Dahari, Mokhtar: If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. (Mokhtar Dahari: Malaysian professional football payer, 1953-1991) Categories: COMMITMENT, PATRIOTISM
Dalai Lama: Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: KINDNESS
Dalai Lama: For inner peace, the most important thing is to forgive, whether or not the other person accepts his fault or your forgiveness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: FORGIVENESS, SELF-AWARENESS
Dalai Lama: Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: HAPPINESS, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
Dalai Lama: Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: SACRIFICES, SUCCESS
Dalai Lama: Learn the rules well so you know how to break them properly (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: RULES
Dalai Lama: Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to restore his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: MATERIALISM
Dalai Lama: People were created to be loved / Things were created to be used / The reason why the world is in chaos / Is because things are being Loved / And people are being used. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: CONSUMERISM
Dalai Lama: Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS
Dalai Lama: There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: LIFE, TODAY, YESTERDAY
Dalai Lama: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935) Categories: BELIEFS, KINDNESS, RELIGION
Dalberg-Acton, John: History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all the surveys. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902) Categories: HISTORY, POWER
Dalberg-Acton, John: Power tends to connect; absolute power connects absolutely. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902) Categories: POWER
Dalberg-Acton, John: The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902) Categories: EQUALITY, EQUITY
Dalberg-Acton, John: Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902) Categories: HISTORY, TRUTH
Daly, Mary: Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics. (Mary Daly: U.S. radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian, who taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years, 1928-2010) Categories: WORKAHOLICS
Dangerfield, Rodney: Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. (Rodney Dangerfield: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician, and author, 1921-2004) Categories: BISEXUALITY, GENDER
Danish Proverb: A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. (Danish Proverb: ) Categories: MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS
Danish Proverb: If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. (Danish Proverb: ) Categories: CONFRONTATION, THREAT
Danish Proverb: Shared sorrow is half sorrow. (Danish Proverb: ) Categories: COMMISERATION
Dante, Alighieri: A great flame follows a little spark. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321) Categories: CREATIVITY, POSSIBILITIES
Dante, Alighieri: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321) Categories: NEUTRALITY, INDIFFERENCE
Dante, Alighieri: Without hope, we live in desire. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321) Categories: HOPE
Darabont, Frank: You can get busy living, or get busy dying. (Frank Darabont: Author and film director of 'The Shawshank Redemption') Categories: ACTIVISM, INVOLVEMENT
Darling, Charles J.: A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles J. Darling: English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936) Categories: COMMUNICATION, CURIOSITY, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS, TIMIDITY
Darrow, Clarence: I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938) Categories: GOD, RELIGION
Darrow, Clarence: Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938) Categories: DOUBT, LEARNING
Darrow, Clarence: When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938) Categories: POLITICS
Darrow, Clarence: You can only protect your liberties . . . by protecting the other man’s freedom. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938) Categories: EQUALITY, FREEDOM
Darwin, Charles: A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: BEHAVIOR, VALUES
Darwin, Charles: As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: SPIRITUALITY
Darwin, Charles: If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POVERTY, SIN
Darwin, Charles: It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: CHANGE, CREATIVITY, CURIOSITY, OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Darwin, Charles: No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning—endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: EVOLUTION, NATURE
Darwin, Charles: The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: AGNOSTICISM, RELIGION
Darwin, Charles: To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882) Categories: ERRORS, FACTS
Darwin, Erasmus: He who allows oppression, shares the crime. (Erasmus Darwin: English physician who was a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, and poet— and was also the grandfather of Charles Darwin, 1731-1802) Categories: OPPRESSION, RESPONSIBILITY
Dass, Ram: Death is a reminder to live fully. (Ram Dass: U.S. Eastern spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, 1931-2019) Categories: DEATH
Dass, Ram: The quieter you become, the more you can hear. (Ram Dass: U.S. Eastern spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, 1931-2019) Categories: MEDITATION, QUIETNESS
Daugherty, Duffy: All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. (Duffy Daugherty: U.S. football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1915-1987) Categories: PRAYER, SPORTS
d'Aurevilly, Jules B.: Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889) Categories: WOMEN, CAREGIVING
d'Aurevilly, Jules B.: The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889) Categories: CIVILIZATION, MODERNITY
Davenport, Charles: Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe. (Charles Davenport: U.S. prominent eugenicist and biologist, 1866-1944) Categories: HABITS, CUSTOMS
David-Neel, Alexandra: Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. (Alexandra David-Neel: Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. 1868-1969) Categories: SUFFERING
Davies, John: Beauty’s but skin deep. (John Davies: English poet, layer, and politician who at various times sat in the House of Commons, 1565-1618)) Categories: BEAUTY
Davies, Mary Carolyn: I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you (Mary Carolyn Davies: U.S. writer who was a poet, short story writer, and playwright,1888-1974) Categories: LOVE
Davies, Robertson: The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. (Robertson Davies: Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor, 1913-1995) Categories: FUTURE, PAST
da Vinci, Leonardo: As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: DEATH, LIFE
da Vinci, Leonardo: He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: COMMITMENT, DREAMS, GOALS
da Vinci, Leonardo: If a man is made of earth, water, air, and fire, so is this body of earth. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: EARTH, HUMANKIND
da Vinci, Leonardo: If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself; if you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: COMMUNICATION, POWER, SELF-DISCOVERY
da Vinci, Leonardo: Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: SENSUALITY, INTELLECTUALITY
da Vinci, Leonardo: Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: COURAGE, FEAR, PROTECTION
da Vinci, Leonardo: Learning never exhausts the mind. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: LEARNING
da Vinci, Leonardo: Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: GENIUS
da Vinci, Leonardo: Our life is made by the death of others. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: LEGACIES
da Vinci, Leonardo: Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: LEARNING, MASTERY
da Vinci, Leonardo: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519) Categories: SIMPLICITY, SOPHISTICATION
Davis, Angela: All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944) Categories: DREAMS, PERSEVERANCE
Davis, Angela: I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944) Categories: ACTIVISM, SELF-AWARENESS
Davis, Angela: In a racist society it is not enough to be 'non-racist.' We must be 'anti-racist.' (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944) Categories: RACISM
Davis, Barbara: Forgiveness is the greatest 'magick' of all. Forgiveness makes all things new. (Barbara Davis: U.S. novelist) Categories: FORGIVENESS
Davis, Barbara: There is a grief worse than death. It is the grief of a life half-lived. Not because you don't know what could have been but because you do. (Barbara Davis: U.S. novelist) Categories: GRIEF
Davis, Bette: Getting old ain't for sissies. (Bette Davis: U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989) Categories: AGING
Davis, Bette: Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Bette Davis: U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989) Categories: MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS
Davis, Geena: If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. (Geena Davis: U.S. actress and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Born 1956) Categories: RISK
Davis, Jefferson: Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. (Jefferson Davis: U.S. politician who served as the president of the Confederate States during the U.S. Civil War, 1808-1889) Categories: HUMILITY, HAUGHTINESS
Davis, Marlys: I didn’t marry you with the thought of spending lunch times together—just breakfast and dinners. (Marlys Davis: U.S. social ecologist and court reporter, Born 1960) Categories: MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS, RETIREMENT
Davis, Richard H.: The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Richard H. Davis: U.S. journalist and war correspondent, 1864-1916) Categories: WRITING
Davis, Wade: It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. (Wade Davis: Canadian anthropologist and ethno-botanist, Born 1953) Categories: LANGUAGE
Davy, Humphrey: The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. (Humphrey Davy: Cornish chemist and inventor, 1778-1829) Categories: DISCOVERY, FAILURE
Dawkins, Richard: When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. (Richard Dawkins: British evolutionary biologist and author, Born 1941) Categories: DISAGREEMENT, OPINIONS
Dawson, Rosario: You only live once. You don’t want your tombstone to read: 'Played it safe.' (Rosario Dawson: U.S. actress, producer, voice actress, and activist, Born 1979) Categories: LIFE, TOMBSTONE
Day, Doris: The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! (Doris Day: U.S. actress, singer, animal welfare activist, nominee for an Academy Award, and recipient of lifetime achievement awards as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1922-2019) Categories: AGING
Day, Harry: Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. (Harry Day: British Marine and Royal Air Force pilot in the Second World War, 1898-1977) Categories: LAWS, RULES
Deacon, William A.: There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause. (William A. Deacon: Canadian nationalist, 1890-1977) Categories: CANADA
Dean, Jimmy: I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean: country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman, 1928-2010) Categories: FLEXIBILITY, OPTIONS
De Angeles, Barbara: We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angeles: U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951) Categories: AUTHENTICITY, COURAGE
Dearing, Joann: We have the best congressmen that money can buy. (Joann Dearing: U.S. actress and producer) Categories: GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.), POLITICS (U.S.A.)
de Bernieres, Louis: The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernieres: English novelist who in 1993 was selected as one of the '20 Best Young British Novelists,' Born 1954) Categories: KINDNESS, SOCIETY
de Bono, Edward: The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933) Categories: ACTIVISM, INITIATIVE, PROGRESS
de Bono, Edward: Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, TALENT, UNHAPPINESS
Deen, Paula: Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. (Paula Deen: U.S. chef, TV personality, and cookbook author, Born 1947) Categories: LOVE, MARRIAGE
Defoe, Daniel: It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe: English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, known for his authorship of Robinson Crusoe, 1660-1731) Categories: LEADERSHIP
DeFrantz, Anita: Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. (Anita DeFrantz: U.S. Olympic rower and member of the International Olympic Committee, Born 1952) Categories: GOALS
De Gaulle, Charles: I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970) Categories: RESPECTFULNESS, TOLERANCE
De Gaulle, Charles: In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970) Categories: POLITICIANS
De Gaulle, Charles: Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970) Categories: PATRIOTISM, NATIONALISM
DeGeneres, Ellen: I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958) Categories: COMPASSION, DISCRIMINATION
DeGeneres, Ellen: Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958) Categories: AWARENESS, SELF-PERCEPTION
DeGenerous, Ellen: Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGenerous: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958) Categories: PERCEPTION, SELF-IMAGE
DeGrasse, Donald: I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019) Categories: BEREAVEMENT, LEGACIES
DeGrasse, Donald: In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019) Categories: MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, VOWS
DeGrasse, Donald: The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019) Categories: ADVENTURE, RISK, YOUTH
de Jouvenel, Bertrand: A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel: French philosopher, political economist, and futurist, 1903-1987) Categories: GOVERNMENT, LEADERSHIP
Dekker, Thomas: Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. (Thomas Dekker: U.S. film, television actor, and musician, Born 1993) Categories: HEALTH, SLEEP
Delacroix, Eugene: The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Eugene Delacroix: French artist who was known as the leader of the French Romantic school, 1798-1963) Categories: ART, PERFECTION
de Levis, Pierre M.: It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Pierre M. de Levis: French duke, politician, aphorist, and soldier, 1764-1830) Categories: COMMUNICATION, IDENTITY
Delile, Jacques: Fate chooses our relatives; we choose our friends. (Jacques Delile: French poet, 1738-1813) Categories: FATE, FRIENDS, RELATIVES
de Lille, Alain: Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. (Alain de Lille: French theologian, c. 1128-1202) Categories: APPEARANCE, JUDGMENT
Deloney, Thomas: God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. (Thomas Deloney: English novelist and balladist, 1543-1600) Categories: EVIL, HUMANKIND, LIFE
Deloria, Vine Jr.: This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. (Vine Deloria Jr.: U.S. author, theologian, and historian, whose work helped attract national attention to Native Americans issues, 1933-2005) Categories: GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.)
Delpit, Lisa: If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor) Categories: DIVERSITY, TEACHING
Delpit, Lisa: If we don’t feed the teachers, they’ll eat the children. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor) Categories: EDUCATION, TEACHERS
DeLuzy, Dorathee: It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Dorathee DeLuzy: French actress, 1747-1830) Categories: FORGIVENESS
Dement, William C.: Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. (William C. Dement: Professor of psychiatry, Born 1928) Categories: DREAMS, SLEEP
Dempsey, Jack: A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. (Jack Dempsey: U.S. professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion, 1895-1983) Categories: CHAMPIONS, RESILIENCE
Dempsey, Martin: Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey: United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952) Categories: LEADERSHIP, POLITICS, AMBIGUITY, UNPREDICTABILITY
Dennett, Dan: A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024) Categories: LIBRARIES, SCHOLARS
Dennett, Dan: The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024) Categories: COMMITMENT, HAPPINESS, DEDICATION
Dennett, Dan: What you can imagine depends on what you know. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024) Categories: IMAGINATION
Desai, Amrit: Happiness is not a destination; it is the attitude with which you choose to travel. (Amrit Desai: Indian-American Yoga instructor who brought the authentic teachings of Yoga to the West, Born 1932) Categories: HAPPINESS
Descartes, Rene: I think therefore I am. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY
Descartes, Rene: I think, therefore I am. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650) Categories: LOGIC, SELF-AWARENESS
Descartes, Rene: If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650) Categories: DOUBT, TRUTH
Descartes, Rene: It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples . . . and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650) Categories: DIVERSITY, MANNERS, TRAVEL, CULTURES
Descartes, Rene: Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650) Categories: CHALLENGES, ETHICS, OFFENSIVENESS
Deschamps, Eustache: Friends are relatives you make for yourself. (Eustache Deschamps: French poet, 1346-1406) Categories: FRIENDS
Desmond, Matthew: For many Americans, wages have stagnated, but immigrants are not to blame. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80) Categories: WAGES (U.S.A.), ECONOMY (U.S.A.)
Desmond, Matthew: More for me. Less for we. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80) Categories: POLITICS, SELFISHNESS
Desmond, Matthew: Poverty isn't a line, it's a tight knot of material scarcity, chronic pain, incarceration, depression, addiction, and on and on. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80) Categories: POVERTY
Desmond, Matthew: The American government gives the most help to those who need it the least—through tax breaks. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80) Categories: ECONOMY (U.S.A.), POLITICS (U.S.A.)
Devlin, Bernadette: To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin: Irish civil rights leader and former politician, Born 1947) Categories: RISK
DeVries, Peter: The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter DeVries: U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993) Categories: MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD
Dewar, James: Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. (James Dewar: British chemist and physicist who is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask,1842-1923) Categories: OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Dewey, John: Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: GOALS
Dewey, John: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: IMAGINATION, PROGRESS
Dewey, John: Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: FAILURE, LEARNING
Dewey, John: For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: DEMOCRACY, EDUCATION
Dewey, John: Learning by doing. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: LEARNING, KINESTHETICS
Dewey, John: No man's credit is as good as his money. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952) Categories: MONEY
Diamond, Michael L.: Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated. (Michael L. Diamond: U.S. songwriter and rapper, Born 1965) Categories: ADULTHOOD, MATURITY
DiCaprio, Leonardo: Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other—they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. (Leonardo DiCaprio: U.S. actor and film director, Born 1974) Categories: BROTHERS, SIBLINGS
Dick, Philip K.: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick: U.S. science-fiction writer whose authorship included 44 published novels, 1928-1982) Categories: BELIEFS, REALITY
Dickens, Charles: A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: GENDER, LOVE
Dickens, Charles: A word in earnest is as good as a speech. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: COMMUNICATION
Dickens, Charles: Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: APPEARANCE, DISHONESTY
Dickens, Charles: He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of. two. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: PERCEPTION, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY
Dickens, Charles: Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: CRYING, TEARS
Dickens, Charles: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: DESPAIR, HOPE
Dickens, Charles: Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: LIFE, PARTINGS, SEPARATION
Dickens, Charles: No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT
Dickens, Charles: Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870) Categories: SOLITUDE
Dickinson, Angie: I dress for women—and I undress for men. (Angie Dickinson: U.S. television and screen actress, Born 1931) Categories: WOMEN
Dickinson, Emily: A wounded deer leaps the highest. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: COURAGE, RESILIENCE, TRAUMA
Dickinson, Emily: Faith is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: FAITH, SKEPTICISM
Dickinson, Emily: Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: GRATITUDE, JOY, LIFE
Dickinson, Emily: Forever is composed of nows. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: FOREVER, NOW
Dickinson, Emily: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: HOPE
Dickinson, Emily: Luck is not chance—It’s Toil. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: CHANCE, LUCK, PERSEVERANCE
Dickinson, Emily: One need not be a chamber to be haunted . . . . The brain has corridors surpassing material place. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: DEMONS, SELF-UNDERSTANDING
Dickinson, Emily: There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away / Nor any spirited horses like a page / Of prancing poetry. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: BOOKS
Dickinson, Emily: We turn not older with years, but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886) Categories: AGING
Dickson, Lillian: Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you only spend it once. (Lillian Dickson: U.S. independent missionary, author, and public speaker who was known as an influential figure in the development of the U.S. middle class during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 1901-1983) Categories: CHOICES, DECISIONS, LIFE
Diderot, Denis: Distance is a great promoter of admiration! (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784) Categories: DISTANCE, RELATIONSHIPS
Diderot, Denis: Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784) Categories: INSTINCT
Diderot, Denis: Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784) Categories: PASSION
Didion, Joan: To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. (Joan Didion: U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934) Categories: SELF-WORTH
Didion, Joan: We tell ourselves stories in order to live. (Joan Didion: U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934) Categories: EXCUSES, INTERPRETATION, FABRICATION, RATIONALE
Diefenbaker, John G.: That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. (John G. Diefenbaker: Canadian politician and Canada's 13th prime minister, 1895-1979) Categories: POLITICS, INTERROGATION
Dietrich, Marlene: Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Marlene Dietrich: German-born U.S. actress, singer, and entertainer, 1901-1992) Categories: FORGIVENESS
Dijkstra, Edsger: Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. (Edsger Dijkstra: Dutch computer scientist, 1930-2002) Categories: TECHNOLOGY
Dijkstra, Edsger: Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. (Edsger Dijkstra: Dutch computer scientist, 1930-2002) Categories: SIMPLICITY, RELIABILITY
Dillard, Annie: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard: U.S. author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction—one book of which won a Pulitzer Prize, Born 1945) Categories: CHOICES, LIFE
Diller, Phyllis: A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: SMILES
Diller, Phyllis: I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: AGING
Diller, Phyllis: In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: ADOLESCENCE, PARENTING, READINESS
Diller, Phyllis: Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: ANGER, MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS
Diller, Phyllis: The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: AGING, CONTRACEPTIVES, NUDITY
Diller, Phyllis: We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012) Categories: PARENTING
Dimnet, Ernest: The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ernest Dimnet: French priest, writer, and lecturer, 1866-1954) Categories: HISTORY
Dimnet, Ernest: Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. (Ernest Dimnet: French priest, writer, and lecturer, 1866-1954) Categories: INVENTIONS, ERA
Dinesen, Isak (Pen name-Karen Blixen): If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen (Pen name-Karen Blixen): Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English, 1885-1962) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, EQUALITY, NATURE
Dirac, Paul: In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984) Categories: COMMUNICATION, POETRY, SCIENCE
Dirac, Paul: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984) Categories: CONNECTEDNESS, NATURE
Disney, Walt: All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney: U.S. entrepreneur, animator, voice actor, and film producer who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations, 1901-1966) Categories: COURAGE, DREAMS
Disney, Walt: Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. (Walt Disney: U.S. entrepreneur, animator, voice actor, and film producer who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations, 1901-1966) Categories: FREEDOM
Disraeli, Benjamin: Every woman should marry—and no man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: GENDER, MARRIAGE, WOMEN
Disraeli, Benjamin: Everything comes if a man will only wait. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: PATIENCE
