Which Quotes

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.