Famous Sayings

We take decision every waking moments of our life and all that we are all that we do are outcomes of all the decisions that we took consciously or subconsciously. One small decision we took long time back made what we are today.
Life direction is shaped by all the small choices we make.
~ Sayingspage

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
~ Chinese Proverb

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
~Jim Collins

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~Roy Disney

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~Pythagoras

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
~Dr Phil

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
~Plato

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
~Peter Drucker

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
~Tony Blair

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
~Author Unknown

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
~T.S. Eliot

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps this decison quote inspired Paulo Cuelho

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.
~Brendan Francis

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
~Peter Drucker on business decision making

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~ Keri Russell decision quotes

A decision is what a man makes when he can’t find anybody to serve on a committee.
~Fletcher Knebel

“My experiences as a leader at three universities and on corporate boards have convinced me that much of what passes for advice about decision making is naïve and shortsighted.”
~Unknown

Here are some blindness quotes by some great persons not excluding quotes and sayings by a great blind person.

I have only one eye,–I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
~Lord Horatio Nelson

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
~ Helen Keller

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
~ Blaise Pascal

Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain
~ Martin Luther

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
~Vachel Lindsay

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
~Thomas Hardy

Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness
~ William Watson

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~Grantland Rice

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~Margaret Atwood

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman . . .
~ Charles Dickens

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~ Ralph Ellison

Very few people don’t get bored at some point or the other. Only the superhuman and the workaholics don’t get bored. I also get bored very fast, and I need constant change in life, though its ironic that the change should be constant. Here are a collection of boredom quotes.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~ Bertrand Russell

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
~ Evelyn Waugh

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom”
~Dave Barry

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredomî
~Arthur Schopenhauer, A German Philosopher

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
~Wendell Phillips

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
~Dylan Thomas

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
~Muriel Spark

The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.
~Frank Tyger

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
~William Weld

Boredom: the desire for desires.
~Leo Tolstoy

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
~Earl Nightingale

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~ William Shakespeare

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
~Jules Renard

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Dorothy Parker

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
~Richard Bach

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
~Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
~Soren Kierkegaard

Quotes and Sayings on Danger.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The thief is no danger to the beggar
~Irish Sayings

I’ve always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
~Peter Scott

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out
~Akhenaton

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
~Elizabeth

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
~Thomas Jefferson

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
~Jean Paul Richter

There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
~Scott Adams

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
~Sydney Smith

A danger foreseen is half avoided.
~Thomas Fuller

Courage in danger is half the battle.
~Titus Maccius Plautus

The fishermen know the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
~Vincent van Gogh

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~Warren G. Bennis

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
~Syrus Publilius

We all go through ups and downs in life, and it is not how many times we go through the downs but how many times we come out of it and many times we have to start all over again. Here are some quotes on such beginnings when we need to start all over again or when we embark on a new journey.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Lao-Tzu

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.
~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
~ Jacques Benigue Bossuet

The beginnings of all things are small.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

What’s well begun, is half done.
~ Horace

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.
~Alberto Salazar

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
~Robert Byrne

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
~Leonardo da Vinci

From small beginnings come great things.
~Old Proverb

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
~T.S. Eliot

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~Louis L’Amour

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.
~Buddha

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~ Jim Rohn

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
~Seneca

So many fail because they don’t get started - they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
W. Clement Stone

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
~John Heywood

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning
~American Proverb

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted
~Plato

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
~Albert Camus

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
~Ivy Baker

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~Carl Bard

The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
~Marquise du Deffand

All glory comes from daring to begin.
~Eugene F. Ware

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
~Olga Korbut

A good beginning makes a good end.
~ Old English Proverb

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
~ Charles Bukowski

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
~Quintus Horatius Flaccus

The only joy in the world is to begin.
~ Cesare Pavese

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
~Publilius Syrus

Before beginning, prepare carefully
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~ David Weinbaum

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
~Meister Eckhart

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
~John Galsworthy

Things are always at their best in their beginning.
~Blaise Pascal

When there is a start to be made, don’t step over! Start where you are.
~Edgar Cayce

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
~ Aristotle

Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
~Marsha Petrie Sue

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
~Henry S. Hoskins

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~Chinese proverb

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~Dave Weinbaum

My top Astrology quotes:

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
~Arthur C Clark

“The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about it”
~ Isaac Asimov

“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
~Rebecca West

“Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.”
~ Paul Carvel

“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”
~John Pierpont Morgan

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!”
~Willaim Shakespeare

“You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don’t even believe in astrology.”
~Freddie Mercury

” Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?”
~Walter Scott

“If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish…”
~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Astrologers that future fates foreshow.”
~Alexander Pope

“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. ”
~Voltaire

“Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.”
~Dane Rudhyar

“Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.”
~Steven Forrest

” Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.”
~Edward Abbey

“The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.”
~ William H. Gass

“Behold what is in the heavens and the earth! But revelations and warnings avail not folk who will not believe.”
~From The Koran

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called ‘natural’ man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
~Richard Bach

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
~Albert Einstein

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
~Herbert Spencer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.
~Albert Schweitzer

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
~Ludwig von Mises

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
~H. P Lovecraft

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
~Tony Snow

Art is the signature of civilizations.
~Beverly Sills

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
~Harold Rosenberg

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
~Dalai Lama

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
~Thomas Sowell

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
~Josiah Strong

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
~Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
~ Sigmund Freud

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
~Bill Cosby

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
~ Edmond de Goncourt

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
~Chen Ning Yang

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
~ Carl Sagan

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
~Thor Heyerdahl

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
~Jane Addams

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
~Charles Lindbergh

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
~Stephen Gardiner

Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war… a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.
~ F. J. Lucas

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~Ayn Rand

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~Albert Einstein

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
~Dean Koontz

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.
~ Carl von Clausewitz

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~Erma Bombeck

When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation–and as in medicine there is always room for error.
~ Fernand Braudel

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
~Oscar Wilde

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan
~ Martin Luther King, Jr

All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of history in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity.~G. W. F. Hegel

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~Albert Einstein

We must become the change we want to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
~Mary Engelbreit

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
~William Blake

The most amazing thing about little children … was their fantastic adaptability.
~Kristin Hunter

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~Mignon McLaughlin

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
~John Steinbeck

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.
~James Russell Lowell

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.
~Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
~ Faith Baldwin

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
~ Flora Whittemore

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

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction
~ Winston Churchill

Now this is a funny one:
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
~ Robert C. Gallagher

“By Changing Your Thinking, You change your beliefs…
~Author Unknown

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
~Deepak Chopra

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
~ Elizabeth Barrett

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
~Mukesh Ambani, Indian Industrialist

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~ Charles F. Kettering

Censhorship is as old as civilization and it bagan as censorship of thoughts, then books, cinemas. Here are some censorship quotes.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
~ Walt Whitman

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
~Federico Fellini

Every burned book enlightens the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
~Clare Boothe Luce

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
~Voltaire

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~Mark Twain

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
~Dick Cavett

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
~John Aikin

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue … must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.
~J.M. COETZEE

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~George Bernard Shaw

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~Mae West

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
~Tommy Smothers

Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
~Potter Stewart

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
~Noam Chomsky

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
~Rebecca West

Some singing quotes and sayings.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
~Maya Angelou

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing
~ Richard Byrd

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb

He who sings frightens away his ills.
~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
~ Aretha Franklin

As long as we live, there is never enough singing.
~Martin Luther

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears, and skim away.
~Alfred Tennyson

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~Emory Austin

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek.
~ John Milton

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~ Paul Robeson

Singing becomes a form of therapy.
~Placido Domingo

I don’t want to be just a straight pop singer. I’m a vocalist and that’s what I want to be seen as in the long run.
~ Christina Aguilera

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
~Ella Fitzgerald

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it’s all just one thing.
~ Jennifer Lopez

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~Franz Liszt

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard “Heartbreak Hotel” I thought, this is it”
~Paul McCartney