Oprah Winfrey Quotes
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
Brother Quotes
My little brother, will you ever grow up….I hope not!
-Catherine Pulsifer
Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
-Proverb
A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
-Proverb
To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.
-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
-Anna Quindlan
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
- Astrid Alauda
Mother Quotes
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
-Proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
-Tenneva Jordan
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
-Peter De Vries
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
-Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
-Elaine Agather
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
-Tom Peters
Laughter Quotes
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-E.E. Cummings
Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-Woody Allen
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
-Author Unknown
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
-Raymond Hitchcock
Sibling Quotes
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
-Susan Scarf Merrell
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
-Hesiod
A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
-Marian Sandmaier
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
-Clara Ortega
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.
-Pamela Dugdale
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
-Charlotte Gray
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
-Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!
-Author Unknown
Quotes About Spring
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
Robin Williams
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
Proverb
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
-William Shakespeare
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
-Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
Meaning of Life Quotes
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it”
-Unknown
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.”
-Thomas Merton
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
-Unknown
“He who does not live life to it’s fullest can never know the true meaning of life …”
-Unknown
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus
Quotes about Dreams
You see things and say, ‘Why?”, but I dream things and say, ‘Why not?’
George Bernard Shaw
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
Anonymous
When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old.
Bill Clinton
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Leo Tolstoy
Knowledge Quotes
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas.. more than money.. are the real currency for success.
- Eli Broad
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
-Dale Carnegie
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
-Albert Einstein
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
-Albert Einstein
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
