Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Oprah Winfrey: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.” 

Oprah Winfrey: “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”  

Oprah Winfrey: “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.”  

Oprah Winfrey: “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” 

Oprah Winfrey: “For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school. ”  

Oprah Winfrey: “Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.” 

Oprah Winfrey: “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.”  

Oprah Winfrey: “I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.” 

 Oprah Winfrey: “Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”

Oprah Winfrey: “I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.” 

Oprah Winfrey: “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde: “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” 

Oscar Wilde: “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”  

Oscar Wilde: “My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

Oscar Wilde: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde: “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”  

Oscar Wilde: “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

Oscar Wilde: “No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”  

Oscar Wilde: “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” 

Oscar Wilde: “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”  

Oscar Wilde: “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” 

Oscar Wilde: “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Oscar Wilde: “I can resist everything except temptation.”  

Oscar Wilde: “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Oscar Wilde: “It is better to be beautiful than good, but it is better to be good than ugly.”  

Oscar Wilde: “Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.” 

Oscar Wilde: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”  

Oscar Wilde: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

Oscar Wilde: “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

Oscar Wilde: “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” 

Oscar Wilde: “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”  

Oscar Wilde: “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” Oscar Wilde: “Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”  

Oscar Wilde: “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde: “Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.”  

Oscar Wilde: “Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

Oscar Wilde: “A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Orison Swett Marden: “Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.” 

Orison Swett Marden: “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”  

Orison Swett Marden: “Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”

Orison Swett Marden: “If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”  

Orison Swett Marden: “Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”

Orison Swett Marden: “A good system shortens the road to the goal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr. : “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “First, we are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr. : “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.' There is something wrong with that press. ”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “[W]e are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. The individual or nation that feels that it can live in isolation has allowed itself to sleep through a revolution. The geographical togetherness of the modern world makes our very existence dependent on co-existence. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. Because of our involvement in humanity we must be concerned about every human being.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.” 

Nelson Mandela Quotes

Nelson Mandela: “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” 

Nelson Mandela: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”  

Nelson Mandela: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

John Milton Quotes

John Milton: “Reason is also choice.”

John Milton: “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”  

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Norman Vincent Peale: “If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.” 

Norman Vincent Peale: “Live your life and forget your age.” 

Lao Tzu Quotes

Lao Tzu: “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”

Lao Tzu: “Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.” 

Lao Tzu: “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” 

Lao Tzu: “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ” 

Lao Tzu: “The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”

Lao Tzu: “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ” 

Lao Tzu: “The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike. ”

Lao Tzu: “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” 

Lao Tzu: “The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” 

Lao Tzu: “In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”  

 

Lao Tzu: “Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.”

Lao Tzu: “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ”

Michael Jordan Quotes

Michael Jordan: “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” 

Michael Jordan: “I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” 

Michael Jordan: “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Louis Pasteur Quotes

Louis Pasteur: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” 

Louis Pasteur: “When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”  

Louis Pasteur: “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

John C. Maxwell Quotes

John C. Maxwell: “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” 

John C. Maxwell: “Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.”  

John C. Maxwell: “The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.”

Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa: “Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.” 

Mother Teresa: “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

Mother Teresa: “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” 

Mother Teresa: “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”

Malcolm Forbes Quotes

Malcolm Forbes: “Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

Malcolm Forbes: “The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.” 

Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Kahlil Gibran: “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....” 

Kahlil Gibran: “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”  

Kahlil Gibran: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

Kahlil Gibran: “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”  

Kahlil Gibran: “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.”

Kahlil Gibran: “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”  

Kahlil Gibran: “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?” 

Kahlil Gibran: “... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”

Kahlil Gibran: “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

Kahlil Gibran: “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”  

Kahlil Gibran: “Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

Kahlil Gibran: “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

John Lennon Quotes

John Lennon: “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ” 

John Lennon: “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ”  

John Lennon: “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”  

John Lennon: “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” 

John Lennon: “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”  

John Lennon: “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.”

John Lennon: “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.”

Jimmy Carter Quotes

Jimmy Carter: “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.” 

Jimmy Carter: “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”  

Jimmy Carter: “Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.”

Jimmy Carter: “We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”  

Jimmy Carter: “Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.” 

Jimmy Carter: “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

Jimmy Carter: “We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Action expresses priorities. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Namaste. I honour the place in your where the entire universe resides... a place of light, of love, of truth, of peace, of wisdom. I honour the place in you where when you are in that place and I am in that place there is only one of us.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Self-respect knows no considerations.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.“

Also quoted as: “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” or “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter of all lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stiffled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Nonviolence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Where there is love there is life.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ”

John F. Kennedy Quotes

John F. Kennedy: “The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.”

John F. Kennedy: “Domestic policy can only defeat us. Foreign policy can kill us.”  

John F. Kennedy: “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” 

John F. Kennedy: “What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label Liberal? If by Liberal they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of Liberal. But if by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a Liberal, then I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal.”

John F. Kennedy: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”  John F. Kennedy: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” 

John F. Kennedy: “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive”

John F. Kennedy: “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.” 

John F. Kennedy: “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” 

John F. Kennedy: “Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”  

John F. Kennedy: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” 

John F. Kennedy: “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”  

John F. Kennedy: “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” 

John F. Kennedy: “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy: “Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”  

John F. Kennedy: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” 

John F. Kennedy: “The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”  

John F. Kennedy: “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” 

John F. Kennedy: “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Jawaharlal Nehru: “A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”

Jawaharlal Nehru: “A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Jean Jacques Rousseau: “Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau: “When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”  

Jean Jacques Rousseau: “There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”

Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Marilyn Monroe : “Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”

Marilyn Monroe: “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ”

Marilyn Monroe: “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. ”

Marilyn Monroe: “I've been on a calendar, but never on time. ”

Marilyn Monroe: “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. ”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The man of understanding finds everything laughable.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Great talent finds happiness in execution.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply!” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence.” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Individuality of expression is the beginning and the end of all art.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

Lexus ES350

The introduction of the all-new 2013 ES350 and ES300h marks the sixth generation of Lexus' popular luxury sedan since its introduction over 20 years ago. Featuring the signature Lexus spindle grille, a progressive new design and enhanced handling, the ES brings new levels of refinement and quality to the entry luxury segment. Now available with Lexus Hybrid Drive, the ES is sure to impress new and loyal consumers.

"Since its introduction in 1989, the ES has been the benchmark luxury sedan for quality, reliability, ride comfort and value," said Mark Templin, Lexus group vice president and general manager. "The new ES350 and the first ever ES hybrid raise the bar once again."

Engine/Transmission/Drivetrain/Performance

For the first time, the Lexus ES will be available with Lexus Hybrid Drive. Featuring a 2.5-liter four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine, the ES300h is expected to earn EPA fuel economy ratings of approximately 40 mpg city, 39 mpg highway and 39 mpg combined. The ES300h generates 200 total system horsepower.

The new, low friction engine utilizes a sophisticated power management system and high compression ratio (12.5:1) to increase overall efficiency. Equipped with an electric water pump, electric power steering, and an integrated hybrid electric motor/generator, this engine does not require any accessory belts. The beltless design helps improve fuel economy and overall reliability.

The Lexus ES350 is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine with Dual VVT-i that delivers 268 horsepower at 6,200 rpm and 248 lb.-ft. of peak torque at 4,700. The six-speed sequential-shift automatic Electronically Controlled Transmission with intelligence (ECT-i) provides enhanced driving performance, fuel efficiency and smooth shifts. Low friction materials further improve efficiency and help with the ES350's EPA-fuel economy estimates of 21 mpg city, 31 mpg highway and 24 mpg combined.

Both the Lexus ES350 and ES300h feature a Drive Mode selector. Normal mode provides a blend of performance and efficiency that is suited to everyday driving, while Eco mode favors fuel economy. Sport mode increases powertrain and steering responsiveness, and for the ES300h, the IP changes from the hybrid power monitor to a tachometer. The ES300h adds an EV mode which allows short distance drives, at reduced speed, using only the power from the hybrid battery pack.

Chassis/Body/Suspension/Tires/Brakes

Suspension changes, a stiffer body and a quicker steering gear ratio deliver more precise handling in the new 2013 Lexus ES.

The front suspension employs opposite-wound coil springs to help enhance straight-line stability. Revised rear suspension geometry and improved shock absorber damping characteristics enhance ride comfort. The steering gear ratio has been reduced from 16.1:1 to 14.8:1 to help deliver a more responsive and direct steering feel. Increased body rigidity is achieved through lightweight, high tensile strength steel, added bracing and more spot welds. Airflow is smoothed beneath the vehicle, improving stability and fuel economy, and reducing drag.

The ES will be equipped with standard 215/55R17 low rolling resistance tires on 17-inch alloy wheels. The Lexus ES350 will offer optional high-gloss 17-inch wheels and, for the first time, 18-inch high-gloss alloy wheels.

Safety/Security Features

An array of standard and available safety features aid the driver. The optional Blind Spot Monitor with Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) helps detect vehicles in side blind spots. The RCTA alerts the driver to rear cross traffic when backing out of a parking spot. Available Lane Departure Alert (LDA) is integrated with automatic high beam dimming technology. The available Pre-Collision System (PCS) uses sub-millimeter wave radar, designed to detect certain obstructions traveling ahead and prepare the vehicle for a potential collision.

The ES features a class-leading 10 airbags as standard equipment, including driver and front passenger knee, front and seat-mounted air bags, as well as rear seat-mounted side airbags and front and rear side curtain airbags. Whiplash Injury Lessening (WIL) front seats are designed to limit excessive head movement in certain rear-end collisions, helping to decrease the severity of whiplash-type injuries.

Lexus Safety Connect, including Enhanced Roadside Assistance, an Emergency Assistance Button (SOS), Stolen Vehicle Location services, and Automatic Collision Notification, is offered on all new Lexus vehicles with a one-year trial subscription.

Luxury/Comfort/Convenience

The new ES will feature enhanced NuLuxe seating surfaces, developed to help reduce environmental impact. Genuine leather is available, as is semi-aniline leather for a more refined look and feel. Interiors are available in Black, Light Gray, and Parchment. Trim colors and materials include Piano Black, Espresso Bird's-eye Maple, plus Bamboo for the ES300h.

The optional HDD Navigation System includes voice command, an integrated backup camera, an eight-inch screen, and the next generation Lexus Enform® system with App Suite. Lexus Enform provides seamless connectivity with Bing™ search, iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable®, Pandora®, Yelp® and Facebook Places through compatible smart phones. Apps are updated through over-the-air downloads, so new apps and content can be added as they become available. (A one-year subscription to Lexus Enform with App Suite is included.)

The standard Lexus Premium Sound System features eight-speakers with Automatic Sound Levelizer (ASL), in-dash CD player, USB/iPod® connectivity, and an integrated SiriusXM Satellite Radio receiver with a 90-day trial subscription. The available Display Audio package adds a seven-inch screen, HD Radio™ with iTunes® tagging, Bluetooth® audio, phone transfer, a vehicle information display and a rear backup camera.

An available 15-speaker 835 watt Mark Levinson® audio system features an eight-inch display screen, HD Radio with iTunes tagging, DVD audio/video and a Sirius XM Satellite Radio receiver. Exclusive GreenEdge technology from Mark Levinson doubles the output of the amplifier, while reducing energy consumption by fifty percent.

Exterior Design

The new ES features a lower profile and clean styling lines from front to rear. All four corners are pulled tightly inward to the wheel arches, creating distinctive proportions.

The wheelbase of the new ES has been lengthened by 1.8 inches, while the overall length of the vehicle has grown by one inch, resulting in shorter overhangs and a more spacious interior.

The new ES bears the new face of Lexus with its distinctive, spindle grille. The "L" design motif is reflected in the LED daytime running lights and combination rear lamps. Fog lamps are integrated into the sculpted lower front bumper fascia. The Lexus ES350 sports dual exhaust pipes, while the ES300h features an exclusive rear design with hidden exhaust and an integrated rear spoiler. Other details specific to the hybrid include unique blue badging and exclusive 17-inch alloy wheels.

Interior Design

The ES features enhanced sightlines and visibility, logically placed controls, and new cabin materials that express a high level of craftsmanship. The modern interior has been designed to provide a sense of openness and security.

Greater rear seat legroom and knee room are the hallmark of the redesigned, more spacious passenger cabin. Rear headroom is increased by 0.8 inches, knee room is increased by 2.8 inches and legroom is lengthened by 4.1 inches. Additional foot room below the front seats enhances rear passenger comfort.

A newly sculptured 10-way adjustable power seat is standard on all ES models. An available 12-way power seat allows the seat cushion to extend by 1.4 inches for better leg support. In addition, the steering wheel angle has been reduced from 24 degrees to 22 degrees for a more natural control position.

The cockpit features separate display and operation zones to help keep the driver's eyes on the road. The instrument panel, with its long, layered look, places the main information display directly in the driver's line of sight, supplemented by a center-mounted 3.5-inch color TFT multi-information display screen or available navigation and multimedia system. Below the center display is a self-illuminating LED analog clock.

The second-generation Remote Touch Interface (RTI) allows the user to operate the climate, audio, phone controls, optional navigation system and more. The screen menus are selected with a controller located on the center console. RTI also reduces eye and hand movement, helping to decrease effort and distraction.

"The ES has always been a customer favorite and a key model for Lexus," said Templin. "A tremendous effort was put into the all-new Lexus ES350 and ES300h to ensure that our one million eagerly awaiting ES customers would be more than pleased."

Warranty

All new Lexus vehicles come with a 48-month/50,000 mile basic limited warranty with roadside assistance for 48 months/unlimited miles. Powertrain and restraint system coverage is provided for 72 months/70,000 miles. Corrosion perforation protection is covered for 72 months, regardless of mileage. Hybrid-related components, including the HV battery, battery-control module, hybrid control module and inverter with converter, are covered for eight years/100,000 miles.