“You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
“When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
Variant: When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1499/ <br class="br">Variant: I have spread my dreams under your feet.<br>Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. <br class="br">Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) <br class="br">Context: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,<br>Enwrought with the golden and silver light,<br>The blue and the dim and the dark cloths<br>Of night and light and half-light,<br>I would spread the cloths under your feet:<br>But I, being poor, have only my dreams;<br>I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;<br>Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
“Anything forced is not beautiful”
Xenophon (-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Source: The Art of Horsemanship
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
“Another word for creativity is courage.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
Variant: Creativity takes courage.
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965); also, in Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1967)
“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
In Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft<br><br> Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ-xgfJkNNgC&pg=PA89&dq=%22There+is+only+one+tragedy+in+the+end,+not+to+have+been+a+saint%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIrLb4nOL6yAIVhjk-Ch1XSQVB#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20only%20one%20tragedy%20in%20the%20end%2C%20not%20to%20have%20been%20a%20saint%22&f=false
“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984 [Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984]
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
A Spanish politician in a political meeting said it for the first time and attributed to Bismarck https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discusi%C3%B3n:Otto_von_Bismarck <br class="br">Misattributed
“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) French playwright
“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Variant: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit
Source: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.
