Read new
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami - Japanese writer (b. 1949), from "Norwegian Wood" ("ノルウェイの森", 1987), Quotations book 2023
All Quotes
Freedom of press
The press must have the freedom to say anything so that certain people do not have the freedom to do anything. slogan of free journalism - attributed to renowned politicians and journalists such as Stewart Allsop (American journalist, 1914-1974), Louis Terrenoire (French journalist and politician, 1908-1992) and Alain Payrefitte (French politician, diplomat and journalist, 1925-1999),...
Responsibility
Responsibility is the price of freedom. Elbert Hubbard - American writer ("Message to Garcia") and publisher (1856-1915), quoted by his wife Alice Moore Hubbard (American writer and feminist, 1861-1915) in "An American Bible" (1912)
Sean bheannacht na h-Eireann
May God give you for every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile, for every care, a promise, and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh, a sweet song, and an answer for each prayer. old Irish blessing - Quotations book 2023 Go dtuga Dia daoibh: Tuar ceatha le gach stoirm Meangadh gáire le gach deor Gealltanas le gach buairt Agus...
Christmas
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. Ruth Carter Stapleton - American evangelist (1929-1983), sister of James Earl "Jimmy" Carter jr. (American politician, 1977-81 39th President, Nobel Peace Prize 2002, *1924), Quotations book 2023
Want
Who cannot do what he wants, has to want what he can do. Chi non può quel che vuol, quel che può voglia. Leonardo da Vinci - Italian polymath (1452-1519), from a sonnet of disputed origin
Look at God
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God, you'll be at rest. Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom – Dutch writer, member of the resistance (1892-1983), from "The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom" (1971), Quotations book 2023
Felix
Felix, qui quod amat defendere fortiter audet. Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid - born Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet (43 B.C. – c. 17 A.C.), from his love poems "Amores", book II, poem V (16 B.C.), Quotations book 2023
Sin dolor, no hay ganancia
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando. Pablo Picasso – born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973), Quotations book 2023
Curiosity pays of
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Steve Jobs - American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), from his commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005), Quotzations book 2023
Ordre
The beauty of the world is the order of the world that is loved. Simone Weil - French philosopher and social reformer (1909-1943), from "Awaiting God" ("Attente de Dieu," 1950) La beauté du monde, c’est l’ordre du monde aimé. Simone Weil - philosophe et réformatrice sociale française (1909-1943), extrait de "Attente de Dieu" (1950)
Change
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. C. William Pollard - American entrepreneur, investor and author (b. 1938), from "The Soul of the Firm" in "The Implementation of the Abstinence Education Provisions in the Welfare Reform-Hearing Before the...
Responsibility
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. C. William Pollard - American entrepreneur, investor and author (b. 1938)
From the inside
If you want to strike the right note, you have to hear it inside yourself first. wisdom of saxophone players
Goals
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. Leslie Calvin "Les" Brown – American motivational speaker (b. 1945)
Change
It's actually easier to make big changes than small ones. Dr. Dean M. Ornish - American physician, author and researcher, president and founder of the "Preventive Medicine Research Institute" in Sausalito, California (b. 1953), from "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease" (2010)
Futuro
Io amo il futuro e mi piacciono i giovani. La mia vita è stata tutta una scommessa sul futuro. Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli - imprenditore italiano, "Fiat" (1921-2003) I love the future and I like young people. My whole life has been a bet on the future. Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli - Italian entrepreneur, "Fiat" (1921-2003)
Words
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Wisdom, often falsely attributed to Mother Teresa – born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Albanian-born Indian nun and order’s founder, Nobel Peace Prize (1910-1997), could not be verified by the Mother Teresa Center
Certain
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain. W. Somerset Maugham - American writer (1874-1965), from "The Summing Up" (1938)
You have the choice!
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. wisdom, attributed to Dr. Seuss - born Theodor Seuss Geisel, American Cartoonist and children's books author (1904-1991)