Birthday Quotes

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. Happy Birth Day!!!!By: Gabriel Byrne


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

By: George Harrison

Being seventy is not a sin.
By: Golda Meir

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
By: Sammy Hagar

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
By: Steven Wright

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
By: Voltaire

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
By: Doug Coupland

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
By: Satchel Paige

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
By: Kirstie Alley

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
By: Isla Fisher

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
By: Liv Tyler

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
By: Ruth Warrick

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

By: Bernard Shaw

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
By: Jean Paul

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
By: Gabriel Byrne

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
By: E. Joseph Cossman

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
By: Brian Tracy

View life as a continuous learning experience.

By: Denis Waitley

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

By: George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children. 

By: George Bernard Shaw
 
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. 

By: Robert Brault
 
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. 

By: Jerry M. Wright

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. 

By: Mark Twain

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. 

By: Ogden Nash

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
By: Jean Paul

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
By: E. Joseph Cossman

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
By: Brian Tracy

Thirty-five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.

By: Oscar Wilde

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

By: Ogden Nash

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

By: Daniel Francois Esprit Auber

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

By: Anonymous

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

By: Bob Hope

Belief Quotes

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

By:Jeff Miller

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
By:John Charles Polanyi

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
By:Bob Ney

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
By:Charlotte Bronte

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
By:Louis D. Brandeis

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
By:Christian Bale

Belief gets in the way of learning.
By:Jeremy Collier

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
By:Cecil Beaton

Need is not quite belief.
By:Anne Sexton

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
By:Asa Gray

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Wally Amos

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

By:John Burroughs

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Everett D. Martin

It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all - oneself.

By:Graham Greene

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

By:La Rochefoucauld

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

By:Thomas Paine

It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.

By:Annonymous

Anger Quotes

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

By: Francis Bacon

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
By: Aristotle

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
By: Albert Einstein

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

By: Dr. Joyce Brothers

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

By: Alfred Montapert

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.

By: Elliot Larson

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

By: Golda Meir

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

By: Yoda

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

By: Joan Chittister

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
By: Louis L'Amour

Anger is a short madness.
By: Horace

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
By: Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
By: Mark Twain

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
By: Thomas Fuller

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

By: Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

By: James Fallows

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

By: Lyman Abbott

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

By: James Thurber

Don’t damn up your anger. If you can't let it out in words, let it out in actions aimed at changing for your life for the better.

By: Adam Appleson

Appreciation quotes

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. 

By: William Shakespeare

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. 

By: Annonymous

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. 

By: Cynthia Ozick

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. 

By: Jacques Barzun

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

By: Voltaire

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

By: Albert Schweitzer

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

By: Henry Clay

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

By: Anonymous

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

By: William Arthur

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

By: Cicero

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. 

By: Jacques Barzun

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. 

By: Annonymous

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.  We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. 

By: Thurgood Marshall

Art quotes

Abstract art is a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

By: Al Capp

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
By: Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
By: Marshall McLuhan

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
By: Federico Fellini

All art is but imitation of nature.
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
By: Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
By: George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
By: Henry Miller

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
By: Edgard Varese

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
By: Miguel Angel Ruiz

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
By: Edward Steichen

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation.

By: Ansel Adams

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. 

By: Roy By: Adzak

Through the various forms of modern media it seems that art has become a deluge.

By: Greg Allen

Public Art is for the birds.

By: Terry Allen

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

By: Washington Allston

Art is about paying attention.

By: Laurie Anderson

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

By: Lindsay Anderson

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

By: Carl Andre

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

By: Carl Andre

"I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like," really means "I don't know anything about art, but I like what I know."

By: Anonymous

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

By: Alain Arias-Misson

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

By: Aristotle

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
By: W. Somerset Maugham

Attitude quotes

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

By: Winston Churchill

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
By: Oscar Wilde

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
By: Thomas Jefferson

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
By: Dalai Lama

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
By: Michael Jordan

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

By: William James

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

By: Dr. Robert Anthony

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

By: James A.Froude

Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely.

By: Annonyous

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.Kurt Cobain

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.By: Khalil Gibran

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.By: Joel Osteen

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

By: Victor E. Frankl

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
By: William James

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
By: Andrew Carnegie

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
By: Katherine Mansfield

The words "I am..." are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
By: A.L. Kitselman

Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!
By: Miley Cyrus

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
By:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
By:Colin Powell

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
By:Charles R. Swindoll

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
By:Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
By:Elbert Hubbard

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
By:Brian Tracy

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
By:Brian Tracy

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
By:Meister Eckhart

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
By:Denis Waitley

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.W.W. Ziege
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.By: Malcom Forbes

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations - plus or minus - it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.By: Norman Cousins

They can because they think they can.
By: Virgil

Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.By: Ernest Holmes

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
By:Earl Nightingale

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
By:William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
By:William James

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
By:William James

Action Quotes

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.            

By: Chinese proverb

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

By:  Chinese proverb

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

By: Annonymous

Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

By: Sydney J. Harris

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

By: Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer

Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

By: Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

By: Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action. 

By: Frank Tibolt

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. 

By: Arabian Proverb

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

By: Arnold Glasow

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

By: Brendan Francis

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 

By: Peter Marshall

Never mistake motion for action.

By: Ernest Hemingway

Action is eloquence.

By: William Shakespeare

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

By: Washington Irving

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

By: Oscar Wilde

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

By: Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.

By: Author Unknown

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

By: Charles Barkley

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

By: Edmund Burke

Talk doesn't cook rice.

By: Chinese Proverb

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

By: Baltasar Gracian

All know the way; few actually walk it. 

By: Bodhidharma

Contemplation often makes life miserable.  We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

By: Nicolas de Chamfort

The first step binds one to the second.

By: French Proverb

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. 

By: G.K. Chesterton

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 

By: Henry J. Kaiser

There is no moment like the present.  The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:  they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

By: Maria Edgeworth

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

By: Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960

Action is the antidote to despair.

By: Joan Baez

Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.

By: Grey Livingston

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

By: William James (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the USA.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the USA