Appreciation and Approval Quotes

Appreciation :

By appreciation we make excellence in others our own

property.

- Voltaire

Flattery is from the teeth out.

Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

- Dale Carnegie

Approval :

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

- Hans Selye

People who want the most approval get the least and

people who need approval the least get the most.

- Wayne Dyer

We can secure other people’s approval if we do right

and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and

no way has been found out of securing that.

- Mark Twain

Appearance Quotes

All that glitters is not gold.
- Anonymous

Judge not according to the appearance.
- Bible : St. John

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
- Chesterfield



Men in general judge more from appearances than from
reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of
penetration.
- Machiavelli

You may judge a flower or a butterfly by its looks, but
not a human being.
- R.N. Tagore

One may smile and smile and be a villian.
- Anonymous

It is only shallow people who do not judge by
appearances.
- Oscar wilde

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward
appearance.
- Aesop

Angel Quotes

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some

have entertained angels unawares.

- New Testament: Hebrews

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

- Shakespeare: Hamlet

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

- G.B. Shaw

Aim and Ambition Quotes

Aim :

An aim in life is the only fortune worth.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things to aim at in life : first to get what
you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of
mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith



One who thinks in terms of silver, cannot act in terms
of gold.
- Henry G. Weaver

What is to be ended must be ended in this life.
- R.N. Tagore

Ambition :

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward
on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- Joseph Conrad : A Personal Record

Peace begins where ambition ends.
- Rev. Edmund Young

I had Ambition, by which sin the angels fell;
I climbed and, step by step, O Lord,
Ascended into Hell.
- W.H. Davies : Ambition

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- John Milton : Paradise Lost

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
- Syrus

Keen ambition banishes pleasure, from youth onwards,
and reigns alone.
- Vauvenargues

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

Age and Ageing Quotes

We do not count a man’s years, until he has nothing
else to count.
- Emerson

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving,
and old age of spending.
- Anne Bradstreet

The first forty years of life give us the text, the next thirty
supply the commentary on it.
- Schopenhauer

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in
old age the years are short and the days are long.
- Panin

Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you
really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
- Hervey Allen

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was made.
- R. Browning

Old men are children for a second time.
- Aristophanes

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
- Mortimer Collins

Man has seven ages, but woman has only one age,
after she is thirty-five.
- Shakespeare

Your old man shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
- Old Testament

As a white candle in a holy place,
So is the beauty of an aged face.
- Joseph Campbell : The Old Woman

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to
trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo

To grow older is a new venture in itself.
- J.W. Goethe

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood
chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm De Chazal

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in
the morning.
- Bob Hope

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned
everything. You only have to remember it.
- George Burns

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty- five to fifty- five, she needs a good
personality. From fifty- five on, she needs good cash.
- Sophie Tucker

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real
age. A woman, who would tell one that, would tell one
anything.
- Oscar Wilde

I have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf.
- Shakespeare : Macbeth V. 3

The old believe everything; the middle- aged suspect
everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is
important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Advice Quotes

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the
most always like it the least.
- Earl of Chesterfield

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the
answer but wish we didn’t.
- Erica Jong

If you can tell the difference between good advice and
bad advice, you don’t need advice.
- Roger Devlin

If a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he
himself wants it.
- Lord Halifax

Advice is a drug in the market, the supply always
exceeds the demand.
- Josh Billings

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells
upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, do
the very reverse, and you’re sure to be wise.
- Thomas Moore

The worst men often give the best advice.
- Phillip J. Baily

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
- La Rochefoucauld

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It
is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar wilde

Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you
like it not at present.
- Ancient Proverb

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the
very best advice, and then going away and doing the
exact opposite.
- G.K. Chesterton

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice, take each
man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
- Shakespeare

Take it from me. do not advise too much; do the job
yourself. Do it and others will follow.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Give help rather than advice.
- Vauvenargues

Prosperity Quotes

A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear.
- Shakespeare

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
- John Webster

Everything in the world may be endured except
continued prosperity.
- J. W. Goethe

In human life there is nothing which prospers to the end.
- Euripides

Greater virtues are necessary in bearing good fortune
than bad.
- La Rochefoucauld

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Syrus

We promise according to our hopes and perform
according to our fears.
- La Rochefoucauld

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth
best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon

In prosperity let us take great care to avoid pride, scorn
and arrogance.
- Anonymous

Advertising Quotes

When business is good it pays to advertise; when
business is bad you’ve got to advertise.
- Anonymous

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson

Advertising is 85 per cant confusion and 15 per cent
commission.
- Fred Allen

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is
the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the
goods are worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force after
everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising
game.
- Kin Hubbard

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas : South Wind

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and
difficult of modern literary forms.
- Aldous Huxley

Adaptability Quotes

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water

shapes itself the vessel that contains it.

- Chinese Prones

Perfection seems to be nothing more than a complete

adaptation to the environment; but the environment is

constantly changing, so perfection can never be more

than transitory.

- W. Somerset Maugham

The undisciplined mind is far better adapted to the

confused world in which we live today than the

streamlined mind.

- James Thurber

You mustn’t expect to have everything exactly to your taste.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Deeds Quotes

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our

deeds.

George Eliot

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on

a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most

lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

Only for performing noble deeds, in persuasion of

divine ordained duties, would one desire to live a

hundred years.

Rig Veda

How for that little candle throws its beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Pascal

The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that

inspires it.

The Talmud

Deeds are better, however cruel they may be, than the

hell of thinking and doubting.

Ravindra Nath Tagore

Action and deeds Quotes

 Actions speak louder than words.
- English Proverb

The actions of men are like the index to a book; they
point out what is most remarkable in them.
- Thomas Fuller

 Nobody can become perfect by merely ceasing to act.
- Bhagawad Gita

Let not the fruits of action be the motive of your actions,
otherwise you might be disappointed and leave the path
of right action.
- Rig Veda

Unrighteous deeds gradually undermine the very
foundations of happiness.
- Swami Dayanand

He who knows both action and knowledge, with action
overcomes death and with knowledge reaches
immortality.
- Isa Upanishad

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Do what you can with what yow have where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

A life, which does not go into action, is a failure.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
- Emerson

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do
them.
- Pablo Picasso

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
- Tennyson : The Charge of the Light Brigade

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we
are, the more leisure we have.
- Hazlitt

 Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful
sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely
action.
- J.R. Lowell

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last
recourse of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde

Right action cannot come out of nothing, it must be
preceded by thought.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

 Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle

 I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I
understand.
- Chinese Proverb

Accomplishment and Achievement Quotes

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my
chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were
great and noble.
- Helen Keller

Through Achievement the ego is fulfilled, so you must
achieve something. You must be able to attach
something to yourself that you can claim as mine: my
achievement.
- Rajneesh

You should not measure your success by what you
have accomplished, but by what you should have
accomplished with your ability.
- Cliare Staples Lewis

 Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare
prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
- William Arthur Ward

 Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Acceptance Quotes

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to
overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- William James

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we
must accept them and be at peace with them.
- D.H. Lawrence

 We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Gustav Jung

The greatest gift that yow can give to others is the gift
of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

Talent Quotes

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.
- Emerson

Talent is developed in retirement : character is formed
in the rush of the world.
- Goethe

Men of talent are men for occasions.
- William Hazlitt

The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one
talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.
- Edgar W. Work

 Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to
follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s
a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he
has talent and uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he
has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it,
he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction
and a triumph few men ever knew.
- Thomas Wolfe


 If you have great talents, industry will improve them. If
you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply
their deficiency.
- Sir Joshna Reynolds

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
- Holmes

That on talent which is death to hide.
- Milton : Sonnet : On His Blindness

Intelligence Quotes

 If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do
the same thing for the same reason, we call it
intelligence.
- Willy Cuppy

 Intelligence is a quickness to apprehend as a distinct
from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing
apprehended.
- Alfred North Whitehead

 This intelligence- testing business reminds me the way
they used to weigh hogs in Texas. They would get a
long plank, put it over a cross-bar, and somehow tie the
hog on one end of the plank. They’d search all around
till they found a stone that would balance the weight of
the hog and they’d put that one the other end of the
plank. Then they guess the weight of the stone.
- John Dewey

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning but
by understanding what we learn.
- Joseph Whitney

 What is an intelligent man ? A man who enters with case
and completeness into the spirit of things and the
intention of persons, and who arrives at an end by the
shortest route.
- Frederic Amiel

 The trouble with the world is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell

 An intelligent man never snubs anybody.
- Vauvenargues

 Every child ought to be more intelligent than his parent.
- Clarence Darrow

Ability Quotes

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow

 As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James Froude

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning
by study.
- Francis Bacon

Natural ability without education has more often raised a
man to glory and virtue than education without natural
ability.
- Cicero

The man who can speak acceptable is usually given
credit for ability out of all proportion to what he really
possesses.
- Dale Carnegie

The Difference between what we do and what we are
capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the
world’s problems.
- Mahatma Gandhi

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.
- Elbert Hubbard

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to
keep you there.
- John Wooden

 A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing
of anything.
- Samuel Johnson