“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
Aesop book The Jay and the Peacock
The Jay and the Peacock.
Wise Quotes About Life page 5
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. ”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages )) <br class="br">Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229. <br class="br">A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words" <br class="br">However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' " <br class="br">Attributed
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
John Barrymore (1882–1942) American actor of stage, screen and radio
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.”
Adam Silvera book They Both Die at the End
Oscar Wilde, p. 1
They Both Die at the End (2017)