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Nature Quotes

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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

Top 15 Inspirational Quotes

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1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. –Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect- Mark Twain

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else- Winston Churchill

12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

Bonus:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Famous Quotes

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try” – John F. Kennedy

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.” – Stendhal

“The freedom to make mistakes provides the best environment for creativity” – Unknown

“You’ll never be greater than yourself.” – Bob Dylan

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” – Steve Martin

“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” – Jessica – age 8

“Each new effort brings you closer to the one that might really work.” – Bob Greene

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange

“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures” – Ben Shneiderman

“Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked” – Jeff Pesis

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

Quotes to make your day better

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd

Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~Winston Churchill

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ~Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~Juvenal

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life

If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ~Malcolm X

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu

Cute Love Quotes #2

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Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – James C. Dobson

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. – Anonymous

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow. – Edmond Rostand

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. – Charles Baudelaire

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom. – Anonymous

The love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay.
Love isn’t love till you give it away. – Reba McEntire

Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. – Michele St. Amand

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. – Robert Fulghum

How to Motivate Yourself

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The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. –John Burroughs

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. –Dale Carnegie

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. –John Henry Newman

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao-Tzu

Things do not change; we change. –Henry David Thoreau

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. –G.K. Chesterton

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. –Elbert Hubbard

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. –James Gordon

You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing. –Arthur Ashe

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. –Louis Pasteur

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. –Ambrose Redmoon

Often you just have to rely on your intuition. –Bill Gates

It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret. –Andre Agassi

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. –J. Pierpont Morgan

25 Truth Quotes

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1. “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” – Richard J. Needham
2. “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
3. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
4. “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” – Francis Bacon
5. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
6. “The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” – Unknown
8. “I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” – Pietro Ariteno
9. “You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.” – Unknown
10. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb.” – Solomon Short
12. “It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don’t mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.” – Neale Donald Walsch
13. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri-Frederic Amiel
14. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
16. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” – John F. Kennedy
17. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.” – Rabindranath Tagore
18. “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” – Tad Williams
19. “The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.” – Ann Landers
20. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
21. “Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” – George Elliot
22. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity” – Baltasar Gracian
24. “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther
25. “Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.” – Chuck Swindoll

Inspirational Quotes about Friends

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– “He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.” – Thomas Fuller

– “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Anonymous

– “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle

– “A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.” – Anonymous

– “Friendship must dare to risk, or it’s not friendship.” – Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

– “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Anonymous

– “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “A friend is someone who won’t stop until he finds you and brings you home.” – Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Aging Quotes #4

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# The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off … you will see the scar there still. – Olive Schreiner

# We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

# What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. – Henry David Thoreau

# When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. – Sam Ewing

# Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. – Dale Turner

# Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson

# Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. – Gloria Steinem

# The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet. – William Butler Yeats

# You and I are old… Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are–
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)

# You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair. – Douglas MacArthur

# You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. – John Nuveen

# You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. – Bob Hope

Famous People Quotes #9

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“It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.” – Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” – Revelation 6:8

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“Plato was a bore.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” – Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

“I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“Hemingway was a jerk.” – Harold Robbins

“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.”
– Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

“What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)

“How can I lose to such an idiot?” – A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“I don’t feel good.” – The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.” – Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.” – Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.” – Gore Vidal

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.” – Charles William Stubbs

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.” – George Santayana (1863-1952)

“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” – Fred Allen (1894-1956)

“Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.” – Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

“Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” – T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.” – Tom Stoppard

“Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.” – Karl Wallenda

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu

“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” – Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

” The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Never mistake motion for action.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

“Hell is paved with good samaritans.” – William M. Holden