Thought Provoking Quotes

Quote 1:

“My Mother said to me, If you become a soldier you’ll be a general, if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso – (1881-1973) – Spanish Painter and Sculptor

Quote 2:

“Some Men see things as they are and say “Why?”. I dream things that never were and say Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Critic and Social Reformer

Quote 3:

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) – New Zealand Mountaineer and First man to Climb Mt. Everest

Quote 4:

“There is only one success – to be able to live your life your own way.”
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) – American Novelist and Journalist

Quote 5:

“To loves one’s self is the beginning of a life-long romance”
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) – Irish Born English Poet, playwright and Novelist

Quote 6:

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Ralph Emerson (1803-1882) – American Poet, Essayist, Philosopher

Quote 7:

“When one person believes he can and another person believes he can’t, they are both right.”
Henry Ford (1863-1947) – American Industrialist

Quote 8:

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
Edward J. Phelps (1822-1900) – Lawyer and Diplomat

Quote 9:

“As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) – American Poet, Essayist and Philosopher

Quote 10:

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
George Eliot – Pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – English Novelist

Quote 11:

“Knowledge of what it possible is the beginning of happiness.”
George Santayana (1863-1952) – Spanish-born American Philosopher, Poet, Novelist and Critic

Quote 12:

” A thought is often original, though you have uttered in a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations. ” 
Oliver Wendall Holmes, SR (1809-1894) – American Physician, Professor, Man of Letters