Happy Fathers Day Quotes

Happy Happy Father’s Day
Here’s a little song to say
“Happy Happy Father’s Day”
No one’s father is so sweet.
Your kind ways just can’t be beat.
Happy Happy Father’s Day;
I Love You in a big way!!
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A Father is someone that holds
your hand at the fair, makes
sure you do what your mother says.
Holds back your hair when you are sick.
and combs it well as mother do,
lets you eat Chocolates in the night
but only when mother is not aware.
He walks you down the Aistle
and tells you everything is going to be OK.



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A father is respected because
he gives his children leadership..
appreciated because
he gives his children care..
valued because
he gives his children time..
loved because
he gives his children the one thing
they treasure most- himself.
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If Father is happy
then God is happy
and if father is angry
then the God is also angry.
So try to make happy your father.
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Happy father’s day means more
than flowers and gifts.
It means saying “Thank You”
It means saying ‘I Love You’
You are the best dad,
and my best friend
Today is your day.
Let’s celebrate it together.
Cheers!
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You’ve seen me laugh
You’ve seen me cry
And always you were
there with me.
I may not have always said it
But thanks and I love you
Happy Father’s Day!
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The Greatest gift
I ever had came from God;
I call him Dad!
Happy Father’s Day!
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One father is more than a
hundred School Masters.
Happy Father’s Day!
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God gave me the greatest gift
I ever had.
God gave me a best friend
in the form of a dad.
Father’s Day wishes for
a Dad who is one in a million!
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Dad you are never wrong,
the only time you are wrong is
when you think, I forgot about you.
Love you Dad!
Have a great Father’s Day!
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For the best dad who always
had a smile for me.
Though we may be far apart
right now, but here’s a big hug
and kiss for you to let
you know how special you are.
Happy Father’s Day!
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F= Forever with his Family
A= Always there for you no matter what
T= The only one who’s there
H= He’s My Hero till the end
E= Encouraging in Everything I do
R= Really the only one…
No one can beat him, he’s the best!!
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If the relationship of father
to child could really be reduced
to biology, the whole earth
would blaze with the glory
of fathers and sons.
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It is easier for a father to have
Children than, for children to
have a real father, I’m glad
to have you dad.
Happy Father’s Day!
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So many wonderful moments we
have spent together, so many
wonderful years in all kinds of
weather, thinking of you father
brings memories to mind,
wonderful moments I will treasure,
these you give me sincerely that’s
why my dad, I love you so dearly.
Happy Father’s Day!

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Thanks for being there
through the tears, laughter a
and dirty diapers.
Happy father’s day!
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 Life Quotes on Crayons & Colors 

Crayons & Colors

Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky. ~Terri Guillemets

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ~Winston Churchill


My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green,
But I’m told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it’s silver when it’s wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.
~Shel Silverstein


Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ~Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pink is not just a color, it’s an attitude. ~Author Unknown

Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy. ~Terri Guillemets

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it’s looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein



Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. ~Dr. SunWolf

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. ~Murasaki Shikibu

No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… ~G.K. Chesterton

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance

Colors are the smiles of nature. ~Leigh Hunt

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me. ~Author Unknown

 Life Quotes On Cows 

 Life Quotes Cows 

   Grass, cows, water, sky and wind are the five unique ingredients in this world. A compromise between Central Asia and the Far West: the Wild Center. – Pierre Jourde

A mop and a parasite, says Allan is at war, against a fool, an incompetent and a half portion, with the IQ of a cash cow. In between, a viper who gets drunk on banana liqueur. – Jonas Jonasson

One is never unhappy that an adult to go away, it’s always a cow under the earth, we are told, while a child is still less sure. There is the future. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The great defeat, in all, is to forget, and especially what made you die, and die without ever understanding how far men are cows. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

My fondest memories are from another planet where butchers sold to the man in the auction Me, I’m from the train race that watches the cows – Léo Ferré



Money is the ugliest of nasties. When you serve it, it steals your eyes; and when it serves you, he confiscates your heart. – Yasmina Khadra

Free air: overloaded air of carbon oxides and many other nasties scientific name, and riddled with tall towers twinkling like so many giant watchtowers. – Pierre Planking

Each to his own, the cows will be well guarded. – Florian

                                                           Life Quotes on Courage

Quotes on Courage

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation – courage may turn to rage. ~Dodinsky
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain,Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar, 1894

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones

Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller


Fear and courage are brothers. ~Terri Guillemets
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks

A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Author Unknown

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. ~Morihei Ueshiba

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. ~Tori Amos


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop
Cowards, ’tis said, in certain situations,
Derive a sort of courage from despair,
And then perform, from downright desperation,
Much more than many a bolder man would dare.
~Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Ghost,” 1837
A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Author Unknown

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins



There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright

Look at hopelessness in the face and say: “We are simply not meant to be together.” Hold courage’s hand and walk away. ~Dodinsky

I’m not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton

I have no fear! what is in store for me
Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed.
God grant my only cowardice may be:
Afraid to be afraid!
~Everard Jack Appleton, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets

Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion
Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. ~Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher (season 13, episode 1, original airdate 2015 January 9th)

If there’s one thing that I pray for,
As I live my daily life,
It’s that I may be courageous
When I’m faced with bitter strife!…
So, I humbly pray for courage
To be with me morn and night,
Thro’ the coldness of the Winter
And the Summer’s bright sunlight!
~Gertrude T. Buckingham, “Courage”

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne

Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton

Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! ~Terri Guillemets

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch

                                             
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler

Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Terri Guillemets

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. ~H.G. Bohn

You can’t test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Life Quotes on Country

Life Quotes on Country

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman


Anybody can be good in the country. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~Charles Dickens

God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt,Table Talk

Oh, give me the country! where grass is green;
Where the roses bloom with satiny sheen;
Where the modest violet lifts up its head,
As on it the warmth of the sun is shed:
Give me the country! where all is serene;
Where the air is pure and fragrant and clean,
And noise of the city is far away;
Where gaiety thrives through each night and day.
God made the country, so lovely and fair!,
Its wide open spaces for all to share;
Where joy and contentment each one may find
If he, earnestly, seeks for peace of mind.
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Give Me The Country!” (1940s)

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ~John Adams

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes

Life quotes on Consumerism

quotes on Consumerism

To obtain a protective effect, it can be based on the consumption of a glass of wine per day per 25 kg of weight. – Jean-Claude Rodet


The aristocracy of disinterestedness is undoubtedly the principle of number of convictions of the “consumer society” that forget that the conviction of consumption is an idea of consumption. – Pierre Bourdieu
The préconsumériste company needed strong men, so chaste. The consumer society needs instead of weak men, so luxurious. In mythee woman trapped and separated (including implied obligation chastity chastity of man) has replaced the mythee the open and close woman, always available. The triumph of friendship between men and erection has replaced the triumph of the couple and impotence. Young men are traumatized by the obligation imposed upon them by permissiveness, to do all the time and love freely. – Pier Paolo Pasolini

I do not think that the knowledge of production and consumption capacity is the panacea for solving the current crisis must, in my opinion: (1) legal and gradual decrease, by occupation, working time to remove unemployment parallel attachment a minimum wage to guarantee the purchasing power of the masses based on produced goods. (2) Regulation of stocks of money in circulation and volume of credit. (3) Limiting the legal commodity prices.
“Production and purchasing power” in how I see the world (1934-1958). – Albert Einstein

Special Quotes on Conformity

 Quotes on Conformity

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. ~Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy


A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” ~Alan Sherman

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ~Colin Wilson

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~Lydia Maria Child

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ~Albert Einstein, on the controversy surrounding Bertrand Russell’s appointment to the faculty of the City University of New York, quoted in The New York Times, 1940 March 19th

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~Bertrand Russell

Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~Winston Churchill

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ~Charles Dudley Warner
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~J.K. Galbraith

