My Favorite Quotes

Listed below are some of my favorite quotes from famous, not-so-famous, and infamous people.

James Truslow Adams

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."

Anonymous

"Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer."

Aristotle

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

W. H. Auden

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."

Dave Barry

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."

John C. Bogle

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

Alec Bourne

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Phillips Brooks

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

Warren Buffet

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

Raymond Chandler

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Cliff Clavin

Explaining the 'Buffalo Theory' to Norm..."Well ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members."

"In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine!"

"That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers!!"

Steven H. Coogler

"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."

John Dewey, educator, philosopher

"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."

Joan Didion

"Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs."

Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

Leo Durocher

"To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a 'support group.' Salvation in a can!"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment, and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

W.C. Fields

"Beer: helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C."

Emmet Fox

"You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

Benjamin Franklin

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Ernest Hemingway

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

Conrad Hilton

"You control your life by controlling your time."

Paul Hornung

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Hindu Proverb

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.  The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Helen Keller

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."

John F. Kennedy

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

Abraham Lincoln

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

H. L. Mencken

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."

Tom Morris

"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."

Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess."

Arnold Palmer

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."

Diane Ravitch

"The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss."

John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t waste your effort on a thing that results in a petty triumph unless you are satisfied with a life of petty issues."

Will Rogers

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Babe Ruth

"Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, "It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."

George Bernard Shaw

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"

Frank Sinatra

"I did it my way."

Sylvester Stallone

"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results."

Janet Erskine Stuart

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Thomas Szasz

The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

Leo Tolstoy

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Brian Tracy

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."

Oscar Wilde

"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."

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