Top 20 Famous Quotes
August 21, 2007
Top 20 of My Favorite Famous Quotes. Some inspire me, some set me thinking about some points and difficulties of life.
1 Mark Twain - Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
2 Napoleon Bonaparte - History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
3 Voltaire - I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
4 The Bible : 1 Corinthians - Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
5 Eleanor Roosevelt - The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
6 Rene Descartes - I Think, Therefore I Am.
7 Aristotle - For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
8 Winston Churchill - It is no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
9 Hamlet III:1 - To be, or not to be. That is the question.
10 Buddha - All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
11 Mahatma Gandhi - No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
12 Sir James Dewar (Scientist) - Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
13 Sophocles - One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.
14 Dwight D Eisenhower - Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
15 Oprah Winfrey - I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
16 Mother Teresa - Love is a fruit always in season.
17 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
18 Jeannette Rankin (First Woman Member of Congress) - You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
19 Henry Ford - Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.
20 Walt Disney - The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
