Truth Quote of the Day
“What is true is what we think we know; the truth is what we can never know.” – Jonah Gershom
Category: Other Quotes
Big mean better? – Edna Ferber
“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” – Edna Ferber
Feeling Lonely Quotes
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington
Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland
If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer
If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank
Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
Idiots Quotes
– “Treat everyone the same until you find out they’re an idiot.” – Lucy Lawless
– “Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.” – George Jean Nathan
– “Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” – Arthur Schopenhauer
– “But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.” – Alex Chiu
– “By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.” – Jason Bateman
– “Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.” – Karl Kraus
– “For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.” – Honore De Balzac
– “From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.” – Mikhail Bakunin
– “Guys are idiots, till they’re what, 40 years old.” – Wes Borland
– “Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.” – Walter Kerr
– “Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” – Trey Parker
– “Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.” – Patricia Heaton
– “I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.” – Muammar al-Gaddafi
– “I don’t mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they’re such a bunch of idiots, why don’t you show them good music instead? They’re not going to know the difference.” – Kristin Hersh
– “I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.” – Josh Silver
– “I think the terrorists are just idiots.” – Joel Madden
Patience Quotes
– “Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc De Vauvanargues
– “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” – Mac McCleary
– “Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.” – Unknown
– “Beware the fury of a patient man.” – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680
– “Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.” – Ambrose Bierce
– “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
– “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” – George-Louis de Buffon
– “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
– “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
– “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – St. Augustine
– “Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin
Reputation Quotes
– “It takes years to build a good reputation, and only seconds to destroy it. – Will Schuester
– “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos
– “A good reputation is more valuable than money.” – Publilius Syrus
– “A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.” – J. B. Priestley
– “A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.” – James Atlas
– “A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.” – Ernest Bramah
– “A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.” – Joseph Hall
– “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” – Baltasar Gracian
– “All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation’s reputation.” – Ramman Kenoun
– “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
– “An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” – Henri Matisse
– “And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.” – Vincent D’Onofrio
– “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington
– “At every word a reputation dies.” – Alexander Pope
– “At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.” – Wietse Venema
– “Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.” – Linda Chavez
– “Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.” – Henry Mayhew
Adolescence Quotes
– “Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.” – Granville Stanley Hall
– “Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.” – G. Stanley Hall
– “Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.” – Carol Burnett
– “Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.” – Terri Apter
– “Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.” – Louise J. Kaplan
– “Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.” – Mary Pipher
– “Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.” – Jena Malone
– “Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.” – Louise J. Kaplan
– “Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.” – Louise J. Kaplan
– “Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.” – Harold Bloom
– “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.” – Coco Chanel
– “Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.” – Ron Taffel
– “Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.” – David Elkind
– “Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.” – Joe Baca
– “Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.” – Rex Stout
– “I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.” – Harold Brodkey
– “I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn’t want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.” – Maya Lin
– “I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.” – Robert Cormier
– “I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.” – Stanislav Grof
– “I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.” – Uma Thurman
Will Quotes
– “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
– “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
– “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha
– “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha
– “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha
– “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha
– “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha
– “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe
– “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Movies Quotes
– “A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” – Stanley Kubrick
– “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” – Jean Cocteau
– “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” – Orson Welles
– “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” – Alfred Hitchcock
– “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” – Alfred Hitchcock
– “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard
– “A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” – Samuel Goldwyn
– “Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” – Mary Pickford
– “And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.” – Douglas Sirk
– “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” – Martin Scorsese
– “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard
– “Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” – Pauline Kael
– “Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.” – Federico Fellini
– “Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert
– “Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.” – Sydney Pollack
– “Everybody’s a filmmaker today.” – John Milius
– “Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a «bus movie.»” – Sandra Bullock
– “Everything makes me nervous – except making films.” – Elizabeth Taylor
– “Film lovers are sick people.” – Francois Truffaut
– “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” – Jim Morrison
Work Quotes
– “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
– “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” – Al Capp
– “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” – Irvin S. Cobb
– “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
– “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison
– “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
– “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison
– “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
– “Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
– “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” – J. Paul Getty
– “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” – Thomas A. Edison
– “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
– “I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” – Richard Nelson Bolles
– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
– “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso
– “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” – William Faulkner
– “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
– “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace