Collection of Favorite Quotes

Favorite Quotes

**Theodore Roosevelt:**

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

**Henry David Thoreau:**

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

**Oscar Wilde:**

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

**Epictetus:**

"You cannot learn that which you think you already know."

**John Greenleaf Whittier:**

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

**Jerzy Gregorek:**

"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."

**Mark Twain:**

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

**John Green:**

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

**John D. Rockefeller:**

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

**Alexis de Tocqueville:**

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

**Voltaire:**

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

**Donald Winnicott:**

"The catastrophe you fear will happen has in fact already happened."

**Hunter S. Thompson:**

"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the 'good life', whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."

**Charles Bukowski:**

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

**Jim Hayes:**

"An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body."

**Stephen King:**

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered: 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'"

**George Carlin:**

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow just can't handle money!"

**Dave Evans:**

"You can’t solve a problem you’re not willing to have."

**James Clear:**

"Habits can be the compound interest of self-improvement."

**E.L. Doctorow:**

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

**Winston S. Churchill:**

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

**John Adams:**

"The happiness of society is the end of government,"