Best Quotations For All Occasions

Ability

1. As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities - Froude
2. Behind an able man there are always other able men - Chinese Proverb
3. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators - Gibbon

Achievement

1. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honourable to reach the second or even the third rank - Cicero

Admiration

1. Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves - Bierce

Adversity

1. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture - Colton

Beauty

1. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful - NInon De L'enclos

Books

1. All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books - Voltaire
2. Laws die, books never - Bulwer Lytton

Character

1. Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world - Goethe
2. The great hope of society is individual charater - Channing

Charity

1. Smiling at your brother is charity - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)

Conduct

1. It is better to be safe than sorry - American Proverb
2. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions - Junius
3. We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct - La Rochefoucald
4. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull out and strike it, merely to show that you have one - Chesterfield
5. What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others - Confucius

Confession

1. Open confession is good for the soul - Scottish Proverb
2. To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it - Syrus

Confidence

1. I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself - Montesquieu
2. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others - La Rochefoucauld

Conscience

1. Conscience is a sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge - Lamennais
2. There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience - French Proverb

Compensation

1. Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life - Voltaire

Competition

1. Your biggest competitor is your own view of the future.

Courage

1. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill - Samuel Johnson
2. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is higher and truer courage - Wendell Phillips
3. Who dare nothing, need hope for nothing - Schiller

Courtesy

1. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it - Bovee

Curiosity

1. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson

Expert

1. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less - Nicholas Murray Butler

Faith

1. Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe - St. Augustine
2. Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. - Philip Gulley
3. For they can conquer who believe they can - Vergil

Friendship

1. The only way to have a friend is to be one - Emerson
2. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation - Washington

Force

1. Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived - Lincoln

Future

1. Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight - Napoleon
2. I know no way of judging the future but by the past - Patrick Henry
3. The future is only the past again, entered through another gate - Pinero

Generosity

1. Have you had a kindness shown?/ Pass it on;/ 'Twas not given for thee alone,/ Pass it on;/ Let it travel down the years,/ Let it wipe another's tears./ 'Til in Heaven the deed appears -/ Pass it on. - Rev. Henry Burton (Pass It On)
2. Kindness gives birth to kindness - Sophocles
3. There is a reward for kindness to every living thing - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
4. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is godlike - Horace Mann
5. You give but little when you give of your possession. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give - Khalil Gibran
6. What we frankly give forever is our own - Granvillel

Genius

1. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can - Lyton
2. Inspirations and genius - one and the same - Victor Hugo
3. The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death - Spenser

Gentleman

1. A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable - Anonymous
2. It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects - La Rochefoucauld
3. Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman - Disraeli

God

1. God's Knowledge is Limitless and He Plans on the Universal basis - Hammudah Abdalati
2. If there were no god, it was must to invent him - Voltaire
3. Nature is a volume of which God is the author - Harvey
4. To err is human, to forgive divine - Pope
5. Truly, in remembering God do hearts find rest - Holy Qur'an

Government

1. Good government is no substitute to self-government - Morley

Gratitude

1. Gratitude is the heart's memory. - French Proverb

Grief

1. Every one can master a grief but he that has it - Shakespeare
2. To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back - Haliburton

Habit

1. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity - St. Augustine
2. Good habits are just as hard to break as bad ones. - Collen Mariah Rae

Health

1. Health is not the condition of matter, but of mind - Mary Baker
2. The first wealth is health - Emerson

Heart

1. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also - Matthew

History

1. History, a distillation of rumour - Carlyle
2. History is the memory of a nation. Thomas Sowell

Humility

1. The first test of a truly great man is his humility. - John Ruskin

Ideas

1. An idea must come to the individual with the force of a revelation - William James
2. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams - Emerson
3. It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world - Wendell Phillips
4. Learning without thought is labour lost - Confucius
5. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come - Victor Hugo
6. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts - Sir Phillip Sidney

Individual

1. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - john Stuart Mill

Judgment

1. Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment - Euripedes

Leader

1. Leaders never lose their focus. They keep their eyes on the big picture - Dale Carnegie
2. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after - Goldsmith
3. Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader - Tacitus
4. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on - Walter Lippmann

Learning

1. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron - Horace Mann
2. Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts - E. L. Youmans
3. If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp - Latin Proverb
4. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? - Voltaire
5. It is always in season for man to learn - Aeschylus
6. Let us then be up and doing,/ With a heart for any fate;/ Still achieveing, still pursuing,/ Learn to labour and to wait - Longfellow (Psalm of Life)

Life

1. The first step, which one makes in the world, is the one one which depends the rest of our days - Voltaire

Logic

1. Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason - Trench

Love

1. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both the sides.

