Babe Ruth: Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. (Babe Ruth: U.S. professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, 1895-1948) Categories: FEAR

Babson, Roger: It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing. (Roger Babson: U.S. entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist, 1875-1967) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE

Bacall, Lauren: I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." (Lauren Bacall: U.S. actress, known for her portrayals of strong, complex women, 1924-2014) Categories: CONTENTMENT

Bach, Richard: Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936) Categories: FRUSTRATION, PROBLEMS

Bach, Richard: Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936) Categories: SELF-ASSURANCE

Bach, Richard: What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936) Categories: JUDGMENT, PERCEPTION, TRANSFORMATIONS

Bacon, Ernst: Dancing is the body made poetic. (Ernst Bacon: U.S. composer, pianist, conductor, and prolific author who received three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship, 1898-1990) Categories: DANCING

Bacon, Francis: A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: CURIOSITY, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS

Bacon, Francis: All rising to great places is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, CHALLENGES

Bacon, Francis: As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: INNOVATION

Bacon, Francis: Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: DEATH

Bacon, Francis: Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: DISCRETION, SPEECH

Bacon, Francis: Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: HOPE

Bacon, Francis: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: CERTAINTY, DOUBT

Bacon, Francis: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if her will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: RESEARCH, SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY

Bacon, Francis: If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: MONEY

Bacon, Francis: Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: BELIEFS

Bacon, Francis: Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: NATURE

Bacon, Francis: Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: DECEPTION, TRICKERY

Bacon, Francis: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: BOOKS

Bacon, Francis: The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: WEALTH

Bacon, Francis: The folly of one man is the fortune of another. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: FORTUNE, LUCK, MISTAKES

Bacon, Francis: The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: SUPERSTITION

Bacon, Francis: The virtue of adversity is fortitude. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: ADVERSITY, FORTITUDE

Bacon, Francis: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: BEAUTY, STRANGENESS

Bacon, Francis: They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: CAREERS, HAPPINESS

Bacon, Francis: They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: DISCOVERERS

Bacon, Francis: Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: TRUTH

Bacon, Francis: Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: VIRTUE

Bacon, Francis: We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: NATURE

Bacon, Francis: Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: WIVES

Bacon, Francis: Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626) Categories: HISTORY, WORDS

Baez, Joan: Action is the antidote to despair. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941) Categories: ACTION, DESPAIR

Baez, Joan: The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941) Categories: COMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIPS

Baez, Joan: You don't get to choose how or when you're going to die. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941) Categories: DECISIONS, LIFE

Bagehot, Walter: The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877) Categories: COMMITMENT, PERSEVERANCE, SELF-CONFIDENCE

Bagehot, Walter: We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877) Categories: PERCEPTION, RELATIONSHIPS

Bagehot, Walter: Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877) Categories: WRITERS

Bahcall, John N.: The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. (John N. Bahcall: U.S. astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1935-2005) Categories: DISCOVERY, FUTURE

Bain, Alexander: Instinct is untaught ability. (Alexander Bain: Scottish philosopher and educationalist who founded "Mind," the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology, 1818-1903) Categories: INSTINCT

Baker, Gerard: Journalism provides the first draft of history. (Gerard Baker: British-American journalist and editor- in-chief of the 'Wall Street Journal,') Categories: HISTORY, JOURNALISM

Baker, Russell: When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. (Russell Baker: U.S. journalist, narrator, and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for satirical commentary and self-critical prose, Born 1925) Categories: COOKING

Baldwin, Christina: Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin: U.S. novelist and a long-time published author, Born 1946) Categories: DIARIES, JOURNALING

Baldwin, Faith: Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. (Faith Baldwin: U.S. writer of romance novels and other forms of fiction, 1893-1978) Categories: CHARACTER-BUILDING

Baldwin, James: As an African American, "We'll try to accept you if you'll try to understand us." (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: RACISM (U.S.A.)

Baldwin, James: Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: CHILDREN, ROLE MODELS

Baldwin, James: I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: ANGER, HATRED

Baldwin, James: I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: CRITICISM, NATIONALISM, PRIDE, PATRIOTISM (U.S.A.)

Baldwin, James: I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: TRAVEL

Baldwin, James: Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: IGNORANCE, POWER

Baldwin, James: Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: CHANGE, PROBLEM-SOLVING

Baldwin, James: Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: DEPENDENCY, DISABILITIES, EXCUSES, SUPPORT

Baldwin, James: The past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: EDUCATION, HISTORY

Baldwin, James: The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: ART

Baldwin, James: The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: ACTION, INITIATIVE

Baldwin, James: The ‘American Dream’ comes at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, RACISM, U.S.A.

Baldwin, James: This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: RACE

Baldwin, James: Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: PESSIMISTS, NAYSAYERS

Baldwin, James: To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: RACISM

Baldwin, James: To smash something is the ghetto’s chronic need. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987) Categories: GHETTO, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Baldwin, Stanley: I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. (Stanley Baldwin: British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947) Categories: FAITH

Baldwin, Stanley: War would end if the dead could return. (Stanley Baldwin: British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947) Categories: WAR

Balfour, James: Enthusiasm moves the world (James Balfour: Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845) Categories: ENTHUSIASM

Balfour, James: I never forgive, but I always forget. (James Balfour: Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845) Categories: FORGIVENESS, MEMORY

Ball, George W.: Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball: U.S. diplomat and banker who also served in the management of the U.S. State Department, 1909-1994) Categories: MEMORY, PAST, NOSTALGIA

Ball, Ivern: Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. (Ivern Ball: U.S. amateur writer of aphorisms, 1926-1992) Categories: ENTHUSIASM

Ballou, Hosea: Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. (Hosea Ballou: U.S. Universalist clergyman, 1771-1852) Categories: HAPPINESS, SELF-AWARENESS

Ballou, Marti: Inch by inch, everything's a cinch; yard by yard, it's hard. (Marti Ballou: U.S. writer) Categories:

Balzac, Honore de: Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: FORTUNE, CRIME

Balzac, Honore de: He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of man. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: CRITICISM, SELF-IDENTITY, PRAISES

Balzac, Honore de: I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: GOD

Balzac, Honore de: Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: MODESTY, SELF-AWARENESS

Balzac, Honore de: Necessity is often the spur to genius. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: NECESSITY

Balzac, Honore de: The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: FORGIVENESS, MOTHERHOOD

Balzac, Honore de: Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850) Categories: CAREERS

Bangs, Richard: It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees—the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life. (Richard Bangs: U.S. travel writer, Born 1950) Categories: DIVERSITY, TRAVEL

Banks, Ernie: The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. (Ernie Banks: U.S. professional baseball player, 1931-2015) Categories: SPORTSMANSHIP

Barak, Aharon: Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. (Aharon Barak: Israeli law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Born 1936) Categories: DEMOCRACY

Barclay, Alexander: Gluttony kills more than the sword. (Alexander Barclay: English poet and clergyman, 1475-1552) Categories: GLUTTONY

Bardot, Brigitte: I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot: French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Bardot, Brigitte: It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot: French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934) Categories: AGING

Barenbaum, Rachel: The path is never clear until it’s passed. (Rachel Barenbaum: U.S. novelist, author of "A Bend in the Stars") Categories: PERCEPTION, PERSEVERANCE

Barere, Bertrand: The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. (Bertrand Barere: French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the French Revolution, 1755-1841) Categories: LIBERTY, TYRANNY

Barker, Dan: Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. (Dan Barker: U.S. atheist but former preacher, musician, Born 1949) Categories: FAITH, RELIGION

Barker, Dan: Not thinking critically, I assumed that the 'successful' prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me. (Dan Barker: U.S. atheist but former preacher, musician, Born 1949) Categories: PRAYER

Barkley, Alvin: The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. (Alvin Barkley: U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 35th Vice-President of the United States, 1877-1956) Categories: AUDIENCES

Barlow, John P.: The corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. (John P. Barlow: U.S. poet, cattle rancher, and political activist, Born 1947) Categories: PRIVACY, UNIFORMITY

Barnes, Clive: Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. (Clive Barnes: English writer, and dance and theater critic for 'The New York Times,' 1927-2008) Categories: TELEVISION, ENTERTAINMENT

Barney, Natalie C.: Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. (Natalie C. Barney: U.S. writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers, 1876-1972) Categories: FATALISM

Barr, Amelia: Barr The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.- (Amelia Barr: British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, TRAVEL

Barr, Amelia: Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. (Amelia Barr: British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919) Categories: SILENCE, TRUTH

Barrie, James M.: Life is a long lesson in humility. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937) Categories: HUMILITY, LIFE

Barrie, James M.: Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937) Categories: WORK, EMPLOYMENT

Barrie, James M.: We've been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937) Categories: MEMORY, OPPORTUNITY

Barrow, Isaac: Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. (Isaac Barrow: English Christian theologian and mathematician, 1630-1677) Categories: COMMITMENT, GOALS

Barrymore, Drew: Life is very interesting . . . . In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975) Categories: DIFFICULTIES, SELF-IMPROVEMENT, STRENGTHS

Barrymore, Drew: There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. RISK! (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975) Categories: SELF-AUTHENTICITY

Barrymore, John: You’re not old until your dreams become regrets. (John Barrymore: U.S. actor on stage, screen, and radio (1882-1942) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, DREAMS, REGRETS

Barton, Bruce: Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Bruce Barton: U.S. author, advertising executive, and politician, 1886-1967) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, OPPORTUNITY, SELF-AWARENESS

Baruch, Bernard : Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one wo asked why. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965) Categories: CURIOSITY

Baruch, Bernard : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965) Categories: PROBLEMS, TROUBLES, ACCOMMODATING

Baruch, Bernard : Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965) Categories: POLITICS, PROMISE

Baruch, Bernard : We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965) Categories: SOCIETY, HUMANITY

Barzun, Jacques: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Jacques Barzun: French-American historian whose work influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States, 1907-2012) Categories: TEACHING

Basho, Matsuo: Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. (Matsuo Basho: Japanese poet who is recognized as the greatest master of Haiku, 1644-1694) Categories: HISTORY, GOALS

Basquiat, Jean-Michel: Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. (Jean-Michel Basquiat: U.S. artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement, 1960-1988) Categories: ART, MUSIC

Bastiat, Frederic: When plunder or corruption becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederic Bastiat: French writer and economist, 1801-1850) Categories: CORRUPTION, GOVERNMENT

Bates, Daisy: No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. (Daisy Bates: U.S. civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer, 1914-1999) Categories: ENEMIES

Bates, Marston: Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Marston Bates: U.S. zoologist who contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in South America, 1906-1974) Categories: RESEARCH

Battista, Orlando A.: An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista: Canadian-American chemist and author, 1917-1995) Categories: ERRORS, MISTAKES

Baudelaire, Charles: Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Charles Baudelaire: French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1861) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, LEISURE, WORK

Baudelaire, Charles: He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul. (Charles Baudelaire: French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1861) Categories: STUBBORNNESS

Baum, Lyman F.: A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. (Lyman F. Baum: U.S. author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 1856-1919) Categories: LOVE

Bayly, Thomas H.: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (Thomas H. Bayly: English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer, 1797-1839) Categories: ABSENCE, RELATIONSHIPS

Bayonne, Steve: A bad leader seeks power, while a great leader empowers. (Steve Bayonne: U.S. marketing and investment professional) Categories: LEADERSHIP, POWER

Beard, Charles A.: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Charles A. Beard: U.S. historian, 1874-1948) Categories: ADVERSITY

Beard, Mary R.: Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Mary R. Beard: U.S. historian, author, and leader in both the labor and women's rights movements, 1876-1958) Categories: ACHIEVEMENT, PREPARATION, STUDY

Beattie, Ann: People forget years and remember moments. (Ann Beattie: U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1947) Categories: MOMENTS, MEMORY

Beaumarchais, Pierre: Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. (Pierre Beaumarchais: French diplomat and polymath, 1732-1799) Categories: CRITICISM, PRAISE

Beausacq, Diane de: Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. (Diane de Beausacq: French writer, 1829-1899) Categories: FRIENDS, PARENTS

Beauvoir, Simone d.: I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986) Categories: CERTAINTY, TRUTH

Beauvoir, Simone d.: In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986) Categories: STUBBORNNESS

Beauvoir, Simone d.: The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986) Categories: OPPRESSION, ACCOMPLICES

Beccaria, Cesare: It is better to prevent crimes than it is to punish them. (Cesare Beccaria: Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, 1738-1794) Categories: CRIME, PUNISHMENT, JUDICIARY

Beck, Fred: If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. (Fred Beck: U.S. major league baseball player, 1886-1962) Categories: GRATITUDE

Beckett, Samuel: Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett: Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator, 1906-1989) Categories: FAILURE, PERSEVERANCE

Beckley, John L.: Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. (John L. Beckley: U.S. athlete and writer, Born 1971) Categories: FAILURE, PLANNING

Bedi, Kiran: Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers. (Kiran Bedi: Indian social activist, politician, and the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service, Born 1949) Categories: SOCIETY

Beecher, Henry W.: A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: HUMOR

Beecher, Henry W.: All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: WORDS

Beecher, Henry W.: Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: DOCTRINE

Beecher, Henry W.: Happiness is not the end of life; character is. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: CHARACTER, MEANINGFULNESS

Beecher, Henry W.: Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: INVESTMENT, MONEY

Beecher, Henry W.: It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: CRUELTY, MOTIVATION, WAR

Beecher, Henry W.: No man is more cheated than the selfish man. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: SELFISHNESS

Beecher, Henry W.: The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: DETERMINATION, OBSTINACY, PERSEVERANCE, STUBBORNNESS

Beecher, Henry W.: The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: PRAISE

Beecher, Henry W.: The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887) Categories: CHANGE, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY

Beecher, Lyman: No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. (Lyman Beecher: Presbyterian minister and abolitionist, 1775-1863) Categories: CONTROVERSY

Beerbohm, Max: Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. (Max Beerbohm: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist, 1872-1956) Categories: ABILITIES, DIVERSITY, LIFE

Beerbohm, Max: The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. (Max Beerbohm: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist, 1872-1956) Categories: HISTORY, MEMORY

Beerman, Leonard I.: The earth is too small and life is too short for anything to be more important than the quest for peace. (Leonard I. Beerman: U.S. Reform rabbi, a promoter of interfaith dialog, and an advocate for peace and a two- state solution in the Middle East, 1921-2014) Categories: PEACE-MAKING

Behan, Brendan F.: A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: AUTHORITY, COMMUNICATION, QUOTATIONS

Behan, Brendan F.: Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: INSPIRATION, ACTION, INITIATIVE

Behan, Brendan F.: Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: COURAGE, FEAR

Belasco, James: Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have —and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. (James Belasco: U.S. business leadership strategist and best-selling author, Born 1936) Categories: CHANGE

Bellah, Robert N.: Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. (Robert N. Bellah: U.S. sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, 1927-2013) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY, MATURATION

Belloc, Hilaire: When I am dead, I hope it may be said: “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” (Hilaire Belloc: Anglo-French writer and historian, political activist, and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century, 1870-1993) Categories: AUTHORS, BOOKS

Bellow, Saul: A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005) Categories: BELIEFS, IGNORANCE

Bellow, Saul: Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005) Categories: ALTERNATIVES, DECISIONS

Bellow, Saul: Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005) Categories: MEMORIES

Bellow, Saul: Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005) Categories: WORDS

Bellow, Saul: You never had to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005) Categories: WRITING

Belsky, Scott: When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history. (Scott Belsky: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc., Born 1980) Categories: INVENTIONS, INVESTMENTS, DISCOVERIES

Bench, Johnny: Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. (Johnny Bench: U.S. former professional baseball catcher and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Born 1947) Categories: DEPRESSION

Benchley, Robert: Anyone can do any amount of work—provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945) Categories: COMMITMENT, EMPLOYMENT, WORK

Benchley, Robert: There are two classes of travel—first class, and with children. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945) Categories: TRAVEL

Benedict, Ruth: Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. (Ruth Benedict: U.S. anthropologist and folklorist, 1887-1948) Categories: RACISM

Bengali Proverb: Time goes by like the current of a river, never to come back. (Bengali Proverb: ) Categories: PAST, TIME

Bengis, Ingrid: For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017) Categories: ACTION, INFLUENCE, WORDS

Bengis, Ingrid: Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017) Categories: IMAGINATION, RENEWAL

Bening, Annette: Acting is not about being famous. It's about exploring the human soul. (Annette Bening: U.S. actress wiith a career spanning over four decades, Born 1958) Categories: ACTING

Benn, Alonzo N.: Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. (Alonzo N. Benn: U.S. poet, Born 1935) Categories: COMMITMENT, COURAGE

Bennett, Arnold: Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett: English author-novelist, 1867-1931) Categories: CHANGE, DRAWBACKS

Bennett, Roy T.: Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: COMMISERATION, GRIEF, SUPPORT

Bennett, Roy T.: Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: FEELINGS, LISTENING, RESPECT, REGARD

Bennett, Roy T.: Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: IMPACT, SUCCESS

Bennett, Roy T.: The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: HISTORY, PAST

Bennett, Roy T.: What other people think and say about you is none of your business. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: GOSSIP, REPUTATION

Bennett, Roy T.: You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018) Categories: CHANGE, SELF-INITIATIVE

Benson, Arthur C.: Congenial labor is essence of happiness. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925) Categories: CONGENIALITY, WORK

Benson, Arthur C.: The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925) Categories: FEARS, LIFE, SORROW

Berenson, Bernard: Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson: U.S. art historian, known for his drawings of the Florentine painters, 1865-1959) Categories: CONSISTENCY

Berenson, Bernard: Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. (Bernard Berenson: U.S. art historian, known for his drawings of the Florentine painters, 1865-1959) Categories: TAXATION

Berghoff, Jon: We have two ears and one mouth. We should use them proportionately. (Jon Berghoff: U.S. creator of the XCHANGE Approach, and considered the Godfather of conversational choreography) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LISTENING

Bergson, Henri: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Henri Bergson: French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941) Categories: PERCEPTION

Bergson, Henri: To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. (Henri Bergson: French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941) Categories: CHANGE, MATURING

Berle, Milton: A committee is a group of people who keep minutes and waste hours. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002) Categories: COMMITTEES

Berle, Milton: If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands? (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002) Categories:

Berle, Milton: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002) Categories: INITIATIVE, OPPORTUNITY

Berle, Milton: Laughter is an instant vacation. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002) Categories: LAUGHTER

Berle, Milton: Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002) Categories: AGING, SEX

Berlin, Irving: The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. (Irving Berlin: Russian-born U.S. composer and songwriter who received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Tony Award. and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1888-1989) Categories: SUCCESS

Berlioz, Hector: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz: French Romantic composer and symphony conductor, 1803-1869) Categories: LUCK, TALENT

Bernard, Claude: Art is I; science is we. (Claude Bernard: French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1813-1878) Categories: SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY, ART

Bernard, Claude: Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. (Claude Bernard: French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1813-1878) Categories: SCIENCE

Berners-Lee, Tim: Protect net neutrality. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web—so diverse and so exciting—continue unabated. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955) Categories: NET NEUTRALITY

Berners-Lee, Tim: The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955) Categories: COMPUTER-SCIENCE, SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY

Berners-Lee, Tim: You affect the world by what you browse. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955) Categories: COMPUTER-SCIENCE, WEB-BROWSING

Berra, Yogi: The game isn't over until it's over. (Yogi Berra: U.S. professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1925-2015) Categories: SPORTS, COMPETITION

Berry, John: The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry: U.S. country music artist, Born 1959) Categories: CALMNESS, RECEPTIVITY

Berry, Wendell: Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934) Categories: CIVILITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION

Berry, Wendell: To damage the earth is to damage your children. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934) Categories: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

Berry, Wendell: We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934) Categories: JINGOISM, ECOLOGY

Beschloss, Michael: The most solemn things a president can do is ‘going to war’ or ‘ending a war.’ Sometimes it takes more courage to do the latter. (Michael Beschloss: ) Categories: WAR

Bettelheim, Bruno: The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance. (Bruno Bettelheim: Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual, and writer, 1903-1990) Categories: ATTITUDES, FREEDOM

Beudoin, Patricia C.: The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from. (Patricia C. Beudoin: U.S. writer) Categories: WOMEN, HOUSEWIVES

Beveridge, William: Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963) Categories: IGNORANCE

Beveridge, William: Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963) Categories: PRIVILEGE, PESSIMISM

Beveridge, William: The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963) Categories: GOVERNMENT, SOCIETY

Beyle, Marie-Henri: One can acquire everything in solitude but character. (Marie-Henri Beyle: French writer, regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of realism, 1783-1842) Categories: CHARACTER, SOLITUDE

Beymer, William G.: Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. (William G. Beymer: U.S. novelist and Assoc. Professor of history, 1881-1969) Categories: DIET, PARTYING

Beyonce: I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself. (Beyonce: U.S. award-winning songwriter, actress, and businesswoman, Born 1981) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE

Bharara, Preet: If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara: Indian-American attorney, Born 1968) Categories: AMBITION, VISION, PRESENCE

Bhargava, Deepak: Find some way in your life to be in relationship with working class and poor people. (Deepak Bhargava: Indian-U.S. reform advocate and former director of the nonprofit Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C., Born 1968) Categories: POVERTY, INTEGRATION

Bible: Ecclesiastes 3:1-4: To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance. (Bible: Ecclesiastes 3:1-4: ) Categories:

Bible: Hebrews 2:15: All fear is bondage. (Bible: Hebrews 2:15: ) Categories: FEAR, ENSLAVEMENT

Bible: Matthew 4:4: Man shall not live by bread alone. (Bible: Matthew 4:4: ) Categories: SPIRITUALITY

Bible: Proverbs 4:18: The path of the just, or of justice, is a shining light. (Bible: Proverbs 4:18: ) Categories: ENLIGHTENMENT, JUSTICE

Bible: Psalm 30:5: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalm of the U.S. civil rights movement) (Bible: Psalm 30:5: ) Categories: HOPE, JOY

Bible: Romans 12:20: If thine enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink. (Bible: Romans 12:20: ) Categories: ASSISTANCE, ENEMIES

Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11: The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. (Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11: ) Categories: GOALS, PERSISTENCE

Bible, Matthew 19:23-24: It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Bible, Matthew 19:23-24: ) Categories: WEALTH

Bible, Matthew 7:7: Ask and you shall receive. (Bible, Matthew 7:7: ) Categories: REQUESTS

Bible, Proverbs 16:27: Idle hands are the devil's workshop. (Bible, Proverbs 16:27: ) Categories: IDLENESS

Bidault, Georges: The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Georges Bidault: French politician, 1899-1983) Categories: AUTHORITY, POWER, MISPERCEPTION

Biden, Joseph: Our greatest strength is the power of our example, not just the example of our power. (Joseph Biden: U.S. Democratic 47th president of the U.S., as well as U.S. vice-president and senator, Born 1942) Categories: POWER, MODELS

Bierce, Ambrose: A lawsuit is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: LAWSUIT

Bierce, Ambrose: A saint is a dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: SAINTS

Bierce, Ambrose: An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Bierce, Ambrose: Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: HOPE

Bierce, Ambrose: Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: POLITENESS

Bierce, Ambrose: Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914) Categories: WOMEN, TACT

Biersack, Andy: Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone. (Andy Biersack: U.S. songwriter, singer, and pianist, Born 1990) Categories: CONVICTIONS

Biggs, Richard: Burn brightly without burning out. (Richard Biggs: U.S. television and stage actor, 1960-2004) Categories: GOALS, SUCCESS

Biko, Steve: The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko: African nationalist and socialist and major South African anti-apartheid leader, 1946-1977) Categories: OPPRESSION

Biles, Simone: I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all. (Simone Biles: U.S. artistic gymnast whose 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history, Born 1997) Categories: REGRET, RISK

Billings, Josh: Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: AMBITION, GOALS

Billings, Josh: As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: FAMILY, FEMINISM, WOMEN

Billings, Josh: As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, TRUTH

Billings, Josh: If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: HAPPINESS, SEARCHING

Billings, Josh: It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: FORGIVENESS

Billings, Josh: Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: CLEVERNESS, LIFE

Billings, Josh: Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: CONSCIENCE, REASON

Billings, Josh: Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: SOLITUDE

Billings, Josh: The trouble ain't that people are ignorant. It's that they know so much that ain't so. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: IGNORANCE

Billings, Josh: The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885) Categories: IGNORANCE, INNOCENCE

Billings, Victoria: Constant togetherness is fine—but only for Siamese twins. (Victoria Billings: U.S. journalist, Born 1945)) Categories: MARRIAGE, RETIREMENT, TOGETHERNESS

Binstock, Louis: Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. (Louis Binstock: U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974) Categories: FAILURE, FEAR

Bird, Rose: We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. If we were tenants here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. (Rose Bird: U.S. jurist and Chief Justice of California Supreme Court making her both the first female Justice and the first female Chief Justice, 1936-1999) Categories: EARTH, ENVIRONMENT

Birney, Earle: The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. (Earle Birney: Canadian poet and novelist, 1904-1995) Categories: POETRY

Bishop, Jim: Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Jim Bishop: U.S. journalist and author, 1907-1987) Categories: PARENTHOOD, FAMILY

Bismarck, Otto von: People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898) Categories: LYING, POLITICS

Bismarck, Otto von: Politics is the art of the possible. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898) Categories: POLITICS

Bismarck, Otto von: The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898) Categories: POLITICS, WAR

Bismarck, Otto von: The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898) Categories: BUREAUCRACY, LAWS, POLITICS

Bismarck, Otto von: The statesman’s task is to hear God’s footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on His coattails as He marches past. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898) Categories: POLITICS

Bissell, Emily P.: Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. (Emily P. Bissell: U.S. social worker and activist, 1861-1948) Categories: ACTION, HEROES, HEROINES, INVOLVEMENT

Blackmun, Harry: The right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. (Harry Blackmun: U.S. lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1908-1999) Categories: ABORTION, PRIVACY, WOMEN

Blackstone, William: It is better ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. (William Blackstone: English jurist, judge, and politician who is most noted for writing the 'Commentaries on the Laws of England,' 1728-1780) Categories: GUILT, INNOCENCE, JUDICIARY

Blackwell, Elizabeth: For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Elizabeth Blackwell: British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and as a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine, 1821-1910) Categories: EQUITY, WOMEN

Blaik, Red: The champion makes his own luck. (Red Blaik: U.S. football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and U.S. Army officer, 1897-1989) Categories: LUCK, SELF-RELIANCE

Blair, Robert: Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! And soldier of society! (Robert Blair: Scottish poet, 1699-1746) Categories:

Blake, William: A truth that's told with bad intent . . . beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: LIES, TRUTH

Blake, William: I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: ANGER, COMMUNICATION

Blake, William: If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: PERCEPTION

Blake, William: Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: SELF-DETERMINATION

Blake, William: No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Blake, William: The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: CONTENTMENT

Blake, William: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: OPINIONS, STUBBORNNESS, OBSTINACY

Blake, William: You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827) Categories: JUDGMENT

Blakely, Sarah: Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding. (Sarah Blakely: U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971) Categories: FAILURE, SELF-CONFIDENCE

Blesse, Frederick C.: No guts, no glory! (Frederick C. Blesse: U.S. U.S. Air Force major general and flying ace. (1921-2012)) Categories: BRAVERY, RISK, SUCCESS, WAR, GUMPTION

Blixen, Karen: The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. (Karen Blixen: Danish author, 1885-1962) Categories: CURES, SALT WATER

Blodgett, Daisy: When men go to war, women go to work. (Daisy Blodgett: U.S. suffragette, 1863-1947) Categories: WAR, WOMEN

BLOK, Jos D.: It’s easy to make things hard, but hard to make things easy. (Jos D. BLOK: Dutch founder and CEO of Buurtzorg, a home-based health care community organization, Born 1960) Categories: CHALLENGES, LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, TRUST

Bloomfield, Harold H.: The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism. (Harold H. Bloomfield: U.S. psychiatrist and author, Born 1944) Categories: LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

Blount, Angela N.: Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. (Angela N. Blount: U.S. author and memoirist, Born 1931) Categories: DETOURS, NON-INTENTIONS, PLANS

Blum, Arlene: You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum: U.S. mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. Born 1945) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Blum, Ralph: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. (Ralph Blum: U.S. actor and writer, Born 1932) Categories: OBSTACLES, OPPORTUNITY, PAST

Bly, David: Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (David Bly: U.S. teacher and politician, Born 1952) Categories: WORK, PLANNING

Bly, Mary: Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Mary Bly: U.S. author and tenured professor at Fordham University whose novels are published in 30 countries, Born 1962) Categories: CATS, DOGS

Bodenheim, Maxwell: Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Maxwell Bodenheim: U.S. poet and novelist whose writing brought him international notoriety in the 1920s during the Jazz Age, 1892-1954) Categories: POETRY

Boetcker, William J.: The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. (William J. Boetcker: German-American religious leader and influential public speaker, 1873-1962) Categories: CHARACTER, FORTITUDE

Bogan, Louise: True revolutions . . . restore more than they destroy. (Louise Bogan: U.S. poet who was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, 1897-1970) Categories: REVOLUTIONS

Bogomoletz, Aleksandr: One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and long life. (Aleksandr Bogomoletz: Ukrainian pathophysiologist, 1881-1946) Categories: MOTIVATION, DESIRE

