Freedom - Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man. - Adlai Stevenson

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom. - Michel Montaigne

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

All men are born free: just not for long. - John le Carre

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. - Gen Michel Aoun

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom as a blessing today might, under new conditions, become a danger and a curse tomorrow. Crimes endanger the general welfare of a community. Freedom for criminals would be a menace to community interests. The community therefore forbids crime, adopts a criminal code listing a great variety of acts which are considered prejudicial to community well-being, and prescribes penalties for lawbreakers. Individuals and social groups who violate the criminal law are restrained or coerced. The nature of crime depends upon local custom or accepted practice. In this very considerable area, by common consent, freedom is officially abrogated, and restraint and coercions are relied upon to protect the community. - Scott Nearing

Freedom means not being dominated by anger, greed, ignorance and other destructive emotions. - Buddhist Quote

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man is a slave to his own weaknesses. - Alan Valentine

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. - Mortimer Jerome Adler

Freedom is the recognition of necessity. - Friedrich Engels

Freedom, after all, is simply being able to live with the consequences of your decisions. - James X. Mullen

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert Heinlein

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. - Leo Buscaglia

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. - Albert Einstein

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. - Emil Cioran

Freedom can be a frightening thing when you are not used to it. - Zana Muhsen

Freedom is an inside job. - Sam keen

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. - Harriet Rubin

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them. - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Freedom is greatest when the boundaries are clearly defined. - Chuck Coonradt

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. - James Baldwin

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. - Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something. - David J. Lieberman

Freedom is the illusion of an imprisoned mind. - Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. - Alan Dershowitz

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets. - Nelson Mandela

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert A. Heinlein

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom. - Thomas Merton

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

It is like living among snow-capped peaks with clouds wrapped around them and the sun and moon starkly shining over them... Aloneness becomes their companion, their spiritual consort, part of their being. Wherever they go they are alone, whatever they do they are alone. Whether they relate socially with friends or meditate alone ... aloneness is there all the time. That aloneness is freedom, fundamental freedom. - Chogyam Trungpa

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. - Malcolm X

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly. - Unknown

It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom. - Chanakya

It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. - Chuck Palahniuk

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom – that is, in disorganized wildness. - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - George Washington

Man is born free and is everywhere in chains. - Peter Carey

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. - Voltaire

Man is free, but not if he doesn't believe it. - Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself. - Epictetus

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. - Thomas Macaulay

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. - Walter Lippmann

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

No man is free who cannot command himself. - Pythagoras

No man on earth is truly free, all are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform. - Euripides

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. - Euripides

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

One of the greatest mental freedoms is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you. - Unknown

Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends. - Friedrich Hayek

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work, does what he wants to do. - Robin G. Collingwood

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. - Charles Lindbergh

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. - Eric Hoffer

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. - James Truslow Adams

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. - Samuel Hendel

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. - Don Miguel Ruiz

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. - Saul David Alinsky

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned: freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. - Unknown

The last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. - Sigmund Freud

The moment we desire to be something, we are no longer free. - Zen Proverb

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. - Salman Rushdie

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well. - Tad Williams

The mos free person in the world is the one who has nothing to hide. - Unknown

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. - Mahatma Gandhi

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. - Robert Jackson

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defence. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The way to final freedom is within thyself. - Unknown

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains. - Sri Aurobindo

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. - Charles Kingsley

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. - Don Miguel Ruiz

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. - Nelson Mandela

There is no greater freedom than letting go. - April Grisham

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela

To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honour and respect the freedom of all others. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

To free your world, free your mind. - Bryon Katie

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. - Andre Gide

To really be free, you need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept. - Anne Lindbergh

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. - Osho

True freedom surfaces when you reach a stage when it no longer matters to you whether you are free or not. - Unknown

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free – your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go? - Osho

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. - Ricardo Flores Magon

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

When you come to a point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom shall begin! - Unknown

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. - Max Stirner

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom. - Sri Aurobindo

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. - Richard Bach

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts. - Philip Arnold

You’ll never understand true freedom until you experience the freedom of being completely true to yourself. - Unknown

Freedom of Speech - Quotes

Freedom of speech is a guiding rule, one of the foundations of democracy, but at the same time, freedom does not imply anarchy, and the right to exercise free expression does not include the right to do unjustified harm to others. - Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent. - Neil Gaiman

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am here to speak on freedom of speech. It is a great topic, and I am going to make my speech as free as possible. But you know that this cannot be done, for when anyone announces that he is going to speak his mind freely, everyone is frightened. This shows that there is no such thing as true freedom of speech. No one can afford to let his neighbors know what he is thinking about them. Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. - Lin YuTang

Should freedom of speech include the freedom to tell lies? Who decides what is true and what is a lie? Should the young and impressionable be exposed to propaganda deliberately designed to make them hate others? If we deny the deniers the right to spread their venom, are we then putting our own right to free speech at risk? At which point does hate speech so directly provoke violence that it should be banned? - Ted Gottfriend

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed. - Epictetus

Guilt - Quotes

Every guilty person is his own hangman. - Seneca

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole – corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief. - Simon Mawer

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction – only enough to make you useless. - Daniel Naveri

Guilt is always present to the mind (of the guilty). - Edward Counsel

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. - Peter Mcwilliams 

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. - Coco Chanel

Guilt is the source of sorrows; 'tis the fiend, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. - Nicholas Rowe

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. - Bishop Robert South

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. - Publilius Syrus

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. - Publilius Syrus

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. - Leonard F. Peltier

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. - Morton Irving Seiden

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. - Stefan Zweig

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. - Louisa May ALcott

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime. - Norman MacDonald

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it. - Paul Ekman

The difference between guilt and shame is very clear – in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. - Lewis B. Smedes

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. - Geoffrey Chaucer

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. - Graham Greene

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past. - Kevin Leman

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. - Ayn Rand

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent. - Publilius Syrus

Women are raised to feel guilty if they don't do everything they should do. Men are more likely to feel guilty if they do something they shouldn't. - Georgia Witkin-Lanoil

Funeral - Quotes

A couch of thorns, or an embroidered bed, are matters of indifference to the dead. - Theognis of Megara

Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload double-quick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world. - James Joyce

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfil these functions beautifully. Others fail. - Alla Bozarth Campbell

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail. - Alla Bozarth Campbell

There was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin – an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition. - E. L. Doctorow

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better been concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. - Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of the night. - George Eliot

Future - Quotes

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. - Albert Einstein

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. - Unknown

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. - Alvin Toffler

Compulsive perfectionism polishes the past when bold new skills are needed to unlock future. -  Dag Hammarskjöld

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past. - Neal Maxwell

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds. - Jose Saramago

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. - Wayne Dyer

He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable. - Seneca

How can anyone ever predict the future?... It's mind boggling. The only explanation that makes sense is that the events have already occurred in one way or another. - Ly de Angeles

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. - Ralph Abernathy

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. - John Galsworthy

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

It is today that we must create the world of the future. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Just as our present is the result of our past, so our future will be the result of our present. Every minute of every day we are weaving threads that will make the cloth of future. - Anne Spencer Parry

Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains. - Dr. Robert H Goodard

Look to the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life. - Unknown

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road. - Robert E. Howard

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.  - Marcus Aurelius

Nobody knows what the future will bring, but it's a good bet that there will be a delivery charge. - Tom Wilson

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most. - Ivan Panin

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. - R. M. Kanter

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it… to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. - Alvin Toffler

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - Albert Camus

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present. - George H. Brimhall

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

The future always arrives too fast – and in the wrong order. - Alvin Toffler

The future belongs to him that does and dares. - Berton Braley

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out. - Unknown 

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. - John Scully

The future depends on what you do today. - Mahatma Gandhi

The future enters into us, in order to transform us, long before it happens. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. - George F. Will

The future is always beginning now. - Mark Strand

The future is an illusion, a type of dream which in most cases never comes to pass as dreamed. -  Leo Buscaglia

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. - Jim Bishop

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. - Pema Chodron

The future is endowed with essential unpredictability, and this is the only prediction we can make. - Paul Valery

The future is like heaven –  everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. - James Baldwin 

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

The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of. - Anita Brookner

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. - Bill Clinton

The future is not google-able. - William Gibson

The future is still unspoiled. - Louisa May Alcott

The future is the past returning through another gate. - Arnold Glasgow

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. - Unknown

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. - Li Ka Shing

The future must be met, however stern and iron it be. - Elizabeth Gaskell

The future never just happened. It was created. - Will Durant

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus, always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. - Frank Herbert

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on. - Barack Obama

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. - Aeschylus

The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. - Unknown 

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. - Bertrand Russell

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. - Unknown

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it. - Arnold H. Glasgow

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. - Anne Lindbergh

There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are temporarily just not brave enough. When this happens, concentrate on the present. Cultivate le petit bonheur (the little happiness) until courage returns. Look forward to the beauty of the next moment, the next hour, the promise of a good meal, sleep, a book, a movie, the likelihood that tonight the stars will shine and tomorrow the sun will shine. Sink roots into the present until the strength grows to think about tomorrow. - Ardis Whitman

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. - Simone de Beauvoir

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. - Arthur C. Clarke

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is. - Edward de Bono

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. - Charles J. Givens

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig

Tomorrow will be a new day. - Miquel de Cervantes

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. - Peter F. Drucker

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. - Henry A. Kissinger

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. - Charles Kettering 

We're not responsible for the world we're born into. Only for the world we leave when we die. So, we have to accept what's gone before us in the past, and work to change the only thing we can – the future. - William Shatner

When all else is lost, the future still remains. - Christian Bovee

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? - Chuck Palahniuk

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. - John M. Richardson 

Whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices. - Richard Nixon

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it. - Robert E. Howard

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret is how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it. - Fredrik Pohl

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them is wrong. - China Mieville

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. - Mark Victor Hansen

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one. - Isaac Asimov

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. You are the one who must choose your place. - Unknown

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. - Gary Ryan Blair

Enthusiasm - Quotes

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles Schwab

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. - William Ellery Channing

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. - Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm for one’s goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. - Thomas Eakins

Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. - James Baldwin

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. - George Matthew Adams

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. - Isaac Disraeli

Enthusiasm is the baking powder of life. Without it, you are flat; with it, you rise. - Unknown

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others. - Unknown

Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory. - Paulo Coelho

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the propelling force necessary for climbing the ladder of success. It is the father of excellence. - Unknown

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. - Henry Ford

Enthusiasm moves stones and charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Unknown

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. - Samuel Smiles

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence. - Harry Chester

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. - James Baldwin

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair. - I Ching

It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. - Samuel Smiles

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Ivern Ball

Live with enthusiasm! Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. - Charles A. Cerami

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success of his life. - Unknown

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. - Friedrich Von Schiller

The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. - H. W. Arnold

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you. - Norman Vincent Peale

Quote Worthy

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. - Galileo Galilei

The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward 

Loyalty is the most important thing you can give someone. Truth, trust, friendship and very often love all depend on it. - Elvis Presley

We are all here for some  special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. - Robin Sharma

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. - Albert Einstein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau