Our Generation Quote
“Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.” – Unknown
Category: Other Quotes
Thank You Quotes
“I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.” – Anonymous
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”” – William Arthur Ward
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Ward
“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” – Chinese Proverb
“For your thoughtfulness and generosity, from you I have learned much of life’s philosophy Thank you sincerely.” – Anonymous
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – G.K. Chesterton
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” – Cicero
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
Mindset Quotes
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. – Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. – Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. – Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. – Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. – Henry Ford
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. – Dale Carnegie
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. – Dale Carnegie
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates
Networking Quotes
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockfeller
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. – Henry Ford
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates
Business & Money Quotes
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. – Donald Trump
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. – Donald Trump
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. – Charles Schwab
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake. – John D. Rockfeller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts. – John D. Rockfeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. – John D. Rockfeller
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? – John D. Rockfeller
Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. – Guy Kawasaki
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. – Bill Gates
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. – Bill Gates
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. – Bill Gates
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. – Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. – Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffet
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction. – Warren Buffet
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. – Warren Buffet
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. – Warren Buffet
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. – Andrew Carnegie
Nature Quotes
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Khalil Gibran
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. – Sandra Day O’Connor
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. – Robert Green Ingersoll
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry
I am two with nature. – Woody Allen
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. – Georgia O’Keeffe
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it. – Debbie Harry
Sarcastic Quotes
* You are not as bad as people say, you are much, much worse.
* Now we know why some animals eat their own children.
* Please, keep talking. I always yawn when I am interested.
* Talk is cheap, but that’s ok, so are you.
* If we killed everybody who hates you, it wouldn’t be murderer it would be an apocalypse!
* This is an excellent time for you to become a missing person.
* I’m busy now. Can I ignore you some other time?
* When I look into your eyes, I see straight through to the back of your head.
* A sharp tongue does not mean you have a keen mind.
* Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you any worse advice.
* Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today.
* Do you want me to accept you as you are, or do you want me to lie to myself and try to like you?
* Don’t let your mind wander, it’s far too small to be let out on its own.
* Don’t thank me for insulting you, it was a pleasure.
* Don’t you realize that there are enough people to hate in the world already without you putting in so much effort to give us another?
* He always finds himself lost in thought; it’s unfamiliar territory.
* I bet you get bullied a lot.
* I can tell that you are lying, your lips are moving.
* I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
* I don’t mind you talking so much, as long as you don’t mind me not listening.
* I don’t think you are a fool, but what’s my opinion compared to that of thousands of others.
* I know you are nobody’s fool, but maybe someone will adopt you one day.
* I like you. People say I’ve got no taste, but I like you.
* I used to think that you were a colossal pain in the neck. Now I have a much lower opinion of you.
* I will defend, to your death, my right to my opinion.
* I would have liked to insult you, but the sad truth is that you wouldn’t understand me.
* I’d like to see things from your point of view, but I can’t seem to get my head that far up your ass.
* If you were twice as smart as you are now, you’d be absolutely stupid.
* I’m glad to see you’re not letting your education get in the way of your ignorance.
* I’m impressed, I’ve never met such a small mind inside such a big head before.
* I’ve come across rotting bodies that are less offensive than you are.
* Pardon me, but you’re obviously mistaking me for someone who gives a damn.
* People would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.
* She’s the first in her family born without tail.
* That man is cruelly depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
* There are several people in this world that I find unbearably obnoxious, and you are all of them.
* What he is lacking in intelligence, he more than makes up for in stupidity.
* Whatever it is that is eating you, it must be suffering horribly.
* What’s wrong, don’t you get any attention back home?
* You are not even beneath my contempt.
* You are not obnoxious like so many other people, you are obnoxious in a completely different and far worse way.
* You grow on people, but so does cancer.
* You have an inferiority complex and it is fully justified.
* You should do some soul-searching. You might just find one.
* You would never be able to live down to your reputation, but I see you’re doing your best.
* Your mind isn’t so much twisted as badly sprained.
* You’re a habit I’d like to kick – with both feet.
16 Years Old Kids Quotes. Now and Then.
Now:
“I’m a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it’s very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can’t go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?” – Justin Bieber
“I definitely want to buy my mom a house once I get enough funds. I think that’s definitely something that I want to do. I think that any person, it’s their dream to buy their mother a house.” – Justin Bieber
“I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don’t really live anywhere–I live on the road. I’m kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.” – Justin Bieber
“I miss my family, I miss my friends. I mean the city itself, which is very pretty and familiar because it’s really all I ever knew. But it’s more my friends and family. I could go without the city. It doesn’t really matter where I am as long as I have family and friends close to me. It’s really all that matters.” – Justin Bieber
“My mom said I wasn’t allowed to date until I was sixteen, but I broke that rule. She found out and said, ‘I’m disappointed in you.'” – Justin Bieber
“I have dumped a girl over the phone – it’s terrible isn’t it? We got into an argument during a phone call so I basically said, I don’t wanna be with you any more,’ and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward, but we’re not enemies now, so that’s cool. But I wouldn’t recommend it, it’s very mean!” – Justin Bieber
“It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can’t have a decent conversation with!” – Justin Bieber
“I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I’m not allowed to eat ’cause my mom says it might be poisonous.” – Justin Bieber
“I’m just a regular 16 year old kid. I make good grilled cheese and I like girls.” – Justin Bieber
“I still [use Twitter] as much as before. People write to me and say, ‘I’m giving up, you’re not talking to me.’ I just write them a simple message like, ‘Never give up,’ you know? And it changes their life.” – Justin Bieber
“There’s more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.” – Justin Bieber
Then (long time ago):
“The older you get, the harder your parents try to keep you little.” – Emily
“When you buy a car for the first time, your number of friends increases dramatically” – Jeffrey
“You never put a boyfriend before family. Family will always be there – boyfriends come and go.” – Jessica
“Not all learning can be measured by grades.” – Beth
“If I study and watch TV at the same time, I end up studying the TV. ” – Charlie
“It does not matter how much money a family has. If there is a lot of love in a home, that family is richer than any millionaire could ever be.” – Whitney
“I should always try my best. If I don’t succeed, then at least I will feel good about myelf.” – Laura
“People are quick to condemn you for the things you’ve done, but they’ll never give you credit for all the times you resisted temptation.” – Heather
“One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me was their love for each other.” – Jamie
“Simply saying, “I believe in you” can make someone’s day.” – Mary
“When you pray, you get a happy feeling inside like God just walked into your heart and is wrming himself at a cozy fire.” – Charles
“The best place to go with a child is in their imagination.” – Amie
“In a difficult situation, my parents need me to be strong, because that makes them strong.” – Kathryn
I have picked Justin Bieber for the boy dealing with the “Now” category, because it is in vogue right now, and the other guys from „Then” category were in vogue long time ago.
Please make a comparison and tell me (using the comment form) what you think about “Now” and “Then”.
Random Quotes
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time. –Fight Club
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. – The Princess Bride
Shit adds up at the bottom. – MJK
I’d give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind – John Lennon
Love doesn’t come in a minute. Sometimes it doesn’t come at all. I only know that when I’m in it, love isn’t silly at all. – Paul McCartney
Its getting better all the time… it couldn’t get no worse. – Paul McCartney and John Lennon, respectively.
Be excellent to each other.. Party on, dudes! – Bill and Ted
Its not who you love, its how. – Kevin Smith
Friction can be fun if you have the right lubricant. – MJK
Everyone’s too stupid!! – Ghost World
I’d rather dance in the rain than let it ruin my parade. – Unknown
You have to know, not fear, that one day you’re going to die. – Unknown
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. – Unknown
We may be on this road, but we’re just imposters in this country you know. – Tori Amos
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. – Napoleon Bonaparte
One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. One who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese proverb
What I want is not to want what isn’t mine. – Tori Amos
Every man has his price. Only some of us know ours – Josh Rowland, Trespassing Mirage
Tomorrow’s one more free donation you can take –Josh Rowland, Mattress Blues
Change Quotes
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages. – Irene Peter
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. – Bertolt Brecht
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. – Robert C. Gallagher
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. – Francis Bacon
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. – Carl Jung
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. – John A. Simone, Sr.
Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing. – Irene Peter
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. – Benjamin Disraeli