Bohn, H. G.: Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. (H. G. Bohn: British publisher and founder of Bohns Libraries, 1796-1884) Categories: HEALTH

Bohr, Niels: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962) Categories: EXPERTS

Bohr, Niels: No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962) Categories: LOGIC

Bohr, Niels: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962) Categories: TRUTH

Bohr, Niels: The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962) Categories: TRUTH

Boileau, Nicolas: The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. (Nicolas Boileau: French poet and critic, 1636-1711) Categories: MODESTY, SELF-IDENTITY, WISDOM

Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas: Who is content with nothing possesses all things. (Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux: French poet and critic who did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, 1636-1711) Categories: CONTENTMENT

Bok, Derek: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930) Categories: EDUCATION, IGNORANCE

Bok, Derek: There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930) Categories: COURTS, LAW, JURISPRUDENCE

Bolivian Proverb: It is better to walk alone than in bad company. (Bolivian Proverb: ) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Bolton, Robert O.: A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. (Robert O. Bolton: English clergyman and academic, 1572-1631) Categories: BELIEFS

Bombeck, Erma: Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. (Erma Bombeck: U.S. book writer and journalist with a newspaper humor column, 1927-1996) Categories: WORRYING

Bonaventure: The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. (Bonaventure: Italian scholastic theologian and philosopher, c.1221-1274) Categories: REPUTATION

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945) Categories: ACTION, RESPONSIBILITY

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945) Categories: CHANGE, MISTAKES

Bono: The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Bono: Irish lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2, recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, and a prominent human rights activist, Born 1960) Categories: ACTIVISM, REFORM

Bookchin, Murray: If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. (Murray Bookchin: U.S. libertarian socialist author, historian, and political theorist, who was a pioneer in the ecology movement, 1921-2006) Categories: IMPOSSIBILITY

Booker, Salih: We must draw the critical connections between lives lost to intentional violent acts and lives lost to structural injustices—impoverishment and inequality—around the world. (Salih Booker: U.S. administrator of human rights organization, Born 1958) Categories: SOCIAL JUSTICE, VIOLENCE

Boom, Corrie Ten: Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983) Categories: FAITH

Boom, Corrie Ten: Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983) Categories: FUTURE, MEMORY

Boom, Corrie Ten: The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983) Categories: GENEROSITY, LIFE, PHILANTHROPY

Boom, Corrie Ten: Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983) Categories: WORRY

Boorstin, Daniel J.: The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin: U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004) Categories: EARTH, IGNORANCE, ILLUSIONS

Booth, Edwin: An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. (Edwin Booth: U.S. Shakespearean actor, 1883-1893) Categories: ACTORS

Borah, William: Of all times, in time of war the press should be free. (William Borah: U.S. senator whose 33 years in the Senate led him to be known as the 'Lion of Idaho,’ 1865-1940) Categories: MEDIA, WAR

Borg, Marcus J.: The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things. (Marcus J. Borg: U.S. New Testament scholar and theologian who was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity, 1942-2015) Categories: BIBLE, RELIGION

Borge, Victor: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge: Danish comedian and pianist, 1909-2000) Categories: LAUGHTER, HUMOR

Borge, Victor: The shortest distance between two people is a smile. (Victor Borge: Danish comedian and pianist, 1909-2000) Categories: SMILES

Borges, Jorge L.: All that happens to us—our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments—all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986) Categories: EXPERIENCE, LIFE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Borges, Jorge L.: What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986) Categories: DESIRE, DREAMS

Borland, Hal: Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland: U.S. author and journalist, 1900-1978) Categories: NATURE, PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE

Boseley, Sarah: If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley: U.S. writer, editor of 'The Guardian,' and recipient of several awards for her worldwide health-related projects) Categories: EDUCATION, WOMEN

Bosley, Keith: Music touches places beyond our touching. (Keith Bosley: British poet and translator, 1937-2018) Categories: MUSIC

Boswell, James: He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it. (James Boswell: Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, famous for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)) Categories: AUTHORS

Bott, Uwe: Free and fair elections are a necessary—but not sufficient—condition of democracy. (Uwe Bott: U.S. international political-economic consultant, Born 1956) Categories: DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS

Bottome, Phyllis: We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them (Phyllis Bottome: British novelist and short story writer., 1884-1963) Categories: ATTITUDE, PERCEPTION

Bottome, Phyllis: Where there is laughter, there is always more health than sickness. (Phyllis Bottome: British novelist and short story writer., 1884-1963) Categories: LAUGHTER

Bourgeois, Louise: An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. (Louise Bourgeois: French-American artist who is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, 1911-2010) Categories: ARTISTS

Bourget, Paul: Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935)) Categories: CREATIVITY, IDEAS, LITERATURE, PAINTING

Bourget, Paul: There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935)) Categories: AVOIDANCE, BLINDNESS, IMMORALITY, MISPERCEPTION

Bourget, Paul: Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935)) Categories: UNHAPPINESS, ATTITUDE

Bovee, Christian: Example has more followers than reason. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904) Categories: ROLE MODELS

Bovee, Christian: Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904) Categories: PRAISE

Bovee, Christian: Many children, many cares. No children, no felicity. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904) Categories: FAMILY

Bovee, Christian: The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904) Categories: PLANNING, SUCCESS, VIGOR

Bovee, Christian: When all else is lost, the future still remains. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904) Categories: FUTURE, HOPE

Bowen, Catherine D.: Chamber music—a conversation among friends. (Catherine D. Bowen: U.S. writer and recipient of the National Book Award, 1897-1973) Categories: MUSIC

Bowen, Ezra: If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. (Ezra Bowen: U.S. politician) Categories: MARRIAGE, MONEY

Bowles, Paul: The world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it. (Paul Bowles: U.S. expatriate composer and author in Morocco, 1910-1999) Categories: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, TRAVEL

Boyee, Christian: Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904) Categories: CURIOSITY, DOUBT, INVENTION

Boyee, Christian: No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904) Categories: DELUSIONS, MISINTERPRETATION

Brackell, Fogg: Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias—the ability to use them in men's heads. (Fogg Brackell: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP, THINKING

Bradbury, Ray: Insanity is relative. It depends on who is locked in what cage. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: INSANITY

Bradbury, Ray: It costs absolutely nothing in nature's way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, NATURE, EXTINCTION

Bradbury, Ray: Life is trying things to see if they work. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: EXPERIENCE, EXPLORATION, LEARNING, LIFE

Bradbury, Ray: Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: OBSTACLES, PLANNING, RISK

Bradbury, Ray: Without libraries, what do we have? We have no past and no future. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: LIBRARIES

Bradbury, Ray: You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012) Categories: REJECTION, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Braden, Vic: The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. (Vic Braden: U.S. tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport, 1929-2014) Categories: DREAMS, POSSIBILITIES, SELF-UNDERSTANDING, PROOBABILITIES

Bradlee, Benjamin: News is the first rough draft of history. (Benjamin Bradlee: U.S. newspaperman and long-term executive editor of 'The Washington Post,' 1921-2014) Categories: HISTORY, MEDIA

Bradley, Bill: Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Bill Bradley: U.S. politician and former professional basketball player, Born 1943) Categories: COMPETITION, REPUTATION

Bradley, Marion Z.: Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. (Marion Z. Bradley: U.S. author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, 1930-1999) Categories: CRITICISM

Brancusi, Constantin: Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi: Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957) Categories: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PUBLIC ARTWORK

Brand, Stewart: Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. (Stewart Brand: U.S. project developer and writer, best known as the co-founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, Born 1938) Categories: TECHNOLOGY

Brande, Dorothea: A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948) Categories: COMMUNICATION, PROBLEM-SOLVING

Brande, Dorothea: Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948) Categories: GOALS, VISION

Brande, Dorothea: The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948) Categories: IMPOSSIBILITY

Brandeis, Louis: America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: DIVERSITY, INCLUSION

Brandeis, Louis: If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: CHALLENGES, LIFE

Brandeis, Louis: No one can really pull you up very high when you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Brandeis, Louis: The most important political office is that of private citizen. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: DEMOCRACY, CITIZENRY

Brandeis, Louis: The separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: POWER (U.S.A.)

Brandeis, Louis: We can have democracy . . . or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941) Categories: WEALTH, DEMOCRACY

Brandt, Anthony J.: Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. (Anthony J. Brandt: U.S. author, 1961-2013) Categories: FAMILY

Branson, Richard: Employees are the ones making the magic happen — so long as their needs are being met. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950) Categories: WAGES, EMPLOYEES

Branson, Richard: You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950) Categories: EXPERIENCE, SELF-DETERMINATION

Braque, George: Art is made to disturb, science reassures. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963) Categories: SCIENCE, ART

Braque, George: Truth exists; only lies are invented. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963) Categories: LIES, TRUTH

Braude, Jacob M.: Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. (Jacob M. Braude: U.S. Circuit Court Judge in Illinois, 1896-1970) Categories: MARRIAGE

Brault, Robert: Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: LIFE, VALUES

Brault, Robert: I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Brault, Robert: In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Brault, Robert: Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: APOLOGIES

Brault, Robert: Someone who figures out that when taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: OPTIMIST

Brault, Robert: Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: FOCUS, HAPPINESS, REGRET

Brault, Robert: Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS

Breathnach, Sarah B.: Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. (Sarah B. Breathnach: U.S. best-selling author, Born 1947) Categories: FEAR, RISK

Breault, Robert: When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. (Robert Breault: U.S. freelance writer (Born 1938)) Categories: DETERMINATION, RESILIENCE

Brecht, Bertolt: Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht: German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet, 1898-1956) Categories: DEATH, DISCONTENT

Brenner, David: Misers aren't fun to live without they make wonderful ancestors. (David Brenner: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, 1936-2014) Categories: INHERITANCE, MISERS

Bret, Antoine: The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. (Antoine Bret: 18th-century French prolific writer and playwright who practiced almost all genres — light poetry, comedies, novels, and memoirs, 1717-1792) Categories: LOVE, WISDOM

Brett, Regina: No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. (Regina Brett: U.S. author, inspirational speaker, podcaster, and newspaper columnist. Born 1956) Categories: RESILIENCE

Brewster, Kingman: There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. (Kingman Brewster: U.S. educator, president of Yale University, and diplomat, 1919-1988) Categories: VIOLENCE

Brickner, Barnett R.: Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Barnett R. Brickner: U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958) Categories: MARRIAGE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Bright, John: Popular applause veers with the wind. (John Bright: British orator and radical liberal statesman, 1811-1889) Categories: POPULARITY, REPUTATION

Brin, David: It is said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. (David Brin: U.S. scientist and author of science fiction, Born 1950) Categories: CORRUPTION, POWER

Brinkley, David: A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him. (David Brinkley: U.S. newscaster in a career lasting 54 years, 1920-2003) Categories: LEADERSHIP, PERSEVERANCE

Brisben, J. Q.: The most dangerous political force In America today is a long memory; memory will not die in the Special Collections room of a good library. (J. Q. Brisben: U.S. teacher and political activist, 1934-2012) Categories: MEMORY, LIBRARIES

Briscoe, Steve: I can instruct the ignorant; however, stupid people simply refuse to learn. (Steve Briscoe: U.S. architect, Born, 1954)) Categories: IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY

Bronte, Anne: It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Anne Bronte: English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family, 1820-1849) Categories: POLITICS, SUPPORT

Bronte, Charlotte: Better to be without logic than without feeling. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855) Categories: DECISIONS

Bronte, Charlotte: Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855) Categories: DIVERSITY, EDUCATION, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Bronte, Emily: I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848) Categories: SELF-WORTH, SOLITUDE, WELL-BEING

Bronte, Emily: If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848) Categories: WORK, EMPLOYMENT

Brooke, Rupert: Canada is a live country - live, but not like the States, kicking. (Rupert Brooke: English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, 1887-1915) Categories: CANADA

Brooks, David: The world is too complicated to fit into one political system. Progress is made by finding balance between competing truths—between freedom and security, diversity and solidarity. (David Brooks: U.S. author as well as political and cultural commentator, Born 1961) Categories: BALANCE, POLITICS

Brothers, Joyce: Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013) Categories: ANGER, RELATIONSHIPS, REPRESSION

Brothers, Joyce: I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013) Categories: RISK

Brothers, Joyce: if we can take the worst, take the risk. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013) Categories: RISKS

Brothers, Joyce: The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, WEALTH

Brown, Austin C.: Anger is not inherently destructive. It can be a force for good. . . . It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom. (Austin C. Brown: U.S. speaker, writer and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America.) Categories: ANGER

Brown, Brene: Maybe stories are just data with a soul. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965) Categories: WRITING, STORY-WRITING

Brown, Brene: True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965) Categories: AUTHENTICITY, SELF-IDENTITY, BELONGINGNESS

Brown, Brene: Vulnerability is not weakness, but our most accurate measure of courage. It is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965) Categories: COURAGE, VULNERABILITY

Brown, Dan: 'Google' is not a synonym for research. (Dan Brown: U.S. novelist, Born 1964) Categories: GOOGLE, RESEARCH

Brown, Dan: Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. (Dan Brown: U.S. novelist, Born 1964) Categories: SCIENCE, RELIGION

Brown, H. R.: Violence is as American as cherry pie. (H. R. Brown: U.S. civil rights activist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Born 1943) Categories: U.S.A., VIOLENCE

Brown, H. Jackson: Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others (H. Jackson Brown: U.S. author who was best known for his inspirational book, 'Life's Little Instruction Book', which was a New York Times Best Seller, 1940-2021) Categories: CRITICISM

Brown, H. Jackson: Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. (H. Jackson Brown: U.S. author who was best known for his inspirational book, 'Life's Little Instruction Book', which was a New York Times Best Seller, 1940-2021) Categories: LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

Brown, H. Jackson: Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. (H. Jackson Brown: U.S. author who was best known for his inspirational book, 'Life's Little Instruction Book', which was a New York Times Best Seller, 1940-2021) Categories: LANGUAGE, MULTI-LINGUALITY

Brown, Leon: If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another. (Leon Brown: U.S. writer and social justice advocate. Born 1995) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Brown, Les: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. (Les Brown: U.S. politician and motivational speaker who from 1977-1981 served as a member of the U.S. Ohio House of Representatives, Born 1945) Categories: LIFE, FEARS

Brown, Rita M.: A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944) Categories: ACTION, INVOLVEMENT

Brown, Rita M.: Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE, TEMPTATION

Brown, Rita M.: The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944) Categories: CONFORMITY, SELF-IDENTITY

Brown, Thomas E.: A rich man's joke is always funny. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897) Categories: FLATTERY, JOKES

Brown, Thomas E.: The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897) Categories: SELF-ANALYSIS, VICE

Brown, Trisha: Dancing on the edge is the only place to be. (Trisha Brown: U.S. choreographer and dancer, 1936-2017) Categories: RISK

Browne, Merry: If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. (Merry Browne: U.S. professional tennis player and an amateur golfer, 1891-1971) Categories: FRIENDS

Browne, William: There is no season such delight can bring / As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring. (William Browne: English pastoral poet, educated at Exeter College in England, 1591-1645) Categories: SEASONS

Browning, Elizabeth B.: Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: FORGIVENESS, FORGETTING

Browning, Elizabeth B.: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: LOVE

Browning, Elizabeth B.: I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: LOVE

Browning, Elizabeth B.: Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: LOVE

Browning, Elizabeth B.: Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: AUTHORS, WRITING

Browning, Elizabeth B.: Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861) Categories: ACCOUNTABILITY, WORK

Browning, Robert: A minute’s success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: FAILURE, SUCCESS

Browning, Robert: Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, GOALS

Browning, Robert: Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: IGNORANCE, INNOCENCE, SIN

Browning, Robert: The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: AGING

Browning, Robert: Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: HEART, BRAIN

Browning, Robert: Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889) Categories: MUSIC, SOLITUDE

Bruner, Jerome: The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. (Jerome Bruner: U.S. psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory, 1915-2016) Categories: DISCOVERERS, THINKERS, RESEARCHERS, GUESSES

Brunner, John: If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. (John Brunner: British writer of science fiction novels, 1934-1995) Categories: DISDAIN, EVIL, CONDESCENSION

Bruyere, Jean d.: A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: WIT

Bruyere, Jean d.: As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be . . . well paid. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: MEDICINE, PHYSICIANS

Bruyere, Jean d.: Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: SOCIETY, STATUS, PROMINENCE

Bruyere, Jean d.: It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SILENCE

Bruyere, Jean d.: It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: CHARACTER

Bruyere, Jean d.: Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: COMEDY, TRAGEDY

Bruyere, Jean d.: Out of difficulties grow miracles. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696) Categories: HARDSHIPS, MIRACLES

Bryan, William J.: Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved. (William J. Bryan: U.S. politician, attorney, and prosecutor who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, 1876-1908) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, DESTINY

Bryan, William J.: There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. (William J. Bryan: U.S. politician, attorney, and prosecutor who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, 1876-1908) Categories: EVOLUTION

Bryant, William C.: Eloquence is the poetry of prose. (William C. Bryant: U.S. romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, 1794-1878) Categories: ELOQUENCE, POETRY, PROSE

Bryce, James: An eminent U.S. American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.' (James Bryce: British politician, diplomat, and historian best known for his highly successful ambassadorship to the United States and for his study of U.S. politics, 1838-1922) Categories: POLITICS, PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.)

Bryson, Bill: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson: U.S. author, Born 1951) Categories: LANGUAGE

Bryson, Bill: We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. (Bill Bryson: U.S. author, Born 1951) Categories: ELECTRICITY, ILLUMINATION

Bryson, Lyman L.: We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. (Lyman L. Bryson: U.S. educator, media advisor, and author, 1888-1959) Categories: CHANGE

Buchan, John: We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan: Scottish poet, novelist, historian, and politician, 1875-1940) Categories: FUTURE, INDEBTEDNESS, POLITICS

Buchanan, Edna: Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. (Edna Buchanan: U.S. novelist, Born 1939) Categories: FRIENDS

Buck, Pearl: A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FRIENDS, FOREIGNERS

Buck, Pearl: All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so as of now. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: IMPOSSIBILITY, POSSIBILITIES

Buck, Pearl: An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls— even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls—without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: WOMEN

Buck, Pearl: Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: PEACE, EXCLUSION, INCLUSION

Buck, Pearl: I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FAITH, KINDNESS, RELIGION

Buck, Pearl: It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, UNIVERSE

Buck, Pearl: Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: GENDER

Buck, Pearl: Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FREEDOM, GENDER, WOMEN

Buck, Pearl: None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FREEDOM, HOPE

Buck, Pearl: One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FUTURE, PAST, SELF-AWARENESS

Buck, Pearl: Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FAILURES, SUCCESS

Buck, Pearl: The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: DISABILITIES, POVERTY

Buck, Pearl: There will be no real content among American women unless they are . . . given equal opportunity with men. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: FEMINISM, GENDER

Buck, Pearl: When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973) Categories: HOPE, MORALITY

Buckham, Alfred G.: Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. (Alfred G. Buckham: British photographer who specialized in aerial photography, 1879-1956) Categories: CAUTIOUSNESS, MONOTONY

Buddha, Gautama: Anger punishes itself. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: ANGER

Buddha, Gautama: Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: OPINIIONS, TRUTH

Buddha, Gautama: Doubt everything. Find your own light. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: DOUBT, SELF-AWARENESS

Buddha, Gautama: He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: UNITY, IMPARTIALITY

Buddha, Gautama: In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, CHOICES, GOALS

Buddha, Gautama: Simplicity brings more happiness than complexity (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: SIMPLICITY

Buddha, Gautama: The mind is everything. What we think, we become. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Buddha, Gautama: The root of suffering is attachment. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: SUFFERING, ATTACHMENT

Buddha, Gautama: There is no knowledge without sacrifice. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, SACRIFICE

Buddha, Gautama: There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE

Buddha, Gautama: Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: PEACEFULNESS, RESENTMENT

Buddha, Gautama: Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: PASSION, ZEAL

Buddha, Gautama: We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, THINKING

Buddhist Proverb: If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way. (Buddhist Proverb: ) Categories: INSPIRATION, LEADERSHIP, MOTIVATION

Buddhist Proverb: In each loss there is a gain / As in every gain there is a loss / And with each ending comes a new beginning. (Buddhist Proverb: ) Categories: GAINS, LOSSES

Buddhist Proverb: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. (Buddhist Proverb: ) Categories: ATTITUDE

Buechner, Frederick: A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926) Categories: MIRACLES

Buechner, Frederick: Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926) Categories: DOUBT

Buechner, Frederick: Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926) Categories: SLEEP

Buechner, Frederick: To be wise is to be eternally curious. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926) Categories: CURIOSITY, WISDOM

Buffett, Warren: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930) Categories: FINANCES, POLITICS

Buffett, Warren: If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930) Categories: INVESTMENT, MONEY

Buffett, Warren: Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930) Categories: FINANCES, INVESTMENTS

Buffett, Warren: When leaving an inheritance to one's heirs, the perfect amount is enough money so they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930) Categories: HEIRS, INHERITANCE

Bujold, Lois M.: When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. (Lois M. Bujold: U.S. speculative fiction writer. who has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, Born 1949) Categories: CHOICES, CONSEQUENCES

Bukowski, Charles: An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994) Categories: ARTISTS, INTELLECTUALS

Bukowski, Charles: Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994) Categories: DILIGENCE, MOTIVATION, PERSEVERANCE, PERSISTENCE

Bukowski, Charles: When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness? (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994) Categories: FREEDOM, LONELINESS

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.: A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873) Categories: REFORM, REVOLUTIONS

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.: The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.: The pen is mightier than the sword. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873) Categories: WRITING

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.: Time is money. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873) Categories: MONEY, TIME

Burbank, Luther: Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul. (Luther Burbank: U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, 1849-1926) Categories: FLOWERS

Burbank, Luther: Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. (Luther Burbank: U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, 1849-1926) Categories: NATURE

Burchfield, Robert: The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable or compressible at the whim of the editor. (Robert Burchfield: New Zealand lexicographer, 1923-2004) Categories: LANGUAGE, EDITORS

Burchill, Julie: It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not; it's a visa and it runs out fast. (Julie Burchill: English writer and journalist, Born 1959) Categories: BEAUTY

Burdette, Robert J.: There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow.’ (Robert J. Burdette: U.S. humorist and clergyman, 1844-1914) Categories: YESTERDAY, WORRY, TOMORROW

Buret, Eugene: Misery is poverty felt morally. (Eugene Buret: French sociologist, journalist, and economist, 1810-1842) Categories: MISERY

Burgess, Anthony: Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show—full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Anthony Burgess: English author, 1917-1993) Categories: WORDS

Burke, Edmund: A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: LANGUAGE, WORDS

Burke, Edmund: All government-- indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act-- is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: COMPROMISE, BARTERING

Burke, Edmund: All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: ACTIVISM, EVIL, SILENCE

Burke, Edmund: Ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: AMBITION

Burke, Edmund: Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: LAW, POLITICS

Burke, Edmund: Custom reconciles us to everything. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: CUSTOMS, HUMANKIND

Burke, Edmund: Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: GOVERNMENT

Burke, Edmund: He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: ANTAGONISTS, OPPOSITION

Burke, Edmund: Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: REBELLION

Burke, Edmund: Liberty without wisdom and virtue is the greatest of all possible evils. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: LIBERTY

Burke, Edmund: Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: ECONOMICS

Burke, Edmund: No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: FEAR

Burke, Edmund: Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: ACTIVISM

Burke, Edmund: People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: HISTORY, PAST, POSTERITY

Burke, Edmund: Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: POLITICS, RELIGION

Burke, Edmund: Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: INJUSTICE, SLAVERY

Burke, Edmund: Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: SUPERSTITION

Burke, Edmund: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797) Categories: EVIL, INACTIVITY

Burmese Proverb: If a cock ruffles his feathers, he is easy to pluck. (Burmese Proverb: ) Categories: BOASTFULNESS, PRIDE

Burnett, Carol: Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933) Categories: SELF-DISCOVERY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Burnett, Carol: When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, DREAMS

Burnett, Frances H.: At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Frances H. Burnett: British-American novelist and playwright, 1849-1924) Categories: CHANGE, INVENTIONS, POLICIES

Burnett, Mark: There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. (Mark Burnett: British author and television producer, Born 1960) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Burns, George: Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family—in another city. (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996) Categories: FAMILY, HAPPINESS

Burns, George: I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996) Categories: AGING

Burns, George: You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996) Categories: AGING

Burns, Robert: I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life just as an officer resigns a commission. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796) Categories: SUICIDE, QUITTING

Burns, Robert: Nature's mighty law is change. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796) Categories: CHANGE, NATURE

Burns, Robert: Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796) Categories: AWARENESS

Burns, Robert: The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796) Categories: PLANNING, PREDICTABILITY

Burr, Aaron: The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. (Aaron Burr: U.S. politician. lawyer, and third U.S. vice-president serving during President Thomas Jefferson's first term., 1756-1836) Categories: OCCUPATION, PLEASURE

Burroughs, John: I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order. (John Burroughs: U.S. naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921) Categories: NATURE

Burroughs, John: The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. (John Burroughs: U.S. naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921) Categories: GOODNESS, INTENTIONS

Burton, Henry: Him that makes shoes goes barefoot himself. (Henry Burton: English puritan whose ears were cut off for writing pamphlets attacking the views of the British Archbishop, 1578-1648) Categories: OCCUPATION

Burton, Henry: One religion is as true as another. (Henry Burton: English puritan whose ears were cut off for writing pamphlets attacking the views of the British Archbishop, 1578-1648) Categories: RELIGION

Burton, Robert: Birds of a feather will gather together. (Robert Burton: English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic,"The Anatomy of Melancholy," 1577-1640) Categories: HOMOGENEITY, HUMANKIND, MUTUALITY

Burton, Robert: Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. (Robert Burton: English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic,"The Anatomy of Melancholy," 1577-1640) Categories: EMPLOYMENT

Buscaglia, Leo: A single rose can be in my garden . . . a single friend, my world. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Buscaglia, Leo: As soon as I place the blame for my failure upon someone else, I limit my opportunities for growth. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories: BLAME, FAILURE

Buscaglia, Leo: Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Buscaglia, Leo: It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories: EDUCATION, LEARNING, PLAY

Buscaglia, Leo: Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories:

Buscaglia, Leo: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998) Categories: KINDNESS

Bush, George W.: A Leadership is someone who brings people together. (George W. Bush: U.S. politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States, Born 1946) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Bushnell, Nolan: The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. (Nolan Bushnell: U.S. businessman and electrical engineer who established Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza, Born, 1943) Categories: ENTREPRENEURS

Bustanoby, Andre: Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure. (Andre Bustanoby: French-American Visual Effects Supervisor and Design Engineer, Born 1064) Categories: FAILURE, FEAR

Butler, Nicholas M.: Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. (Nicholas M. Butler: U.S. philosopher, diplomat, educator, and president of Columbia University, 1862-1947) Categories: ACHIEVEMENT, OPTIMISM

Butler, Octavia E.: All that you touch, you change / All that you change, changes you / The only lasting truth is change. (Octavia E. Butler: U.S. science fiction author who became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Born 1947) Categories: CHANGE

Butler, Samuel: All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: HUMANKIND, PROGRESS

Butler, Samuel: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: COMMUNICATION, CONSCIENCE

Butler, Samuel: Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Butler, Samuel: I can generally bear separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: CHANGE, RELATIONSHIPS, SEPARATION

Butler, Samuel: It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: DOGMATISM, STUBBORNNESS

Butler, Samuel: It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: VICE, VIRTUE

Butler, Samuel: No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: JURISPRUDENCE

Butler, Samuel: People are lucky and unlucky . . . according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Butler, Samuel: Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: TACT, SILENCE

Butler, Samuel: There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: CERTAINTY

Butler, Samuel: To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: CHANCE, GOD, TRUST

Butler, Samuel: Try again, fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: FAILURE, PERSEVERANCE

Butler, Samuel: Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row, we are steered by fate. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories:

Butler, Samuel: When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: INHERITANCE, LEGACY

Butler, Samuel: Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902) Categories: MONEY, WORDS

Butterworth, Eric: Don't go through life, grow through life. (Eric Butterworth: Canadian educator, 1916-2003) Categories: LIFE

Butterworth, Eric: God is in you as the ocean is in the wave. (Eric Butterworth: Canadian educator, 1916-2003) Categories: GOD

Buxton, Charles: Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. (Charles Buxton: English brewer, philanthropist, and member of Parliament, 1823-1871) Categories: ZEAL

Buxton, Charles: You will never find time for anything. You must make it. (Charles Buxton: English brewer, philanthropist, and member of Parliament, 1823-1871) Categories: TIME

Byatt, A..S.: Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers. (A..S. Byatt: English scholar, literary critic, and novelist, 1936-2023) Categories: STORY-TELLING

Byrne, Robert: The purpose of life is a life of purpose. (Robert Byrne: U.S. writer, engineer, and champion billiard player who became the pre-eminent teacher and commentator in the world of pool and billiards, 1930-2016) Categories: LIFE, PURPOSEFULNESS

Byrnes, James F.: Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death. (James F. Byrnes: U.S. judge and politician, having served in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, and as governor of the state of South Carolina, 1882-1972) Categories: OPPORTUNITY, SECURITY