Imagination - Reason - Quotes - Emerson

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“What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Failure Quotes - Mark McCormack

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“If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.”Mark McCormack (1930 – 2003) U.S. founder and chairman of the International Management Group

Humor Quotes - Fame

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“A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.”Anonymous (Quoted on BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote 1999)

Experience Quotes - Nature

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“Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.”Anonymous (Belgian proverb)

Fatness Quotes - Bernard Shaw

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“Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you, Mr Shaw, and I know there's famine in the land.Bernard Shaw: One look at you, Mr Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Fools - Funny Quotes - Ilka Chase

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“When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.” [read business fable]Ilka Chase (1900 – 78) U.S. actress and novelist

Wise Quotes - Lord Chesterfield

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“Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.”Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman and man of letters

Acquaintance Quotes - Ambrose Bierce

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“Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) U.S. satirist and writer

Silence - Noise Quotes - Winston Churchill

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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British prime minister

Age Quotes - Pope John XXIII

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“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”Pope John XXIII (1881 – 1963) Italian Pope of the Catholic Church

Art - Painting Quotes - Samuel Butler

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“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

Books - Reading Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“In the old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Quotes - Perseverance

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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”Anonymous (Quoted in Honey Fitz 1962)

Marriage - Money Quotes

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“Never marry for money, but marry where money is.”Anonymous (proverb)

Achievement Quotes - Credit

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“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”Anonymous (sign displayed in Ronald Reagan's office)

Funny Quotes - Clothing

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“What the brassière said to the top hat: 'You go on ahead while I give these two a lift.'”Anonymous (Quoted in A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book 1996)

Blame - Responsibility Quotes

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“This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it. Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it. In the end

Funny - Advertising Quotes

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“The codfish lays ten thousand eggsThe homely hen lays one.The codfish never cacklesTo tell you that she's done.And so we scorn the codfish,While the humble hen we prize,Which only goes to show youThat it pays to advertise.”Anonymous (Quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)

Experience Quotes - John Keats

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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced ... even a proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it.”John Keats (1795 – 1821) British poet

Leadership Quotes - Henry Mintzberg

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“A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.”Henry Mintzberg (b. 1939) Canadian business and management theorist

Funny Television Quotes - Fred Allen

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“Television is a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a new medium - because nothing is well done.”Fred Allen (1894 – 1956) U.S. humorist

Opportunity Quotes - Benjamin Disraeli

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“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister

Inspirational Quotes - Sumantra Ghoshal

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“Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.”Sumantra Ghoshal (1948 - 2004) Indian management theorist and academic

Quotes - Speeches - Piet Hein

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“If no thoughtyour mind does visit,make your speechnot too explicit.”Piet Hein (1905 – 96) Danish poet and scientist

Winning Quotes - Leo Durocher

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“Nice guys. Finish last.”Leo Durocher (1905 – 91) U.S. baseball player and manager

Business - Sex Quotes - George Katona

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“Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.”George Katona (1901 – 81) U.S. business analyst

Greed Quotes - Ted Turner

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“If you have an olive, you want an olive tree. You want a little more. You want the whole tree.”Ted Turner (b. 1938) U.S. media mogul and philanthropist

Money Quotes - Margaret Thatcher

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“Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.”Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) British prime minister

Executives Quotes - Robert Townsend

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“Nobody should be chief executive officer of anything for more than five or six years. By then he's stale, bored, and utterly dependent upon his own cliches.”Robert Townsend (b. 1920) U.S. business executive and author

Advertising Quotes - David Ogilvy

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“There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.”David Ogilvy (1911 – 99) British founder and chairman of Ogilvy & Mather

Funny Quotes - Hippie - Ronald Reagan

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“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheeta.”Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) U.S. president

Funny Lending Quotes - Anatole France

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“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me.”Anatole France (1844 – 1924) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Mind Quotes - Humor - Arthur Marshall

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“As to those who can find it in them to employ the doubtlessly useful word 'brunch', do they, I wonder, ever up-grade it to 'bruncheon'? This is the kind of question I ponder on while waiting for the kettle to boil. The active mind is never at rest.”Arthur Marshall (1910 – 89) English writer and broadcaster

Misfortune Quotes - Benjamin Disraeli

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“If, for instance, Mr Gladstone were to fall into the river, that would be a misfortune. But if anyone were to pull him out, that would be a calamity.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister (difference between calamity and misfortune)

Humor - Noise Quotes - Mark Twain

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“When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Temptation Quotes - Franklin Adams

