Category Archives: Notable Quotables

  “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” — Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) American TV host & producer, actress & author

Love it or hate it, this is National Candy Corn Day. George Renninger is credited with inventing candy corn while employed at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia in the 1880s. The iconic yellow, orange, and white treats were popularized … Continue reading →

  “One man with courage makes a majority.” — Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845) US Army General & 7th President of the United States

“Believe in yourself!  Have faith in your abilities!  Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” — Norman Vincent Peal (1898-1993) American pastor, author of “The Power of Positive Thinking” in 1952

    “From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.” — Proverb  

  “May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.” — Unknown

  “Every exit is an entry somewhere.” Sir Tom Stoppard (1937 – ) Czechoslovakian British playwright

“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.” — Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (circa 4 BC – 65 AD) Roman Stoic philosopher from Letters from a Stoic

  “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” — Scott Hamilton (1958 – ) American figure skater (retired) & Olympic gold medalist  

  “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” — Richard Bach (1936 – ) American author

  “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) German Jewish girl & diarist who perished in the Nazi Holocaust

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” — Hal Borland (1900 – 1978) American writer & journalist

“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.” — Voltaire (1694 – 1778) Francois-Marie Arouet (M. de Voltaire was his nom de plume) French Enlightenment writer and satirist, Noted for criticism of slavery and advocacy … Continue reading →

  “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917 – 2008) American businessman & religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  “In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.” — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) German philosopher & cultural critic

  “Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.” — Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German-born theoretical physicist & Nobel laureate

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer … Continue reading →

  “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” — Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850) American journalist, critic, & women’s rights advocate

  “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.” — Catherine Aird (pen name of Kinn Hamilton McIntosh) (1930 – 2024) English  novelist

  “If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” George D. Aiken (1892 – 1984) US Senator 1941 – … Continue reading →

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” — Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) American naturalist, philosopher, and writer As … Continue reading →

    “If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.” — Arabian proverb    

“Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) American writer & philosopher  

    “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -Greek proverb

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English statesman, poet

September 21st is the annual International Day of Peace. May peace grow in everyone’s hearts.   “The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.” — Arthur Powell Davies (1902 – 1957) English American Unitarian minister

    “A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose.” — Chinese proverb

  “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith (1968 – ) American actor, rapper & film producer (Photo by Alexander Mils)

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”  — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American social activist & stateswoman U.S. First Lady: 1933-45; Ambassador to UN

“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” Gina Barreca (1957 – ) American humorist I am most grateful to have enjoyed decades of life surrounded by precious, sparkling gems!!!

  “What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.” — B. C. Forbes (Bertie Charles Forbes) (1880 – 1954) Scottish-born American journalist & author Founder of Forbes magazine

  “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.” — Alexander Levine (1955 – ) Russian-born British composer

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” — Abigail Van Buren (pseudonym for Pauline Esther Phillips) (1918 – 2013) American advice columnist & radio show host

  “There is nothing permanent except change.” — Heraclitus (c. 6th century BC – c. 5th century BC) Persian (Ancient Greek) philosopher from Ephesus

  “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965) German French polymath, philosopher, physician & Nobel laureate

  “Our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black, and white—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.” — Jesse Jackson (1941 – ) American civil rights activist, politician, & Baptist minister