Box of Quotes for Graduates

When I graduated high school in 1994 I was given a box of quotes. Over the years I opened a couple. Today, as part of my Spring cleaning, I have opened all of them and turned hard copy into electronic storage.

Enjoy the quotes!

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (boy is this true!)
~Josh Billings~

I have never let me schooling interfere with my education.
~Mark Twain~

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
~George Bernard Shaw~

The first half of life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~Clarance Darrow~

Only those who dare to fail can ever achieve greatly.
~Robert F. Kennedy~

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
~Henry David Thoreau~

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
~Ellen Hubbard~

The highest use of capitol is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
~Henry Ford~

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~Thoreau~

Life begets life. Energy created energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
~Sandrah Bernhardt~

Well done is better than well said.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
~Kierkegaard~

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
~Benjamin Franklin~

I like nonsense--it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
~Dr. Seuss~

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
~Sir Winston Churchill~

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
~David Brinkley~

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
~Andrew Carnegie~

*and now for my favorite quote of the week*
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Mark Twain~

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
~Samuel Butler~

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Immanuel Kant~

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein


The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola


You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato


Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain