SmartQuote

  • Life moves forward one conversation at a time.”
    –Seth Besmertnik, CEO and co-founder of Conductor.
  • Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.”–William Cornelius Van Horne,Canadian railway executive
  • Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only.”–Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist
  • Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”–Amelia Earhart, American aviator
  • Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”
    –Thomas Szasz,
    Hungarian psychiatrist
  • We are born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
    –Judith “Miss Manners” Martin,American journalist and author
  • The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.”
    –Hannah Arendt,German-American political theorist
  • Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
    –Amos Bronson Alcott, American educator, writer and reformer
  • He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”–Michel de Montaigne  French philosopher and statesman
  • If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” –Thomas Aquinas,
    Italian priest, philosopher and theologian
  • Actions are the seed of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.”–Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S. president
  • Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”–Blaise Pascal,  French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer
  • I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”–Eleanor Roosevelt,U.S. first lady
  • The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
    –Antony Jay,British writer, broadcaster, director and actor
  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”–Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer
  • No one ever said on their deathbed, ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.’ “–Danielle Berry,
    American computer programmer
  • In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.”–John Leonard, American critic
  • Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we seek too late the one that is open.”–Alexander Graham Bell,American inventor
  • Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.”–Hans Hoffman,German-American abstract expressionist painter

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