Og Mandino Quotes
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. –Og Mandino Quotes
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. –Og Mandino Quotes
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. –Og Mandino Quotes
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. –Og Mandino Quotes
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. –Og Mandino Quotes
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. –Og Mandino Quotes
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! –Og Mandino Quotes
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Og Mandino Quotes
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. –Og Mandino Quotes
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. –Og Mandino Quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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. Quotes
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. –Napoleon Hill Quotes
Les Brown Quotes
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. –Les Brown Quotes
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. –Les Brown Quotes
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. –Les Brown Quotes
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. –Les Brown Quotes
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. –Les Brown Quotes
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. –Les Brown Quotes
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. –Les Brown Quotes
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. –Les Brown Quotes
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. –Les Brown Quotes
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. –Les Brown Quotes
Mistakes
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy Williams
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Witty Quotes
Some of my favorite witty quotes just here, for you.
His mouth is a no-go area. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall – Helena Bonhem Carter on Woody Allen
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger
He has a face like a Saint – A Saint Bernard. – Unknown
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstien, but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. – Tom Shale on Robin Williams
If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog. – Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono
God does not play dice with the universe. – Albert Einstien
She is as wholesome as a bowl of cornflakes and at least as sexy. – Dwight McDonald on Doris Day
If you can’t convince them, confuse them. – President Harry S Truman
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. – W C Fields
He had the compassion of an icicle and the generosity of a pawnbroker. – S J Perelman on Groucho Marx
Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. – Abbey Hoffman
Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder? – Don Rickles
Breasts like Granite and a brain like Swiss Cheese – Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe
The thief of bad gags. – Walter Winchell on Milton Berne
I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born – Ronald Reagan
He’s proof that there’s life after death. – Mort Sahl on Ronald Reagan
The only genius with an IQ of 60. – Gore Vidal on Andy Warhol
He’s so ugly they ought to donate his face to the world wildlife fund. – Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier
She’s so stupid she returns bowling balls because they’ve got holes in them. – Joan Rivers on Bo Derek
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. – Bob Wells
Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little. – Screen Tester on Fred Astaire
An empty suit that goes to funerals and plays golf. – Ross Perot on Dan Quayle
Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. – Rex Reed on Marlon Brando
He could start a row in an empty house – Sir Alex Ferguson on footballer Dennis Wise
When Kissinger can get the Nobel Peace Prize, what is there left for satire? – Tom Lehrer on Henry Kissinger
Shaw writes his plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. – George Nathan on George Bernard Shaw
He is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron. – Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone
What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? – Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood’s bid to become mayor of Carmel
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – Shakespeare
Romantic Quotes
Are you looking for some romantic quotes for your girlfriend, or boyfriend? You are in the perfect place.
I love thee – I love thee,
‘Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day. ~Thomas Hood
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~John Keats
I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
but oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating! ~John Keats
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. ~John Donne
My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency. ~Gilbert Parker
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795
Oh, hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart’s beat. ~Paul Valéry
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun. ~Robert Herrick, “To Anthea (III)”
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite. ~William Shakespeare
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover
The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven’s marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee? ~Author Unknown
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore
I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are. ~Hartley Coleridge
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings
A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, and I’ll not look for wine. ~Ben Jonson, To Celia
Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535
How to write a good love letter
To write a good love letter, begin without knowing what you mean to say, and finish without knowing what you have written ~Jean Jacques Rousseau