Quotes and Sayings

The much awaited collection of Optimism Quotes

“Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
Joan Rivers

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For myself I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
~ Winston Churchill

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
~Helen Keller

“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”
~Albert Camus

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
~ Maria Robinson

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise””
~ Oscar Wilde

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
~Oscar Wilde

“Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.”
~ Charles Eliot

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
~Lucille Ball

“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
~ Don Marquis

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”
~ Milan Kundera

“I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.”
~Nancy Reagan

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
~ Alex Tan

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
~Warren Buffett

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
~Martin Luther

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
~Oscar Wilde

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
~Muhammed Ali

“I find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
~ Paul Fussell

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

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ~James Allen

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
~ Martin Luther quotes

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”

~ Charles C Noble

This is my favorite and this is something that I would like you to ponder upon. “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
~ Josiah Charles Stamp

On a similar note, see this quote by Alfred A. Montapert, ” Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

“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

“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.” Dalai Lama

“There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.” ~Mark Twain

“Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we’ve received. ” ~Kathryn Anastos

A Bible Quote on wealth, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”

A Bible Quote on Great Men, “Great men are not always wise”

A Bible Quote on Action, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ”

A Bible Quote on Fools,”A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult”

A Bible quote on Prosperity, “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ”

A Bible Quote on hard Work,”Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. ”

A wisdom quote from the bible “They that sow in tears shall reap joy.”

‘He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.”

“Bear one another’s burdens. ”

“Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ”

“For the fashion of this world passeth away, ”

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. ”

“It is more blessed to give than to receive. ”

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.”

“He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.’”

“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them.”

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.”

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.”

“For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”

“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.”

The popularly known and reverred Chanakya is also known as Kautilya, the author of Arthaśhāstra, or rather The Arthashastra identifies its author by the name Kautilya. He is also reffered to by the name Vishnugupta. He is known for his wisdom, and his teachings in statesmanship is unparalleled.

For those who don’t know, Chanakya was an Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC.
‘A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimised first.’

‘Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.’

‘The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.’

‘There is some self-interest behind every friendship.

There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.’

‘Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.’

‘As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.’

‘Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it.

People who work sincerely are the happiest.’
‘The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.

But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.’

‘A man is great by deeds, not by birth.’

‘Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.
For the next five years, scold them.

By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.

Your grown up children are your best friends.’
‘Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.’
‘Education is the best friend.

An educated person is respected everywhere.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.’

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.”

“Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.” Black, No sugar..

” Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. ” And rich men drink rich coffee, flavored with rich coffee eh?

“Deja Brew: The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before. ”

“In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour.” Seen those ads from coffee mate, Nestle?

” A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”

This is a nice quotation on coffee, ” A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent. ”

“Behind every successful woman…is a substantial amount of coffee. “

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”

“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.”

“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent. ”

“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”

“Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.”

“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. ”

“Copying from a single source is called plagiarism, copying from multiple source is called research.”

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. ”

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.”

“You can’t be late until you show up.”

“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”

“To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.”

“The real trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.”

“I’m not that clever to do a suicide. I wouldn’t know how to tie a rope in the first place, you know what I mean? ”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”

“You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.”

Marcus Tullius Cicerowas born in January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC. He is a very well renown Author and thinker, and was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.

Cicero is mostly seen as one of the greatest minds of Roman culture and his writing are treated to be the paragon of Classical Latin. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero likely thought his political career his most important achievement. However, today he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st-century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero’s letters to Atticus contained such a wealth of detail “concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the revolutions in the government” that their reader had little need for a history of the period [more about Cicero]

Here is a compilation of Quotes by the Famous Cicero.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish’d lustre shone.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

We are born poets. we become orators.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.

His deeds do not agree with his words.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship.

“Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.”

“A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.”

“A genius always presents himself as a fool”

” Courage knows no fear.”

” Learn to be content with what you have, and you will be a happy soul .”

“Honest advice is unpleasant to the ear ”

Chinese Proverb on strong will “Will not yield despite a hundred setbacks ”

“A single beam cannot support a great house. ”

“A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.”

A chinese wisdom proverb”A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion. ”

“Alms given openly will be rewarded in secret. ”

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ”

A chinese proverb on looking before you leap, “Before you beat a dog, find out who its master is. ”

A very true Chinese proverb that we all should follow, “Better do it than wish it done. ”

“Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.” But the chinese goods are cheap aren’t they?
“Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night. ”

“Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare. ” This is a chinese proverb on being focused.

“If you suspect a man, don’t employ him, and if you employ him, don’t suspect him. ” Learn to study people and then trust, a wise chinese proverb.