Quotes
collection of my favorite quotes

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
— A.J. Jacobs
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
— African Proverb
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay, an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
— Aldous Huxley
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
— Anne McCaffrey
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
— Arthur Miller
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Truth is outside of all patterns.
— Bruce Lee
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
— Christopher Hitchens
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.
— David Levithan
Resistance is useless.
— Doctor Who
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way to come back a short distance correctly.
— Edward Albea
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers.
— Edward Hodnett
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
Anger as soon as fed is dead -- tis starving makes it fat.
— Emily Dickinson
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
— Erma Bombeck
The Lᴏʀᴅ will fight for you while you keep silent.
— Exodus 14:14
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
— Franz Kafka
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
— G.K. Chesterton
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
— George C. Lichtenberg
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
— George Orwell
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
— Henri Poincare
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
— Herman Hesse
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
— Hippocrates
Our biggest problems arise from the avoidance of smaller ones.
— James A. Lee Iacocca
In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.
— Jeffrey Fry
If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort should we find.
— John Churton Collins
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business.
— John Green
The master understands that the universe is forever out of control.
— Lao Tzu
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
— Leo Tolstoy
Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
— Leonard Sweet
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
— Lyndon Johnson
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
— Mahatma Ghandi
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
— Malachy McCourt
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
— Mark Twain
Love is a willingless to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
— Mother Teresa
Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
— Proverb
Let not a man guard his dignity but let his dignity guard him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be here now.
— Ram Dass
The value of identity is that so often with it comes purpose.
— Richard R. Grant
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
— Robert Burns
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
— Steven H. Coogler
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
— Steven H. Coogler
How weird was it to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
— Suzanne Vega
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
— Thomas Edison
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
— Thomas Fuller
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
— Vanna Bonta