ARISTOTLE

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

ANON

A little bit of help is better than a great deal of pity.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

GANDHI

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

DAVID GRAYSON

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

ALFRED ADLER

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

ANON

There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it ill behoves the best of us to say any ill of the worst of us.

[It’s exactly 3 years since I created this blog. When I began I was uncertain in how it would progress, and on that first day I posted no fewer than 30 quotations! Since then, a routine has developed and my aim has been to publish a quote daily. There have been 1065 posts, and since last December the number of hits has averaged 70 per week. The majority of visitors to the site are from the UK and the USA, but there are a surprising number of people all over the world who access the blog.]

THOMAS CARLYLE

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

HECTOR BERLIOZ

Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Buddhist Saying

Neither fire nor wind nor birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

MOTHER TERESA

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

for St Valentine's Day

Two anonymous quotes -

What would it be like to swing on a star, or walk on a cloud? Would it be anything like what I feel whenever you are near?

Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.

VOLTAIRE

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share. Be bold, proclaim it everywhere. They only live who dare.

From Fragrantheart.com

When we are connected to Nature even the tiniest creature elicits our awe and reverence.

EDWARD DE BONO

The simple process of focussing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

BUDDHA

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are three things which are extremely hard - steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

Indian Proverb

Every time you wake up, ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?" Remember that, when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

MALCOLM FORBES

Failure is success if we learn from it.

LAO-TZU

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. Loving someone deeply gives you courage.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Insist on being yourself. Never imitate.

CONFUCIUS

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order. To put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order. To put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life. We must first set our hearts right.