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ~Norman Mailer

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Doubt is healthy. It tests one’s convictions. ~From the movie Haunted

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you’re locked up. ~Author Unknown

Ain’t no man can avoid being average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige

One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. ~Paul Vixie

I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same. ~William J. Dybus
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~Walter Moberly,The Crisis in the University

If you don’t control your mind, someone else will. ~John Allston

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. ~Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th

I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said. ~Eli Khamarov,America Explained!
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! ~W.J. Reichmann

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~Wilson Mizner

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

If you keep doing things like you’ve always done them, what you’ll get is what you’ve already got. ~Author Unknown

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. ~Ani Difranco

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. ~George Bernard Shaw

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. ~Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You

It’s a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it. ~Jacob Levin

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ~Clarence Darrow
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. ~George Bernard Shaw
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ~Author Unknown

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. ~Raymond E. Feist

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us — and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ~Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. ~From the movie Ed TV

I don’t rent space to anyone in my head. ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt’s question about why he had not gotten upset

Only dead fish swim with the stream. ~Malcolm Muggeridge

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo,The College Blue Book
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ~H.L. Mencken

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~Alexander Hamilton

I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. ~Fritz Perls

Don’t let them tame you. ~Isadora Duncan

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. ~Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~Anatole France

Crossing over the boundaries we’ve been taught to live within is a tough business. But I’m getting the idea they’re not so formidable. ~Jeb Dickerson

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. ~Quentin Crisp

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. ~H.G. Wells, Crux Ansata

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb

The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamond-fashion, with many facets answering to the many-planed aspects of the world about them; secondly, that society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface. It is hard work to resist this grinding-down action. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, 1859 [When I read this, I thought of Apple iOS 7 and its ditching of skeuomorphism—a soulless techno-world I’m not ready for yet. —tεᖇᖇ¡•g]

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Buddha

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds. ~Bob Marley

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by other people’s rules, while quietly playing by your own. ~Michael Korda

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~Max Beerbohm
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~Albert Camus

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. ~William Faulkner

No. ~President Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. ~Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. ~Mary Wortley Montagu

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” 1841

The most damaging phrase in the language is: “It’s always been done that way.” ~Grace Hopper
A lawyer’s brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ~Robert Peel
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.” ~Carl Sandburg

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. ~William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. ~Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ~Henrik Ibsen

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking. ~George S. Patton

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ~Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~John F. Kennedy

Our concern must be to live while we’re alive… to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. ~Edgar Watson Howe,Country Town Sayings, 1911

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~Vincent Van Gogh

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ~Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)
If you believe everything you read, you better not read. ~Japanese Proverb

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can’t be thwarted. ~Orson Scott Card
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~Walter Bagehot

Public opinion… requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits. ~Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies, 1907
Unless one decorates one’s house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. ~D.H. Lawrence

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone — our parents, teachers, analysts — hypnotizes us to “see” the world and construe it in the “right” way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. ~Sidney Jourard

I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. ~Bethania McKenstry
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. ~Virginia Woolf

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~Jonathan Swift

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. ~Romain Rolland

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ~Martin H. Fischer
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. ~George Santayana

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. ~Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
I don’t want to give up anymore. I want to be strong and stand for what I think even in the face of those most spiteful. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery… lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ~E.H. Chapin

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ~Thomas Szasz

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. ~Robert Brault

If you want to look like the people next door, you’re probably smothering yourself and your dreams. ~Clive Barker

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. ~Martin H. Fischer

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going. ~Christopher Morley
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ~John Stuart Mill

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. ~Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. ~Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. ~Alfred North Whitehead

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them? ~Leo Durocher

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein

Never assume the obvious is true. ~William Safire, Sleeper Spy

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ~Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. ~Charles de Gaulle

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. ~Marshall McLuhan

They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~Antonio Porchia,Voces

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself…. The purpose of man’s life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thanks, Mary)

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. ~Vern Bullough
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity. ~Bill Vaughan

