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Confucius Quotes
“You cannot open a book without learning something”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”
“I hear I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
“By nature men, are nearly alike. By practice, they get to be, wide apart”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it”
“No matter where you go – there you are”
“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness”
Best Funny Quotes
I’ve prepared for you a great list with best funny quotes of all time. Of course, the list could be larger, but you can help me to expand it.
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons
Cheating Boyfriend Quotes
“Don’t cry over someone that won’t cry over you.”
“No guy is worth your tears & when you find the one that is he won’t make you cry.”
“If you really love something set it free..if it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be.”
“Some day you’ll cry for me like I cried for you, Some day you’ll miss me like I missed you, Some day you’ll need me like I needed you, Some day you’ll love me but I won’t love you.”
“Time will make you forget me but time will make me love you more than before.”
“Forget who hurt you yesterday, but don’t forget who loves you tenderly today.”
“The hardest part of loving someone is knowing when to let go, and knowing when to say goodbye.”
“I hate you for not letting me have you.”
“Forget the times he walked by, Forget the times he made you cry, Forget the times he spoke your name, remember now your not the same, Forget the times he held your hand, Forget the sweet things if you can, Forget the times & don’t pretend, remember now he’s just your friend.”
“The day you finally decide to love me will be the day after I have given up on chasing you.”
“I hate to see the one I love happy with somebody but I surely hate it more to see the one I love unhappy with me…”
“If in this lifetime, I wont get to have you, I’ll make sure that if I meet you in my next life, I wont have to think twice on saying that, I waited a lifetime to say I love you…”
“Moving on is simple, it’s what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.”
“If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”
“Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.”
“Should I hate you because you hurt me? Or should I love you because you made me feel special?”
“Deep down you know it’s best for yourself, but you hate the thought of him being with someone else.”
“Now I believe it when people say love is blind…’cause I must have been blind to love a person like you.”
“Money can’t mend a broken heart; that’s love’s job.”
“One cannot truly experience the beauty of love without enduring the pain that comes with it once it is lost.”
“The heart does heal and you will love like this again…only when you do, you will deny you ever felt like this before.”
“Why am I afraid to lose you when you’re not even mine…”
“I was born the day you kissed me, died the day you left me, but lived for the time that you loved me.”
“I will always love him, I just won’t love the way he treated me.”
“Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for.” ~ W. C. Fields
“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” ~ Scott Alexander
Earth Day Quotes
Today we celebrate Earth Day. Let’s do it in our own way, sharing Earth Day Quotes.
Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben
I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987
For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963
Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~George Carlin
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~Brooke Medicine Eagle
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb
Sad Quotes about Life
Let me share with you some wonderful Sad Quotes about Life for more inspiration.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau
The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives. – Joseph Campbell
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. – Rabindranath Tagore
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin
The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Gustav Jung
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. – Publilius Syrus
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. – Carl Jung
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. – John Greenleaf Whittier
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
Motivational Career Change Quotes
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman
The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin
My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox
For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden
A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier
Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson
What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller
Learn from your Work Quotes
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar
Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you never know where it may lead. – Julia Morgan
You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond
Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others… No one’s education is ever complete. – Sir. John Templeton
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. – Thomas Henry Huxley
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton
No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something. – Sean Gregory Derrick
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. – Barbara Sher
Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. – Les Brown
Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better. – Sylvia Porter
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. – Les Brown
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing
The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. – Unknown
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor
When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. – Richard A. Nelson
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Unknown
Motivational Work Quotes
No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverbs
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. – John Lennon
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. – Vaclav Havel
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – Sir William Osier
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. – Henry Ford
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. – Colleen C. Barrett
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay
Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. – Dr. Laurence Susser
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. – Alberta Flanders
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dilbert Quotes
1. I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
2. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
3. Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you how to get along without it.
4. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
5. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn’t there the first time, chances are you won’t be needing him again.
6. I DON’T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM.
7. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, “where the heck is the ceiling?”
8. My reality cheque bounced.
9. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
10. I don’t suffer from stress. I am a carrier.
11. You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
12. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
13. Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
14. Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.
15. A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the butt.
16. Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
17. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
18. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
19. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
20. Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
21. If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
22. When you don’t know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
23. Following the rules will not get the job done.
24. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, “How would the Lone Ranger handle this?”
25. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.
26. There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
27. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
28. If at first you don’t succeed……skydiving isn’t for you.
29. Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
30. When everything is coming your way……you’re in the wrong lane.