Getting Rich Investing

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

Laws of Life

The natural laws of the universe are inviolable: Energy condenses into substance. Food is eaten through the mouth and not the nose. A person who neglects to breathe will turn blue and die. Some things simply can't be dismissed. It is also a part of the cosmic law that what you say and do determines what happens in your life. The ordinary person thinks that this law is external to himself and he feels confined and controlled by it. So his desires trouble his mind, his mind troubles his spirit, and he lives in constant turmoil with himself and the world. His whole life is spent in struggling. The superior person recognizes that he and the subtle law are one. Therefore he cultivates himself to accord with it, bringing moderation to his actions and clarity to his mind. Doing this, he finds himself at one with all that is divine and enlightened. His days are passed drinking in serenity and breathing out contentment. This is the profound, simple truth: You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are.
Lao Tzu (Hua Hu Ching)

Sin

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Despair Quotes

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

I will praise the Lord no matter what happens. I will constantly speak of His glories and grace. I will boast of all His kindness to me. Let all who are discouraged take heart. Let us praise the Lord together and exalt His name.
Psalm 34:1-3

Weeping may go on all night, but in the morning there is joy.
Psalm 30:5

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
II Corinthians 4:8, 9

Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Benjamin Franklin

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.

Deuteronomy 31:8

Procrastination Quotes

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Discipline is... 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it that way every time.
Bobby Knight


What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb

Procrastination is the fear of success... Because success is heavy, it carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley


We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam


Taoism and Procrastination

How to stop Procrastination? Taoism gives 2 simple pieces of advice:

1. Cut any task into small tasks and continue cutting until you feel like starting at ‘task nr.1’, relaxed and without fear.

Taoism Quotes:

Plan difficult tasks through the simplest tasks
Achieve large tasks through the smallest tasks
The difficult tasks of the world
Must be handled through the simple tasks
The large tasks of the world
Must be handled through the small tasks
Therefore, sages never attempt great deeds all through life
Thus they can achieve greatness

Even a nine-storied terrace began with a single basket of dirt. Even a 1,000 mile journey began as a single step.

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

2. Try to enjoy what you do (‘intrinsic satisfaction’) because you do it (not for respect or money or whatever).

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.


And a quote from Aristotle:
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Tao - Water Quotes

Chinese proverb:

Drink water,
Think of source.

***

Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee
(Water is flexible and conforms - it takes the shape of the bowl it is put in; but water also greatly impacts is environment through its persistence).

Giving is Receiving Quote

One summer he took a job as a bellboy in one of the hotels. The salary was only $8.00 a month, but he was told that the tips that bellboys receive amounted to $100.00 in a season. When the first tip was offered him, however, something deep down within him would not let him take it. Stammeringly he said, "No thank you, sir," and fled. He went down to his retreat in the cellar and tried to probe why that inner voice had spoken to him thus. Then suddenly he had a great vision.

"I’ll be the only bellboy in existence who never took a tip!" he exclaimed. "And I’ll be the best bellboy the world ever knew. I’ll pledge myself to give the most joyful and cheerful service that a bellboy ever gave!"

From that moment he responded to every request with the alacrity of a steel trap. He ran his legs off for everybody. He got up at five o’clock every morning to procure cow’s milk for a baby that needed special care, and then went back to bed again. When asked why he did not take tips he replied, "I receive a salary, and I love my work."
The guests were simply overwhelmed by it. They invited him to dinner parties and yachting trips and when the management explained that it was against the rules for servants to have social relations with guests, those people of influence said they would never go back again to that hotel if they didn’t break a rule for him. So he had a wonderful summer.

During his spare time he did sketching and painting. The guests became deeply interested in his work and at the end of the season instead of $100.00 from tips he had received checks amounting to $850.00 for his pictures, and five offers of legal adoption in wealthy families, in one of which there were already three badly spoiled boys. The people to whom he brought ice-water became his life-long friends, and from them and friends of theirs he received many commissions for painting after he became famous in that field. And he went to the wedding of the baby he brought milk for!

"I have absolute faith," he asserts over and over again, "that anything can come to the one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within so long as one works within the law and always gives more to others that they expect, and does it cheerfully and courteously."

About Walter Russell, The Man Who Tapped The Secrets of the Universe (by Glenn Clark)

Astrology Quotes

Astronomy and Astrology Illumination
Art Print
Ptolemy

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
William Shakespeare

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
Benjamin Franklin

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
John Pierpont Morgan

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Gustav Jung

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today....
Linda Goodman


Empire State Building from Madison Avenue Art Print
Daniels, Matthew

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality. Steven Forrest

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.
C.G. Jung

The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.
Huxley
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.
Sri Yukteswar

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Hippocrates

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them.
John Webster

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
Carl Jung

All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.
Isabel Hickey

There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable.
William Shakespeare (Winter's Tale, Hermione speaking)
Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world.
Karen Hamaker-Zondag

Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.
Sri Chinmoy

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.
Varaha Mihira

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
Carl Jung

O! I am Fortune's fool.
William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

Carl Jung and Astrology

What then is the psychologically valid use of astrology from the point of view taken by Jung? It can only be the clarification (the making more conscious and objectively real) of the "law of one's being." Any astrological procedure or practice which does not have this purpose, and which the practitioner or consultant does not expect to have this purpose, is detrimental to psychological health and cannot contribute to the process of personality integration.
Dane Rudhyar

Or...?

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. Voltaire

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
Jonathan Swift

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
Sir Roger L'Estrange

I know that astrology isn't a science... Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis.... The rules just kind of got there. They don't make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.
Douglas Adams

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean that we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
Richard Dawkins

Old Friends

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
William Somerset Maugham

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Betrayal Quotes

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.

To betray you must first belong
Harold Philby

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Deitz

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.
Tennessee Wellians

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.
Erica Jong

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and betrayed by our friends, yet still we are often content to be thus served by ourselves.
François de la Rochefoucauld

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
Robert Burton

Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
Ayn Rand

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Russian Proverb

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
Linda Talley

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
Barbara Kingsolver

Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John Le Carre

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jeab Genet

Clean Order Etiquette Manners Quotes

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Homer

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walker

Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.
Barbara Hall

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette - More Great Quotes on Friendship

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
Lillian Eichler Watson

Energy Quotes

Lots of/Lack of/Wanting more... Energy

They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.
Walter Russell

It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.
Walter Russell

Religion Quotes

Different Views on Religion - Open Up - See What Makes You Tick:

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel


Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Jesse Ventura

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein


The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
Leo Tolstoy

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca


One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ramona L. Anderson


I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein


I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.
Albert Einstein

Genius Quotes

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.
Walter Russell

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.
Walter Russell

Universe Quotes

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts


Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Albert Einstein

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
Carl Sagan

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Mark Victor Hansen

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
Linda Goodman

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
Leo Tolstoy

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Brian Pickrell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell

Sadness Quotes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Longfellow

Boredom Quotes

Are you bored? Boring! ...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

 Viggo Mortensen

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg (Creativity Quotes)

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell,The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
(Check out these Mindfulness Quotes)

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
C.C. Colton

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard


Boring People:

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims


Boredom and Travelling:

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Oscar Wilde Quotes

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Alcohol Quotes

Never trust a guy who never drinks - he might be a real drunkard.

"There are two gods, sir, primary to man: The one, Gaia, Mother Earth, 
From her comes the grain that makes the bread of life.
The other is the son of Semele, Who bestowed on man the gift of wine 
That makes endurable this rack of life And grants sweet release from daily cares"
Bacchai, Euripides

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

I Timothy (chapter V, verse 23) - More Bible Quotes

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs (chapter XX, verse 1) - More Bible Quotes


Check out 12step.org if think you might have problems with alcohol or other addictive subtances:

• Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
• Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
• Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
• Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
• Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
• Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
• Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
• Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
• Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
• Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
• Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out
• Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

Breaking Up Quotes

Breaking up is hard.
Breaking up is the hardest thing to do.

Some quotes to ease the pain... but will they help? ... probably not.

Broken Heart Quotes!

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me - I’m going to smile.

The worst way to love someone is to sit next to them, knowing they don’t love you back.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

We enter relationships as a somebody and leave them as a nobody.

Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don’t deserve me. They’re right, you don’t deserve me, but I deserve you.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
George E. Woodberry

If I stop thinking of you, will you be gone to me forever?

The heart was made to be broken.

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.

Me, I'm scared of everything, I'm scared of who I am, what I saw, what I did, but most of all I am scared of walking out of this room and never feeling for the rest of my life, the way I feel when I'm with you.

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.

It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.

A break up is like a broken mirrior. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

I was born the day I met you, lived a while when you loved me, died a little when we broke apart.

We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, but over the years we'll smile and recall for just one moment we had it all.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Saying

I just realized, it's so lonely being free.

I wonder, when you look into my eyes and watch my heart shatter, does it break your heart too, even crack it a little bit?