Man

1. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has and that which he thinks he has - Aphonse Karr
2. Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him - William Channing
3. Every man is the architect of his own fortune - English Proverb
4. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder - Washington
5. Human improvement is from within outward - Froude
6. It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually - La Rochefoucauld
7. Knowlege of mankind is a knowledge of their passions - Disraeli
8. Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration - Machiavelli
9. There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in - Will Rogers
10. We are such stuff/ As dreams are made on, and our little life/ Is rounded with a sleep - Shakespeare (The Tempest, Act IV, Sc. I)
11. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself - Galileo

Mistake

1. Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nature

1. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and still they are beautiful. - Alice Walker
2. I am a part of all that I have met - Tennyson
3. Nature abhors a vacuum - Rabelais
4. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other - Laurence Streve

Obedience

1. Obedience alone give the right to command - Emerson

Order

1. Order is heaven's first law - Pope

Patience

1. Genius is only great patience - Buffon
2. Patience and gentleness is power - Leigh Hunt
3. Patience is the art of hoping - Vaunenargues

Pen

1. The pen is the tongue of mind - Cervantes

Perfection

1. Human improvement is from within outward - Froude
2. My strength is made perfect in weakness - Corinthians
3. The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursiut of sweetness and light - Matthew
4. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle - Michelangelo

Performance

1. Many things difficult to design, prove easy to performance - Samuel Johnson

Philosophy

1. All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain = Epictetus
2. In Philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way - Havenlock Ellis
3. The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is goof are the two most important objects of philosophy - Voltaire

Poetry

1. Poetry is a musical thought - Carl

Position

1. Have a place for everything and have everything in place - Anonymous
2. No one reaches a high position without daring - Syrus

Powerful

1. Powerful is not he who knocks the other down. Indeed powerful is he who controls himself in a fit of anger - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)

Prayer

1. A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward - Phillips Brooks
2. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates

Reading

1. Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading - H. M. Trevelvan
2. Every man who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting - Aldous Huxley
3. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing - Franklin
4. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest - Book of Common Prayers
5. Reading maketh a full man - Bacon

Reason

1. Reason can in general do more than blind force - Gallus

Religion

1. A state from which religion is banished can never be well governed - Pope Leo XIII
2. Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure - Browning
3. Religion is nothing else but love to God and man - William Penn
4. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion - Thomas Paine
5. They serve God well, who serve his creatures - Caroline Norton

Revolution

1. Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles - Aristotle
2. Revolutions are not made; they come - Wendell Phillips

Rule

1. Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule - Nietzshche

Scholar

1. The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)

Simplicity

1. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. - Hazlitt
2. Still waters run deep - English Proverb

Sincerety

1. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerety oon self-examination - Mencius

Sleep

1. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet - Ecclesiastes

Speech

1. The eloquence of a man's speech is a part of his attraction - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)y
2. True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary - La Rouchefoucauld
3. We learn many things from an ant and it speaks nothing.

Soul

1. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul - Emerson

Time

1. In time take time while time doth last, for time/ Is no time when time is past - Anonymous

Universal

1. All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal - Longfellow

Victory

1. Self-conquest is the greatest of victories - Plato
2. Victories that are cheap, are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting - Henry Beecher

Will

1. He who is firm in his will molds the world to himself - Goethe

Wisdom

1. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom - Victor Hugo
2. Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it - Syrus
3. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance - Spurgeon
4. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom - Psalms
5. There was a Door to which I found no key;/ There was the Veil through which I might not see - Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat)
6. Wisdom is only found in Truth - Goethe

Woman

1. A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told - Nion de L'enclos

Wonder

1. Wonder is the basis of worship - Carlyle
2. The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockmann

Work

1. A man who does many things make many mistakes, but he does not make the biggest mistake of all: doing nothing.
2. An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise - James Howell
3. Better to wear out than to rust out - Bishop Cumberland
4. Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts - Hazlitt
5. How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour,/ And gather honey all the day/ From every opening flower - Isaac Watts (Against Idleness)
6. Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point - Bovee
7. The bee is more honoured than others animals, not because she labours, but because she labours for others - Chrysostom
8. The workers are the saviours of society, the redeemers of the race - Eugene Debs
9. Well begun is half done - Horace
10. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well - Chesterfield

Words

1. A good word is charity - Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
2. A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words - Burke
3. Words will biuld no walls - Plutarch

Writing

1. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind a book - Emerson

Zeal

1. It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing - Galatians
2. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiam; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiam is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it - Bulwer-Lytton
3. The wildest colts make the best horses - Plutarch
4. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about - Charles Kingsley

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