Facts - Quotes

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. - Edward Teller

A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. - William Bliss Carman

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square. - William Faulker

A wise and honest man looks to broad facts, and forms his judgment from them; a rogue endeavours to lead your attention off the true scent, away to details, that he may puzzle and confound you with minutiae always difficult to detect, and sometimes impossible to deny, but which, nevertheless, are nothing more than stakes laid in your path to trip you up, that he may plunder you at his convenience. If, therefore, the broad facts appear suspicious, doubt, but if details be brought to aid them, be sure, that you are in the high road to be deceived. - Charles William Day

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. - Umberto Eco

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. - Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. - Marie Dressler

Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked. - Doris Lessing

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. - Charles Dickens

Facts are lonely things. - Don Delillo

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. - Louis Agassiz

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

Facts may speak for themselves. - George Washington

Facts, therefore, have merely a potential and, as it were, subsequent value, and the only advantage of possessing them is the possibility of drawing conclusions from them; in other words, of rising to the idea, the principle, the law which governs them. Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher. - Henry Thomas Buckle

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It is wiser and better always to face facts, never to ignore them. Interrogate them; ask them what they mean, and what they have to teach. - Reuen Thomas

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Sometimes, legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. - Salman Rushdie

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. - Stephenie Meyer

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. - Arnold H. Glasow

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. - Arthur Conan Doyle

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis. - Christian Nestell Bovee

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. - George Eliot

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. - F. Marion Smith

What are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future, facts are your single clue. - Robert A. Heinlein

When facts speak, the wise man listens. - Stephen King

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Harry Truman

Failure - Quotes

Failure does not mean you …

… accomplished nothing; It means you have learned something.

… are inferior; It means you are not perfect.

… do not have it; It means you have to do something in a different way.

… have been a fool; It means you had a lot of faith.

… have been disgraced; It means you were willing to try.

… should give up; It means you must try harder.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard

A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. - B. F. Skinner

A failure usually establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

Better to fail in the pursuit of the noble, than to succeed in the search for the mean. - Ivan Panin

Companies fail when they continue doing for too long that which made them successful in the past. - John Young

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. - Sivananda

Do not thin of today’s failure, but of the success that may come tomorrow. - Helen Keller

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s okay to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. - H. Stanley Judd

Don’t be embarrassed by your failures. Learn from them and start again. - Sir Richard Branson

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. - Louis E. Boone

Don't fear failure – Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Bruce Lee

Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. - Sherman Finesilver 

Every failure is a step to success. - William Whewell

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot

Failures are a part of life. If you don’t fail, you’ll never learn. If you don’t learn, you’ll will never change. - Unknown

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure. It just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert Schuller

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence. - Zig Ziglar

Failure is a chance to rediscover and improve yourself. Every failure lets you discover your strengths and weaknesses and gives you an opportunity to work on them. - Unknown

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. - Zig Ziglar

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share. - Steve Harvey

Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, but the best. - Unknown

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey

Failure is just another part of the culture of innovation. Accept it and become stronger. - Albert Yu

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. - Unknown

Failing is not just an option when you quit. It is inevitable. - Michelle A. Homme

Failure is not the enemy, but a life-changing experience. It is a human experience, and it prepares the way for us to grow and transform our lives. - Sobonfu Somé

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. - Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm S Forbes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

Failure is the mother of success. - Unknown

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - Unknown

Failures are but mileposts on the road to success. - Unknown

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C. S. Lewis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. - H. Ross Perot

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. - Augustus Hare

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more. - Ivan Panin

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them. - Sarah Dessen

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. - Calvin Coolidge

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. -Robert Silliman Hillyer 

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly! - Ransom Riggs

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas J. Watson, Snr

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen 

In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail. - Longinus

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. - David Viscott

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. -Charles Kettering

It is better to try and fail than never to have tried at all. - Unknown

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default. - J.K. Rowling

It is okay to experience a stay in the ‘house of failure’ as long you do not get the thrill of staying there permanently. - Unknown

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. - Charlotte Whitton

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

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. - Ken Kesey

Many great people have experience some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice. - Donald Trump