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“In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.”Franklin P. Adams (1881 – 1960) U.S. humorist and columnist

Charity Quotes - George Arnold

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“The living need charity more than the dead.”George Arnold (1834 – 65) U.S. author and poet

Birth - Death Quotes - TS Eliot

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“Birth, and copulation, and death.That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:Birth, and copulation, and death.I've been born, and once is enough.”T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Love Quotes - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“When you lov'd me, and I lov'd you,Then both of us were born anew.”Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) British poet and philosopher

Courtship Quotes - EM Delafield

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“To my mind, a man must choose a wife for himself, without advice from anybody. As I said to Tony before he ever proposed to this girl: Make sure that she's good, and a lady, and healthy, and intelligent, and that she's going to get on with your friends and relations, and you with hers – and then, my dear boy, if you feel that you can afford to marry – then I suppose there's no help for it.”E. M

Media - TV Quotes - Marshall McLuhan

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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not the battlefields of Vietnam.”Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 80) Canadian sociologist and academic

Innovation Quotes - Douglas Adams

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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) British comedy writer and dramatist

Imagination - History Quotes - Arthur Bryan

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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”Arthur Bryan (b. 1923) British chairman of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd

Experience Quotes - Henry James

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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web ... suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”Henry James (1843 – 1916) U.S. novelist and critic

Success - Passion Quotes - Andrea Jung

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“What did it for me? It wasn't my education or experience. It was my passion.”Andrea Jung (b. 1958) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. of Avon Products

Winning Losing Quotes - Bernadette Devlin

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“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947) Irish politician

Employees Quotes - Rudyard Kipling

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“I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I know)Their namesare What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.”Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Opportunity Quotes - Laurence Peter

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“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.” [read business fable]Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 90) Canadian educator and writer

Fair Treatment - Quotes - Stanley Baldwin

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“Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.” [read business fable]Stanley Baldwin (1867 – 1947) British prime minister

Equality Quotes - Octavio Paz

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“Given the natural differences between human beings, equality is an ethical aspiration that cannot be realized without recourse either to despotism or to an act of fraternity.” [read business fable]Octavio Paz (1914 – 98) Mexican winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Entrepreneur Quotes - Peter de Savary

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“You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.”Peter de Savary (b. 1944) British entrepreneur

Competition Quotes - Ray Kroc

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“What do you do when your competitor's drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth.”Ray Kroc (1902 – 84) U.S. founder of McDonald's Corporation

Trifles - Details Quotes - Hannah More

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“Trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles spring.”Hannah More (1745 – 1833) English religious writer and philanthropist

Experience Quotes - Louis Ferdinand Celine

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“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894 – 1961) French writer and physician

Greed Quotes - Aristotle

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“Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.”Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Quotes - Generation Gap - Spiro Agnew

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“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”Spiro Agnew (1918 – 96) U.S. vice president

Business - Life Quotes - Johann Wolfgang

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“Everything which is properly business we must keep separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freer handling.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German poet, novelist, and theorist

Power Quotes - Harold Macmillan

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“Power? It's like a dead sea fruit. When you achieve it, there's nothing there.”Harold Macmillan (1894 – 1986) British prime minister

Money Wealth Quotes - Sylvia Porter

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“Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It can also be translated into a source of bitterness.”Sylvia Porter (1913 – 91) U.S. economist and journalist

Planning Quotes - Robert Burns

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“The best laid schemes o' mice an' menGang aft a-gley.”(The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry)Robert Burns (1759 – 96) Scottish poet and lyricist

Character Quotes - Marya Mannes

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“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”Marya Mannes (1904 – 90) U.S. essayist and journalist

Perseverance Quotes - Samuel Johnson

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“Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.” [read business fable]Samuel Johnson (1709 – 84) British poet and lexicographer

Power Quotes - Brendan Kennelly

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“The cyclone derives its power from a calm centre. So does a person.”Brendan Kennelly (b. 1936) Irish poet and novelist

Victory Winning Quotes - Pierre Corneille

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“A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.”Pierre Corneille (1606 – 84) French playwright

Bible Quotes - Charity

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“God loveth a cheerful giver.”Bible. II Corinthians 9:7

Quoting Quotes - Margaret Drabble

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“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.”Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) English novelist

Funny Quotes - Women - Oscar Wilde

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“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Humor Quotes - Writing - Evelyn Waugh

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“I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.”Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 66) British satirist and novelist

Physician - Doctor Quotes - Pliny

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“Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.”Pliny the Elder (23 – 79 A.D.) Roman philosopher

