Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 10

• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Liberty, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anxiety, Alarms, Disaster

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Fruit, Libertarian

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, People, Rich

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiration, Race, Imagination

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

  Doc Childre

  Choices, How You Feel, Next

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath

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• When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Diversity, Being Different

  Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.

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• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Identity, May

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Ideas shape the course of history.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Ideas

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 97), 1976.

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Greater

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.417, Penguin

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Real, Political

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Graduation, Encouraging, Dream

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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Vanity, Generosity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

  Rumi

  Song, Heaven, Singing

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• Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Cutting, Our World, Discipline

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• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  W. W. Dumas

  Art, Cities, Policy

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• My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

  John Hendricks

  Attitude, Philosophy, Views

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