“The nail that sticks up is certain to be hammered down.” — Japanese Proverb
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” — Mary Tyler Moore
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” — Rudyard Kipling
“A modest man, with much to be modest about.” — Winston Churchill (description of Clement Atlee)
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill
“I’m getting older in a world that’s very different.” — Billy Bob Thornton
“Everyone wants loyalty, consistency and somebody who won’t quit. But what many forget is that to get that person, you have to be that person.” — Unknown
“Dad taught me everything I know; unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows”. — Al Unser Jr.
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” — Unknown
“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.” — Winston Churchill
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” — Albert Camus
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” — Tom Stoppard
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” — Winston Churchill
“There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.” — Unknown
“Hypocrite – The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” — Abraham Lincoln
“A good rest is half the work.” — Yugoslav Proverb
“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.” — Winston Churchill
“Those at the top of the mountain did not fall there.” — Unknown
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” — Winston Churchill
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” — Alan Watts
“I’m making some changes in my life. If you don’t hear back from me . . . you’re one of them.” — Tom Zegan
“The people who matter will recognize who you are.” — Alan Cohen
“I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken.” — Unknown
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. — Anais Nin
“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” — Winston Churchill
“In the concert of life, no one gets a program.” — Dutch Proverb
“There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.” — Burton Hillis
“Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: You may be freeing him from being a camel.” — G.K. Chesterton
“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.” — Samuel Beckett
“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches a lot about your destination.” — Drake
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Winston Churchill
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” — Louis L’Amour
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” — H.L. Mencken