Amusing and Inspiring Quotes

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
Flannery O'Connor

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Andre Gide

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Anonymous Software Engineer

"The mind in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of a Heaven."
John Milton

"Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity."
Henry S. Haskins

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."
John Maynard Keynes

"One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is a costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
Roger Ascham

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail"
Anonymous

"We are paid for by our suspicions by finding what we suspected."
Henry David Thoreau

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
Susan Jeffers

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust"
George Eliot

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your teeth."
Alan Watts

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
Francesco Petrarch

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
Babe Ruth

"Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield."
Aesop

"Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine."
Rene Char

"No journey is too great if you find what you seek."
Unknown

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats

"The first time I see a jogger smile, I'll consider it."
Joan Rivers

"Who is Wise? One who learns from every man."
Ben Zoma

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."
Sydney Smith