I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.
John C. MaxwellIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch SpinozaI do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘
Brian EnoWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesLooking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
Kurt CobainI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David ThoreauIt feels good to have your work respected again.
EminemThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas JeffersonI love life because what more is there?
Anthony HopkinsAsk an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.
Richard BransonI would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert HubbardWhat, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark TwainWe love things we love what they are.
Robert FrostEvery one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
VoltaireMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas CarlyleFriendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert HubbardIt’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
Brian EnoFew men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
Charles SpurgeonA wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles DickensI still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.
Dolly PartonI don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.
Alice WalkerI think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
Elon MuskIf the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Leonardo da VinciGrowing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy GrahamNaturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.
Marilyn MonroeSeriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar WildeThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeAnything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
Kurt VonnegutI don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore RooseveltGreat indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich NietzscheBeauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander PopeFriends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van BeethovenWho would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne FrankFor having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinThere is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhen you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!
Joyce MeyerOur life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciShall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the GreatMany admire, few know.
HippocratesI’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.
John KennedyLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.
Virat KohliDeath obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
J. K. RowlingI don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldAs you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
David BowieOh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
John MuirNo one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George OrwellI’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
Steve JobsThe Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven WrightA good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert HooverPeople are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.
Bill GatesWhen someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George CarlinLike so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.
Michelle Obama