Memorable Quotes From The 40s

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"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriotism."
Gary Hart
"The very aim and end of our institutions is to diffuse information and inculcate knowledge."
Joseph Story
"In times of great stress, we must reach for our deepest values."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
Joseph P. Kennedy
"Behind the status quo as it is, there is a dynamic reality, and that reality can be improved."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"We are the heroes of our own stories."
Mary McCarthy
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
Vince Lombardi
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
Elbert Hubbard
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."
Albert Schweitzer
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
Winston Churchill
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"No one can be unhappy who has an impressive crest or coat of arms."
C. S. Lewis
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Charles de Gaulle
"If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Desmond Tutu
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
"America is a country that doesn’t know where it’s going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."
Lawrence Peter Berra
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
William Wallace
"It's not how hard you push along the sidewalk, it's how hard you get pushed in your own backyard."
Zora Neale Hurston
"A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Colin Powell
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
Lyndon B. Johnson
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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We can complain because rose bushes thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
Alfredain de Saint-Exupéry
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Here's to the future, because I'm done with the past."
James A. Michener
"Happiness is based on a just comparison of a man's achievements with his abilities."
James W. Wadsworth
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
Napoleon Hill
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
Reba McEntire
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
"I think the hardest thing is to be brave enough to be yourself."
Cynthia Nixon
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolf
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
"The most important thing in life is to be yourself. Unless you can be Batman, then be Batman."
Unknown
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Humphrey Bogart
"There’s no place like home."
Dorothy (Judy Garland) from The Wizard of Oz
"You can't handle the truth!"
Jack Nicholson
"I have spent many years of my life conducting my experiments in response to women’s whims."
Albert Einstein
"Be kind. It’s the kind thing to do."
James Stewart
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
Alexander Pope
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
Will Rogers
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell) from Auntie Mame
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you play the game."
Grantland Rice
"You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?"
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"No great thing is created suddenly."
Epictetus
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"We must be our own before we can be another's."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar
"I’ve seen a lot of people who are good at many things, but I’ve never seen anyone who is good at everything."
Bette Davis
"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
Nat King Cole
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"We have to choose between a world of peace or a world of war."
Harry S. Truman
"All I want is a chance to prove I’m not a bookkeeper."
Bette Davis
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are no little problems. Every problem is a big problem."
John F. Kennedy
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
Marilyn Monroe
"I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
George Carlin
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
General George Patton
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
George Bernard Shaw
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself."
Maxime Lagace
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'."
Audrey Hepburn
"It’s never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"Pessimism never won any battle."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Only the educated are free."
Epictetus
"If you can’t convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
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