Favorite quotes

Favorite quotes? Here are some of mine:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down.
-James Patterson

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
-Meredith Willson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
-Plato

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-Charles DuBois

Justice is truth in action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
-Dan Millman

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
-Anais Nin

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
-Stephanie Barron

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
-Alexander Humboldt

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
-William Arthur Ward

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
-Napoleon Hill

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
- Etienne de Grellet

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford

Missing someone isn’t about how long it’s been since you’ve seen them last or the amount of time since you’ve talked... It's about that very moment when you’re doing something and you wish that they were right there with you.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
-Charles Caleb Colton

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
-Laurence J. Peter

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

A prepared messenger is more important than a prepared message.
-Robert Munger

It's not that the Christian faith has been tried and found difficult,but rather it's been found difficult and left untried.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"There is a glorified Man on the right hand of the Majesty in heaven faithfully representing us there. We are left for a season among men; let us faithfully represent Him here."
-Tozer

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end." -John Lennon