suffer more from our opinion than the events themselves

  • There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it

    If had work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock

    To receive a present handsomely and in the right spirit even when you have none to give in return is to give one in return

    We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them

    If the stars should appear just one night in thousand years how would men believe and adore

    The memories which afford us the greatest satisfaction are those of which we served others rather than when others serve us.

    Our chief want in life is somebody who can make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend
    Most truths are so naked, that people feel sorry for them and cover them up at-least a little bit.
    When we open our hearts and purses to others they are sometimes filled up unexpectedly

    Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance