Peace Plaza Quotes

I originally posted this on my old website on April 27, 2008.

PEACE PLAZA QUOTES

These quotes are from Peace Plaza at the Vern W. Miller Civic Center in Salem, Oregon. Not all of these quotes are from famous people, some are from member of the Salem community, including children.

Let us become one world,
Hand to hand, traveling in the footsteps
Of fellowship and peace.

--Hayes Bell

Why not dedicate the open space between City Hall and the Salem Public Library as Peace Plaza? Peace Plaza could be a natural rallying point for community gatherings. Peace Plaza makes a community statement.

--Statesman Journal Editorial, 24 November 1985

We can each work for Peace, step by step, by building trust, tolerance, and cooperation. We seek to solve disputes in our families, our communities, and in our world though peaceful means.

--Peace Plaza Board 1991-92

Neighbors living in harmony share in a neighborhood of peace:
Neighborhoods living in harmony share in a city of peace…
May Salem always be known as a city of peace.

--Bill Riegel

We can assure peace between nations only if the people in each country make in unlawful for their leaders to invade other nations.

--Chester and Florence Horn

Peace means
no wars,
friendship,
living together,
going anywhere,
helping each other,
not mattering what color we are.

--Heidi S. Berryman, age 12

Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.

--Sy Miller and Jill Jackson

The only cure for nuclear war is prevention.

--Salem Chapter: Physicians for Social Responsibility

Peace through human reason, compassion, and endeavor.

--Humanist Association of Salem

The rule for individual behavior is: what you do not want others to do to you, do not do to them.

--Confucius

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience… over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

--Colossians 3:12-14

I pledge allegiance to our planet and all its elements; to the welfare of the people, plants and animals who live here; to protecting our water air and land.

To all these, I pledge my resources to work for the benefit of the phenomena, ‘planet earth.’

--Robert J. Hansen

That long Canadian frontier… guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

--Winston Churchill

Don’t become your brother’s keeper; be your brother’s brother.

--Jesse Jackson

Buried was the bloody hatchet;
Buried was the dreaded warclub;
Buried were all warlike weapons,
And the war-cry was forgotten.
There was peace among the nations.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

After all, there is but one race – humanity.

--George Moore

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

--Mother Teresa

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started.

--Abraham Lincoln

Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired.
My heart is sick and sad.
From where the sun now stands
I will fight no more forever.

--Chief Joseph

This planet can never be at peace until we launch a journey into meditation in every young mind.

--Osho

Justice is always the foundation of peace.

--U.S. Bishops’ Peace Pastoral

The earth is one small precious planet.
Let’s celebrate it together.

--Russell Schweickart

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
And remember what peace there may be in silence.

--Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

Abundance is scooped from abundance and yet abundance remains.

--Anne Sexton

TRUST would settle every problem now!

--A Course in Miracles

For one who sees Me everywhere
and sees everything in Me,
I am never lost,
nor is he ever lost to me.

--Bhagavad-gita 6.30 (Sanskrit Text)

Look to this day,
for tomorrow is but a vision,
and yesterday a dream.

--Sanskrit Proverb

The first duty of love is to listen.

--Paul Tillich

Ah! When shall all men’s good
Be each man’s rule, and universal Peace
Like a shaft of light across the land
And like a lane of beans athwart the sea?

--Alfred Lord Tennyson

El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.
(Respect for the rights of others is peace.)

--Benito Juárez

World peace starts right here.
I will not raise my child to kill your child.

--Barbara Choo

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

--Pogo

Every person is the right person to act.
Every moment is the right moment to begin.

--Jonathan Schell

Peace is not the product of terror or fear; peace is not the silence of cemeteries; peace is not the result of violent repression. Peace is generosity. It is right and duty.

--Archbishop Oscar Romero

Everything has carried forth,
Vast differentiation is taking place.
Our tendency to focus on the human
causes us to miss the whole story.

--Brian Swimme, Canticle to the Cosmos

“I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining.
I believe in love, even when I feel it not.
I believe in God, even when He is silent.”

--On a concentration camp wall

If you want peace, work for justice…

--Pope Paul VI

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. The odds are so close, it is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

--Buckminster Fuller

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

--Thomas à Kempis

Peace is my parting gift to you,
my own peace,
such as the world cannot give.
Set your troubled heart at rest and banish your fears.

--John 14:27

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

To those in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

--Hindu Proverb

Live in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars.

--George Fox, 1651

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

--Thomas Jefferson

Love is the most durable power in the world… Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let there be Peace on Earth, and let it begin with me.

--Rev. Bill Hoffhines

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in this world.
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

--Helen Keller

Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also very full of the overcoming of it.

--Helen Keller

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

--Matthew 5:9

And the only measure of your words and your deeds
Will be the love you leave behind when you’re done.

--Fred Small & Motherlode

“The future depends on what we do in the present.”

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

I pledge allegiance to the world,
To cherish every living thing,
To care for earth and sea and air,
With peace and freedom everywhere.

--Lillian Genser

Faith, hope and love, these three – and the greatest of there is love.

--1 Corinthians 13

We make a living by what we get,
But we make a life by what we give.

--Winston Churchill

May there always be Sunshine,
May there always be Blue Skies,
May there always be Mama,
May there always be me.

--From a Russian folksong

As we seek the way to an inner peace, remember that a peaceful day spent on a fishing stream brings benefits to more than the angler, for when we bring peace to ourselves, we help bring peace to all whom we meet.

--J.E. Hunt

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

--Henry David Thoreau

Peace is no longer the absence of war, but the unfolding of worldwide processes making for the nurture of human life.

--Jane Addams

Peace is liberty in tranquility.

--Cicero

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease, and ignorance.

--Indira Gandhi

To climb these coming crests
One word to you, to you and your children:
stay together
learn the flowers
go light

--Gary Snyder

Working together we can build a world beyond war.

--Salem Beyond War Foundation

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding,
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

--Helen Keller

The motive that should guide all of us, that should guide all mankind, is to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world.

--Robert F. Kennedy

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

War is not healthy for children and other living things.

--Lorraine Schneider

The age of nations is past.
The task before us now,
If we would not perish,
Is to build the earth.

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Of all victories the first and greatest is for a man to conquer himself.

--Plato

“Our most cogent diplomats cannot achieve peace without understanding, and understanding can only be reached through the hearts of the people.”

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

I complained because
I had no shoes
Until I met a man
Who had no feet.

--Anonynous

We must love one another or die.

--W.H. Auden

The journey of Shalom
has no first step
or last step
for it is
the walk itself.

--Jim and Susan Kephart

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

--William James

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

--Indira Gandhi

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows…
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

If one would know a people,
Let him first consider their songs.

--Andrew Fletcher

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

--Bernard Baruch

There is a future for our children of peace.

--Allan Boesak

“When you live on the earth, you owe rent…
I realize I can’t take on all the problems of the world, but I do nibble away at the ones I can.”

--Mary H. Zimmerman

When you go around it in an hour and a half, you begin to realize that your identity is with that whole thing… On that small spot is everything… all of history and music and poetry and art and birth and love…

--Russell Schweickart

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

--Lao-Tzu

Peace is what gives life to the WORLD.

--David and Erick Banks

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

--Confucius

For all that has been
Thanks
To all that will be
Yes

--Dag Hammarskjöld

“The future depends on what we do in the present.”

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.

--Muhammad

Determine that the thing can and should by done, and then we shall find the way.

--Abraham Lincoln

Not to aid one in distress is to kill him in your heart.

--African proverb

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

--Amelia Earhart

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we want to survive we must love our children more than we hate and fear our enemies.

--Irene Brown

No one making any noise
Just me playing quietly
Without any noise
Everybody doesn’t attack people
Make friends with everybody
Peace is good; peace is blue

--Nicholas John Bradley, Feb. 2005

It is time for people to rise to their full moral and spiritual height…and to say, “I will save the earth.”

--Helen Caldicott

Love is All.
It is your Strength.
It is your Peace.

--NAB

The world rests on three things: on justice, on truth, on peace. Yet those three are one and the same thing. For if there is justice, there is truth, and there is peace.

-- Talmud

I destroy my enemy by making him my friend.

--Abraham Lincoln

I have seen the world because of soccer and I have met many people. These people have made me have faith in the future of humankind. I believe that one day we will unite in a team… a great team called humanity.

--Pelé

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

--Albert Einstein

“If there is compassion in the heart,
There will be love in the home.
If there is love in the home,
There will be wholeness in the community.
If there is wholeness in the community,
There will be harmony in the nation.
And if there is harmony in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.”

--Chinese Proverb

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Knowledge is the preface to peace.

--Mark Hatfield

On earth, peace, good will toward men.

--Luke 2:14

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

--Norman Cousins

Nothing of real value is ever accomplished in the world without enthusiasm and self-sacrifice.

--Albert Schweitzer

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, … But no one has the right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

Nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure an the ends we seek.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right; not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this here in this hemisphere and around in the world.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Open heart and ear to peace!
Clench you fist against the leash,
Lest you cease to be.
Hear the Sphinx speak out the past,
See the future in atom blast,
And then be free.

Irene Powers Smith, Philos

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

--Neil Postman

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

--Margaret Mead

Visions and ideas are potent only when they are shared. Until then, they are merely a form of daydreaming.

--Norman Cousins

There is no way to Peace. Peace is the way.

--A.J. Muste

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

War is an invention of the human mind.
The human mind can invent peace with justice.

--Norman Cousins

Yasuraka ni nemutte kudasai;
Ayamachi wa kurikaeshimasenu kara.
Rest in peace;
For this mistake will not be repeated.

--Inscription at Hiroshima Peace Park, Hiroshima, Japan

Peace is better than war, because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

--Francis Bacon

Don’t walk ahead of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

--Albert Camus

This will be a place where people – as individuals – can renew their commitment to making the world a better place to live.

--Polly Hare

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

--Cicero

Since wars began in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

--Preamble to the UNESCO Charter

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

--Alfred North Whitehead

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

--Buddha

Peace rules the day
When love rules the mind.

--William and Arline Reynolds

To Love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

--Rita Mae Brown

For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship does not exist to criticize. Its function is to inspire confidence.

--Jean-Paul Sartre

Do all the good you can
In all the ways you can
At all the times you can
As long as you ever can
By all the means you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can.

--Anonymous

Peace is the freedom that an eagle feels as he soars over the mountaintops.

--Jack D. Kilcrease III, Age 9

Treat the earth well… It was not given to you by your parents… It was lent to you by your children.

--Kenyan Proverb

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.”

--Albert Schweitzer

The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.

--Baha’u’llah

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

--Robert Frost

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the World we will have discovered fire.

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.

--John Milton

As justice is a preserver, so it is a better procurer of peace than war.

--William Penn, 1693

Unable are the Loved to die,
For Love is Immortality.

--Emily Dickinson

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity.

--Psalm 133:1

The Peace of God,
which passeth all understanding,
keep your hearts and minds
in the knowledge and love of God…

--The Book of Common Prayer

This person is my own, that person is an alien,
Only the small minded thus reckon;
To those of a profound open heart, however,
The entire humanity is one family.
Om shanti, shanti, shanti

--Sanskrit saying from the Hitopadesha

Learn to look at other beings with the eyes of compassion.

--Lotus Sutra

Come into my joy!
Come into my pain!
Come you be a friend of mine-
I’ll be the same.

--From Peace Child

Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his “right.” He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his “right.”

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

Peace is in the indwelling
Spirit that blossoms
Like a rose when we call its name.

Tom Deighan

Be servants of peace.
Work at home as you have worked abroad,
humbly, persistently, intelligently…
For in the end it will be the servants
who save us all.

--Sargent Shriver

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

--Marshall McLuhan

Our goal must be, not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

--Harry Truman

Peace is: A line of love that will keep going through the hearts of people.

--Allegra Taylor Bradley

We believe…that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations…

--C. William Brownfield, 1946, from the Jaycee Creed

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light,
And where there is sadness, joy.

--Saint Francis of Assisi

“And peace would be the road we walk
Each step along the way
And peace would be the way we work
And peace the way we play.”

--John Denver

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

--Albert Schweitzer

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

--Omar Bradley

All works of love are works of peace.

--Mother Teresa

To live is so startling
It leaves little time for
Anything else.

--Emily Dickinson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

--Edmund Burke

Almost anything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

--Mahatma K. Gandhi

For Christ Himself is our way of peace,
Who has made both one, and broken down
the middle wall of division between us.

--Ephesians 2:14

True Christians do not engage in strife. They are the children of peace who have beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and know of no war.

--Menno Simons

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

--Romans 14:19

True Christians are the children of peace;
their hearts overflow with peace;
their mouths speak peace;
they are full of peace.

--Menno Simons

Ironic Quotes

I originally posted this on my old website on March 21, 2006.

IRONIC QUOTES

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder....Modern ship-building has gone beyond that.

--Edward J. Smith in 1907

Edward J. Smith was the White Star Line's most respected captain in 1907, and boasted of never having been in an accident worth mentioning. The White Star Line often gave him the honor of being Captain on the maiden voyage of a new ship, and in 1912 Smith planned to retire after serving as Captain on the maiden voyage of the world's largest ocean liner (at the time): the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic. The Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk on that maiden voyage, and Smith chose to go down with his ship, becoming one of over 1,500 people to perish that night. I can't help but wonder if, as the ship sank under him, Captain Smith recalled making this arrogant statement.

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Machine guns are overrated, airplanes silly and tanks mere toys.

--General Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch was a top General in the French Army during World War I. He died before World War II indisputably proved him wrong about military technology, though I wonder what the Red Baron thought of him.

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This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.

--Adolf Hitler in 1935

There are probably a lot of ironic Hitler quotes, but I think this one is interesting. The year 1935 isn't known for the beginning of gun registration, and the last thing most of the world wants to do is follow Nazi Germany's lead on anything. Over 70 years later, the battle over gun registration continues, and Hitler's assertions about gun registration bringing safer streets and more efficient police have yet to be either proven or disproven definitively.

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You can support the troops but not the President.

--Tom DeLay in 1999

Tom DeLay, a Republican Congressman, said this during Democrat Bill Clinton's presidency. At the time, American troops were deployed in Kosovo under Clinton's orders, and most Republicans disapproved of Clinton's decision to send in the troops. A few years later, with Republican George W. Bush as President and American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tables were turned, and it was the Democrats who were expressing this belief, while Republicans linked supporting the President with supporting the troops.

Political Quotes

I originally posted this on my old website on March 21, 2006. Some of these quotes were on the old Quotes page from November 2002 to November 26, 2004.

POLITICAL QUOTES

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

--George Washington

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

--Bertrand Barére

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

--Thomas Jefferson

God grants Liberty only to those who live it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

--Daniel Webster

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

--Mark Twain

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

--Theodore Roosevelt

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.

--Thomas Paine

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

--Howard Zinn

You can support the troops but not the president.

--Tom DeLay (in 1999)

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President – or that we must stand by the President right or wrong – is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

--Theodore Roosevelt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

--Thomas Paine

Remember one thing about democracy.  We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

--Edward Albee

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

--Charles W. Tobey

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

--George Pataki

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

--Henry Hazlitt

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.  It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement.  We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.  We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed for than 8,000 people.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

--P. J. O'Rourke

The whole of government consists in the art of being honest.

--Thomas Jefferson

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

--Theodore Roosevelt

It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation.  But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

--Gerald Ford

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

--James Garfield

I would rather be right than President.

--Henry Clay

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politicians are interested in people.  Not that this is always a virtue.  Fleas are interested in dogs.

--P. J. O'Rourke

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. --Thomas JeffersonNo man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

--Abraham Lincoln

Rank does not confer privilege or give power.  It imposes responsibility.

--Peter Drucker

Leadership is an opportunity to serve.  It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

--J. Donald Walters

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity.

--Colin L. Powell

The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

--Will Rogers

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

--John Sculley

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

--Will Rogers

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing all the thinking.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty.  The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

--Ross Perot

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

--Benjamin Franklin

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury.  From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.  These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler

Quotes

I originally posted this on my old website in November 2002. I removed it on November 26, 2004, and reposted it on March 21, 2006. I am not the original creator; I am just sharing it.

QUOTES

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

--Herbert V. Prochnow

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

--Sam Rayburn

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

--Colin Powell

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

--John McCain

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

--Waylon Jennings

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.  It is disastrous to confuse them.

--Madeleine L'Engle

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

--John M. Clark

Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

--Denis Waitley

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes.  After that, you better know something.

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

--John Gray

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

--Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

--Unknown; often attributed to a Doug Larson

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

--William James

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

--Logan Pearsall Smith

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys.

--William Arthur Ward

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

--Beca Lewis Allen

Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren't sure what they're arguing about.

--O. A. Battista

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

--Al Bernstein

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

--Sam Ewing

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

--Matthew Trump

If a thing goes without saying—let it.

--Jacob Braude

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

--Hermann Hesse

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

--Barry Neil Kaufman

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him.  It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

--Joseph Sobran

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

--Vince Lombardi

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

--Tom Clancy

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

--Sam Ewing

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light-not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

--Beryl Markham

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

--Max Lucado

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million people for something you're not.

--Albert Brooks

Some people make headlines while others make history.

--Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Disregard the immaterial and perfect the few things one does best.

--Vince Lombardi

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

--David McCullough

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

--Will Smith

Successful people are very lucky.  Just ask any failure.

--Michael Levine

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

--Michael D. Eisner

Anyone can make a mistake.  A fool insists on repeating it.

--Robertine Maynard (Physicist)

Mistakes are a fact of life.  It is the response to the error that counts.

--Nikki Giovanni

A man of genius makes no mistakes.  His errors are the portals of discovery.

--James Joyce

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.

--Arthur Koestler

We are never prepared for what we expect.

--James A. Michener

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

--William Arthur Ward

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

--Amitai Etzioni

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

--Catherine Deneuve

Never take counsel of your fears.

--General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

True power is knowing that you can, but you don't.

--Juliet Alicia Jarvis

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by ending it today.

--Abraham Lincoln

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

Leadership is the key to victory.

--Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no such thing as a fair fight.

--SEAL Commander Tim L. Bosiljevac

Never fight a battle when nothing is gained by winning.

--General George S. Patton

Fortune favors the bold.

--Julius Caesar

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

--Marilyn Moats Kennedy

When confronted with a challenge, immediately take the offensive.

--Theodore Roosevelt

You’ve got to be willing to give up good to get great.

--Kenny Rogers

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

--Tommy Lasorda

To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

--Tom Robbins

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.

--Ronald Reagan

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

--Bern Williams

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

--Michael Landon

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

--Ronald Reagan

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

--Richard Corliss

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

--Peter Drucker

There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible and wrong.

--H. L. Mencken

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

--Beverly Sills

We may pass violets looking for roses.  We may pass contentment looking for victory.

--Bern Williams

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.  Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

--Louis L'Amour

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

--Muhammad Ali

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.

--Lyman Bryson

Live your life so that if someone says “Be yourself,” it’s good advice.

--Robert Orben

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

--Andy Rooney