General Quotes
1. Sow an act and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character and you reap a destiny - Unknown
2. Eyes are the window to the soul - Unknown
3. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool - Unknown
4. A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was - Joseph Hall
5. Of all the arts in which the wise excel, natures chief masterpiece is writing well - Unknown
6. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind to much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his brain to little falls into lazy habits of thinking - Albert Einstein
7. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self - Aristotle
8. Boys will be boys, and even that won't matter if we can somehow prevent girls from being girls - Anonymous
9. When saving for old age, be sure you
put away a few pleasant thoughts
- Unknown
10. The wise man has long ears, big eyes,
and a short tongue
- Russian Proverb
11. There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become - Orison Swett Marden
12. Life consists of penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired - Leo Tolstoy
13. Meditation is the language of the soul - David O. McKay
14. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more - Unknown
15. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something - Unknown
16. Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something - Plato
17. There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but that which you have received from some source - Brigham Young
18. We do not remember days, we remember moments - Unknown
19. God gave us memory so we could have roses in december - Unknown
20. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying - Unknown
21. Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer - Unknown
22. Where one door closes, another opens - Don Quijote
23. When someone says, "that's a good question." You can be sure it's allot better than the answer your going to get - Unknown
24. Everything should be as simple as
possible, but not simpler
- Albert Einstein
25. Some say it's holding on that makes you strong. Sometimes it's letting go - Unknown
26. The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished - Unknown
27. The biggest room in the world, is the
room for improvement
- Unknown
28. The best place to find a helping hand
is at the end of your own arm
- Unknown
29. One good thing about the future is
that it only comes one day at a time
- Unknown
30. Never do anything today that will cause you to say tomorrow, "I will do better than yesterday." - Unknown
31. Life is what happens while you're busy
making other plans
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
32. You pile up enough tomorrow's, and you will find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays - Professor Harrold Hill
33. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Unknown
34. Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope - Unknown
35. Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better - Unknown
36. Everyone's life is an object lesson to others - Karl G. Maeser
37. Real sacrifice comes from self-sacrifice - Sister J. Richard Clarke
38. There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit - Unknown
39. It is easier to suppress the first
desire than to satisfy all that follow
- Unknown
40. Look out for the tongue, it's in a wet place and might slip - Unknown
41. You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him - Unknown
42. A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is home - Unknown
43. What you don't know would make a great book - Sydney Smith
44. You cannot explain failure any more
than you can argue with success
- J. Richard Clarke
45. Social tact is making a guest feel at
home, when you really wish he was
- Unknown
46. One good way to save your face is to
keep the lower half shut
- Unknown
47. Tact is the art of thinking all you
say, and not saying all you think
- Unknown
48. Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct - Unknown
49. Tact is the ability to close your
mouth before someone else wants to
- Unknown
50. Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life - Brigham Young
51. The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it, and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education - Joseph F. Smith
52. I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday - Abraham Lincoln
53. We are like tea bags, we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water - Sis. Busche
54. The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one - Adolf Hitler
55. Wisdom is child of pain, and born with many a tear - Aeschylus
56. When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content - Niccolo Machiavelli
57. The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it - John Galsworthy
58. Don't believe everything you hear, don't spend everything you have, don't sleep all you want - Dusty Dunn
59. Learn to listen, opportunity could be
knocking at your door very softly
- Frank Tyger
60. People must have trust in their
institutions and in their leaders
- David B. Haight
61. What are we here for? To learn to enjoy more, and to increase in knowledge and in experience - Brigham Young
62. Do you need it or just want it? - Basil Harris
63. Originality is the art of concealing your source - Unknown
64. It ain't braggin' if you can do it - Jerome Herman (Dizzy) Dean
65. It wasn't untill quite late in life
that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know." - W.
66. Your mind is like an attic. You can
fill it with good junk or bad junk
- Mrs. Halperin
67. We may have lost many people, but we have gained many angels - Unknown