• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ("Where do you get your Ideas? An Essay")

Gaines, Ernest J.

• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Gaines, Frank

• Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. (Forbes)

Galbraith, John Kenneth

• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

• In any great orgnaization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

• In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

• The questions that are beyond the reach of economics--the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life--may be inconvenient but they are important.

Galileo Galilei

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Gallagher

• Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'brightness' , but it doesn't work.

Gallant, Mavis

• She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies. (A Fairly Good Time)

Galloway, Charles

• The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.

Galsworthy, John

• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Galyean, Dorothy

• Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.

Gandhi, Indira

• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. (Last Words)

• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

• Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

• Hatred can be overcome only by love.

• Human nature is so constituted that is we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

• I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise. (in Gandhi's View of Life)

• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

• 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.

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

• Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

• The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

• A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes. (Ethical Religion)

• Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

• A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. (Non-Violence in Peace and War)

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

• Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. (Experiments)

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

• To lose patience is to lose the battle.

• True morality consists no in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it. (Ethical Religion)

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Garbutt, Frank A.

• The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool.

Garcia, Jerry

• There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. (Ripple)

Gardner, John W.

• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

• Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

• Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ("The aims of a Free People" Excellence)

• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

• When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

Garfield, James A.

• If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Garg, Stuti

• Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

• Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garland, Judy

• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Garrett, John

• The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

Garrison, William Lloyd

• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. (Free Speech and Free Inquiry)

• On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

Gary, Romaine

• Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. (Promise At Dawn)

Gates, Bill

• Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Gates, Henry Louis (Jr.)

• The genius is making a way out of no way.

Gawain, Shakti

• The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive … and begin to act accordingly.

• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

• When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. (Living in the Light)

Gehles

• Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.

Geiblemen, James K.

• That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Gellert, Christian

• Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Geneen, Harold S.

• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.

Gentry, Dave Tyson

• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Geoffrin, Marie Therese Rodet

• We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

George, Henry

• He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Gergen, David

• 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.

Gerrold, David

• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

Gibbon, Edward

• The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Gibbs, Nancy

• For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

Gibbs, Willa

• What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two. (Seed of Mischief)

Gibran, Kahlil

• All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Sand and Foam)

• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

• The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. ("Sayings" Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran)

• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

• The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

• Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

• The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.

• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ("On Giving" The Prophet)

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

• When love beckons to you, follow him,
  Though his ways are hard and steep.
  And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
  Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Gibson, Verna

• Early in my career I felt that organization would destroy my creativity. Whereas now, I feel the opposite. Discipline is he concrete that allows you to be creative.

Giddings, Paula

• I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Gide, Andre

• Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.

• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

• To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company. ("Third Imaginary Interview" Pretexts)

• What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself.

Gifford-Jones, W. (Dr.)

• Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at 89. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at 80. And the 80-year -old Spanish artist Goya scrawled on a drawing, "I am still learning."

Gilbert, Rob

• First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

• Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Gilcrist, Ellen

• We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Gillies, Jerry

• Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gilman, Caroline

• One clear idea is too precious a treasure to lose.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

• To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Gilman, Dorothy

• People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. (Caravan)

Gilson, Roy R.

• Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.

Gingrich, Newt

• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ("Newtie's Greatest Hits" by Buckley New York Times Book Review 3/12/95)

Ginsberg, Louis

• Love that is hoarded moulds at last
  Until we know some day
  The only thing we ever have
  Is what we give away.

Giovanni, Fra

• The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look.

Giovanni, Nikki

• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate a taste.

• Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

• I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. ("Griots" Racism 101)

• The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

• We love because it is the only true adventure.

Girard, Jean Baptiste

• By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.

Girzartis, Loretta

• If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Gitomer, Jeffrey

• Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them? (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 138)

Glancy, Diane

• I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying. ("Portrait of the Lone Survivor" Lone Dog's Winter Count)

Glasgow, Ellen

• I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

• Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

• The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Glasow, Arnold H.

• Don't part company with your ideals. They are anchors in a storm.

• The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

• One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Glynn, D. O.

• A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, an mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.

Goddard, Robert H. (Dr.)

• It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow.

Godfrey, Joline

• If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

Godwin, Gail

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

• Character develops itself in the stream of life.

• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

• Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

• Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad. (in Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann)

• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

• I hate all bungling like sin, but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produces nothing but mischief to thousands and millions. (in Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann)

• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

• If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

• Nothing is worth more than this day.

• People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance left in my favor. (in Conversations with Goethe, by Eckermann)

• Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. (Faust Part Two)

• Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. (Elective Affinities)

• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

• We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

• We will always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

• Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Goforth, Ray

• There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed.

Gogh, Vincent van

• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

• Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Golas, Thaddeus

• What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Goldberg, Natalie

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Goldberg, Whoppi

• When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And, it'll become like a wildfire.

Goldman, Emma

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

• No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every try education should be to unlock that treasure.

• The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Goldman, Karen

• There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Goldsmith, Oliver

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
  Adorns and cheers our way;
  And still, as darker grows the night,
  Emits a brighter ray.

• Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Goldwyn, Samuel

• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Goleman, Daniel

• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

Gombriwicz, Witold (?)

• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Good, John Mason

• Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Goode, Kenneth

• No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood--any given mood--then that mental mood itself will follow.

Goodman, Ellen

• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

• We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Goodwin, Jim

• The impossible is often the untried.

Gorbachev, Raisa M.

• Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Gordon, Adam Lindsay

• Life is mostly froth and bubbles,
  Two things stand like stone,
  Kindness in another's trouble,
  Courage in your own.

Gordon, Ruth

• Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Gordon, William

• I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

Gorky, Maxim

• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Gosling, Darin

• Value the friends you have while they're around, you never know when they'll be gone.

Gottlieb, Annie

• Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Gough, John B.

• If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

• What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Goulet, Lionel

• Expect the best, prepare for the worst and don't be surprised when you get what you deserve.

Gracian, Baltasar

• Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and this attain superiority in nothing. (The Art of Worldly Wisdom)

• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Grade, Lord (Lew)

• I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Graham, Alexander

• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Graham, Billy

• Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.

• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

• The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature. ("Focus on Hong Kong")

• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

• Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

• Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

Graham, Brian

• Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.

Graham, Jack (Dr.)

• If you can't see it, before you see it, you'll never see it.

Graham, Katherine

• A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Graham, Margaret C.

• Conscience ... is the impulse to do right because it is right, regardless of personal ends. ("A Matter of Conscience" Do They Really Respect Us and Other Essays)

Graham, Martha

• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

Grant, Colleen

• If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don't waste precious time or energy on it.

Grant, Richard R.

• The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Granville, George

• What we frankly give, forever is our own.

Gray, Harry

• No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

Gray, John

• Developing the mind is important, but developing a conscience is the most precious gift parents can give their children. (Children Are From Heaven)

Gray, Paul E.

• The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Gray, Thomas

• Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
  The bee's collected treasures sweet,
  Sweet music's melting full, but sweeter yet
  The still small voice of gratitude.

Grayson, David

• I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why this is Christmas Day!"

• Joy of life seems to arise from a sense of being where one belongs. ... All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

Green, Hannah

• I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)

Greene, Bette

• What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Greene, Ellen

• Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Greene, Graham

• In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

Greening, Tom and Dick Hobson

• Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Greenleaf, Robert

• The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?

Greer, Gennaine

• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

Greer, Jackie

• You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's been taken away. Just look to see what's been added.

Gregory, Richard Arman (Sir)

• Science is not to be regarded merely as a storehouse of facts to be used for material purposes, but as one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man's fearless quest for truth.

Greider, William

• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. (One world, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism)

Grellet, Stephan

• I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grenfell, Joyce

• I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving--not giving and taking. (Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure)

Grenfell, Wilfred

• The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Gretzky, Wayne

• You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Grimes, Martha

• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Griswold, A. Whitney

• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Grossman, Cheryl

• I dream, therefore I become.

Grummet, Gerald W.

• While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Guest, Edgar

• The timid and fearful first failures dismay,
  but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.
  He values his failures as lessons that teach
  The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Guggenheimer, Elinor

• I see something that has to be done and I organize it.

Guicciardini, Francesco

• As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Guiness, Os

• What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. (The Call)

Guinon, Albert

• When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right.

Guinsewite, Cathy

• All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

Guiterman, Arthur

• Admitting Error clears the Score
  And proves you Wiser than before. ("Of Apology" A Poet's Proverbs)

• When "Do no Evil" has been understood,
  Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good." ("Of Duty" A Poet's Proverbs)

Guitton, Jean

• Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Guizot, François

• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

Gulley, Philip

• Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. (Home Town Tales)

Gylberd, Tristan

• Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it.

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