Charles Dudley Warner Famous Quotes
"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner Quotations
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
John Burroughs
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
David Wilkerson
"The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
Cicero
"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark."
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.
David L Boren
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
Thucyclides
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein