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50 Motivational Quotes

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1. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

2. “You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own and you know what you know.
And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” ~Dr. Seuss

3. “Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure.” ~Mack Douglas

4. “The future is sending back good wishes and waiting arms.” ~Kobi Yamada

5. “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” ~B.J. Marshall

6. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable.” ~Christopher Reeve

7. “One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, “Why?” are quick to say, “Why not?” That attitude is contagious.” ~Oprah Winfrey

8. “Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.” ~Maya Angelou

9. “It’s easy to come up with big ideas. Just think of something that everyone agrees would be “wonderful” if it were only “possible”… and then set out to make it possible.” ~Armand Hammer

10. “Thousands of perceptions, hunches, ideas and intuitions race through our brains every day. Some are pure genius. Give them the red light for at least long enough to write them down.” ~Ralph Ford

11. “Your resources are always far greater than you imagine them to be. Never ask, “Can I do this?” Ask instead, “How can I do this?” ~Dan Zadra

14. “I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I should not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.” ~Jack London

15. “Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don’t do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing…Then Monday to Thursday, do what you’ve been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don’t retreat.” ~Mel Brooks

16. “We are here on earth to good for others. What the others are here for I do not know.” ~W. H. Auden

17. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” ~Josephine Billings

18. “I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have on hell of a good time. Sometimes this make planning the day difficult.” ~E.B. White

19. “If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.”
~Whoopi Goldberg

20. “If success is not not on your terms–if it looks good to the world but doesn’t not feel good in your own heart–it is no success at all.” ~Anna Quindlen

21. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” ~Diane Ackerman

22. “Remember that life is short and death is long.” ~Fritz Shoulder

23. “The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time.” ~Abraham Lincoln

24. “Once social change begins, It cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.” ~Cesar Chavez

25. “There are fish in the sea better than any that have ever been caught.” ~Irish Saying

26. “Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.”  ~Author Unknown

27. “The greatest pain comes from not believing there is a future, not being able to dream about something better.” ~Author Unknown.

28. “Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire…you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.” ~Denis Waitley

29. “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~Anais Nin

30. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” ~Robert H. Schuller

31. “The inability to open to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert

32. “People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” ~Norman Cousins

33. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” ~Marian Wright Edelman

34. “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.” ~John Lennon

35. “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” ~Anais Nin

36. “Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.” ~Josie Bisset

37. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” ~Denis Waitley

38. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” ~Dean Acheson

39. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~Dale Carnegie

40. “The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.” ~Walt Disney

41. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~Robert F. Kennedy

42. “Just remember…when you think all is lost, the future remains.” ~Bob Goddard

43. “Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.” ~Guy Finley

44. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.” ~Denis Waitley

45. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

46. “To the youngsters of today, I say “Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.” Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.” ~Walt Disney

47. “Love is the time and space where “I” give myself the right to be extraordinary.” ~Julia Kristev

48. “We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams – only the time we are here.” ~Susan L. Taylor

49. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” ~Rosalynn Carter

50. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank

Bonus: 51. “Action is the antidote to despair.” ~Joan Baez

Pain Quotes

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – Buddha

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. – John Lennon

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. – Tony Robbins

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. – Tony Robbins

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. – Tony Robbins

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. – Kurt Cobain

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. – Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Jim Morrison

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. – Erma Bombeck

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. – Karl Marx

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. – Jack Kerouac

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. – Simone Weil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.  –  Simone Weil

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. – Roger Bannister

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. – Roger Bannister

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. – William Hazlitt

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. – Honore De Balzac

It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. – Lady Bird Johnson

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory. – Janet Jackson

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going. – David Foster Wallace

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you’re in big trouble if you’re borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We’ve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. – Simon Cowell

I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. – Meryl Streep

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. – James Taylor

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow. – James Taylor

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. – Jennifer Aniston

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass. – Jennifer Aniston

Powerful Quotes about Life

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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

Life is a song – sing it.
Life is a game – play it.
Life is a challenge – meet it.
Life is a dream – realize it.
Life is a sacrifice – offer it.
Life is love – enjoy it. – Sai Baba

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. – Helen Keller

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

Clever Quotes

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Funny Clever Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain

