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.


Quotation:

   Author:
MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Poor Man's College Rand Lindsly's Quotes
Internet Collections The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

[About the Collections]

Results of search for Quote: the - Page 289 of 1382
Showing results 2881 to 2890 of 13818 total quotations found.
<- Previous Page Pages: ... 286 287 288 289 290 291 292... Next Page ->

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
[info][add][mail][note]
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
[info][add][mail][note]
Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- More quotations on: [Flowers]
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
[info][add][mail][note]
Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
[info][add][mail][note]
J. A. Spender
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
[info][add][mail][note]
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- More quotations on: [Power]
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
[info][add][mail][note]
Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
[info][add][mail][note]
James Bryant Conant (1893 - 1978)
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
[info][add][mail][note]
William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
[info][add][mail][note]
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
[info][add][mail][note]
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- More quotations on: [Adversity]
<- Previous Page Pages: ... 286 287 288 289 290 291 292... Next Page ->
Results of search for Quote: the - Page 289 of 1382
Showing results 2881 to 2890 of 13818 total quotations found.