Thirteen of my favorite quotes!
1. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --Mahatma Ghandi
2. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.--Chinese Proverb
3. When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.--Helen Keller
4. Imagination is more important than knowledge.--Albert Einstein
5. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.--J. Petit Senn
6. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.--William James
7. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.--Elbert Hubbard
8. To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.--Samuel Butler
9. As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.--Jules Renard
10. Every artist was first an amateur.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.--Vince Lombardi
12. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.--Theodore Roosevelt
And the last one for fun.....
13. If at first you don't succeed, then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
--W.C. Fields
Happy Thursday Everyone! What is your favorite quote?
14 comments:
I love #3!!!
And here's one of my favorite quotes:
A [wo]man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I added the [wo] LOL!
Great list of quotes! I particularly like the Einstein and Hubbard ones.
i don't have any favorite quotes, but i actually knew about half of yours, which kind of surprised me.
i'm doing the tt this week too.
#3 is my favorite. I truly believe it. Happy TT!
I love #10. Some day I aspire to be an artist...
I also did my favorite quotes!
I'd say I like #3 the best, esp since I have a hard time dropping things.
ha ha. i like the quotes. I like the last one. ;)
I love quotes!! Thanks for sharing these! I listed slogans on my blog. How many can you name?!?!
great quotes. I love 13.
great idea for a TT
"And Ive looked over and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So, Im happy tonight. Im not worried about anything. Im not fearing any man"-Martin Luther King, Jr
i like # 13!
don't have a favorite quote handy, though.
I love quotes! I have a number of favorites, but I'll stick with one from Jane Austen (My favorite author):
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
-From Emma
My list is here.
nice quotes!
Happy belated TT!
I like 5, 10 & 11. I hope things are going well for ya! Give Ms. Carmel my love.
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