This is not my... Quote
It seemed such a shame to hide the quotes we have already used on the site (plus I keep putting the same ones up by accident) so I thought I'd list them out here.
Previous Quotes
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
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
Mahatma Ghandi
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Seneca
What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
Mike Melville
The only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
It is only when you take control of your life that you know you are alive.
Ma Jian
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Frances des Sales
Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to.
Anon
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Dubois
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Anais Nin
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Robert F. Kennedy
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscagalia
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Martin Niemoller
Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.
Florynce Kennedy
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
Dorothy Thompson
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Gloria Steinem
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
Warren Miller
Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease.
Barbara Ehrenreich
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Camara
If you think you're too small to be effective you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.
Anon
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Frederick Buechner
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
Planting a timebomb in a local library is a felony.
Batman
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James A. Baldwin
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
"Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
George Bernhard Shaw
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
HH The Dalai Lama
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Frederick Buechner
