There’s cost and benefit each time you criticize or suggest. Sometimes, it’s worth the price. Make the choice consciously.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
—Uesugi Kenshin (Japanese Warlord, Daimyo)
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
—Joan Baez (American Singer)
Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn’t get you anywhere.
—Corrie Ten Boom (Dutch Jewish Humanist)
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
—Victoria Abril (Spanish Actress, Singer)
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
—Pope John XXIII (Italian Catholic Religious Leader)
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.
—Rollo May (American Philosopher)
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn’t do.
—Richard L. Evans (American Mormon Religions Leader)
The person who builds a character makes foes.
—Owen D. Young (American Businessperson)
Thy modesty’s a candle to thy merit.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins (American Educator)
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
—Holbrook Jackson (British Journalist)
All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.
—Neal A. Maxwell (American Mormon Religious Leader)
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
—Rene Descartes (French Mathematician, Philosopher)