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.

Sometimes the person you really need is the one you didn’t think you wanted.

Moving on is simple, it’s what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

There's a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there's nothing I can say to make her feel all right.


If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill (more quotes from Mr. Churchill)

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. William Shakespeare - King Henry the Sixth

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

No one can promise they’ll never hurt you, because at one time or another they will. The real promise is if the time you spent together will be worth the pain in the end.

Straight from Hollywood - Yes, even the stars suffer!

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
Usher

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".
Nicole Kidman


Get over it - by reading some funny quotes or life quotes or cool quotes, all on the Successful Living Quotes Blog!

Integrity Quotes

Integrity is not how you act when others are looking, but how you act when no one is around.

Altruism Quotes

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Ayn Rand

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Einstein (more great Einstein quotes)

Fanaticism Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
More Quotes from Winston Churchill

Cynicism Quotes

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar A. Shoaff

War Quotes

War is a matter of old men's pride, and young men's lives.

Suicide Quotes

"Suicide is a permanent answer for a temporary problem."

"There is only real serious philosophical problem: suicide. To judge whether life is worth being lived, is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy. All the others - whether the world has three dimensions, the spirit nine or twelve categories - only come after. That is just a game; first we have to answer."
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus


“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.”
Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition Quotes

More quotes on Achieving What You Want


The noblest spirit is most stronglyattracted by the love of glory.

Marcus T. Cicero



I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

John D. Rockefeller



Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain



Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
Judith M. Bardwick



We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Anon



From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,And when at last the fight is won,God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Louis Utermeyer



Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

Quotes about Hard Work

When ambition ends,happiness begins.

Hungarian Proverb



First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus



Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese



The men who succeed are theefficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and willpower to develop themselves.

Herbert N. Casson



Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.



Watch out!



Most people would succeed insmall things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Taoist View

More Tao Quotes

In order to master people
One must speak as their servant;
In order to lead people
One must follow them.

Tao Te Ching

Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;
Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;
Justify yourself and you will not be respected;
Promote yourself and you will not be believed;
Pride yourself and you will not endure.
Tao Te Ching

Here's to the future to the dreams of youth It's not much I'm asking if you want the truth I want it all I want it all and I want it NOW!

I want it all(Queen)

Shakespeare Quotes

About William Shakespeare
He has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.
John Keats

Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare


Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Cassius of ‘Julius Caesar’

All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
Jaques of ‘As you like it’

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Shylock of ‘The Merchant of Venice’


There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Be Cool

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero.
Calvin & Hobbes

Don’t compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin

Life is too important to take seriously.
Corky Siegel

Investing and Trading

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

When a falling stock becomes a screaming buy because it cannot conceivably drop further, try to buy it 30 percent lower.
Al Rizzo

Control your ego...
Some people in the name of spontaneity refuse to discipline their drives, urges, desires, wishes, and whims. What may seem like intuition is actually reactive or impulsive behavior. When ego is not disciplined and under control, it will frequently generate impulsive thoughts to get you to undertake an action because it desires action.
John Hayden

The real reason so few succeed in trading is because the traits required for success are almost exclusively psychological.
Gary Smith

Buy at the sound of cannons. Sell at the sound of trumpets.
Nathan Rothschild

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishment elsewhere, in Wall Street, it almost invariably leads to disaster.
Benjamin Graham

BE YOURSELF
Virtually every successful trader I know ultimately ended up with a trading style suited to his personality.
Randy McKay

You can't control what the market does, but you can control your reaction to the market. I examine what I do all the time. That's what trading is all about.
Steve Cohen

The majority of people trade worse than a purely random trader would.
William Eckhardt

When you are confused, it is best to do nothing. You are just going for a random walk and that is when you are liable to get mugged, because you don’t have staying power. You are likely to be faked out by some stray fluctuations because you lack the courage of your convictions. As my friend, Victor Niederhoffer says, the market destroys the weak – that is, investors who don’t have well founded convictions. You need some convictions to avoid getting faked out, but having the courage of your convictions could get you wiped out if your convictions are false. So, I prefer to take a stand only when I have well-founded convictions.
George Soros

You never need to chase a trade. The market has plenty of opportunities. The money runs out before the opportunities do.
John Saleeby

It's important to distinguish between respect for the market and fear of the market. While it's essential to respect the market to assure preservation of capital, you can't win if you're fearful of losing. Fear will keep you from making correct decisions.
Howard Seidler

Uncertainty is your friend
You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved" etc. Before reaching for that clutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: the future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long term values.
Warren Buffett

When do you sell?
I made my money by selling too soon.
Bernard Baruch


What Success Can Do:
Success actually can stimulate fears about failing and about the impossibility of success. These increased anxiety levels may result in selfdestructive behavior and a succession of losing trades that bring the trader back to the starting point.
Ari Kiev

Fearful, Greedy!
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy, and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett


If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

Living Together Quotes

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.
Hasidic Proverb

Gossip Quotes

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
Chinese Proverb

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. 

