Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Ralph Waldo Emerson Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. Kirk Cameron Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things a...

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome. Mindy Kaling When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. Ella Maillart When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. William Makepeace Thackeray When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it. Sada Thompson Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. Aaron Eckhart You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place wit...

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. Bette Davis We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' Warren Buffett We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. Andre Maurois What is a kiss? Why thi...

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. Joan Chen The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. Virginia Woolf The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Dar Williams There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. Sammy Davis, Jr. There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen There's nothing more romantic than Italian food...

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different! Alan Moore Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. Jean-Michel Basquiat Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. Sean Penn The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. Leslie Caron The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Marya Mannes The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Barbara Ehrenreich Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. Glenn Beck Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Yeardley Smith Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. Billy Strayhorn Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibi...

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. Drew Barrymore Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Lillian Gordy Carter Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. Khaled Hosseini My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. Wild Bill Hickok My idea of a romantic n...

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. Jennifer Love Hewitt I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. Freddy Fender I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. Will Estes I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. Jamie Oliver I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. Alice Cooper In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. Anne Boyd In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want t...

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Jeremy London I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love. Nick Carter I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. Gloria Swanson If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bernard Williams If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating. Alexander Koch I'm a dreadful romantic. No...

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. Portia de Rossi I love being one half of a romantic couple. Julianna Margulies I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me. Jessica Hecht I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea. Tony Benn I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest...

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Chaplin Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. Johnny Depp Death was like love, a romantic escape. Brigitte Bardot Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men. Cameron Diaz I don't like to search too much. I find i...

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Jonathan Swift We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. Graham Nash We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. Uta Hagen We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland. John O. Brennan Why doe...

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. A. P. Herbert The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan. Mac Thornberry The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. Jackie Joyner-Kersee The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting ...

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. Garrett Hedlund Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. John Hawley So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. Anne Bancroft So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way. Barack Obama Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. ...

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Marina Abramovic My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number. Jamie Lee Curtis Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. E. W. Howe Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. Todd Tiahrt On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tom Lantos On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the ...

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. Pope John Paul II Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! Patrice Leconte Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for...

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. Caroline Kennedy It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it. Lupe Fiasco It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. Henry Lawson It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable. Eydie Gorme I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my w...

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. Melanie Chisholm I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. Daisaku Ikeda I love being my husband's wife. Julianna Margulies I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. Isla Fisher I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. Aaron Spelling I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. Kyle Chandler I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. James Cromwell I think we take it for granted...

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. Mara Liasson Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. Adam Schiff 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Annie Besant Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be ...

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. Rosa DeLauro A lot of good love can happen in ten years. Jim Carrey A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. Paul Sweeney Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class. Phil Lesh After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want! Jacques Pepin After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between co...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. George Santayana What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. Bryan Singer When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. Mark Twain When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who prov...

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Maya Angelou The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. William Lyon Phelps The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. Michael Jordan The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no lon...

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr. Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? Marilyn Monroe Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. Philip James Bailey Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. Baltasar Gracian Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. Tecumseh That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing...

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in. Gore Verbinski Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. Imelda Marcos No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. Ellen DeGeneres No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else. Dario Argento Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; t...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. Robert Louis Stevenson It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it. Estelle Parsons It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. John Major It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Brendan Behan Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're go...

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. Katy Perry I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. Salinger I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. Bjorn Ulvaeus I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you'...

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. Erykah Badu I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. Tupac Shakur I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true. Carly Fiorina I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. Richard Bach I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence ...

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. Julius Erving I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. Sofia Vergara I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Margaret Mead I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. Eli Whitney I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X 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 I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. Leon Kass I look for these qualities an...

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other. Chaka Khan Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. Tim Allen Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. Amy Grant Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for author...

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude. Margaret Heffernan All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy America wants its respect. Tupac Shakur Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. John Updike An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King, Jr. As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design,...

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. Jack LaLanne We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. John Archibald Wheeler When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr Without self ...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. Prem Rawat Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. Brian Tracy To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus...

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. William Ralph Inge The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. Meister Eckhart The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Avicenna The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Henry Ford The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. An...

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. Chanakya Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Khalil Gibran Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Khalil Gibran Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius Suppose that we are wise enough t...

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr Knowledge is true opinion. Plato Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Khalil Gibran

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L'Amour Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Cudworth Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Robert Staughton Lynd Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged a...

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Ramakrishna If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. Barry White I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. Jay-Z Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. Arnold H. Glasow It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its water...

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Marcus Tullius Cicero I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Thomas Jefferson I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch If education is always to be conceived along the same a...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. Arthur Conan Doyle Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Horace Mann Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. Simone Weil Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. ...

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. Wislawa Szymborska As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amou...

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Ralph Waldo Emerson Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. Kirk Cameron Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things a...

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. Javier Bardem I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C. S. Lewis I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. Elie Wiesel If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Mahatma Gandhi If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. Mahalia Jackson If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear. Ayrton Senna In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. Benjamin Franklin Nor shall ...

God continues to work miracles in my life. Willie Aames God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you. Joel Osteen God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson God never made a promise that was too good to be true. Dwight L. Moody God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. Kelly Clarkson God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. Ayn Rand Have faith in God; God has faith in you. Edwin Louis Cole He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. B. C. Forbes I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's he...

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Mahatma Gandhi Faith is spiritualized imagination. Henry Ward Beecher Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. William James Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Blaise Pascal Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. Thomas Aquinas Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Michelangelo Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Khalil Gibran Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Oswald Chambers Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. D. Elton Trueblood Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - ...

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. Billy Graham Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. Joel Osteen Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson Faith consists in ...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. Niccolo Machiavelli All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel Teney Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your stren...

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Aristotle Onassis Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' Lao Tzu When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. Ronald Reagan When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. Roy E. Disney Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. Bo Bennett You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. Phil Crosby You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump You're only as good as the people you hire. Ray Kroc

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Vaclav Havel The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. Henry Miller The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. Harvey S. Firestone The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. Mary Kay Ash The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry A. Kissinger There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the thir...

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John C. Maxwell People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. Barbara Sher The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair The cautious seldom err. Confucius The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. Bernard Baruch My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. Duke Ellington No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. W. Clement Stone No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Cossman Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. Clarence Day It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. Walter Wriston Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing without an...

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Fred Brooks Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams 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. Oprah Winfrey I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum I don't b...