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall. - Jeannette Walls

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. - Eckhart Tolle

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

No man fails who does his best. - Orison Swett Marden

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are… To everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on. - Jerry Zucker

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

One great cause of failure is the lack of concentration. - Unknown

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert Kennedy

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. - Marquis De Vauvenargues

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. if one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. - Lao Tzu

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston

Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. - Unknown

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. - Unknown 

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. - Roger von Oech

So, you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. - Tom Robbins

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. - Edward Dowden

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting. - William James

The failures of the past prepare the triumphs of the future. - Max Muller

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. - Chinese Proverb

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find. - E. H. Chapin

The hallmark of a failure is, almost without exception, a person who is indecisive and changes his decisions very often. - Unknown

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. - Napoleon Hill

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. - Sir Humphry Davy

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying. - John C. Maxwell

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. - Buddha

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. - Unknown

The only time you do not fail is the last time you try anything – and it works. - William Strong

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. - Edwin Percy Whipple

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. - Paramahansa Yogananda

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. - Orison Swett Marden

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. - Sivananda

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that – to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. - George Eliot

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. - Bill Wilson

Time and again we fail ... and each time we fail, we rise up again and continue, determined this time to fail better. - Paul McCauley

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. - W. Somerset Maugham

To fail is a natural consequence of trying. To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. - David Viscott

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure. - Charles Tomlinson

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. - Chester Barnard

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. - Unknown

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. - David Grayson

We learn from failure, not from success! - Bram Stoker

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life. - John W. Gardner

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. - Unknown

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still do not win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. - Rosalynn Carter

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash

You can't let your failures define you – you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. - Barack Obama

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed. - Edwin H. Land

You never fail until you stop trying. - Unknown

You only fail if you do less than your best! - Unknown

Faith - Quotes

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche  

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. - Arthur C. Clarke

Always have faith in yourself. It is not easy to live life sometimes and face the world with a smile when you’re crying inside. It takes a lot of courage to reach down inside yourself, hold on to that strength that’s still there, And know that tomorrow is a new day –  with new possibilities. But if you can just hold on long enough to see this through, you’ll come out a new person – stronger, with more understanding and with a new pride in yourself from knowing you made it. - Kathy Obara

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. - Emmanuel Teney 

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Theresa

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. - Unknown

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. - Gregory Peck

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. - Walt Disney

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is a cognitive illness disguise as a moral virtue. - Peter Boghossian

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. - Blaise Pascal

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. - Bruce Lee

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. - Cullen Hightower

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculation. - Joseph Addison

Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Scandinavian Proverb 

Faith is knowing the Sun will shine tomorrow morning, although it may be obscured by clouds. Faith is knowing in the midst of drought that eventually it will rain. Faith is knowing that a seed planted will reproduce after its own kind. Occasionally such faith is misplaced, yet we continue to believe the next time it will be justified. - Irene McDermott

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. - Elton Trueblood

Faith is one of the forces by which men live; and the total absence of it means collapse. - William James

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. - Unknown

Faith is seeing the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. - Unknown

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins

Faith is the key to unlock the door of success of every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that human being from ever experiencing success … As a positive power, faith is the promise of the realization of things hoped for and unseen. As a negative power, it is the premonition of our deepest fears and unseen darkness. There is no such thing as the absence of or lack of faith. There is simply the replacement of faith, with its opposite belief – despair. - Denis Waitley

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -  Hebrews

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe. - Bruce Lee

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. - Thomas N. Carruther

Faith will push you on when you see no light at the end of the tunnel. It buys you time until the light appears. - Unknown

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. - Unknown

Have faith. What is meant to be will always find it’s way. - Unknown

He who enters the sphere of faith enters into the sanctuary of life. - Paul Tillich

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges. - Muhammad Ali

People always demand respect for their faith. You’ve noticed this happening. Why should I respect someone who makes enormous claims on no evidence, and when confronted with that fact, says, “Well, I don’t need any evidence, I’ve got faith’. I think that extraordinary claims, such as that they know, not just that there is a god, but that they know his mind, they know his instructions, they’ve had revealed truth from him: a claim like that demands extraordinary evidence. Instead of which, they say, ‘No, how about no evidence at all, and just take me on faith?’ Why am I supposed to respect that? I don’t respect it. I suspect it. - Unknown

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The future always holds something for the man who keeps his faith in it. - H. L. Holli

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day. - Amy Gatliff

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. - Ralph Marston

The more knowledge you have, the less faith you need. - Unknown

The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. - Ronald Reagan

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self. - William James 

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. - Christian Nestell Bovee

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. - Louis L''Amour

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. - Benjamin Franklin

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim, don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Watts

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Thomas Aquinas

Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. - Henry S. Haskins

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expression of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart. - Barack Obama 

Where faith is, there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength. . . . Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory; that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle. . . . Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart. . . . It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair; along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty. - James Allen

Without faith, a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. - Sir William Osler

You either have faith that a God exists, or you ‘know’. You can’t know and have faith, or have faith and know, you know? - Michael Sherlock

Fame - Quotes

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. - Don Delillo

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. - Michel De Montaigne

Fame does not necessarily mean success. - Unknown

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. - Baruch Spinoza

Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound mostly around it. - Edward Counsel

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon

Fame is nothing but an empty name.  - Charles Churchill

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. - Victor Hugo

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy to those who woo her with too slavish knees. - John Keats

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame – to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

I think that's the thing about fame or any notoriety. It's an illusion that you don't have to play by the rules anymore, the rules of life. - Tom Waits

If you want a share of the fame, you have got to be willing to take a share of the blame. - Unknown

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame. - Orison Swett Marden

Of present fame think little, and of future less. The praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewn over our graves, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them. - Charles Caleb Colton

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. - Lord Byron

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. - Joseph Addison

Family - Quotes

A family in harmony will prosper in everything. - Chinese Proverb

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations. - Buzz Aldrin

A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. - Chinese Proverb

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. - Mitch Albom

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. - John Paul II

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. - Moby

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. - Milton R. Saperstein

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from. - A. M Homes

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse… and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. - Rick Riorda

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. - Brad Henry
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. - Erma Bombeck

Families ties are cherished things, forged in childhood days, by love of parents, deep and true, and sweet familiar ways. - Terri Burritt

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. - John Updike

Family – like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. - Unknown

Family is the most important thing in the world. - Princess Diana

Family is what grounds you. - Angelina Jolie

Family isn't something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else. - Sarah Dessen

Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found. - Dorothea S. Koppliln

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. - David Ogden Stiers

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. - Susan Lieberman

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. - Virginia Satir

Forms of family life vary from one society to another. There are no universal rules about who is considered to be "in" a family, who lives with whom, who is socially allowed to have sex with whom, who shares economic resources and who has responsibility for children. - Marilyn Poole

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the world around us is chaotic and sometimes incomprehensible, then the family is an oasis, an anchor of reliability and loyalty, a place where we are important because we are there. - Susan Lieberman

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit. - Charles Buxton

In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting. - Brahma

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens. - Henry Ward Beecher

In truth, a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. - Marge Kennedy

Love your family. Spend time, be kind and serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised and today is short. - Unknown

Our family is like the branches of a tree. We may grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. - Unknown

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. - Ann Brashares

People come and go in our lives, but a beauty of life is that our family is always there. - Catherine Pulsifer

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! - Albert Einstein

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. - Richard Bach

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

The family is an absolute monarchy in miniature. - Abraham Miller

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. - Marianne E. Neifert

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into ... people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics. - Charles de Lint

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Bombeck

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. - Marge Kennedy

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself. - Carrie

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance. - Phil McGraw

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. - Mario Puzo

The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. - Evan Esar

There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life. - Adrian Wilson

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing. - Phil McGraw

There is no such thing as a perfect family. Behind every door there are issues, the difference is accepting and encouraging each family member as they are not as we would like them to be. - Catherine Pulsifer

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure. - Jim Butcher

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. - Mitch Albom

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. - Arundhati Roy

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - George Eliot

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. - William Makepeace Thackeray

When any trouble comes in home, all family members takes it as its own and this is called family love. - Unknown

We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently. - Paul Reiser

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create. - Walter Lippmann

Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle. - Henri-Frederic Amiel