I intend to live forever, or die trying. – Groucho Marx

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. – Mark Twain

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. – Mel Brooks

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. – Groucho Marx

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. – W. C. Fields

Golf is a good walk spoiled. – Mark Twain

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know. – Groucho Marx

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. – W. C. Fields

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. – Mel Brooks

Too clever is dumb.- Ogden Nash

Clever Quotes on Life

Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? – Groucho Marx

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. – John Lennon

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Anonymous

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. – Jalal al-Din Rumi

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. – Robert A. Heinlein

A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. – Groucho Marx

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken

Clever Quotes about Life

The road to success is always under construction. – Lily Tomlin

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. – H. L. Mencken

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. – Albert Schweitzer

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. – Israel Zangwill

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac Asimov

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. – Walter Kerr

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. – Albert Einstein

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. – John Peel

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! – Tom Lehrer

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. – Tom Lehrer

If you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. – Mel Brooks

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson, but…

Clever Quotes for Facebook

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. – Groucho Marx

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? – H. L. Mencken

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. – H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. – H. L. Mencken

Clever Sayings for Facebook

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. – Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. – Mae West

Clever Sayings

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. – Mark Twain

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you. – Tom Lehrer

The lack of money is the root of all evil. – Mark Twain

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers

Clever Phrases

To the best of my knowledge the following clever phrases are all anonymous. Come to think of it, would anyone really admit to writing any of these clever phrases?

The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.

I’m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

I love my attitude problem.

Some days you’re the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly, usually for the same reason.

Join the Army, travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them.

When everything comes your way you’re in the wrong lane.

Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.

Half the people you know are below average.

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Clever Sayings and Quotes

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less. – Lily Tomlin

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde

Get the facts first. You can distort them later. – Mark Twain

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. – Oscar Wilde

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. – Mark Twain

I can resist everything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. – Oscar Wilde

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. – Mark Twain

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. – Mark Twain

Romantic Love Quotes

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Love them as they are, and forgive them everything. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you. – Omar Khayyam

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul. – Omar Khayyam

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. – Khalil Gibran

And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. – Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. – Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover. – Khalil Gibran

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. – William Shakespeare

Love is blind. – William Shakespeare

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. – Anonymous

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear. – Anonymous

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it. – Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – William Shakespeare

True love has no limits. – Anonymous

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Brandi Snyder

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Brief is life but love is long. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

All you need is love. – John Lennon

Don’t fall for looks, they can deceive. Don’t fall for wealth, in the end it fades away. Find someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. – Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. – St. Francis of Assisi

Famous Quotes and Sayings

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. – Lao Tzu

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

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

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain

All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. – Chief Seattle

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. – The Buddha

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong

The best things in life are free. – Anonymous

Attitude is everything. – Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.- Anonymous

Life is what you make of it. – Anonymous

Where there is a will, there is a way. – Anonymous

Every cloud has a silver lining. – Anonymous

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation. – Dale Carnegie

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

Random Quotes

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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

The Famous Last Words of Famous People

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This, is the last of earth. I am content. – Adams John Quincy

For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. – Bacon Sir Francis

Let’s roll. – Todd Beamer

Don’t die like I did. – George Best

Work hard to gain your own salvation. – Buddha

Hallo, the bow is up… I’m going… I’m on my back… I’ve gone. Oh. – Donald Campbell

Let not poor Nelly starve. – King Charles II

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. – Erskine Childers

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. – Kurt Cobain

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone. – Oliver Cromwell

I do not believe in my death. – Salvador Dali

My God. What’s happened? – Diana, Princess of Wales

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.) – Isadora Duncan

Bugger Bognor! – King George V

Mehr Licht! (More light!) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize. – Joe Hill

On the contrary. – Henrik Ibsen

Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. – Hugh Latimer

Strike the tent. – Robert E. Lee

I’m shot. – John Lennon

I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan

This hath not offended the king. – Thomas More

Thank God, I have done my duty. – Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates

What do I tell the pilot to do? – Barbara Olson

Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do! – Lord Henry Temple Palmerston

I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to. – Luciano Pavarotti

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies. – William Pitt

Let me go to the house of the Father. – Pope John Paul II

I hope I haven’t bored you. – Elvis Presley

I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell. – Walter Ralegh

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. – Ken Saro-Wiwa

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – General John Sedgwick

“What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” – Gertrude Stein

If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it. – Lytton Strachey

Relax – This won’t hurt. – Hunter S. Thompson

One of us must go. – Oscar Wilde

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Peace Quotes

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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

“Peace is its own reward.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Moshe Dayan

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

John Lennon Quotes

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John Lennon QuotesLet’s celebrate John Lennon‘s birthday with some great quotes.

– “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

– “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

– “All you need is love.”

– “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

– “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”

– “Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”

– “Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”

– “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

– “Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”

– “He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”

– “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”

– “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”

– “I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!”

– “I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.”

– “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”

– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”

– “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

– “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

– “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”

– “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.”