Some of my favorite Quotable Quotes

(Compiled by Swagata Banerjee)
  1. "There is a tide in the affairs of men,
    Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
    Omitted, all the voyage of their life
          is bound in shallows and in miseries."
    -- Shakespeare (in drama "Julius Caesar")

  2. "The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
    And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
    Lest one good custom should corrupt the world!"
    -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

  3. "What is this life if full of care,
    We have no time to stand and stare..."
    -- W. H. Davies (in poem "Leisure")

  4. "You can never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
    -- Harper Lee (in novel "To Kill A Mockingbird")

  5. "If you want to be happy, be."
    -- Leo Tolstoy

  6. "Civilize your mind,
    Make savage your body!"
    -- Bruce Lee

  7. "Everyone has a comfort zone and it's hard to break out of that. But we must rise to our limits and pass them if we want to succeed. We are not extraordinary people but we can do extraordinary things...Not being afraid to fail is the only way to make dreams come true..."
    -- Mary Lou Retton (the first American to win a gold medal in the all-round gymnastic event in Olympic history in the 1984 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles)

  8. "The best teacher is the one who teaches for the worst student in his/her class!"
    -- Anonymous

  9. "You need to know the rules well if you wish to break them!"
    -- Anonymous

  10. "It is only after you acquire a bundle of knowledge that you realize there is so much more to explore!"
    -- Self

  11. "Love can touch us one time,
    And last for a lifetime,
    And never let go till we're gone."
    -- Will Jennings (in theme song of movie "Titanic")

  12. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
    Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
    It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
    We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
    You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
    There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel secure around you.
    We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
    It's not just within some of us; it's in everyone.
    And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
    As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
    -- Nelson Mandela

  13. "If we did all we are capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves."
    -- Thomas Alva Edison

  14. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
    -- Will Rogers

  15. "Those who act receive the prizes."
    -- Aristotle

  16. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
    -- Walter Cronkite

  17. "The only people who never fail are those who never try."
    -- Ilka Chase

  18. "Always somewhere there is plenty of sunshine, but it won't seek us out. It is up to us to find it and move into it."
    -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

  19. "Love is the most powerful power on earth to be found,
    Love is everywhere if you carefully look around!"
    -- Self (in poem "What is Love?")

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