Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
- Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
- Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
- Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}