Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~quote about Habits by Jim Ryun
If men had more up top we'd need less up front.
~quotes on Men by Jaci Stephen
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
~sayings on Bicycling by J.B. Jackson
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
~quotations on Light by Benjamin Franklin
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
~unrequited love quote by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easilyIt is up to him, after all, to have us, our part con
~saying about unrequited by Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
~quote about Conformity by Vincent Van Gogh
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~quotes on Sports by H.L. Mencken
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
~sayings on Stress by H.M. Tomlinson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
~quotations on America by Thomas Jefferson
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
~unrequited love quote by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!
~saying about unrequited by DeGriff
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~quote about Health by Chi Chi Rodriguez
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.
~quotes on Marriage by Author Unknown
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age.
~sayings on Society by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~quotations on Clothing by Source Unknown
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~unrequited love quote by Mahatma Gandhi
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
~saying about unrequited by Thomas de Quincey
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
~quote about Success by Donald A. Miller
It takes two men to make one brother.
~quotes on Brothers by Israel Zangwill
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
~sayings on Gardens by Charles Lamb, 1830
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
~quotations on Honesty by Bill Copeland
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~unrequited love quote by Rabindrath Tagore
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
~saying about unrequited by Agnes' Law
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
~quote about Living by Art Buchwald
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~quotes on Action by Brendan Francis
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.
~sayings on Women by Ellery Queen
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
~quotations on Science by Bertrand Russell
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
~unrequited love quote by Olin Miller
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
~saying about unrequited by John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
~quote about Cities by Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues
~quotes on Graduation by Author Unknown
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
~sayings on Anger by Seneca
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
~quotations on Men by Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960
The best time to tell someone that you love him or her is before somebody else does. JUST DO IT, NOW!
~unrequited love quote by
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
~saying about unrequited by Oliver Herford
As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, Six only! The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full. He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.
~quote about Kindness by The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~quotes on God by Garth Brooks
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