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

We are Humans and we offer sympathy. We always do, sometimes we express it, sometimes, we don’t but offer we do. We are always moved by someone else’ plight, and we offer sympathy to each other the plight is upon us together. But more often than, we are at a loss when we want to express our sympathy, and we end up saying something stupid like, “I understand”. Truth is you don’t. So we say, I am sorry.

What we have here is a collection of sympathy sayings and quotes that will come in handy, memorize them if you must. And you may also use them in Sympathy Cards, or ecards that you send.

“And you should always know, wherever you may go,
No matter where you are, I will never be far away.”
~ Billy Joel

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.” ~Thomas Campbell

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Ingersoll

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
~William Penn

“A human life is a story told by God.”
~Hans Christian Andersen

“Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about , With silence ‘mid the world’s loud din.”
~ James Russell Lowell

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.”
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans,

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ” Robert Louis Stevenson

This are about sympathy..

“Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
~ George Eliot

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. ”

“Absent in body, but present in spirit.”

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.”

“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. ”
See even the bible says so.

“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

“Bear one another’s burdens. ”

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword”

“Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down”

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ … ”

“For the fashion of this world passeth away, ”

“Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

“Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.”

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”

“It is more blessed to give than to receive. ”

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.”
This is a very true Bible quote.

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them.”

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.”

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.”

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

“Everything is possible for him who believes.”

More Bible Quotes.

“Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.”

“A flea on the top of a bald head.”

“Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.”

” Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens”

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

” Learn without thinking begets ignorance. Think without learning is dangerous.”

I like this one by Mao Zedong, ” Women can hold up half the sky”

” An inch of time is an inch of gold. But an inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time.”

“A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles. ”

“A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ”

“A good dog does not block the road. “

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ”

“Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”

“You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.”
~Chanakya

“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”

“Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

“If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?”

“There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.”

‘Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.’”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ”

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ”

“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.”

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ”

“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. ”

If you know more Chanakya quotes, please submit..

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
~Paul Erdos

“Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ”

“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. ”

This is the funniest coffee quote ever.
“Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. ”
Now everytime I see decaff latte, I remember this..

“I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time.”
~Steven Wright

“In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour. ”

“Good coffee should be black like the devil, hot like hell, and sweet like a kiss.”
~Hungarian saying.. I personally don’t like it sweet though

“I don’t have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine!”

“Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. ”
~Lara Flynn Boyle

“Coffee sometimes, but normally tea with two sugars and milk out of that big plastic bottle we don’t know the price of. ”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.”
~Edward VII

“Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. “

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.”
~ Ned Rorem

A wretched soul, bruis’d with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen’d with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
~William Shakespeare

My fav Inspirational Quote, “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. ”

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.”

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

“To respond is positive, to react is negative. ”

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
~William Arthur Ward

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.”
~Horace

“Adversity is the foundation of virtue”
~Japanese proverb.

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever”
~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“Christmas ain’t over ’til the fat angel sings”

“The Tassel is Worth the Hassle”

“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ”

“A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all”
~Chinese Proverbs

“Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.”
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

“It’s not enough to succeed. Others must fail. ”

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
~Naguib Mahfouz

“Life is Too Important to Take Seriously”

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

“Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.”

“It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.”
~ French Proverb

“So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.”

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
~George Bernard Shaw

A saying on advice by Cicero, “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration”

A Friendship Quote by cicero, “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

“Hatred is settled anger”

On Books, “A home without books is a body without soul. ”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

A Life Quote by Cicero, “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

A Freedom Quote by Cicero, “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. ”

This is a saying on habits, “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ”

“Whatever you do, do with all your might”

I find this Cicero Quote very Motivating, “If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.”

Cicero on philosophy “There is nothing so absurd as not to have been said by a philosopher.”

“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”

“Time is the herald of truth.”

“To live is to think.”

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

“When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. ” So just because you hurt someone unintentionally, don’t think that it is OK…to hurt.

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ” Was it Churchill who also said this?

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ”

A Women Quote by Oscar Wilde, “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

This is a good one by Oscar Wilde on marriage, ” Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ”

An Oscar Wilde Quote on Pessimism, “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. ” Of course, you must never understand a work of art to appreciate it.

Please submit your favorite Oscar Wilde Quotes below.