Oscar Wilde

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

Self Esteem Quotes

Higher & Lower…

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes


We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill


The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.
Hasidic Saying

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali

Lying Quotes

Are we all liars?


We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
H. L. Mencken

Summer Quotes

It's too hot - it's summer time!

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
J.B. Priestley

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard

Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige

What’s cooler than bein’ cool? Ice cold!
Outkast (Hey Ya!)

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.
John Egerton


Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

The Beatles, Here Comes the Sun - check it out on Youtube!



A life without love is like a year without summer.
Swedish Proverb

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tai Chi Quotes

Ask yourself how many times have you got what you wanted by trying too hard?

Real Tai Chi Chuan when looked at appears very simple. All of the gong fu, however, is on the inside. The inside is trained so that it will affect the outside. Change occurs from the inside out.
Koh Ah Tee

Tai chi is the one exercise that can universally help solve our growing health crisis. It has stood the test of thousands of years. We have a generation of baby boomers with increasing health problems; old people who are sick, in pain, fearful, and cranky; a middle class that is increasingly incapable of affording most of the drugs that are prescribed for their ailments; children that are flaccid, diabetic and asthmatic. People of all ages are addicted to drugs, alcohol, sugar, cigarettes, and caffeine. Stress follows almost everyone like a shadow.
Bruce Frantzis


The mind should be calm.
If the mind is not calm, one cannot concentrate, and when the arm is raised,
whether forward or back, left or right, it is completely without certain direction. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a calm mind.
The entire mind must also experience and comprehend the movements of the opponent.
Li I-Yu

Many excessively bounce around learning the next 'new' form or movement set without ever extracting the real internal value from any of them.
Bruce Frantzis


The way most people do tai chi, it's not a martial art. They could never use it the way they're doing it. Everything's in their hands, they just fill in the rest with fantasy talk.
Pale Gale

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
Chungliang Al Huang

If all you learn is a lot of forms, you just become a good dancer.
James Wing Woo

Yang Cheng Fu (1833-1936) exemplifies the highest natural talent and achievement in
tai chi since he was entirely self-taught after his father (Yang Chian, 1839-1917) died.
His great example encourages us that even if excellent teachers are hard to find, we can
develop by ourselves if we really understand and apply the theories and principles of
tai chi chuan.
Jou Tsung Hwa

As the practitioner incorporates the quality of tai chi movement into his life, he finds that he stops banging into things. The result of not falling into each step provides the opportunity to instantaneously ease back from unexpected barriers.
Wolfe Lowenthal

Mentally focus on the execution of all movements, or try to visualise each movement.
It helps understand the intrinsic meaning or intentions of the movements.
Avoid thinking of anything else, you will find it easier to focus on the movement and use your mind to direct the movements.
Dr Paul Lam

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
Bruce Lee

In real Tai Chi Chuan you receive; you don't go out looking.
Koh Ah Tee

The dantien is where the chi finds its root - the yongquan is where the body finds its root.
Koh Ah Tee

Back in India, yoga was developed. Check out these great yoga quotes.

Seneca Quotes

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca

Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Seneca


Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca


Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
Seneca

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.
Seneca

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca

He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca

No one can wear a mask for very long.
Seneca

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
Seneca

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.
Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Seneca

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Seneca

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Seneca

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
Seneca

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Seneca

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
Seneca

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Seneca

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Seneca

All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Seneca

As was his language so was his life.
Seneca

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
Seneca

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Seneca

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Seneca

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
Seneca

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Seneca

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca

Seneca

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Seneca

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
Seneca

Short Quotes

Short, Shorter, Shortest! Size doesn't matter...

