quotes for when you are feeling down

The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston



The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990



The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown



So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington



A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ~Proverbs 17:22



The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw



But another thing I know is this - we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can't change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that's what this election is all about. ~Barack Obama, 2008 Sep 18, Espanola, New Mexico



People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~Hosea Ballou



I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller



If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt



If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ~Dennis Roth



We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History



Peace to the ashes of his sin. ~"The Mission," Chapter 1



Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson



A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty



When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. ~Eric Hoffer