Quotes Part One of Some Numbered Series From Me...

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

Anger as soon as fed is dead
'Tis starving makes it fat - Emily Dickenson

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. - Lynn Hall

Character is like a tree and reputation it's shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

Forming characters? Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. - Elihu Burritt

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Underneathe this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. - Don Wood

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. - Douglas Adams

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. -Matthew Arnold

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(The universe is laughing at you behind your back.)

You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. - Shakiti Gawain

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. - Hermann Hesse

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. - Kurt Vonnegut

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H.L. Mencken

Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt. Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. - Craig Volk

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life, and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. - Rodney Yee

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. - Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. - Woody Allen

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. - Gore Vidal

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp

Courage is fear that has said it's prayers. - Dorothy Bernard

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. - Frances Moore Lappe



that was only A-F one one website for quotes. And not even on all of the topics I was interested in looking at. I'm just too lazy to look for more at the moment.