Morning Coffee Quotes

"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?"
- George Eliot

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
- Carl Rogers

"In delay there lies no plenty."
- William Shakespeare

"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth."
- Spanish Proverb

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone."
- Robert Kiyosaki

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
- Yogi Berra

"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
- John Wooden

"Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear."
- Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)

"Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living."
- John Eldredge

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."
- Russian Proverb

"The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious."
- David Mamet

"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another."
- Charles Caleb Colton

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
- C.S. Lewis

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Kierkegaard

"It is necessary to work if not from inclination, at least from despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
- Charles Baudelaire