Herbert Spencer Quotes

"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy."

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

Henry Van Dyke Quotes

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."

"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

Winston Churchill Quotes

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"I like a man who grins when he fights."

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack."

"Never, never, never give up."

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

Mohandas Ghandi Quotes

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

Robert H. Schuller quotes

"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest."

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."

"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."

"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit"

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

"Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder."

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to."

Dalai Lama Quotes

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values."

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life."

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."

Barack Obama Quotes

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."

"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

Donny Deutsch Quotes

"At the end of the day, great advertising is just like great moviemaking. No great research has ever made a movie; no great research has ever made a television show. You can tweak things, see if something is working a certain way, so yes, research can test "Is this communicating what I think it communicates?" You might think it does, but if 20 people say, "I don't get it," well, you've got to pay attention to that. But you can't listen if 20 people go, "I think it's this" or "You should do this" or "I like this." The best creative products—and this goes for television programming also, this goes for news organizations—use research appropriately and intelligently, but give me that great gut every time. And that's what separates the men from the boys."

"A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then can connect it with the consumer. We always say a brand is set of shared values. So if you can simply demonstrate your value system as a brand, so that a consumer could say, "Ah, our values line up. I vote for you, brand!" that's a good ad."

"The key to success is not purely who’s the smartest, who’s the best, but also who can say with conviction, “I deserve it.” The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: “Why not me?"

"Why not me?” You can’t just say it, you’ve got to own it."

"I’ve built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me."

"The best bosses understand the people working for them. That’s the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?"

"Don’t play in someone else’s universe. Define your own."

Mitch Albom Quotes

"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"You have to work at creating your own culture."

"You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."

"People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does."

"Love each other or die."

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."