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Knowledge Quotes: Wisdom Quotes About Knowledge

Without knowledge we can achieve anything, everything can be lost such as money, career, house but what you have learned in your mind, always stays with you! Knowledge is power.

Lack of knowledge… that is the problem. –W. Edwards Deming

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -David Hume

You should not ask questions without knowledge. –W. Edwards Deming

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. -Oswald Chambers

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
–Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. -Abigail Adams

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -Thomas Sowell

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. -Bertolt Brecht

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
-Hippocrates

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. –Wilbur Wright;

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learning. –Scott Adams

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.-Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.-Kofi Annan

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. –Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. -Zhuangzi

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. –William Penn

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.-William Penn

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I’m looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. -Talib Kweli

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
-Arthur Conan Doyle

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. -Herschel Walker

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. –Orison Swett Marden

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. -Chanakya

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.-James A. Baldwin

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. -Hubert H. Humphrey

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. -Robert Mugabe

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. -Keanu Reeves

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. -Josh Billings

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Husband and Wives Sayings: Marriage Quotes

Love and marriage goes together like a horse and carriage! There are many things written about husbands and wives and marriages; some are inspirational and some are downright funny! Here are some marriage quotes from famous people and kids too.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does. ~Groucho Marx

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. –Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909<

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? ~Barbra Streisand

If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest. ~Kin Hubbard

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder. ~Thornton Wilder

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ~H.L. Mencken

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ~Michel de Montaigne

You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, ’cause she’ll want to have videos of the wedding. ~Jim, age 10

It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I’m just a kid. I don’t need that kind of trouble. ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it’s better to be single or married

W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost

I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he’d be dead within the year. ~Bette Davis

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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~Madeleine de Scudery

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. ~Josh Billings

Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake. ~Elbert Hubbard

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford

As a man, I’ve learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. ~Robert Brault

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books. ~Unknown

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King

As a man, I’ve learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. ~Robert Brault,

Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, woman’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ~Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras

Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. ~Author Unknown

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. ~Anton Chekov

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him. ~Cher

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Movie Quotes: Fun Quotes About Famous Movies

Some of the classic and blockbuster movies have some great dialogues and quotes that people remember years later. It becomes a classic lines that can be remembered by many movie buff and movie lovers; Here are some famous movie quotes for you to enjoy!

These top 50 movie quotes are created and compiled by AFI.com. To see part 2 of the series and see remaining 51-100 movie quotes click: Top all time favorite Movie Quotes Part 2.

1 – Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

2 – I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
GODFATHER, THE 1972

3 – You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
ON THE WATERFRONT 1954

4 –Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939

5 – Here’s looking at you, kid.
CASABLANCA 1942

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6 – Go ahead, make my day.
SUDDEN IMPACT 1983

7 – All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.
SUNSET BLVD. 1950

8 – May the Force be with you.
STAR WARS 1977

9 – Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.
ALL ABOUT EVE 1950

10 – You talking to me?
TAXI DRIVER 1976

11 – What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
COOL HAND LUKE 1967

12 – I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
APOCALYPSE NOW 1979

13 – Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
LOVE STORY 1970

14 – The stuff that dreams are made of.
MALTESE FALCON, THE 1941

15 – E.T. phone home.
E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL 1982

16 – They call me Mister Tibbs!
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967

17 – Rosebud.
CITIZEN KANE 1941

18 – Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
WHITE HEAT 1949

19 – I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!
NETWORK 1976

20 – Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
CASABLANCA 1942

21 – A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE 1991

22 – Bond. James Bond.
DR. NO 1962

23 – There’s no place like home.
WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939

24 – I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.
SUNSET BLVD. 1950

25 – Show me the money!
JERRY MAGUIRE 1996

26 – Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?
SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933

27 – I’m walking here! I’m walking here!
MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1969

28 – Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’
CASABLANCA 1942

29 – You can’t handle the truth!
FEW GOOD MEN, A 1992

30 – I want to be alone.
GRAND HOTEL 1932

31 – After all, tomorrow is another day!
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

32 – Round up the usual suspects.
CASABLANCA 1942

33 – I’ll have what she’s having.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY 1989

34 – You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?
You just put your lips together and blow.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 1944

35 – You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
JAWS 1975

36 – Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE 1948

37 – I’ll be back.
TERMINATOR, THE 1984

38 – Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
PRIDE OF THE YANKEES, THE 1942

39 If you build it, he will come.
FIELD OF DREAMS 1989
40 – Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re
gonna get.
FORREST GUMP 1994
41 – We rob banks.
BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967

42 – Plastics.
GRADUATE, THE 1967

43 – We’ll always have Paris.
CASABLANCA 1942

44 – I see dead people.
SIXTH SENSE, THE 1999

45 – Stella! Hey, Stella!
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A 1951

46 – Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.
NOW, VOYAGER 1942
47 – Shane. Shane. Come back!
SHANE 1953

48 – Well, nobody’s perfect.
SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959

49 – It’s alive! It’s alive!
FRANKENSTEIN 1931

50 – Houston, we have a problem.
APOLLO 13 1995

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Humorous Saying: Funny Quotes to Chuckle With

Humor is important part of our life, if we did everything serious and efficient it would not be fun. People can be motivated and inspired by funny quotes. If nothing else, it will make you smile or chuckle a bit. It sure worth it.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. -Bob Hope

All men are equal before fish. -Herbert Hoover

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. -Casey Stengel

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. -Bill Cosby

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. -Woody Allen

I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her. –Rodney Dangerfield

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. -Steven Wright

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. – Joan Rivers

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. –Fred Allen

I like marriage. The idea. -Toni Morrison

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. -Rodney Dangerfield

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -Walt Disney

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Quote Junkie Funny Edition: Hundreds Of Hilarious Quotes By Some Of The Most Serious Men And Women In The History Of The World

I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money. -Bob Hope
I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.
-Frank Sinatra

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. -Rodney Dangerfield

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. –Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time. -Charles M. Schulz

I have never been hurt by what I have not said. -Calvin Coolidge

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. -Elayne Boosler

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. –Hedy Lamarr

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. –Groucho Marx

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -Buddy Hackett

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers. -Kevin Nealon

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. –George Burns

I think serial monogamy says it all. –Tracey Ullman

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut. –Ellen DeGeneres

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -Mae West

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. –David Lee Roth

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. -Les Dawson

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry. -Norman Wisdom

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. –Emo Philips

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone. –Rod Schmidt

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down. –Mitch Hedberg

I wish I had the nerve not to tip. –Paul Lynde

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. –Bertrand Russell

I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. –Bette Davis

I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. –Mercedes McCambridge

People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant. -Ellen DeGeneres

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. –Don Marquis

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. –Ronald Reagan

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend. –Emo Philips

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra

I rant, therefore I am. -Dennis Miller

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I’m watching the highlights. –Jay London

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. –Groucho Marx

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. -Paul Lynde

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.” –Claude Pepper

How to Manage your Time: Quotes about Time Mangaement

Managing time efficiently is one of the issue with many of us, here are some great inspirational quotes to make us want to manage our time better and live the best life with our loved ones.

Never let yesterday use up today. -Richard H. Nelson

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.– W. Somerset Maugham

It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. -Marcia Wieder

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -Anthony Robbins

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
-Lee Iacocca

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. –Lord Chesterfield

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. -Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. -Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. -Thomas Jefferson

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. –William Shakespeare

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin

Time Management and Productivity Books:

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. –William Penn

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. –Shoppenhauer

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
-Alan Lakein

Time is the wisest counselor of all. –Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. –Delmore Schwartz

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Rodin

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. -William Shakespeare

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. -Aeschylus

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
-Sir John Lubbock

I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
-Louis E. Boone

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. -Jean De La Bruyere

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
-Franklin Field

A year from now you will wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo Kennedy

While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca

You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin

Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today. -Benjamin Franklin

Histories make men wise. -Francis Bacon

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
-Sara Paddison

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. -Carl Sandburg

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to Be a Leader: Motivational Leadership Quotes

Leadership quotes can be powerful and encouraging in personal or business life. Here are some that you may like;

And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
–Lester R. Bittel

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. – Warren Bennis

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. -David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. -Albert Einstein

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. -Harold S. Geneen

He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin

Leadership resources:

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. –Warren Bennis

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. -Ross Perot

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. –Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. -Harry Truman

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Harold R. McAlindon

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.-Walter Lippman

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. –Warren Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. –Theodore Hesburgh

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. -Rachel Maddow

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. -John Gardner

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. –Edwin H. Friedman

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants. –Robert Greenleaf

Inspiring Story: Abraham Lincoln

More I learn about Abraham Lincoln, the more inspired I am by his life and his achievement that he achieved in his short life.

Abraham Lincoln never quits.

Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown.

Abraham Lincoln was one the best presidents in US history of President. That is because he never gave up despite his humble origins.

Here is a sketch of Lincoln’s road to the Presidency:

1816 His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them.
1818 His mother died.
1831 Failed in business.
1832 Ran for state legislature – lost.
1832 Also lost his job – wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in.
1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt.
1834 Ran for state legislature again – won.
1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken.
1836 Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.
1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated.
1840 Sought to become elector – defeated.
1843 Ran for Congress – lost.
1846 Ran for Congress again – this time he won – went to Washington and did a good job.
1848 Ran for re-election to Congress – lost.
1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state – rejected.
1854 Ran for Senate of the United States – lost.
1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention – get less than 100 votes.
1858 Ran for U.S. Senate again – again he lost.
1860 Elected president of the United States.

He did great many things for the country while he was president before he was shot. All of this because he did not give up and quit. So, many time when I feel like like giving up or quitting, I remind myself of his story and I start again! And you should too.

Abraham Lincoln Resources:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

What Would Lincoln Do?: Lincoln’s Most Inspired Solutions to Challenging Problems and Difficult Situations

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

Finding Happiness: Happiness Quotes

Finding happiness is something we are all looking for. Finding happiness does not have to hard for many of us. I am sure these quotes will inspire you as it has inspired me.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.- Francis Bacon

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.- George Santayana

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes- Andrew Carnegie

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared – Buddha

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. -Jacques Prévert

If you want to be happy, be. –Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. -Palmer Sondreal

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. -Colette

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. –Edith Wharton

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. –Cynthia Nelms

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. –Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. –James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. –John Barrymore

The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
-Colley Cibber

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles Schulz

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. –Margaret Young

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.– Carl Jung

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.- Thomas Jefferson

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. – Eric Hoffer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.- James Oppenheim

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. – Mark Twain

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Peace Quotes

Here are some quotes about peace, finding peace in our life.

Let us love the world to peace. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.-Lao Tse

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. –Vera Brittain

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? – J. Ramsay MacDonald

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. –Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with
thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. –Unknown

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. –Buddha

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.- Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –Mother Teresa

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. -Winston Churchill

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. –Harry S. Truman

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. –Robert A. Heinlein

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J.Ramsay MacDonald

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. –Chanakya

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step to inner calm. –Unknown

Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours. – Unknown

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility. – Swami Rama

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame –Nikki Giovanni

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world. – Marcus Aurelius

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. –Andrew Jackson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. –George C. Marshall

Motivational Poems : Collection Part 2

Before You
By William Arthur Ward

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.

May You Have
Unknown

May you have……

Enough happiness to keep you sweet,
Enough trials to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to keep you happy;
Enough failure to keep you humble,
Enough success to keep you eager,
Enough friends to give you comfort,
Enough wealth to meet your needs;
Enough enthusiasm to look forward,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough determination to make each day better than yesterday.

The World Is Against Me
By Edgar A. Guest

“The world is against me,” he said with a sigh.
“Somebody stops every scheme that I try.

The world has me down and it’s keeping me there;
I don’t get a chance. Oh, the world is unfair!
When a fellow is poor then he can’t get a show;
The world is determined to keep him down low.”

“What of Abe Lincoln?” I asked. “Would you say
That he was much richer than you are to-day?
He hadn’t your chance of making his mark,
And his outlook was often exceedingly dark;
Yet he clung to his purpose with courage most grim
And he got to the top. Was the world against him?”

“What of Ben Franklin? I’ve oft heard it said
That many a time he went hungry to bed.
He started with nothing but courage to climb,
But patiently struggled and waited his time.
He dangled awhile from real poverty’s limb,
Yet he got to the top. Was the world against him?

“I could name you a dozen, yes, hundreds, I guess,
Of poor boys who’ve patiently climbed to success;
All boys who were down and who struggled alone,
Who’d have thought themselves rich if your fortune they’d known;
Yet they rose in the world you’re so quick to condemn,
And I’m asking you now, was the world against them?”