Timeless Quotes

Discover the Power of Words

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Victor Hugo

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Robert H. Schuller

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Catherine O'Hara

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Naveen Jain

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Rachael Ray

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Bubba Watson

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

W. Clement Stone

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

Peter Tosh

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Spike Milligan

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Mikhail Gorbachev

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Marilyn Monroe

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Walter Scott

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Neil Gaiman

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

George Eliot

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Robin Williams

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

David O. McKay

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Sidney Poitier

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Phil McGraw

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Jim Davis

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Elbert Hubbard

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Jonathan Swift

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

William Feather

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Paul Tournier