Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
—Sam Ewing (American Writer)
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
—Dolores Huerta (American Labor Activist)
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.
—Rita Coolidge (American Singer, Songwriter)
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it.
—Kenneth Bancroft Clark (American Psychologist)
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
—Russell Conwell (American Baptist Minister)
You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what that is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening—everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say ‘I did that.’
—Ricky Gervais (British Comedian, Writer)
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
—Maria Weston Chapman (American Abolitionist)
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
—Richard Leider (American Executive Coach)
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
—Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Novelist)