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. ~Bill Veeck

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~Katherine Hepburn

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. ~Toller Cranston
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so. ~Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong. ~Kin Hubbard

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. ~Robert Ingersoll,Individuality

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ~S.I. Hayakawa

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. ~Daniel Knode

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~Aldous Huxley

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ~Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. ~Foe Ancis

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~George Bernard Shaw
My uncle ordered popovers
from the restaurant’s bill of fare.
And, when they were served,
he regarded them with a penetrating stare.
Then he spoke great words of wisdom
as he sat there on that chair:
“To eat these things,” said my uncle,
“You must exercise great care.
You may swallow down what’s solid,
but you must spit out the air!”
And as you partake of the world’s bill of fare,
that’s darned good advice to follow.
Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
And be careful what you swallow.
~Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), from a commencement address

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. ~Margaret Mitchell

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ~Charlie Brower
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ~William H. Mauldin

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 1856

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ~Joseph De Maistre
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. ~Dame Edith Sitwell

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. ~Lillian Hellman

 Life Quotes on Confidence

  Quotes on Confidence

You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else’s life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you. ~Bonnie Arbon

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. ~Sally Field


Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance. ~Author Unknown
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.~William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields

Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right. ~Henry Ford

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Success comes in cans, not cant’s. ~Author Unknown

Put your future in good hands — your own. ~Author Unknown

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis
I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., “An Exceptional View of Life,” quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soulby Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. McIntyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours. ~Richard Bach,Illusions

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Saʿdī

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton,Esquire, 1970

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline
Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” ~Samuel Johnson

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got. ~Sophia Loren
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Nestell Bovee

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ~John Powell

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers…. ~Veronica Shoffstall, “After a While,” as posted in Dear Abby

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. ~Zig Ziglar

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities. ~Dodinsky

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote,Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published anonymously; commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Thanks, Garson O’Toole and walden.org!)
The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet. ~Dodinsky

Never dull your shine for somebody else. ~Tyra Banks, America’s Next Top Model, “The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights,” original airdate 2007 October 17th

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Edison
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. ~Anaïs Nin

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. ~Author Unknown
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. ~Don Ward

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
~Paula Cole, “Me,” This Fire

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
A gold medal is a nice thing — but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra

If I am not for myself, who will be? ~Pirke Avoth

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens

Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light. ~Author Unknown

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. ~Robert Brault
Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~Anthony Powell

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau
There are offences given and offences not given but taken. ~Izaak Walton

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate. ~Dodinsky

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you. ~Abraham–Hicks

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there. ~Henry Miller, Sexus

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown
Be proud to wear you. ~Dodinsky

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars. ~Serbian Saying
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas à Kempis

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus

Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. ~Author Unknown

We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller
As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that’s false, before You trust in critics. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. ~Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921

Mediocrity is a hand-rail. ~Montesquieu, Mes pensées

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.” ~Author Unknown
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life’s upheavals. ~Dodinsky

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~E.F. Schumacher

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. ~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn

Life Quotes on Computers

Quotes on Computers

To have no errors Would be life without meaning No struggle, no joy ~Brian M. Porter
I wish life had an Undo function. ~Author Unknown

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug Larson


If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. ~Author Unknown

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown

Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry. ~Author Unknown
To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ~Bill Vaughan, 1969

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ~Clifford Stoll

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean “idiot.” ~Dave Barry

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell



Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ~David Dixon

Computers, huh? I’ve heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes…. I don’t know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys. ~From the television show King of Queens, spoken by the character Doug Heffernan

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. ~John Pierce
Hardware: where the people in your company’s software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company’s hardware section will tell you the problem is. ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top

But they are useless. They can only give you answers. ~Pablo Picasso, about computers
Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. ~Author Unknown

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ~Suzie Wagner

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It’s just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws. ~Scott Adams (“Dogbert”)

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done. ~Scott Adams

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes. ~Dave Barry,Claw Your Way to the Top

