Great quotes

Here’s a collection of some of my favorite quotes. Hope you enjoy them. And hope at least one provides you with just what you need at this very moment.

“A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.” -- Talmud

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.” -- Gail Sheehy

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” -- William Arthur Ward

“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.” -- Mark Twain

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -- Suzanne Caygill

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” -- J.C. Watts

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -- Lena Horne

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” -- Soren Kierkegaard

“There are as many nights as days and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” -- Carl Jung

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” -- William James

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. -- Albert Einstein

“It’s easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I’m unable to appreciate.” -- Elbert Hubbard

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” -- Winston Churchill

“It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” -- Charles Darwin

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