Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs was many things. One thing is certain. His innovation, tenacity and drive made him successful at putting a "ding in the universe." Steve taught us all a few things too. He taught us to discover and follow our passions and to accept nothing but excellence, especially from ourselves.

Thank you Steve.




Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.


Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.


Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.


I want to put a ding in the universe.



My job is not to be easy on people. My jobs is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.


That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.


Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?


Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower


We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.


Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.


In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.


So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.”


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.


I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.


I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.


Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.


It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.


I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.


I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.


Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Fear Quotes

If fear is holding you back, take a look at this collection of some of my favorite quotes about fear and see how that can help you take the steps you are seeking in your own life!

Maria


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Fear Quotes



Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke


It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood

I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey



Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
Usman B. Asif



Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson



Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
Henry S. Haskins





There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton



Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
Brendan Francis



There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.
Frederick W. Cropp



There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide



Fear is faith that it won't work out.
Sister Mary Tricky



Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols



Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden



To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Paterson



Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
Ruth Gendler



Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine



To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell



Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis



Fear cannot take what you do not give it.
Christopher Coan



Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug.
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie



He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Seneca

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude

Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke

Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Michael Ignatieff

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda

To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
L. Frank Baum

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
Henry Ford

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity--it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
Susan Piver

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Frank Sinatra

Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
Stephanie Meyer

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
Lee Child

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.
Neil Gaiman

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
Chanakya


Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli



A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams



Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler



Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hāfez



Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb



If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd Douglas



I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
Rosa Parks



You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on.
Dodinsk



Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill



Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Author Unknown



Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
Sophie Tunnell



I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway



He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb



Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Author Unknown



He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
French Proverb



There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain



Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Donald Dowes



The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender


To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
T.A. Sachs


I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong


Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell D. Hillis

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles

Loss of a Loved One Quotes

Listed below are some of he most inspiring and kind sympathy quotes I have found. The first poem I came across soon after the death of my father and it has always brought me to tears and offered me great comfort. Hope these quotes and poems offer you the same.

Maria

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Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.
Mary Frye


Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From a headstone in Ireland


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Ingersoll


When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A human life is a story told by God.
Hans Christian Andersen


To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell



While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
John Taylor

Tears water our growth.
William Shakespeare

Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Say not in grief "he is no more," but live in thankfulness that he was.
Hebrew proverb

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Kahlil Gibran


Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. Rita Schiano


When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. Author Unknown

The memory of a good person is a blessing.
Proverbs 10:7

If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
Author Unknown


It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? Benjamin Franklin


Grieve not, nor think of me with tears, but laugh
and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so-
'Twas heaven here with you.
Isla Paschal Richardson


We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Chekov


Until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Irish prayer


For some moments in life there are no words.
David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
John Henry Newman



The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
Eileen Elias Freeman


Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson


Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Author Unknown


When he shall die
Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heav'n so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet


Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
Author Unknown


For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn

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Freedom Quotes

Today seemed like a good day to get some inspiration about the importance of freedom and a reminder of what freedom means to all of us.

Enjoy!

Maria


Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950


Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell


Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte


Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~Gerard K. O'Neill


Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln


I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~Simone de Beauvoir


My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952


It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler


We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken



For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine


In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan


There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley


No one is free when others are oppressed.
~Author Unknown



Freedom means choosing your burden.
~Hephzibah Menuhin



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~Author Unknown


Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
~Jeffrey Borenstein


Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson


The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952


We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~Louis D. Brandeis


Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~Friedrich Nietzsche


Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw


We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
~Errico Malatesta


We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
~Ricardo Flores Magon, 1914


Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas Macaulay



We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter


No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Frederick Douglass, 1883


Let freedom never perish in your hands.
~Joseph Addison


Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
~Francis Wright, 1828


Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~George Washington


I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~James Madison, 1788


Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~Will Rogers


Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~Theodore Roosevelt


We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
~Edward R. Murrow


Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
~William Cowper


The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~Daniel Webster


Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
~Albert Camus


Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922


I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~Author Unknown


The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~Louis D. Brandeis


Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

Labor Day Quotes

Here are some quotes to remind us the importance of work and the equal value of rest.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
~Doug Larson

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
~ Indira Gandhi

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm.
~ Sidney J. Phillips

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
~Elbert Hubbard

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
~Marc Chagall

Without labor nothing prospers.
~Sophocles

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~Ovid

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.
~ Anonymous

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
~ Albert Einstein

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness.
~ Greek proverb

Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, some done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
~ Bertrand Russell

There is no substitute for hard work.
~ Thomas Edison

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
~ Elbert Hubbard

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
~ John D. Rockefeller

Under the spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith a mighty man is he
With large and sinewy hands.
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
He earns whatever he can,
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
~ Ralph Ransom

Motivational Quotes

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing




It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth




Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon



We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes




Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie




If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.




Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan




All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney




Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean




If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump




Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb




If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher




So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino




We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal




Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill






Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams




That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln




Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison




The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill




When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy




He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin




Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver




Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain



It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

Storms make oaks take roots.
Proverb

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
John B. Gough

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

Spring Quotes

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams


Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth


April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe



It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain


Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ~Charles Dudley Warner




I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout


No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet


The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven -
All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning


No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland


Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft


April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland


Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing.
~Albert Laighton


That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
~Winifred Mary Letts


In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood



And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"


Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters


Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb


The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell


In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ~Mark Twain


O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? ~Edward Giobbi


Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost



The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke


If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets


April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare


Out with the cold, in with the woo. ~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"


The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams


Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey


If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair


Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens


Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~Virgil


First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus. ~Lilja Rogers


You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. ~Paul Fleischman


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby


The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein