"If music be the food of love; play on."

Shakespeare, William on music
9 fans of this quote   

"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
10 fans of this quote   

"I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."

Franklin, Aretha on music
3 fans of this quote   

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on music
18 fans of this quote   

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
16 fans of this quote   

"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."

Hepburn, Audrey on experience
3 fans of this quote   

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
11 fans of this quote   

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

Dickinson, Emily on success
4 fans of this quote   

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
14 fans of this quote   

"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy."

Ray, Randolph on kindness
4 fans of this quote   

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on admiration
7 fans of this quote   

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on books - reading
7 fans of this quote   

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
14 fans of this quote   

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
5 fans of this quote   

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
6 fans of this quote   

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
16 fans of this quote   

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
12 fans of this quote   

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
15 fans of this quote   

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
14 fans of this quote   

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Hoffer, Eric on kindness
6 fans of this quote   

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
81 fans of this quote   

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

Mother Teresa on kindness
18 fans of this quote   

"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
16 fans of this quote   

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
13 fans of this quote   

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
67 fans of this quote   

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
41 fans of this quote   

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
191 fans of this quote   

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. "

Angelou, Maya on complaining
12 fans of this quote   

"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

Angelou, Maya on children
6 fans of this quote   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
48 fans of this quote   

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
31 fans of this quote   

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Bacon, Francis on life
12 fans of this quote   

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
12 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
18 fans of this quote   

"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."

Basset, Lucinda on life
16 fans of this quote   

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Berenson, Bernard on life
9 fans of this quote   

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
24 fans of this quote   

"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."

Confucius on virtue
5 fans of this quote   

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."

Comfort, Alexander on virtue   

"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on dream
13 fans of this quote