Quotes

''People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can't find them, make them.''

-- George Bernard Shaw, from Mrs Warren's Profession

"If you're unhappy, nine times out of ten it's because you're clinging onto something.
Nine times out of ten, happiness and letting go are synonymous."

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

-- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”
― W.H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."

--  Dorothea Brande, American writer and editor

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour."

--  Charles Dickens, British author

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process."

--  Shelby Foote, American historian and novelist

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

--  Confucius, Chinese philosopher

Folks today have ... got this idea that self-respect means 'I am a terrific person. I am wonderful. Me, me, me.' That's not self-respect; that's vanity."

--  Bessie Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

-- Samuel Smiles

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the tea break.

-- Earl Wilson

All the strength you need to achieve anything is within you.

-- Sara Henderson

Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.

-- Jean de la Bruyere

It's better to regret the things you did than regret the things you didn't do.

-- Randall Lane

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one."

-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott, American teacher, writer and philosopher

If you apply an inquisitive mind to any task, it will always become interesting.

And rewarding if you add responsibility.

-- Me

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!”
“And if you were my wife, I would drink it.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk.”
“Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly and disgustingly fat. But tomorrow morning I, Winston Churchill, will be sober.”
Sir Winston Churchill