Quotes I Like: Wit & Wisdom

• The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others. Carly Fiona
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but  the parent of all others. Cicero
• Honesty is a very expensive gift.  Don't expect it from cheap people. Warren Buffet
• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
• Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.  We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
• All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
• If you are depressed, you are living in the past.  If you are anxious, you are living in the future.  If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
• A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. Hunter S. Thompson
• Before of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  George Bernard Shaw 
• If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. Unknown
• The good life has a great deal to do with contentment and satisfaction - and nothing whatsoever to do with that fool's gold called happiness. Joseph Epstein 
• Empires are built on key pillars: the rule of law, truth, integrity, wisdom, compassion, sound strategic  policies, humanity, morals, spirituality, wealth and sound strong economy; if these pillars collapse or disappear, the empire is gone. Aly Sadek
• Religious extremism/orthodoxy represents the biggest threat to global security of the 21st century.  There currently is an ongoing titanic struggle between those who want to embrace the modern world and those who instead want to create a politics of religious difference and exclusivity. "paraphrased by me after a Tony Blair quote." 
• What we do for ourselves dies with us.  What we do for others and the world  remains and is immortal. Albert Pine
• A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can't make old friends. Christopher Hitchens
• We should never rest assured that our view, no matter how well argued and reasoned, amounts to the final word on any matter. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
• Some people think football (soccer in US) is a matter of life and death.  I don't like that attitude.  I can assure them it is much more serious than that. Bill Shankly 
• The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Contentment is the only real wealth. Alfred Nobel
• Life is hard. After all it kills you. Katharine Hepburn
• Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The road to success is always under construction. Anonymous
• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe Trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rich Cook
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
• Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies. Nawal El Saadawi
• In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. George Bernard Shaw
• Ego = "1/knowledge, More the Knowledge lesser the Ego, Lesser the Knowledge More the Ego...". Albert Einstein
• Man is the only Animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain
• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill
• Man is the only Animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
• A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. Napoleon
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
• "It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading to extinction" R. Buckminster Fuller
• Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi
• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain
• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles
• Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? Bob Monkhouse
• Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw
• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard
• There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle
• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
• "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ~ George Washington
• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 
• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. Sigmund Freud
• I really didn't say everything I said.  Yogi Berra
• Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.  Aldous Huxley
• Reality has a well-known liberal bias. Joan Walsh
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  A nation needs morals and ethics to survive and thrive.  If those factors are gone, the nation is gone.

  
  

  
  
  

  انما الامم الاخلاق ما بقيت/ فإن هم ذهبت أخلاقهم ذهبوا
  

  
  

  
  
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  The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela
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  There is much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. 

  
  

   Diana Trilling
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  Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.  Benjamin Franklin
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  People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. 

  
  

   Theodore Roosevelt
• A hero is a woman/man who does what s/he can.  Romain Rolland