Quotes and Sayings

College drop outs seem to be ruling the world today, and running the biggest companies, but if you ever happen to graduate here are some graduation quotes. in the most unlikelihood that you are ever invited to speak for a graduation ceremony, these graduation quotes and commencement sayings will come in handy.

“Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.”
~Arie Pencovici

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
~Aristotle

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.”
~Woody Allen, “My Speech to the Graduates,”

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
~ Wayne Dyer

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
~Judy Garland

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
~Vince Lombardi

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. ~Carly Fiorina, Of HP Compaq

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
~Ralph Marston

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
~Euripides

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
~Doug Larson

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
~ Jawaharlal Nehru

“People will frighten you about a graduation…. They use words you don’t hear often: “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.”
~Bill Cosby

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
~Robert Louis Stevenson

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
~Art Linkletter

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
~Milton Berle

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
Brooks Atkinson

We have to Thank God, A friend, Our Mother, father and anyone who have done something for us. We thank them everyday, and though a simple Thank you Often suffice, can’t we be more creative and make it more worthwhile? Here are some Quotes on and about Thank you.

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”"
~ William Arthur Ward

“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ”
~William Shakespeare

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues”
~Cicero

“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.”
~ David Thomas

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
~ William Blake

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”
~ A. J. Cronin

If someone gives you a book for a present, you can use this thank you quote, “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~ Garrison Keillor

“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.”
~ Naomi Williams

“How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! ”
~ George Elliston

Here is a collection of future quotes. I hope you like them!

Here are some Love Quotes for the soul by Kahlil Gibran.

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Don’t force yourself into love don’t be possessive, for these are not the traits of love. Love is Freedom.

“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. ” I am sure you have heard of this quote often, in Monday morning chain mails and such like, but Did you know that this was by Kahlil Gibran?

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations” Dear Reader, mind you, this need not be the first sight kind of love either.

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” Ah, yes, what would life be, if not for love.

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” And when you start losing trust on your love, then is when the first crack appears in a relationship. If you can’t trust you partner, happiness is gone forever.

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.” isn’t it so true… The Women of your dreams

“Love is trembling happiness.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”

“Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

Please submit Kahlil Gibran Quotes below

Mother’s day is comming soon, and I thoght it would be an injustice to my mother, and all mothers if I don’t write a few mother’s day quotes here. This is my gift to all the mothers out there!!
I am sure you will be buying gifts for your mother, and you will also be giving her a greeting card along with that… You would want to write something nice, some cute quotes or sayings on your greeting card, or even if you are sending an egreeting card, you will surely like to add something personal… Feel free to chose from below.

Starting with my favorite saying, “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
~ Jewish proverb

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. ”
~Mildred B. Vermont

“I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.”
~ Abraham Lincoln quotes

“That best academy, a mother’s knee. ”
~James Russell Lowell

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.”
~Lord Langdale

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher quotes

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
~Oscar Wilde

And for those with that cutely angry mother, “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
~ Maya Angelou

“Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother”
~ Ann Taylor

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ”
~ Marion C. Garretty

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
~Rajneesh

“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
~Irish Proverb

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ”
~Tenneva Jordan

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
~Aristotle

“Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.”
~ Jill Bennett

“My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.” ~Graycie Harmon

“Men are what their mothers made them. ”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaking like all mothers, “Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? ”
~ Nancy Thayer,

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ”
~Honore de Balzac,

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~Marcel Proust

“I think a man’s duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life”
~Plato quotes

“Do your duty today and repent tomorrow” ~ Mark Twain

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.” ~ Robert E. Lee

“It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.” ~James H. Aughey

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.” ~ Samuel Adams

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” ~ Buddha

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” ~George Eliot

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

Another duty quote by George Bernard Shaw, “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” ~ Albert Einstein

This is my favorite quote on laughter, and the inpiration to compile this page:
“Laugh a lot, and when you’re older, all your wrinkles will be in the right places”

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” ~Mort Walker

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ~ Victor Borge

“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” ~Max Eastman

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy - we’re happy because we laugh.”~William James

“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.”~ Arnold Glasow

And the funniest laugter quote, “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” Who else but Woody Allen could say something like this
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.” ~Josh Billings

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Also see smile quotes.

My Absolute favorite smile quote is “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” by Phyllis Diller

“Peace begins with a smile.” ~Mother Teresa

“Life is short but a smile takes barely a second. “~Cuban Proverb

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. “~Anthony J. D’Angelo

“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.” Old Proverb

“Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.”~ Mae West

“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” ~Charles Gordy

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” ~Andy Rooney

“A laugh is a smile that bursts.”~ Mary H. Waldrip

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. “~Mark Twain

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”~ Charles Reade

“Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain. “~George Carlin

“A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around” ~ Carolyn Birmingham

“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.” ~Jim Beggs

And last but not the least:”A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. “

Here are some of I am sorry quotes and sayings and apology quotes. Being human, we often do err, and often have to seek apology from friends and loved ones. You can sweeten the apology by quoting a nice saying, just don’t make it too dramatic!!!

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ~Kimberly Johnson

“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ~Paul Boese

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~Erich Segal

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ~William Blake

“If I’ve done anything I’m sorry for, I’m willing to be forgiven.” ~Edward N. Westcott

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” ~Isaac Friedmann

“A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.” ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

“An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.”~Robin Quivers

Friends are God’s apology for relations.” ~Hugh Kingsmill

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”~ Lois Wyse

Here are some more “I am Sorry Quotes“

“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.” ~Bergen Evens

“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. “~Albert Camus

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.”~Abigail Van Buren

“All life is an experiment.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune” ~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky the Irish Historian

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”~ Pete Seeger

“Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.”~ Benjamin Franklin

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”~ Immanuel Kant

“By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. “~Roger Ascham

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. “~ Rodin

“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”~ Mildred White Struven

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”~Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.”~ Richard David Bach