Misattributed Quotes

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

We read to know we're not alone.

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The earth has its music for those who will listen

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. ... We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Live simply so others may simply live.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

There is another world, but it is in this one.

If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

For what it’s worth... it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.

God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.

You can't buy happiness

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think(:

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. These words, taken from the book A Simple Path, are the words of one of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters, not of Mother Teresa.

The temple of the most high begins with the body which houses our life, the essence of our existence. Africans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors. We must stop confusing religion and spirituality. Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans, which was suppose to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High of Creation. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe, and each other…