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

The best love affairs are those we never had.
Norman Lindsay

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Lord Tennyson

In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin

Frailty, thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare

Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil, Aeneid

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Diana Black

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Guaguin

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winston Churchill Quotes

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.
Winston Churchill

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill

It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer of the type well-known in the East, now posing as a fakir, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.
Winston Churchill

I have no doubt that the Romans planned the time-table of their days far better than we do. They rose before the sun at all seasons. Except in wartime we never see the dawn. Sometimes we see sunset. The message of sunset is sadness; the message of dawn is hope. The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even play, from eight o’clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.
Winston Churchill

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
Winston Churchill

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk – and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.
Winston Churchill



Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

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

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston Churchill


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
Winston Churchill


The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.
Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
Winston Churchill

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill


If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Tony Blair Quotes

Tony Blair on the future, winning, Labour, Europe and more. Tony Blair in quotes!

I think most people who have dealt with me, think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy and I am.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism. They are what hold our nation back. Not just in the Conservative Party but within us, within our nation.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.
Tony Blair

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
Tony Blair

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, education.

It will be a government that seeks to restore trust in politics in this country.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
Tony Blair

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.
Tony Blair

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.
Tony Blair

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

They say I hate the party, and its traditions. I don't. I love this party. There's only one tradition I hated: losing.
Tony Blair

I will have no truck with a European superstate. If there are moves to create that dragon I will slay it.
Tony Blair

The third way stands for a modernised social democracy, passionate in its commitment to social justice and the goals of the centre-left, but flexible innovative and forward-looking in the means to achieve them.
Tony Blair

The Little Prince Quotes

French: Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to have to explain things to them always and forever.


French: Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

French: Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides.... On ne peut pas mourir pour vous.
You are beautiful, but you are empty... One could not die for you.

French: Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

French: Quand on veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'on existe.
If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.


French: Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.
When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.


French: J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil...
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...


French: On ne sait jamais!
One never knows!


French: C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Le langage est source de malentendus.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.

French: Les enfants seuls savent ce qu'ils cherchent.
Only children know what they are looking for.

Freedom Quotes

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi


Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government, has a monopoly on truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put here for a reason and has something to offer.
Ronald Reagan, President

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
Alan Keyes

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Nietzsche

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
Spinoza

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Baron de Montesquieu

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

More laws, less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman

Vladimir Putin Quotes

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Vladimir Putin

Sarkozy Quotes

Get to know the politician Sarkozy by checking out some of these quotes:


I want an integrated Europe, in other words, a Europe that has borders ... Turkey is in Asia Minor.
Nicolas Sarkozy

We've got the highest taxes in Europe. France's problem is we're paying too much tax.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Do we ask ourselves why the English buy our houses in the Dordogne and the Périgord, in the Lubéron, in Savoie and in many other regions? ... I have nothing against the English, who are our friends, but it is not my ambition that the most beautiful villages of France become holiday resorts reserved for the British.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals,
Nicolas Sarkozy

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Certain people in France call me Sarkozy the American. I'm proud of it. I'm a man of action. I do what I say and I try to be pragmatic.
Nicolas Sarkozy

If a wife is kept hostage at home without learning French, the whole family will be asked to leave (the country.

It will never be possible to stress enough the evil that the 35-hour week has done to our country. How can we retain this mad idea that by working less, we will produce more wealth and create jobs?
Nicolas Sarkozy


If we want to restore hope to the French people, great changes are essential.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Who can't see that there's a clear link between the uncontrolled immigration of 30 or 40 years and the social explosion on our housing estates?
Nicolas Sarkozy


If people don't like being in France they only have to leave. We've had more than enough of always having the feeling that we must apologise for being French.
Nicolas Sarkozy

We want to allow families to return to football stadiums and feel safe. It was about time.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Why so much hatred [directed at me]? Perhaps it's because I say out loud what everyone quietly thinks.
Nicolas Sarkozy


Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France. It is what the UMP asks for and expects

Philosophy Quotes

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers (lovers of wisdom), and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.
Pythagoras

Marriage Quotes - Getting Married

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Anouk Aimee

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
Robert Schuller

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
Proverb

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.
Jerry McCant



Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Goethe

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
H.L. Mencken

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
Kin Hubbard

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katherine Hepburn

After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
Joan Didion

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

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers

Crazy Quotes - Craziness Quotes

But we're never gonna survive unless...

We get a little crazy.

No we're never gonna survive unless...

We are a little...

Crazy... 

Seal

 

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-taxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? 

Niels Bohr

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. 

Jimi Hendrix

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

Sakip Sabanci

 

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein

 

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.

Max Walker

 

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Vincent van Gogh

 

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

 

I'm realizing my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Roman Abramovich

 

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

 Charles Bukowski

 

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

 Robert Anton Wilson

 

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

 

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

 Henry Miller