Family Quotes - Edmund Leach

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“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”Edmund Leach (1910 – 89) British social anthropologist

Birthday Quotes - James Russell Lowell

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“Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born,The morning-stars their ancient music make.”James Russell Lowell (1819 – 91) U.S. poet, satirist, and diplomat

Birthday Quotes - WH Auden

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“Happy Birthday, Johnny,Live beyond your income,Travel for enjoyment,Follow your own nose.”W. H. Auden (1907 – 73) U.S. poet

Courtship Quotes - George Eliot

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“You are lonely; I love you; I want you to consent to be my wife; I will wait, but I want you to promise that you will marry me – no one else.”George Eliot (1819 – 80) British novelist

Quotes - Bereavement - CS Lewis

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to

Procrastination Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Business Strategy Quotes - Andrew Grove

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“Columbus didn't have a business plan when he discovered America.”Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) U.S. chairman of Intel Corporation and business author

Risk Taking Quotes - Emerson

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“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Humor - Consultant Quotes - Scott Adams

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“A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.”Scott Adams (b. 1957) U.S. cartoonist and business writer

Money Quotes - W Somerset Maugham

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“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer

Decision - Mistake Quotes - Jack Straw

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“The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.”Jack Straw (b. 1946) British politician

Journalism - Writing Quotes - Cyril Connolly

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“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.”Cyril Connolly (1903 – 74) British critic and novelist

Management Quotes - Casey Stengel

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“Management is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975) U.S. baseball and manager

Leadership Quotes - Henry Kissinger

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“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.”Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) U.S. diplomat and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Employee - Ideas Quotes - Jack Welch

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“The point of work-out is to give people better jobs. When people see that their ideas count, their dignity is raised. Instead of feeling numb, like robots, they feel important.” [read business fable]Jack Welch (b. 1935) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. Of General Electric

Ideas Quotes - Richard Branson

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“In a restless, creative business with an emphasis on experiment and development, ideas are the lifeblood.” [read business fable]Richard Branson (b. 1950) British founder of the Virgin Group

Work - Luck Quotes - Michael Bloomberg

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“After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.”Michael Bloomberg (b. 1942) U.S. politician and founder of Bloomberg L.P.

Management Quotes - Robert Townsend

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“'Top' management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.”Robert Townsend (b. 1920) U.S. business executive and author

Innovation Quotes - Thomas Edison

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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) U.S. inventor and entrepreneur

Conscience Quotes - Thomas de Quincey

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“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”Thomas de Quincey (1785 – 1859) British writer

Change Quotes - Stephen Covey

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“The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.”Stephen Covey (b. 1932) U.S. psychologist and business author

Corruption Bribery Quotes - Lynda Chalker

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“There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.”Lynda Chalker (b. 1942) British politician

Bureaucracy Quotes - Steve Jobs

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“We have a very simple, clear organization. It's very easy to know who has authority for what, who has responsibility for what. There's no politics about it, they're virtually politics-free organizations.”Steve Jobs (b. 1955) U.S. co-founder and C.E.O. of Apple Computer

Responsibility - Blame Quotes - Jeb Bush

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“By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.”Jeb Bush (b. 1953) U.S. businessman and politician

Ambition - Goals Quotes - Leo Burnett

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“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.”Leo Burnett (1891 – 1971) U.S. advertising executive

Advice Quotes - Yukio Mishima

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“Advice almost never functions as a social lubricant; eight or nine times out of ten it makes people lose face, crushes their will, and creates a grudge.”Yukio Mishima (1925 – 70) Japanese author and playwright

Inspiring - Happy Quotes - John Dryden

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“Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call today his own;He who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”John Dryden (1631 – 1700) English poet and playwright

Pain - Hatred Quotes - James Baldwin

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”James Baldwin (1924 – 87) U.S. novelist and poet

Knowledge Quote - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902? - 1991) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Wasted Affection - Quotes - Longfellow

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“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returningBack to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 82) U.S. poet

Death - Dying Quotes - Henry Fielding

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“It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.”Henry Fielding (1707 – 54) English novelist and dramatist

Anger Quotes - Henri Frederic Amiel

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“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.”Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821 – 81) Swiss philosopher and poet

Senses - Wisdom Quotes - Helen Keller

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“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) U.S. deafblind author and activist

Poverty Quotes - David Lloyd George

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“Four spectres haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”David Lloyd George (1863-1945) British prime minister

