Category Archives: Famous Poeple Quotes
Favourite quotes by famous people
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” – Buddha
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – John Pierpont Morgan
Beautiful life quotes
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
Jason Zebehazy
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Yoda, from Star Wars
Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching.
Aurora Greenway
YER BLUESSuccess makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
Bruce Springsteen
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Aesop
Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.
General Patton
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon
New York Public Library #5We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill (my favorite)
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.
Steven Coallier
May Day 2010| Quotes by Different Peoples
Happy May Day
•Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke
•A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman
•The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
•Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. ~George Sheehan
•God sells us all things at the price of labour. ~Leonardo da Vinci
•Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
•Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires
•What the country needs are a few labour-making inventions. ~Arnold Glasow
•Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall
•It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire
•When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso
•There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labour. ~Author Unknown
•We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan
