If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Every choice you make has an end result.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‘em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Your friend is your needs answered.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth’.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Is the glass half full, or half empty?
It depends on whether you’re pouring, or drinking.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two . . . humor, commitment & undying love.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

When you become senile, you won’t know it.

I wasn’t always black… there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think — in a deeper voice.

Gray hair is God’s graffiti.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

If there’s a will, prosperity can’t be far behind.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

I’m free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?

I never drink water. I’m afraid it will become habit-forming.

Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I love to go to Washington — if only to be near my money.

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.

I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

They’ll always be an England, even if it’s in Hollywood.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I’ll do it.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.

I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
~Albert Camus on Love.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

You can’t create experience. You must undergo it.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Nothing succeeds like success.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.

All for one, one for all.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is ”sensitive’;’ or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man’s life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture / in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

You think intercourse is a private act; it’s not, it’s a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Men know everything – all of them- all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent – see, he’s jealous, he cares – a woman shows how much she cares by how much she’s willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure.