English Quotations Complete Collection: Volume VIII

By Daniel B. Smith

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life. 
In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.
Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author's life experiences.
It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others' experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.
I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel B. Smith
• Release date: Dec 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798223908906

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English Quotations

Complete Collection:

Volume VIII

Daniel B. Smith

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Copyright © 2021, Daniel B. Smith

Table of contents

Introduction

Quotations by Octavio Paz (13)

Quotations by Og Mandino (54)

Quotations by Ogden Nash (50)

Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith (38)

Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes (82)

Quotations by Oprah Winfrey (145)

Quotations by Orison Swett Marden (60)

Quotations by Orrin Woodward (25)

Quotations by Orson Scott Card (30)

Quotations by Orson Welles (25)

Quotations by Oscar Wilde (475)

Quotations by Osho (98)

Quotations by Oswald Chambers (40)

Quotations by Otto Von Bismarck (12)

Quotations by Ovid (99)

Quotations by Ozzy Osbourne (15)

Quotations by P. J. O’Rourke (72)

Quotations by P. G. Wodehouse (21)

Quotations by Pablo Casals (16)

Quotations by Pablo Neruda (32)

Quotations by Pablo Picasso (63)

Quotations by Pam Brown (25)

Quotations by Paracelsus (16)

Quotations by Paramahansa Yogananda (34)

Quotations by Paris Hilton (11)

Quotations by Pat Conroy (23)

Quotations by Pat Riley (28)

Quotations by Pat Summitt (17)

Quotations by Patricia Evans (10)

Quotations by Patrick Lencioni (8)

Quotations by Patrick Ness (13)

Quotations by Patrick Rothfuss (20)

Quotations by Patti Smith (15)

Quotations by Paul Auster (15)

Quotations by Paul Cezanne (13)

Quotations by Paul Laurence Dunbar (14)

Quotations by Paul McCartney (18)

Quotations by Paul Newman (15)

Quotations by Paul Simon (25)

Quotations by Paul Theroux (25)

Quotations by Paul Tillich (24)

Quotations by Paul Valery (20)

Quotations by Paulo Coelho (241)

Quotations by Peace Pilgrim (20)

Quotations by Pearl Bailey (17)

Quotations by Pearl S. Buck (37)

Quotations by Pele (13)

Quotations by Pema Chodron (47)

Quotations by Penn Jillette (17)

Quotations by Percy Bysshe Shelley (65)

Quotations by Pete Rose (13)

Quotations by Peter De Vries (17)

Quotations by Peter Diamandis (15)

Quotations by Peter Drucker (87)

Quotations by Peter Kreeft (13)

Quotations by Peter Marshall (10)

Quotations by Peter McWilliam (19)

Quotations by Peter Ustinov (17)

Quotations by Phil Jackson (14)

Quotations by Philip James Bailey (15)

Quotations by Philip K. Dick (27)

Quotations by Philip Sidney (19)

Quotations by Philip Yancey (14)

Quotations by Phillips Brooks (27)

Quotations by Phyllis Diller (37)

Quotations by Phyllis McGinley (19)

Quotations by Pierre Corneille (25)

Quotations by Pierre Theilhard De Chardin (15)

Quotations by Plato (177)

Quotations by Plautus (33)

Quotations by Pliny The Elder (14)

Quotations by Plutarch (54)

Quotations by Pope Benedict XVI (31)

Quotations by Pope Francis (91)

Quotations by Pope John Paul II (54)

Quotations by Pope John XXIII (12)

Quotations by Princess Diana (16)

Quotations by Publilius Syrus (100)

Quotations by Pythagoras (30)

Quotations by Queen Latifah (18)

Quotations by Quentin Crisp (27)

Quotations by R. Buckminster Fuller (16)

Quotations by R. C. Sproul (22)

Quotations by R. D. Laing (15)

Quotations by Rabindranath Tagore (73)

Quotations by Rachel Carson (27)

Quotations by Radhanath Swami (13)

Quotations by Raheel Farooq (16)

Quotations by Rainer Maria Rilke (51)

Quotations by Ralph Ellison (16)

Quotations by Ralph Marston (31)

Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson (668)

Quotations by Ram Dass (37)

Quotations by Ramakrishna (15)

Quotations by Ramana Maharshi (20)

Quotations by Randy Pausch (27)

Quotations by Rasheed Ogunlaru (32)

Quotations by Ray Bradbury (62)

Quotations by Ray Charles (17)

Quotations by Ray Kroc (10)

Quotations by Raymond Chandler (26)

Quotations by Reba McEntire (10)

Quotations by Rebecca Solnit (21)

Quotations by Rebecca West (22)

Quotations by Reese Witherspoon (13)

Quotations by Regina Brett (17)

Quotations by Reid Hoffman (14)

Quotations by Rene Descartes (27)

Quotations by Rhonda Byrne (32)

Quotations by Richard Bach (84)

Quotations by Richard Branson (65)

Quotations by Richard Dawkins (60)

Quotations by Richard M. Nixon (24)

Quotations by Richard P. Feynman (31)

Quotations by Richard Paul Evans (19)

Quotations by Richard Rohr (17)

Quotations by Richard Steele (14)

Quotations by Richard Templar (11)

Quotations by Richard Whately (20)

Quotations by Richelle E. Goodrich (106)

Quotations by Richelle Mead (20)

Quotations by Richie Norton (29)

Quotations by Rick Riordan (47)

Quotations by Rick Warren (67)

Quotations by Ricky Gervais (20)

Quotations by Rita Mae Brown (29)

Quotations by Rita Rudner (37)

Quotations by Ritu Ghatourey (47)

Quotations by Roald Dahl (22)

Quotations by Robert A. Heinlein (96)

Quotations by Robert Anthony (18)

Quotations by Robert Anton Wilson (18)

Quotations by Robert Baden Powell (21)

Quotations by Robert Benchley (15)

Quotations by Robert Brault (127)

Quotations by Robert Breault (55)

Quotations by Robert Browning (46)

Quotations by Robert Burns (19)

Quotations by Robert Burton (18)

Quotations by Robert Cheeke (15)

Quotations by Robert Collier (23)

Quotations by Robert E. Lee (26)

Quotations by Robert F. Kennedy (10)

Quotations by Robert Frost (105)

Quotations by Robert Fulghum (25)

Quotations by Robert G. Ingersoll (63)

Quotations by Robert Graves (24)

Quotations by Robert Greene (44)

Conclusion

Introduction

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The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life.

In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.

Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.

It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.

I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

Quotations by Octavio Paz (13)

Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustady International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here are some representative quotations by Octavio Paz:

A garden is not a place: it is a passage, a passion. We don't know where we're going; to pass through is enough; to pass through is to remain.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Poetry is memory becomes image, and image becomes voice.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Quotations by Og Mandino (54)

Og Mandino was an American author. He wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Secret in the World. Here are some representative quotations by Og Mandino:

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.

Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed, Its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough!

For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

If I persist long enough I will win.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action and then obeying that command immediately.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them.

The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that each task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.

You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life... You were made with a purpose.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Quotations by Ogden Nash (50)

Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. Here are some representative quotations by Ogden Nash:

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

A little bit of gossip does me good.

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.

At another year, I would not boggle, Except that when I jog, I joggle.

At the very glimpse of Jack-o'-lantern, I've got one foot on the bus to Scranton, when Halloween next delivers the goods, You may duck for apples - I'll duck for the woods.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Candy is dandy. But liquor is quicker.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Duty, oh duty, why are thou not a, sweetie or a cutie.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

I wonder if there is woman in the world strong-minded enough to shed ten pounds or twenty, and say, there now, that's plenty.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

May I join you in the doghouse, Rover? I wish to retire till the party's over. Since three o'clock I've done my best, to entertain each tiny guest.

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Middle age is when you're old enough to know better but still young enough to do it.

Oh what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

One would be in less danger, from the wiles of the stranger, if one's own kin and kith, were more fun to be with.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Poets aren't very useful. Because they aren't consumable or very produceful.

Senescence begins, and middle-age ends, the day your descendants, outnumber your friends.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that is both is dental.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini; I wish that I had one at present.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup. Whenever you're wrong, admit it. Whenever you're right, shut up.

Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

When I jog I joggle.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith (38)

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwirght and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield. Here are some representative quotations by Oliver Goldsmith:

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town he ran his Godly grace, Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by a blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a glittering crown.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack; For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown - not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Our greatest glory consists, not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever is, at home.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away; Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes (82)

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet and humorist notable for his medical research and teaching. Here are some representative quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes:

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

A man of very moderate ability may be a good physician, if he devotes himself faithfully to the work.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.

Apologizing a very desperate habit one that is rarely cured.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Boston has opened and kept open, more turnpikes that lead straight to free thought and free speech and free deeds than any other city of live or dead men.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Certainly generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

I credit my youthfulness at eighty to the fact of a cheerful disposition and contentment in every period of my life with what I was.

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

In whose banks we deposit out notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears by lending them minutes and charging them years.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at.

June comes in with roses in her, hand, but very often with a thick, shawl on her shoulders, and a bad, cold in her head.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Leverage is everything - don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.

Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

The lengthening shadows wait the first pale stars of twilight.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The mind like any other organism gradually shapes itself to what surrounds it, and resents disturbance in the form which its life has assumed.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it with the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men? from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To many, the words love, hope, and dreams are synonymous with horses.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift nor lie at anchor.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Too young for love? Ah, say not so, While daisies bloom and tulips glow! June soon will come with lengthened day, To practise all love learned in May.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions, just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Quotations by Oprah Winfrey (145)

Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author and philanthropist. Here are some representative quotations by Oprah Winfrey:

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Are we limiting our success by not mastering the art of delegation? It's simply a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you the first time around.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Don't settle for a relationship that prevents you from being yourself.

Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

"Follow your instincts. That's