Body Quotes - Exercise Quotes - Mind Body Relationship

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
Chuang Tzu

There is ample evidence that the psyche, through pathways tapped into by hypnosis, yoga, autogenic training, and biofeedback, among others, can positively modify the physiological functions of specific organs, ie, the heart, skin, etc.
Gérard V. Sunnen


Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.
Ecclesiasticus 30:15


Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
Vince Lombardi

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Socrates

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.
Walter Russell

Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Quotations

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Leo Tolstoy

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy

Dale Carnegie Quotes - Quotations

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie

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

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.
Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie


Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

Keep on raging - to stop the aging.
Dale Carnegie

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

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

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

Tamil Proverbs - India Quotes (English translation)

There is nothing called empty hands. You always have 10 fingers in it.

There is no downward journey for those who keep trying.

Desist from sinning, for, tomorrow an angry god of death may deprive you of applying the corrective by taking you into his fold.

She who cannot dance says the stage is imperfect.

If you keep hitting it, even the ammi will move.

Men of patience will rule the world.

There is only two divsion in the world one is man, and other is women.

Only when in the sun do you miss the shade.

Even a hungry tiger will not eat grass.

Will beauty feed you, or will fortune feed you?

Will he be afraid of blame, who is not afraid of committing murder?

Will the man who lies with his own mother regard any ties?

The wounds of fire would vanish with time but the wounds caused by words never.

A snake will know the tracks left by another snake.

Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you.

He stepped into the water without knowing its depth.

What won't bend at 5 will not bend at 50.

If the sugar-cane tastes bitter, the fault is in the mouth of the eater

Fire lasts only as long as it heats. The earth lasts only as long as it revolves. Man lasts only as long as he tries. You are man.

Pull a mountain by tying a hair to it. If you succeed you will get a mountain, if you lose you will lose a hair. There is no harm in trying.

One's own faults are an opportunity for others.

Even an ant, if it runs long enough, can wear out a rock.

Even a crow finds its own child precious.

A drunkard's words are gone by the next dawn.

A doctor only thinks of the profit he will get by the medicine he is preparing, the sick person only wonders whether it will cure him or not.

A fully filled pot does not spill.

Joy and grief are a whirling wheel.

Let me lose my respect; I am satisfied if I get fat.

Should one burn down one's house for fear of rats?

Good fortune and riches are never one man's share.

Like a cat putting on a rosary and teaching religion.

Make a wrong doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.

All that glitters is not gold.

A single tree will never make an orchard.

A thorn can only be removed with another thorn.

The beauty of the soul is known in the face.

Don't step in the river without knowing its depth.

Are you so blind as to run your head against a ruined wall?

Even elephants do slip.

Charm Quotes - Being Charming Quotes

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke - quotes about being thankful

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Edgar Saltus

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis


Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus, The Fall


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford


Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frédéric Amiel


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise


Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan Pearsall Smith


(On charm: )It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows


There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
Josh Billings


It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde


Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Richter

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan Pearsall Smith

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley

There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Samuel Johnson

We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown


Forbidden things have a secret charm.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus


There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine

Finish It Quotes - Complete It Quotes: Get It Done

Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke

Cicero Quotes - Cicero Quotations

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero

Our thoughts are free.
Cicero


Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Cicero

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Cicero

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
Cicero

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero

It is a great thing to know our vices.
Cicero

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
Cicero

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
Cicero

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
Cicero

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
Cicero

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Cicero

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
Cicero

To each his own. (Suum Cuique)
Cicero

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Cicero

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero

Let the punishment match the offense.
Cicero


Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.
Cicero

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Cicero

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
Cicero

Laws are silent in times of war.
Cicero

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero


Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
Cicero

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Cicero


In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero

Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero

Rene Magritte Quotes - Surrealism Quotes: Dreams, Light, Thoughts and more

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte

Between ourselves it's terrible what one lays one self open to when drawing an innocent picture.
Rene Magritte

The void is the only mystery left for man.
Rene Magritte

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
Rene Magritte

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
Rene Magritte

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
Rene Magritte

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte

Zig Ziglar Quotes - Motivation, Persistence, Hard Work, Money and more

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Zig Ziglar

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar


I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

All happy, successful, long-term relationships are built on trust. That's why character is so important, so build a character base and I will see you at the top.
Zig Ziglar

The message is clear. It is not what is happening ‘out there.’ It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.
Zig Ziglar

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
Zig Ziglar

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
Zig Ziglar

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.
Zig Ziglar

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Zig Ziglar

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Zig Ziglar

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Zig Ziglar


You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
Zig Ziglar

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result.
Zig Ziglar

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Zig Ziglar

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar


People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar

Machiavelli Quotes - The Prince Quotations

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli


The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli


I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli


It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli


Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli


Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli


It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo Machiavelli


Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli



The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli


A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli


Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli


The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo Machiavelli

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo Machiavelli

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Happy New Year Quotes - New Year Eve Quotes - New Year Resolutions

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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland


The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Hartley Coleridge


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
Edward Payson Powell


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain


We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde


Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
Martin Luther


We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
John Greenleaf Whittier

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
Henry Ward Beecher


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
John Burroughs


Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Charles Lamb


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
Edgar Guest


It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.
William Thomas


We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
F.M. Knowles


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
G.K. Chesterton

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.
Judith Crist

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
Henry Moore


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann


I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Anaïs Nin


Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?
John Dos Passos


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Mark Twain


Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Jean Paul Richter


The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
W.H. Auden


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey

I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan


Resolutions for avoiding misery:

Choose to love—rather than hate.
Choose to smile—rather than frown.
Choose to build—rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere—rather than quit.
Choose to praise—rather than gossip.
Choose to heal—rather than wound.
Choose to give—rather than take.
Choose to act—rather than delay.
Choose to forgive—rather than curse.
Choose to pray—rather than despair.


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
Charles Lamb


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

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Too Much Debt Quotes – Credit Card Debt Quotes – Consolidate Loans - Eliminate Debt - Bad Credit

Related: Don't miss these great quotes on frugal living and save money!

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

A good debt is not as good as no debt.
Chinese Proverb

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner;
for the master owns only your person,
but a creditor owns your dignity,
and can command it.
Quote from Les Miserables

One who restrains his appetites avoids debt.
Chinese Proverb

Borrowing money from a friend is like sex—it completely changes the relationship!
Quote from Seinfeld

Talking about debt collectors..."One guy called me everyday last week. I said, 'Look, every month I put everyone I owe into a hat, I pick three names, I pay those people. And if you call me one more time I'm taking you out of the hat.' They all want to be in the hat.
Margaret Smith

Stretch your leg only as far as your blanket.
Turkish Proverb

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb
Credit card companies have been using unfair and deceptive practices to trick Americans into signing agreements they can't afford.
Barack Obama

Free from debt is free from care.
Chinese Proverb

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Moliere

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips


If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Lend less than you owe.
William Shakespeare


All things are difficult before they are easy.
John Norley

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.

Living modestly and being happy with what you have--therein lies the success of saving.
Scott Bilker

Financial success is having control over your finances rather than having your finances in control of you.
Scott Bilker

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.
Joel Osteen

Organization is the key to success with anything.
Scott Bilker

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's real.
Anthony Robbins


Control your destiny, or someone else will!
Jack Welch

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson


Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke


Borrow money from pessimists—they don't expect it back.
Steven Wright

You can't really have a happy life without having a healthy financial life.
Scott Bilker


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth




I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. And I had no idea I could be this happy without incurring credit card debt."
Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 2"



Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw


Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

If thou lend money to any of My people,...thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
Exodus 22:24



I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E.E. Cummings


When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? Quotes

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Balance


As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington


Action is the foundational key to all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
Tony Robbins

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land (inventor of the Polaroid camera)


If medical science continues to prolong life, some of us may eventually pay off the mortgage.
Jonathan Pond

If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.
Andrew Jackson

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
Winston Churchill

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
Ogden Nash

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.
P.T. Barnum

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.
Clinton Jones

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

The way to learn to do things is to do things. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Mark Twain

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown

The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Joel Osteen

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost


Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: "I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."
Mark Twain


If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Neither a borrower or lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Shakespeare

Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrow,
when thou hast nothing in thy purse:
for thou shall lie in wait for thine own life,
and be talked on.
Bible

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts;
you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Lord Bryon

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Quote from The Two Races of Men

Be sure you know a person well before you vouch for his credit. Better refuse than to suffer later.
Proverbs 11:15


The only way to beat the banks is to make them fight for your business!
Scott Bilker

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage for me it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
Rich Vos


There's a fine line between, 'oh, that's cute' and 'I have to have that now.’
Larissa S. Bilker


Creating a budget is much easier than sticking to one.
Scott Bilker


Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
Albert Einstein

It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.
Carl Lofmark

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Seneca

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Benjamin Disraeli


God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!
Joel Osteen

I paid the bank note, the car note, an' yes, I paid the 'phone bill too. An' then I turned around an' I found that the house note's due. Well, I'd love to take you out like I said I would, honey, But there's too much month at the end of the money.
Marty Stuart

Credit-Card-Itis: A documented syndrome resulting in pain in the rear that runs down the thigh due to pressure on a nerve from a wallet stuffed with credit cards.
New England Medical Journal

Determinism Quotes - Probabilities Quotes - Gambling Quotes - Man, Life, Speculation

At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring upon it. And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do for it. Jeremiah 18:7-10 (God can change His mind)

Iacta alea est - The die is cast
Julius Caesar

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
Schopenhauer

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
Richard Dawkins

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein

We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg onward.
Sigmund Freud

I am a determinist. ...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose to do, but whether we can choose our own choice, whether the choice itself issues in accordance with law from some antecedent.
Brand Blanshard


There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Clarence Darrow


Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
Clarence Darrow


Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
Charles Darwin

We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg onward.
Sigmund Freud

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Georg C. Lichtenberg


A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
B. F. Skinner

Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.
Ecclesiasticus 11:14

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.
B. F. Skinner


In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity."
Baruch Spinoza


Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.
Voltaire

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru

There but for the grace of my determinants go I.
Peter Gill



I'm a victim of coicumstances!
Curly Howard

Chance, too, which seems to rush along with slack reins, is bridled and governed by law.
Boethius

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole

The conception of chance enters in the very first steps of scientific activity in virtue of the fact that no observation is absolutely correct. I think chance is a more fundamental conception that causality; for whether in a concrete case, a cause-effect relation holds or not can only be judged by applying the laws of chance to the observation.
Max Born

Give me a dozen health infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one of them at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer…beggar man…thief.
JB Watson

“We are enslaved,” says Richard Dawkins, “by selfish molecules …. They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. …. they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines."


Probability is the very guide of life.
Cicero

[Upon proving that the best betting stragegy for Gambler's Ruin was to bet all on the first trial.] It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
Julian Lowell Coolidge

How many really basic mathematical objects are there? One is surely the `miraculous' jar of the positive integers 1, 2, 3 . . . Another is the concept of a fair coin. Though gambling was rife in the ancient world and although prominent Greeks and Romans sacrificed to Tyche, the goddess of luck, her coin did not arrive on the mathematical scene until the Renaissance. Perhaps one of the things that had delayed this was a metaphysical position which held that God speaks to humans through the action of chance. . . . The modern theory begins with the expulsion of Tyche from the Pantheon. There emerges the vision of the fair coin, the biased coin. This coin exists in some mental universe and all modern writers on probability theory have access to it. They toss it regularly and they speculate about what they 'observe.'"
Philip Davis and Rueben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience


Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance.
Democritus

It is a truth very certain that when it is not in our power to determine what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.
Descartes

I will never believe that god plays dice with the universe.
Einstein, Albert


The 'Law of Frequency of Error' . . . reigns with serentiy and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob . . . the more perfrect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand . . . an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.
Franics Galton


Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould

Probability does pervade the universe, and in this sense, the old chestnut about baseball imitating life really has validity. The statistics of streaks and slumps, properly understood, do teach an important lesson about epistemology, and life in general. The history of a species, or any natural phenomenon, that requires unbroken continuity in a world of trouble, works like a batting streak. All are games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources. The gambler must eventually go bust. His aim can only be to stick around as long as possible, to have some fun while he's at it, and, if he happens to be a moral agent as well, to worry about staying the course with honor!
Stephen Jay Gould

Steinhaus, with his predilection for metaphors, used to quote a Polish proverb, `Forturny kolem sie tocza' [Luck runs in circles], to explain why Pi, so intimately connected with circles, keeps cropping up in probability theory and statistics, the two disciplines which deal with randomness and luck.
Mark Kac, Enigmas of Chance

Nothing occurs at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
Leucippus


A man must have chaos yet within him to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win times the probability of winning it.
Blaise Pascal

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
Karl Pearson

Suam habet fortuna rationem. (Chance has its reasons.)
Petronius


I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.
Plato

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate; when he can't afford it, and when he can.
Mark Twain

Always be a little improbable.
Oscar Wilde

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
Bertrand Russell

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
B. F. Skinner



It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Arthur Eddington

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Clarence Darrow

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Heinz R. Pagels

Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.
John Hospers

The probable is what usually happens.
Aristotle

How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?
Joseph Bertrand


The enormous value of the concept of free will in relieving parental shame and guilt is the only and overriding reason, in our opinion, that the lie of free will is well nigh universally taught to all children. If and when we can convince parents of total determinism, so they are freed from their own shame and guilt, they will no longer need to teach the vicious lie of free will to the world's children. A new world will be born.
Peter Gill


The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
Bertrand Russell


The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate.
Stephen Hawking


You will say that I feel free. This is an illusion, which may be compared to that of the fly in the fable, who, upon the pole of a heavy carriage, applauded himself for directing its course. Man, who thinks himself free, is a fly who imagines he has power to move the universe, while he is himself unknowingly carried along by it.
Baron d'Hobach


Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.
John Hospers


Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. A purely random set of accidents.
Marvin Minsky

Merry Christmas Quotes - Xmas Quotes - Christmas Wishes

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch of their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
Luke 2:8-12, Bible


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A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
Eva Logue

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.
Christine Georgina Rossetti

Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.
Dr. Thieme

Christmas living is the best kind of Christmas giving.
Van Dyke

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
Henry David Thoreau

I never realized God's birth before,
How He grew likest God in being born...
Such ever love's way--to rise, it stoops.
Robert Browning


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
Bill McKibben


Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
Carol Nelson


He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
Charles Dickens


The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
Cotvos

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Emerson

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
Ralph W. Sockman

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
W. C. Jones

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Seek joy in what you give... not in what you get.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
Rev. Billy Graham

Christmas is telling time--wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it....
Roy Rogers

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.


I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens


Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving


And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss


Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. Augusta E. Rundel


People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
Ogden Nash

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
Joan Mills

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore


Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving


I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E.M. Forster


Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
Felicia Hemans


I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!"
David Grayson



Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase


I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Charles Dickens


Christmas is a spark that ignites in someone's heart.

How many angels are there?
One--who transforms our life--is plenty.


At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
Thomas Tusser


O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Guy Wetmore Carryl

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
Loring A. Schuler


Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
Arlo Guthrie

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple


What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
Agnes M. Pahro

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher

Jesus is the reason for the season!

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
I give Him my heart.
Christina Rossetti

Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush,
rather than a last-minute rush.

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;
the warmth of Christmas, which is love;
the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;
the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;
the belief in Christmas, which is truth;
the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
Wilda English

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
Van Dyke

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:1-7, Bible

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens


Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich

You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.
Robert Paul

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Deborah Whipp

"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol


Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
Joanne Woodward



Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?
Tom Armstrong


Before the ice is in the pools, before the skaters go, or any cheek at nightfall is tarnished by the snow, before the fields have finished, before the Christmas tree, wonder upon wonder will arrive to me!
Emily Dickenson


Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
Ogden Nash


Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
Francis C. Farley

Merry Christmas to All!
From The Successful Living Quotes team

Christmas doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune on gifts! Inspire yourself with these quotes on frugal living, from the Successful Living Quotes Blog.

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The Alchemist Quotes - Paul Coelho Quotes

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

It's not often that money saves a person's life.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

If I am really part of your dream, you will come back one day.

May love be your guide in every moment of your life.

As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything... They become the soul of the world.

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.

Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.

In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.




No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of this wisdom. That's what I mean by action.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

What's the world's greatest lie? It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.


The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.


What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.

People learn early in their lives what is their reason for being.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves
Life attracts life.

... And that dream, day by day, became less important. May be cause it wasn't really his dream.

The fear of suffer is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered while was chasing its own dreams.

God is where you let Him in.

We all get prepared to kill dragons and end up being eaten by the ants of the details, which we've never given attention.

Don't you ever allow doubts to paralize your actions.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.