Sincerity - Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde

A sincere donation of a dollar from a poor man may be more meritorious than a million dollars from a rich man. - Unknown

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

However much we may distrust men’s sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. - Unknown

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. - Unknown

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. - Edward Albee

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. - La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity is like travelling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. - John Tillotson 

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little. - G. I. Gurdjieff

Sincerity is the way to heaven. - Mencius

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. - Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired. - Eiji Yoshikawa

Quote Worthy

It is helpful to note that a paradigm is not a set of universal truths; it is a particular way of viewing things conveniently agreed by a group of people. - Sifu Wong

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi

I may not be who I ought to be. I know I’m not all that I want to be. But I’ve come a long way, from who I used to be. And I won’t give up on becoming, what I know I can be! - Unknown

Surrender all that no longer serves you. Let all that remains buried in your heart come to the surface and be healed. Let there be space for new energies to enter. A new beginning transforms darkness to light. - Unknown

What a superb thing it would be if we were all big enough in soul to see no slights, accept no insults, cherish no jealousies, and admit into our hearts no hatred. - Elbert Hubbard

Regrets - Quotes

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference. - Grenville Kleiser

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. - Jonathan Larson

Heart knows no sorrow like the sorrow of regretting. - Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it. - David Mamet

I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. - Ingrid Bergman

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both. - Soren Kierkegaard

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself. - Brittany Renée

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice. - China Mieville

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment, and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. - Stefan Zweig

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; It’s only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. - The Duke

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you Happiness. Bad days give you Experiences. Both are essential to life. - Unknown

Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. - John O’Donohue

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. - Mason Cooley

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner

Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. - Gerald Lawson Sittser

Regrets only apply when we don’t learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret. - Catherine Pulsifer

Remorse is the poison of life. - Charlotte Bronte

Some of our principal regrets in life are the opportunities we passed up and the chances we did not take. - Unknown

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape. - Barbara de Angelis

Singing - Quotes

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone. - Clay Aiken

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. - Hilaire Belloc

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx. - Bernadette Peters

Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Unknown

Food For Thought

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes are a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. - John Lennon

Sometimes the darkest times can bring us to the brightest places; The most toxic people can teach us the most important lessons; Our most painful struggles can grant us the most necessary growth; The most heart-breaking losses of friendship and love can make room for the most wonderful people; And what sometimes seems like the end of the road is actually just the discovery that we are meant to travel down a different path. - Unknown

Quote Worthy

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. - Sir Francis Drake

Make someone smile whenever you can, you never know how much of a difference you could be making in their life at that moment. - Unknown

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. - Les Brown

What can be gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves. - Unknown

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. - Unknown

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by. - Neil Gaiman

Sister - Quotes

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. - Marion C. Garretty

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. - Christina Rossetti

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there. - Amy Li

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most. - Lisa See

Some Jokes

Angry wife to her husband 

An Angry Wife To Her Husband 0n Phone: "Where d Hell Are You ...?"
Husband: Darling, You Remember That Jewellery Shop Where You Saw The Diamond Necklace n Totally Fell In Love With It n I Didn't Have Money That Time n I said "Baby It'll Be Yours 1 Day ….
Wife, with A Smile & Blushing: Yeah I Remember That My Love!
Husband: I 'm in the Pub Just Next To That Shop

Worthy Friends

With a grim and down cast look, a young man approached Father Barnard and said, “Father, I want to reform and lead a more honest life, but it seems all my friends are cheats and liars.”

“Don’t worry, son.” Replied the wise minister. “Just adhere to the straight and narrow path and your dishonest friends will quickly give you up.”

Telling The Weather

The old-timer boasted that he could tell the weather with just a piece of rope.

“Impossible!” argued the young student.

“No, it’s not,” the old-timer insisted. “I just hang the rope up outside my door. If it swings back and forth, it’s windy. If it gets wet, it’s raining.”

Repentance - Quotes

Genuine repentance must bear the seal of a corrected life. - Lewis F. Korns

It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first. - Benjamin Whichcote

It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned. - William Scott Downey

Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure. - Eliza Cook

Repentance is the debt one owes to virtue. - Edward Counsel

Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance. - Henry Ward Beecher

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. - Benjamin Whichcote

When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future. - Henry Ward Beecher

Skill - Quotes

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favour which we are not able to grant. - Magdeleine Sable

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. - John William Gardner

Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skilled labour teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. - Harriet H. Robinson

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. - Unknown

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. - Eric Hoffer

Quote Worthy

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened. - Thomas Merton

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. - Welsh Proverb

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Unknown

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. - Unknown

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. - Albert Einstein

Do not be like the cock who thought the sun has risen to hear him crow. - Unknown

