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honesty quotes or sayings & quotations

denisewixer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:17:00 +0000

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
~honesty quotes by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
~famous quotes about Honesty by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
~honesty sayings by Patrick Sky

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~honesty quotes or sayings by Jerome K. Jerome

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~inspirational sayings about Honesty quotes by Mark Twain

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~honesty quotes by No�l Coward, Blithe Spirit

Life Quotes and Sayings

denisewixer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Author: Oscar Wilde

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Author: Samuel Butler

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Author: Srully D. Blotnick

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Author: Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Author: Leonard Bernstein

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom–as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
Author: Warren G. Bennis

Wise Life Quotes

denisewixer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:01:39 +0000

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ~Eng’s Principle

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Quotations about Money

denisewixer — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:39 +0000

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

Random Life Proverbs

denisewixer — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:04:08 +0000

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

To err is human to forgive, infrequent.
~Author : Franklin P Adams Wise Quotes

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
~Author : George Gordon Byron Motivational Sayings

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
~Author : Virginia Woolf Famous Quotes

Be and not seem.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Nice Quotes

Wise Life Quotes

denisewixer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:55:14 +0000

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don’t you say the good now days? ~Robert M. Young

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. ~Author Unknown

“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. ~George E. Woodberry

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell

Famous life quotations

denisewixer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:50:26 +0000

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
~ by José Ortega y Gasset

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
~ by Confucius

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
~ by Author Unknown

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
~ by Vita Sackville-West

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
~ by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Wise Random Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:41:20 +0000

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
~Author : Laurence Sterne Famous Quotes

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
~Author : Richard Phillips Feynman Inspirational Sayings

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
~Author : Fontenelle Nice Quotes

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
~Author : Albert Camus The Fall Great Sayings

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
~Author : Timothy Leary Meaningful Sayings

Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.
~Author : Romanian Proverb Wise Quotes

Famous Success Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:11:12 +0000

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Famous Inspirational Quotes

denisewixer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes