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

Without self respect, we are nothing. Here are some self respect quotes for you.

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
~Israel Zangwill

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
~ Abraham J. Heschel

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.”
~Jane Haddam

“If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ” ~Jane Haddam

“An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.”
~ Unknown

“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.”
~Edward Koch

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
~Theophile Gautier

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
~Marcus Aurelius

Some collection of sympathy quotes and sayings.

“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
~ Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Pain has an Element of Blank
It cannot recollect
When it began or if there were
A time when it was not”
~ Emily Dickinson

“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
~Edmund Burke

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

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.”
~William Hazlitt

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
~ William Wordsworth

“To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness”
~ Confucius

“The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.”
~ Parke Godwin

“A sympathy in choice.”
~ William Shakespeare

“The man who melts with social sympathy, though not allied,Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
~ Euripides

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
~Thomas Campbell

“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~ Tryon Edwards

To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~Tryon Edwards

And a sweet sympathy Poem.

“He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”
~Thomas Love Peacock

A collection of perfection quotes, let me start with something that really is motivating, and is quite true.

“To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ”
~Elbert Hubbard

But my favorite would be, “Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.”
~ Michaelangelo

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
~ Sam Keen quotes

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ”
~Stanley J. Randall

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
~ Buddha

“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
~William Ellery Channing

“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.”
~George Fisher

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.”
~ Winston Churchill

“Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
~W. Somerset Maugham

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
~Eugene Delacroix

“Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.”
~Chinese Proverb

“It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.”
~Samuel Johnson

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.””
~Saint Augustine

“He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.”
~Italian Proverb

“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
~ Angelique Arnauld

“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
~Salvador Dali

Here are some Success Quotes to motivate and inspire each one of us.

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”~ Marie Currie

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” ~G. K. Chesterton

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” ~Orison Swett Marden

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” ~ Thomas Edison

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”~ Bob Dylan

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.”~ Sir Winston Churchill

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” ~Roger Babson

“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.” ~William Lloyd Garrison

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy - it won’t come out while you’re watching.” ~Tennessee Williams

“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.” ~Gene Fowler

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~George Smith Patton

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.” ~Arie de Gues:

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~Demosthenes

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.” ~Walter Cronkite

“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”~ Napoleon Hill

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ Confucius

“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.” ~Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~Woody Allen

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~William Blake

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. “~Larry King

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”~ Bruce Feirstein

“You don’t drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.”~R. Duvall

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

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“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

Adversity makes a man stronger, more resilient, and when faced with adversity, it will be handy to remember a few of this collection of Adversity Quotes.

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”
~Mother Teresa

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
~ Buddha

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”
~John Aughey

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember”
~ Seneca

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
~Bertrand Russell

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
~ Aristotle

“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
~ Seneca

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ”
~Cicero

“Problems are the price you pay for progress. ”
~Branch Rickey

“Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.” ~Seneca

“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm ”
~ Norman Vincent Peale

“In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.”
~James Burgh

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” ~Confucius

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

“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.”
~Josh Billings

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ‘
~William Hazlitt

“Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ”
~William James

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity”
~Lou Holtz

“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
~Michel de Montaigne

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
~Anais Nin
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde

Adversity enhances this tale we call life. ~Ever Garrison

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark

“All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.”
~Charles C. Colton

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington

Oprah Winfrey the most celebrated and famous television talk show host, and the richest celebrity, and yes she earns her millions ( Billions?) by talking, yes talking and just so just imagine how witty her quotes would be. And very inspirational. many people cry watching her shows!! I am even beginning to think that if Obama does become the president, it would be some substantial percent because of Oprah.. She is been doing lot of talking for Obama
Here are some of her quotes and phrases to inspire you all:

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. ”

“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. ”

“I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ”

“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. ”

“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. ”

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

“Use what you have to run toward your best - that’s how I now live my life.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. ”

“You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once..”

“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.”

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ” How true!!

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

We all love you Oprah!!!

The journey is the reward.

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.”

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
The best motivation always comes from within.
- Michael Johnson

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. or everyone captain is a Good captain in calm waters

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

While there’s life, there’s hope! No Hope from the grave, but there still is hope from the sea as they say!!

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. Richard bach in his best selling novel, Illusions.

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Lao Tzu’s wisdom “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

A very fine Man of Character GEORGE WASHINGTON put it best when it comes to Character, “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

“Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.”

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else’s traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

“Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.”

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.”