Quotes from the greatest minds

[weimy froob]

"extreme hopes are born of extreme misery."- bertrand russell

"while there's life, there's hope."- terence

"hope is the poor man's bread."- gary herbert

"to hope is to enjoy."- jacques delille

[weimy froob]

the last day on hope.

"hope springs eternal."- alexander pope

"in the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."- o. carl simonton

"hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."- robert g. ingorsoll

"keep hope alive."- jesse jackson

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a new chapter: visualization

"just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."- stevie wonder

"a fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."- william blake

"who's the wise man? he who sees what's going to be born."- solomon

"guido the plumber and michelangelo obtained marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture."- bob kall

[LordNu]

"You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue—a highly intellectual virtue—out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." - from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, published 1957.

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"all acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."- barbara grizzuti harrison

"a person can grow only as much as his horizon allows."- john powell

"the moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of possibilities."- vic braden

"when we can't dream any longer, we die."- emma goldman

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another new chapter: role models (i think they'll all be short ones from here on out-but still plenty of chapters to go.)

"that some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."- abraham lincoln

"to be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood."- plutarch

"as you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."- ernest hemingway

"very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. for he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master."
- ben johnson

[weimy froob]

"example has more followers than than reason."- christian bovee

"example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."- burke

"example moves the world more than doctrine."- henry miller

"nothing is so infectious as example."- francois de la rochefoucauld

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'imitation is a necessity of human nature."- oliver wendell holmes jr.

"from the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."- pubilius syrus

"wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own."- h.g. bohn

"if...you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."- catherine aird

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time again for a new chapter: change

looks to be a little longer than the last ones too.

"just when i think i have learned the way to live, life changes."- hugh prather

"because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."- bertolt brecht

"nothing is permanent but change."- heraclitus

"everything changes but change itself."- john f. kennedy

"when you're through changing, you're through."- bruce barton

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"it is in changing that things find purpose."- heraclitus

"turbulence is a life force. it is opportunity. let's love turbulence and use it for change." ramsay clark

"to remain young one must change.- alexander chase

"only in growth, reform, and change, parodoxically enough, is true security to be found."- anne morrow lindbergh

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"progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."- george bernard shaw

"the world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."- charles f. kettering

"the art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."- alfred north whitehead

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"every saint has a past, and every sinner a future."- oscar wilde

'on the human chessboard, all moves are possible."- miriam schiff

'there is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.'- rollo may

"for many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."- marcus annaeus seneca

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"we do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."- marcel proust

'one must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."- napoleon bonaparte

"all that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. it is our job to change it."- karl marx

"if you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it." anonymous

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"the important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.'- charles du bos

"when patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."- tuli kupferberg

"it is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered."
- christian bovee

'there is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." tennessee williams

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"we must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."- sir winston churchill

'all change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."- ellen glasgow

"just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed."- irene peter

"none are happy but by the anticipation of change. the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
- samuel johnson

[weimy froob]

"loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."- mark twain

"the most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. right attitudes produce right actions."- william j. johnston

"the most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
- brooks atkinson

"convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." friedrich nietzsche

[j2j]

"Boom, bitch! Boom!"
-Meatsauce

[weimy froob]

"inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."- horatio smith

"consistency is only suitable for ridicule."- moliere

"consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. the only completely consistent people are the dead."- aldous huxley

"there are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice."- mark twain

"to be honest, one must be inconsistent."- h.g. wells

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"the only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one."- edward noyes westcott

"like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."- w. somerset maugham

"the foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."- james russell lowell

"a fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."- sir winston churchill

"it's the most unhappy people who most fear change."- mignon mclaughlin

[weimy froob]

"to do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking."- woodrow wilson

"every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."- eric hoffer

"all changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."- anatole france

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new week we need some new quotes. somebody's got to do it. and this will put a wrap on the change chapter.

"change is what people fear most."- fyodor dostoyevsky

"everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."- leo tolstoy

"if you want to make enemies, try to change something."- woodrow wilson

"the more things change, the more they remain the same.'- alphonse karr

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a new chapter: decisions

"wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."- peter drucker

"life is like a game of cards. the hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."- jawaharlal nehru

"life is the sum of all your choices."- albert camus

"choices are the hinges of destiny"- edwin markham

"you don't get to choose how you're going to die. or when. you can only decide how you're going to live. now."- joan baez

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"logic is the art of going wrong with confidence."- joseph wood krutch

"man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable, animal."- alexander hamilton

"it is the heart always that sees before the head can see."- thomas carlyle

"it is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions."- marcel proust

"facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."- laurence j. peter

[weimy froob]

"the opportunity is often lost by deliberating."- publilius syrus

"if you think too long, you think wrong."- jim kaat

"conditions are never just right. people who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."- william feather

"if you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."- ben nicholas

[Mirabelle]

"conditions are never just right. people who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."- william feather

This mantra has helped me to stay motivated for working out. The weather will never be just right, I’ll never feel perfectly rested, there will always be other things I could be doing... just fucking get your ass up and GO!

[weimy froob]

"it is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. the weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."- dietrich bonhoeffer

"alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees."- saul bellow

"the absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."- henry kissinger

[weimy froob]

"when you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."- william james

"nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."- bertrand russell

"there is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us."
- herbert b. prochnow

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"a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied."- henri frederic amiel

"necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."- friedrich nietzsche

"optimism is an intellectual choice."- diana schneider

"it is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect."- robert louis stevenson

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"the lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one."- francis bacon

"nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."- napoleon bonaparte

"destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-william jennings bryan