Cards with Hearts: Quotes Section A: Follow your Dreams Section B: Friendship Section C: Happiness Section D: Imagination Section E: Inspiration Section F: Love Section G: Motivation Section H: Perseverance Section I: Life Section J: Thoughtful
(A) Follow Your Dreams 1. I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats 2. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau 3. All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence 4. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau
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5. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains And we never even know we have the key. Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album 6. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Patrick Henry 8. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Lanston Hughes 9. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry D. Thoreau 10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 11. Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder 12. Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
13. The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. Hamilton Wright Mabie 14. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery 15. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. Ralph Waldo Emerson 16. Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. Anonymous 17. Hope is the dream of the waking man. French Proverb 18. To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. William Shakepeare
(B) Friendship Quotes 1. "There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet." Anonymous 2. "Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence." Pam Brown 3. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie 4. "It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter." Marlene Dietrich 5. "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty." English Proverb 6. "My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me." Henry Ford 7. "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." E. M. Forster 8. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin 9. "God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies." Proverb 10. "Life without a friend is death without a witness." Spanish Proverb 11. "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" Robert Lewis Stevenson 12. "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend." Henry David Thoreau 13. "Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families." Unknown 14. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." Alice Walker
15. "Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth." Horace Walpole 16. "A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway." Christi Mary Warner 17. "A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." Frances Ward Weller 18. "To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden." Goethe 19. "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." Confucious 20. "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." unknown 21. "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." Thomas Jefferson 22. "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend." unknown 23. "Friends are born, not made." Henry Adams 24. "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson 25. "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." Lee Iacocca 26. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." Nigerian Proverb 27. "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." Albert Schweitzer 28. "There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential." Rusty Berkus 29. "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" Abraham Lincoln 30. “Think of me like Yoda, but instead of being little and green I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro—I'm Broda!” Barney Stinson
(C) Happiness Quotes 1. 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 that has been opened for us. Helen Keller 2. Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle 3. Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus 4. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. George Matthew Allen 5. In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer 6. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley 7. There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you. David Burns, Intimate Connections 8. Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. John M. Good 9. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Alice Meynell 11. Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus 12. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. Benjamin Franklin
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There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus 14. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mills 15. You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. Robert F. Kennedy 16. Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. William Ellery Channing 17. There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Ghandi 18. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. Henry W. Longfellow 19. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Douglas Jerrold 20. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn 21. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus 22. Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle 23. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana 24. No man is happy who does not think himself so. Publilius Syrus 25. Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road. Charles Caleb Colton
(D) Imagination Quotes 1. The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. Latin Proverb 2. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russel Lowell 3. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein 4. He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. Joseph Joubert 5. Hope is the dream of a man awake. French Proverb 6. A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. Michel de Montaigne 7. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein 8. Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. Alexander Pope 9. Believe that you have it, and you have it. Latin Proverb 10. The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. Henry Ward Beecher 11. Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert 12. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
(E) Inspirational Quotes 1. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein 2. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau 3. Inspiration and genius--one and the same. Victor Hugo 4. If you would create something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5. Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson 6. The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell 7. Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? George Eliot 8. No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle 10. Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher. 11. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon J. Suenes 12. The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir 13. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
(F) Love Quotes 1. "A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." Abraham Crowley 2. "So much of what we know of love we learn at home." unknown 3. "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without." unknown 4. "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." unknown 5. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." Saint-Exupery 6. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Ingrid Bergman 7. "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." John Donne 8. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." Benjamin Franklin 9. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." Henry Ward Beecher 10. "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." Joseph Conrad 11. "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." La Rochefoucauld 12. "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe 13. "Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." Houssaye 14. "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." La Bruyere 15. "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." St. Augustine
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"To love another person is to see the face of God." Les Miserables 17. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." Alexander Smith 18. "When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe." La Rochefoucauld 19. "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never." Charles Caleb Colton 20. "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." Lawrence Durrell 21. "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." La Rochefoucauld 22. "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." Stendhal 23. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." Thoreau 24. "Blushing is the color of virtue." Diogenes 25. "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other." Leo F. Buscaglia 26. "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." Dr. Karl Menninger
(G)Motivational Quotations 1. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton 3. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra 4. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson 5. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder 6. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke 7. Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder 8. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle 9. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire 10. Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli 11. You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown 12. The best way out is always through. Robert Frost 13. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson 15. Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence 16. He who hesitates is lost. Proverb Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein 19. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 20. We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson 22. For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Matthew Prior 23. Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself. Sophocles The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu 27. Industry is the parent of success. Spanish Proverb 28. Thought is the seed of action. Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson 30. Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. Seneca 33. Lots of things that couldn't be done have been done. Charles Auston Bates 34. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon 35. They can conquer who believe they can. Ralph Waldo Emerson 36. There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. A. P. Stanley 37. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare 38. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley 40.
They can because they think they can. Virgil
41. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” E. Joseph Cossman 42. 43. 44.
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.” Anonymous I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ” Anonymous "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Dead Poets Society
(H) Perseverance Quotes 1. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith 2. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle 3. Press on! A better fate awaits thee. Victor Hugo 4. Perseverance is king. Josh Billings 5. The waters wear the stones. The Book of Job 14:19 6. Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin 7. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Chinese Proverb 8. Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Epictetus 9. The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 10. Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect. Latin Proverb 11. Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. C. W. Wendte 12. I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Sir T. F. Buxton 13. Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. Bayard Taylor
14. It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Washington Irving 15. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur 16. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. Lucretius 95 BC - From Perseverance: (persistence...endurance...persevere... ) - Happy Otter 17. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson 18. Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee. Marcus Aurelius 19. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius 20. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius 21. 22.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment Jim Rohn
(I) Quotes About Life 1. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin 2. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller 3. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharal Nehru 4. Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects. Alexis 5. Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. Palladas 6. Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. Thomas Fuller 7. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. Kal Menninger 9. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hypocrites 10. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb 11. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. La Bruyere 12. Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. Earl of Beaconsfield 14. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard 15. Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. Herman Melville 16. The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. Plutarch 17. Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. George William Curtis 18. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather 19. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson 20. There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke 21. To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler 22. One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities. Thomas Carlyle 23. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Sir Thomas Brown 24. As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. Jules Renard
(J) Thoughtful Quotations 1. It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. Michel de Montaigne 2. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lipman 3. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare 4. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare 5. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. James Beattie 6. What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. Oliver Wendell Holmes 7. We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. William Shakespeare 8. The less men think, the more they talk. Baron Montesquieu 9. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius 10. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius 11. Thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson 12. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. Henry Ford 13. The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. Charles W. Eliot 14. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney
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Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. Humphrey B. Neil 17. Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. R. C. Trench