Quotes

"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-- Plato

"You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great."
- Les Brown

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas Edison during the light bulb invention process.

The less men think, the more they talk.
--Montesquieu

If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become that bigger and better man.
--Goethe

If you see good in everybody,
Nearly everybody will see good in you.
--Author Unknown

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
--Author Unknown

A friend is one to whom you may pour out all the contents of your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
--Arabian Proverb

The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich

Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
--Albert M Wills, Jr.

Character is what you are in the dark.
--D. L. Moody

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.
--D. T. Niles

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle.
--Anonymous

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.


I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But I can do something;
And what I can do, I ought to do
What I ought to do,
By God's grace, I will do.
~ Edward Everett Hale