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. - Unknown

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek. - Joseph Campbell

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. - Merry Browne

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Vincent van Gogh

Slander - Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at. - Alexander Pope

None are free from slander. - Edward Counsel

Slander cannot make the subjects of it either better or worse, it may represent us in a false light, or place a likeness of us in a bad one, but we are the same: not so the slanderer; for calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated – never. - Charles Caleb Colton

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded. - Charles Caleb Colton

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. - George Washington

Reputation - Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money. - Publilius Syrus

A man can get a reputation from very small things. - Sophocles

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. - Joseph Hall

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - James Lowell

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. - Anthony D'Angelo

Do you want to injure someone’s reputation? Don’t speak ill of him, speak too well. - Andre Siegfried

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. - Benjamin Franklin

He who worries about reputation, has a reputation to worry about. - Edwin Leibfreed

However much of time, labour, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. - Benjamin Franklin

If you value your reputation, then make sure you are the same person in public as you are behind closed doors because one day those doors may open unexpectedly, revealing your true self. - Unknown

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. - William Shakespeare

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. - Epicurus

The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. - Unknown

There are some wounds given to reputation that are like the wounds of an envenomed arrow; where we irritate and enlarge the orifice while we extract the bearded weapon; yet cannot the cure be completed otherwise. - William Shenstone

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. - Charles Caleb Colton

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. - Margaret Mitchell

Food For Thought

The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise – then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish. - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

For once, relax a little and simply become an audience to your mind’s play. Just look with a little detachment. Observe for a bit, but don’t spend too long in that cinema. Then at some point, you may come to recognise that you have watched the show many times before, and so there is no longer a need to spend any more time and money there. You will forget about it entirely. And quite unexpectedly, you may find yourself walking along a path of unchanging joy, light and wisdom. - Unknown

The spiritual presence in your life is ever with you, ever available to you and ever reminding you to look beyond your own judgments. It is forever providing for you the support, the assistance and the guidance necessary to minimize the wrong application of your mind and to strengthen the right application of  your mind to allow knowledge to arise within you. - Unknown

Sleep - Quotes

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte

All men, whilst they are awake, are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. - Heraclitus

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. - Bram Stoker

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. - Fran Lebowitz

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. - Daniel Handler

No amount of sleep in the world could cure the tiredness I feel. - Unknown

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. - Unknown

Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired. - Unknown

Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds. - Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man. - John Bunyan

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. - Colonial American Saying

Sleep, nurse of our life, care’s best reposer. - Edward Herbert

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour! - Ovid

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. - Tad Williams

Sleeping people can't fall down. - Japanese Proverb

Sweet are the slumbers of a virtuous man. - Joseph Addison

Sleep, nurse of our life, care’s best reposer. - Edward Herbert

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. - Aldous Huxley

The best eraser in the world is a good night’s sleep. - Orlando A. Battista

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. - Ovid

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. - Anne Reeve Aldrich

There is only one thing people like that is good for them – a good night’s sleep.- Unknwon

To be effective in anything, first get a good night’s sleep. - Unknown

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. - Henry Ward Beecher

Quote Worthy

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. - Clint Eastwood

When you are going through difficult times, remember: you may have lost some major battles, but your survived and you are still here. - Unknown

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. - Anne Frank

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. - Stan Dale

To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun? - Katherine Graham

Every decision we make and action we take is a statement of exactly how much we love and value our life. - Unknown

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou

When you seek beauty in all people and all things, you will not only find it you will become it. - Unknown

What is Nirvana?

Discourse by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odWIPhj-ivo

Perseverance - Quotes

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Unknown

I don’t think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. - John D. Rockefeller

If perseverance is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. - Sydney Harris

If you really want to make a difference, whether it's in helping other people, or whether it's in fighting for your country, or whether it's in the political arena, or journalism, or physics, you've got to persevere. You've got to understand that there are going to be some enormous bumps in the road. They can be personal. You can get hurt badly. You can lose a friend, or a child, or a wife, or a husband. But you've got to persevere, you've got to be guided by certain principles and stay the course. If you quit, if you run away when the going gets tough, you won't really understand what a full life is all about. - George H. W. Bush

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. - Mao Zedong

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance. - J. Jackson Frown

It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. - James Russell Miller 

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. - Lynn Davies

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle

Perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle

Perseverance and persistence is the key to everything. If there is something you really want to do, and you work hard enough, you can definitely get there. - Kaila Yu

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. - Julie Andrews

Perseverance is having the fortitude to overcome life’s challenges, but it’s also having the faith to never let go of hope and the courage to never stop believing in love. - Robert Clancy

