Mona > Mona's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 59
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Erica Jong
    “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: advice
    312 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Kālidāsa
    “Yesterday is but a dream,
    Tomorrow is only a vision.
    But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
    ― Kālidāsa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems
    tags: hope
    840 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
    8067 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: love
    507 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
    2722 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: happiness
    1466 likes

    • like
  • #7
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13164 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: appearances, character, simile, substance
    921 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44337 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
    4904 likes

    • like
  • #11
    John Lennon
    “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.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
    18876 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
    8841 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
    tags: hope
    4017 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dreams, hope
    2757 likes

    • like
  • #15
    “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
    ― Richard Evans
    tags: hope
    2349 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
    3336 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Amy Tan
    “Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, hope
    513 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: activism, commitment, politics
    1048 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Barack Obama
    “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”
    ― Barack Obama
    153 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Kedar Joshi
    “History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”
    ― Kedar Joshi
    tags: history, orphan, tragedy
    14 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
    tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice
    1114 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Hippocrates
    “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science
    348 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Garrison Keillor
    “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: absurd, cats, humor
    1739 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Erin Hunter
    “Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.”
    ― Erin Hunter, A Dangerous Path
    499 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    84336 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
    7442 likes

    • like
  • #27
    George Herbert
    “The best mirror is an old friend.”
    ― George Herbert
    tags: friendship
    1982 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Aristotle
    “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship
    1719 likes

    • like
  • #29
    “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    tags: amity, friendship
    687 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93606 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Mona’s Quotes

advice
hope
inspirational
love
education
happiness
character
commerce
conscience
humanity
knowledge
misattributed-to-gandhi
money
morality
pleasure
politics
principle
sacrifice
science
sin
sins
wealth
work
worship
appearances
simile
substance
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
abe
enemies
enemy
friend
friends
friendship
life
lincoln
beatles
connection
dreamers
dreaming
dreams
peace
feathers
souls
dream
activism
commitment
history
orphan
tragedy
bigotry
ignorance
prejudice
opinion
absurd
cats
humor
soul
amity
attributed-no-source
misattributed-albert-camus