Morning Coffee Quotes

Every week I get a list of quotes from my father-in-law and I really enjoy reading them. It doesn't matter that I sometimes don't agree with the viewpoint of the speaker because they always make me think and oftentimes re-examine my own feelings about a particular subject. Anyway, I enjoy them and thought you might, too. :)

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
- Pablo Picasso

 "A person hears only what they understand."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber

 "Under the misguided and destructive cover of political correctness, America has become a society where tolerance, rather than condemnation, of irresponsibility has become the accepted norm. We have become a nation too afraid to publicly criticize bad behavior, much less ascribe negative consequences for such conduct. To our downfall, we have permitted our elected officials, our courts, our educators and our media to redefine tolerance devoid of any linkage to accountability."
- R. E. Bell

 "We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."
-Joan Didion

 "It is easier to believe than to doubt."
- E. D. Martin

 "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed."
- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

 "Failure is twofold: thinking without doing and doing without thinking."
- Unknown

 "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
- Aristotle

 "The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
- Alfred North Whitehead

 "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
- Psalm 90:12

 "There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
- Andre Gide

 "Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims."
- Thomas Sowell

 "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
- Gerry Spence

 "I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life."
- G. W. Follin

 "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson

 "Beware those who counsel tolerance; they largely seek to protect undeserving interests."
- Bobby Vee

 "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."
- Philip Stanhope (Lord Chesterfield)

 "You cannot unsay a cruel word."
- Unknown

 "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

 "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
- Bertrand Russell