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse? ~Author Unknown

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. ~Andy Rooney

Don’t anthropomorphize computers – they hate it. ~Author Unknown

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ~Jeff Pesis
I haven’t lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown

I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. ~Author Unknown

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ~One of Murphy’s Laws of Technology

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space. ~Author Unknown

If it draws blood, it’s hardware. ~Author Unknown

In God we trust, all others we virus scan. ~Author Unknown
It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. ~Nicholas P. Negroponte

Rebooting is a wonder drug — it fixes almost everything. ~Garrett Hazel, “Help Desk Blues,” 2002

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. ~Joseph Weizenbaum

Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups. ~Author Unknown
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. ~John F. Kennedy

RAM disk is not an installation procedure. ~Author Unknown
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. ~Author Unknown

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo
I had a life once. Now I have a computer. ~Author Unknown

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there’s no law against whacking them around a little. ~Eric Porterfield

Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella

Do files get embarrassed when they’re unzipped? ~Author Unknown

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that ~Margaret Segall

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t. ~Author Unknown

There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network. ~Guy Almes

Truth is, I wouldn’t know a gigabyte from a snakebite. ~Dolly Parton

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows. ~Author Unknown

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. ~Peter Rothman
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ~Bill Gates

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ~Jeremy S. Anderson

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing. ~Author Unknown

Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down~David Ansel
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them! ~Richard P. Feynman

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ~J.H. Goldfuss

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. ~Author Unknown

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ~Isaac Asimov

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry

A user and his leisure time are soon parted. ~Author Unknown
Apathy Error: Don’t bother striking any key. ~Author Unknown

DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. ~Author Unknown

Home is where you hang your @. ~Author Unknown

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes… oh, wait a minute, he already does. ~Author Unknown

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they’re knocking off servers. ~Richard Power
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers. ~Author Unknown

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: “Macintosh – We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.” ~Douglas Adams

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. ~Werner von Braun

Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1. ~Author Unknown

Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating. ~Martin Reiser, quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned “Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away,” author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft
Some people can hack it, others can’t. ~Author Unknown

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! ~Richard Feynman

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. ~Doug Gwyn
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie

Unix never says “please.” ~Rob Pike

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure. ~Author Unknown

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. ~Alan Turing, about computers
What boots up must come down. ~Author Unknown

Windows is just DOS in drag. ~Author Unknown

Life quotes on Compliments

Compliments

God was just showing off when he created you. ~From the movie Keeping the Faith

Flattery…. gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.~Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007


Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ~André Gide

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899

‘Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. ~William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. ~Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. ~Mark Twain
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~Wilson Mizner

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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made! — Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. — Rajiv Gandhi


Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. — Indira Gandhi


A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. — Mahatma Gandhi

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action–
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. — Rabindranath Tagore

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!
— Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. — Thomas Paine, English-American political activist

You give me your blood and I will give you Independence! — Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. — Mark Twain, American author

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. — Romain Rolland, French Nobel laureate

India — the land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet



Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
The loss of freedom brings more sufferings than it causes joy
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Thousands laid down there lives so that our country breath this day..
Never forget there sacrifice..

Independence Day is a good time to examine who we are and how we got here.



We the youth of India should take the pledge
that till our last breath we will fight terrorism,
we will protect our mother INDIA with all we have

~JAI HIND

Freedom is precious, dignity is precious,
lets honour our nation by promoting
precious values of humanity & equality.

who leave everything and protect our borders
lets pray for them & honour them.
Greetings for India’s Freedom Day!

Lets take a stand against
Corruption, terrorism & ill-wills,
and serve our nation.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
– Franklin D Roosevelt

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.
– Stephen Colbert

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
– Harry S. Truman

Equal and exact justice to all men…freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us.
– Thomas Jefferson

Let freedom never perish in your hands.
– Joseph Addison

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
– Winston Churchill

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
– Bobcat Goldthwaite

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
– Malcolm X

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
– Mark Twain

In America, anyone can become President. That’s the problem.
– George Carlin