Great Quotes
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess that itself will need reforming.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
When desire dies, fear is born.
Marriage is the death of hope.
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.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
A full purse make an empty heart.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
When desire dies, fear is born.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Have faith in your own thoughts.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
All war is deception.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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.
I'm not a great poetry fan.
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
I love you like a fat kid loves cake.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Finality is not the language of politics.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
The Great Quotes plugin provides an easy way to add rotating quotations to a WordPress site. It supports multiple widgets and multiple shortcodes per page. Clicking on the author’s name opens a new tab with his Wikipedia entry. It provides the ability to add, edit, and delete quotations. Approximately 20,000 quotes are pre-loaded into the database.
The plugin randomly chooses 200 quotes from the database each time a page is displayed that contains a Great Quotes widget or shortcode. Limiting the number of quotes loaded is done to avoid noticeably slowing the page load time. Besides, reading thru 200 quotes takes a considerable time – it’s unlikely a website visitor will read that many before going to another page.
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Great Quotes
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Great Quotes
Installation Instructions
- Upload ‘great-quotes’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Usage Instructions
To enter quotations, go to Tools > Great Quotes
To display “great quotes” on a web page you have two options:
1) Add a shortcode, examples below, to a page (more than one is ok). All options are optional.
[GreatQuotes]
[GreatQuotes title="Great Quotes" delay="20000" fontsize="15" textcolor="blue"]
The shortcode options can also be edited at Settings > Great Quotes. If a shortcode does not included a short-code option, the default will be taken from the Options page.
2) Create a widget(s) got to Appearance > Widgets
If you decide to enter quotations with more than 170 or so characters, or use a font size great than 20, you’ll probably need to modify the CSS.
To modify a shortcode, do something like the following:
#Silder_holder# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport { height: 300px !important; } Use Google Chrome "Inspect" (right click on quote/Inspect)to determine what to substitute for the # above. It will be "1" unless you have more than one shortcode on your page.
Similarly, to modify a widget, do something like the following:
Silder_holdergreat_quotes_widget_# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport {
height: 300px !important;
}
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I include more than one shortcode on a page?
Yes, the plugin is designed to handle more than one quote area on an individual page.
Can I have more than one Great Quote widget on my site?
Yes.
Can I put HTML code in the quote?
Yes.
Can Great Quotes make my quotes look exactly like I want them to?
Maybe not. It’s likely you’ll want to add some CSS to your site to get it to look exactly the way you want. If you don’t know what CSS means, well, that’s going to be a problem. CSS is a bit confusing. Start here.
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