Spiritual Quotes - Tenzin Gyatso

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“I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.”Tenzin Gyatso (b. 1935) Dalai Lama and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

America Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Independence Day Quotes - Whittier

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“We give thy natal day to hope,O Country of our love and prayer!Thy way is down no fatal slope,But up to freer sun and air...A refuge for the wronged and poor,Thy generous heart has borne the blameThat, with them, through thy open door,The old world's evil outcasts came.”John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 92) U.S. poet

Self Awareness Quotes - Claude Bristol

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“We become what we envisage.”Claude M. Bristol (1891 – 1951) U.S. writer

Motivational Quotes - Chin-Ning Chu

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“If you are willing to have people not like you, you will go far.”Chin-Ning Chu (b. 1947) U.S. business consultant and author

Humor - Giving - Quotes - Dorothy Parker

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“Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.”Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967) U.S. writer and poet

Family Quotes - Dodie Smith

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“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape.”Dodie Smith (1896 – 1990) English novelist and playwright

Family Quotes - Walter Bagehot

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“The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.”Walter Bagehot (1826 – 77) British economist and journalist

Conformity Quotes - Henry David Thoreau

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 62) U.S. writer and philosopher

Birthday Greeting Quotes - Thomas Hood

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“Good-morrow to the golden Morn- ing! Good-morrow to the world's delight! I've come to bless thy life's begin- ning, That hath made my own so bright!”Thomas Hood (1799 – 1845) British humorist and poet

Time - Birthday Quotes - Schneerson

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“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902 – 94) U.S. rabbi

Love Quotes - Alice Meynell

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“There's a feast undated, yetBoth our true lives hold it fast,Even the day when first we met.What a great day came and passed,Unknown then but known at last.”Alice Meynell (1847 – 1922) English poet

Courtship Proposal Quotes - Bernard Shaw

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“I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Marriage Proposal Quote - Charles Dickens

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“You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of

Inspirational Quotes - James Baldwin

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“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”James Baldwin (1924 – 87) U.S. novelist and poet

Purpose Quotes - Mary Shelley

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“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” [read business fable]Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) English novelist

Quotes of the Month (Jul 2007) - Liberty, Freedom, Equality

Quotes of the Month (Liberty, Freedom, Equality)~ Independence Day ~Mark Twain: The President, throned behind a cable locker with a national flag spread over it, announced the 'Reader,' who rose up and read that same old Declaration of Independence which we have all listened to so often without paying any attention to what it said; and after that the President piped the Orator of the Day to

Justice Quotes - Samuel Butler

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“For Justice, though she's painted blind,Is to the weaker side inclined.”Samuel Butler (1612-80) British poet

Equality Quotes - Martin Luther King

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Independence - Liberty Quotes - Brandeis

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“Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”Louis Brandeis (1856 – 1941) U.S. judge

Freedom Quotes - Peter Gomes

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“That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the Fourth of July and in our popular myths and heroes, also contributes to the breakdown of the social fabric that has always provided a secure context for our freedoms. Freedom 'from' has not yet yielded to an appropriate freedom 'for.'”Peter J. Gomes (b. 1942) U.S. clergyman and

Liberty - Independence Day Quote - Brown

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“I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed'; and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'cradle of liberty,' they have rocked the child to death

July Fourth Quotes - Humor - Mark Twain

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“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Independence Day Quotes - Douglass

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“The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”Frederick Douglass (1818 – 95) U.S. abolitionist and statesman

Independence Day Quotes - Twain

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“The business of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices – and they are working it for all it is worth.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist

Independence Day Quotes - Benjamin Rush

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“The Fourth of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly one of them, ran away with all the glory of the day. Scarcely a word was said of the solicitude and labors and fears and sorrows and sleepless nights of the men who projected, proposed, defended and subscribed the Declaration of Independence.”Benjamin Rush (1745 – 1813) U.S.

Independence Day Quotes - Walt Whitman

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“It is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small-arms!)”Walt Whitman (1819 – 92) U.S. poet and essayist

Independence Day Quotes - Frances Wright

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“Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well – that is it would be useful – if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice. Each Fourth of July would then stand as a tidemark in the flood of time by which to ascertain the advance of the human intellect, by which to note the rise

Independence Day Quotes - Mark Twain

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“The President, throned behind a cable locker with a national flag spread over it, announced the 'Reader,' who rose up and read that same old Declaration of Independence which we have all listened to so often without paying any attention to what it said; and after that the President piped the Orator of the Day to quarters and he made the same old speech about our national greatness which we so
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