I love quotes. I search them out. I save them. Sometimes, I find little scrapes of paper in my purse with a quote or a person’s name to be searched online when I get home. Many times it is the other way around, a good quote, but who said it?  A dear friend once said, “Good sax is better than sex”; if you have heard the saxophone played right, you know what she meant.  Is it original? Who knows, but I love it.

If you find a quote here that you like, take it, use it, enjoy it.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. — Carol Burnett

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. — Dag Hammarskjöld

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
— Ernest Hemingway

Safeguards are often irksome, but sometimes convenient, and if one needs them at all, one is apt to need them badly. — Henry Adams

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. — David Rockefeller

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. — Chet Atkins

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. — Margaret Mead

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. — Abraham Lincoln

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
—Walter Cronkite

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. — George Washington

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. — Eldridge Cleaver

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. — Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. — Barack Obama

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever. — Zig Ziglar

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love. — Henry Miller

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. — Mae West