These are a few of my favorite (secular) quotes. I limited myself to only 20, but there are so many good ones out there. Enjoy
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Dorothy Day
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
- Reginald W. Kaufman
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
-Charles De Gaulle
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
-Icelandic Proverb
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
-Woodrow Wilson
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
-General Macarthur
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
-Hugo
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
-Fichte
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love
- Charles Shulz(this I like just for its reverent reference to PB)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Tolstoy
Verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral
- Kahlil Gibran from the Prophet
I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff
- Kahlil Gibran from the Prophet
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
- Mahatma Ghandi
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
- Robert Jordan…in memory of his work
(you’ll only understand this one if you know the books…can you guess what character said it?)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain
2 comments:
I am not so sure I would be recommending anyone read Kirban:
Wikipedia says the following about him.
"Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays. During the 1960s, The Prophet became especially popular with the American counterculture and New Age movements. The Prophet remains famous to this day, having been translated into more than 20 languages.
One of his most notable lines of poetry in the English speaking world is from 'Sand and Foam' (1926), which reads : 'Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you'. This was taken by John Lennon and placed, though in a slightly altered form, into the song Julia from The Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album)."
GH
The Robert Jordan quote sounds like Perrin. Can't believe you found a quote about peanut butter.
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