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose. - Josh Shipp

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the will to hold on a little longer when most would have given up a long time ago. - Unknown

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. - Victor Hugo

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. - Matt Biond

Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like. - Robert Elliott Gonzales

Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more. - William Scott Downey

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. - Ted W. Engstrom

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

When perseverance is a lifelong deed, the swim up stream will be an easy feat. - Unknown

Society - Quotes

A picture is made up of so many square inches of painted canvas; but if you should look at these one at a time, covering the others, until you had seen them all, you would still not have seen the picture. There may, in all such cases, be a system or organization in the whole that is not apparent in the parts. In this sense, and in no other, is there a difference between society and the individuals of which it is composed; a difference not residing in the facts themselves but existing to the observer on account of the limits of his perception. A complete view of society would also be a complete view of all the individuals, and vice versa; there would be no difference between them. - Charles Horton Cooley

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable. - John Rawls

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. - Bernard Beckett

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. - Albert Einstein

An individual takes on significance only in his relationship to society as a whole. - Brian Herbert & Keven J. Anderson

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. - Alvin Toffler

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O’Rourke

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health. - Henry Wad Beecher

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. - Bayard Rustin

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. - John Stuart Mill

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. - Karl Marx

How to gain the advantages of society, without at the same time losing ourselves, is a question of no slight difficulty. The wise man often follows the crowd at a little distance, in order that he may not come suddenly upon it, nor become entangled with it, and that he may with some means of amusement maintain a clear and quiet pathway. - Arthur Helps

I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. - Dalai Lama

If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue. - Octave Mirbeau

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket. - George Ade

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. - Eugène Ionesco

No society has ever taxed or borrowed its way to prosperity. - Derek Fildebrandt

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. - Edwin H. Land

Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society. - Henry Ward Beecher

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. - Anaïs Nin

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

Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. - Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde

Society has gotten to the point where everybody has a right but nobody has a responsibility. - Unknown

Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a sphere that demands all our energies, and deserves all that it demands. - Charles Caleb Colton

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. - John Sawhill

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. - Nicolas Chamfort

Society is in a process of evolution. Man is yet primitive. All that has gone before is a preparation for better things to come, but we are moving rapidly, and, I believe, securely, toward nobler things. - Elbert Hubbard

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. - Robert Hugh Benson

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever. - Orison Swett Marden

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death. - Andre Gide

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society takes action only when gangrene sets in. - H. D. Doan

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. - Chamfort

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur Stringer

The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population – the intelligent ones or the fools? - Henrik Ibsen

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John William Gardner

To me the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind. - William E. Channing

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. - Alan W. Watts

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. - Hillary Clinton 

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. - Albert Einstein

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer

Quote Worthy

A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgive those who have hurt you, betrayed you, or broke your heart, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart. - Unknown

There is a simple answer to the problems that you face today. It is to be found in knowledge. Yet, to find Knowledge you must become still and observant and learn to disengage from fear and anxiety. - Unknown

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. - L. R. Knost

Everyone is on a unique and wonderful journey. I can’t know what is right and best for you and you can’t know what is right and best for me, but in can honour your path and I can follow mine. - Kathryn Yarborough

Respect - Quotes

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? - Confucius

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. - U. Thant

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. - Persian Proverb

If you want to be respected by others you must respect yourself first. Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men are respectable only as they respect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People respect you for what you do, not what you say. - Shriyaa

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. - Norman MacDonald

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. - Eldridge Cleaver

Respect is an attribute that supersede talent and ability. - Unknown

Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it. - Unknown

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. - Leo Tolstoy

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. - Unknown

Respect yourself and others will respect you. - Confucius

Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours. - Dave Willis

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. - Arnold Glasgow

Those that respect themselves are safe from others; They wear a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. - Lawrence Sterne

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein

We are happy at the respect others pay our favourites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves. - Norman MacDonald

We don’t always have to agree with one another but it’s important that we learn to respect each other. - Rubyanne 

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. - Luigi Pirandello

Food For Thought

Nothing is nicer than having someone who appreciates you in the smallest things, accepts you in times of hardships, comforts you when you’re troubled, loves you no matter what, and is simply happy for having you in their life. - Unknown

Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed,  you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten, if you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. - Unknown

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. You believe lies so that you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

Quote Worthy

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. - Joseph Addison

You’ve got to believe in possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself. - Unknown

Someone helping you is not always your friend and someone opposing you is not always your enemy. - Unknown

Emancipate  yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! - Bod Marley

If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who’ll advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. - Weston Smith 

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. - Jane Austen

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. - John Dryden 

Sometimes you fall down, because there is something down there that you are supposed to find. - Unknown