quotes for life..

Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Thomas Alva Edison
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

John Barrymore
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Edith Hamilton
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."

John Andrew Holmes
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

Oscar Levant
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Milton Berle
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Henny Youngman
I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays.

Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.

Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Arthur Miller
The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Gwendolyn Brooks
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical guise.

Sandra Day O'Connor
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

Ross MacDonald
Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Gloria Steinem
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

David McCullough
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

William J. H. Boetcker
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Abraham J. Heschel
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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