Disraeli, Benjamin: Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: HUMANKIND, INCOME, LEISURE
Disraeli, Benjamin: It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS
Disraeli, Benjamin: London is a roost for every bird. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: DIVERSITY, LONDON
Disraeli, Benjamin: Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES
Disraeli, Benjamin: My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: AGREEABLENESS
Disraeli, Benjamin: Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: DETERMINATION
Disraeli, Benjamin: Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: FEAR, WORRIES
Disraeli, Benjamin: The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: CURIOSITY, QUESTIONS
Disraeli, Benjamin: The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, SENSITIVITY
Disraeli, Benjamin: The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: LOVE, ROMANCE
Disraeli, Benjamin: The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: GOVERNANCE
Disraeli, Benjamin: The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: COMMITMENT, PERSEVERANCE, SUCCESS
Disraeli, Benjamin: There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: ADVERSITY, LEARNING
Disraeli, Benjamin: We make our fortunes and we call them fate. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881) Categories: FATE, FORTUNE
Diviney, Richard: It’s OK to quit. Just never give up! (Richard Diviney: U.S. retired Navy SEAL Commander) Categories: BEHAVIOR
Dobson, Henry: Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. (Henry Dobson: English poet and essayist, 1840-1921) Categories: TIME
Dobzhansky, Theodosius: Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (Theodosius Dobzhansky: Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, 1900-1975) Categories: BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION
Doctorow, E.L.: Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. (E.L. Doctorow: U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015) Categories: WRITING
Doctorow, E.L.: Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (E.L. Doctorow: U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015) Categories: WRITING, UNAWARENESS
Dodd, Susan M.: Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. (Susan M. Dodd: U.S. fiction writer, Born 1946) Categories: ALERTNESS, LUCK
Donaldson, Frederick L.: The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principle. (Frederick L. Donaldson: British Christian socialist who served as Canon of Westminster Abbey, 1860-1953) Categories: SIN, SOCIETY
Donne, John: Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE
Donne, John: I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631) Categories: MEDICINE, PHYSICIANS
Donne, John: Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631) Categories: BEAUTY, LOVE
Donne, John: More than kisses, letters mingle souls. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631) Categories: LETTER WRITING
Donohue, Ida O.: In the rubble of your trouble lies the seed of what you need. (Ida O. Donohue: U.S. poet, born 1928) Categories: SOLUTIONS, TROUBLES
Donovan: The softer you sing, the louder you're heard. (Donovan: Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer, Born 1946) Categories: PERCEPTION, SENSES, SENSITIVITY
Dorr, Julia: Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. (Julia Dorr: U.S. author and poet, 1825-1913) Categories: HOPE
Dossi, Carlo: The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi: Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910) Categories: EQUITY, FREEDOM
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881) Categories: LYING, BEHAVIOR
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881) Categories: LYING, SELF-DECEPTION, AUTHENTICITY
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881) Categories: EVIL, GENESIS
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881) Categories: CRIME, JUSTICE, PRISONS
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: There is nothing . . . more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881) Categories: CHILDHOOD, HOME, MEMORIES
Douglas, Norman: Why always, not yet? Do flowers in spring say, not yet? (Norman Douglas: British writer, 1868-1952) Categories: PROCRASTINATION
Douglass, Frederick: If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, PROGRESS, STRUGGLES
Douglass, Frederick: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: POWER, PROTEST
Douglass, Frederick: Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot! (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: SLAVERY, VOTING
Douglass, Frederick: The destiny of the colored American . . . is the destiny of America. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: RACISM
Douglass, Frederick: The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: OPPRESSION, TOLERATION
Douglass, Frederick: The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you (the privileged) has brought stripes and death to me . . . and the mournful wail of millions. You may rejoice; I must mourn. The conscience of the nation must be roused and quickened. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: PRIVILEGE, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY
Douglass, Frederick: To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: EDUCATION
Douglass, Frederick: What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895) Categories: SLAVERY (U.S.A.)
Dowd, Maureen: The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd: U.S. columnist and Pultizer Prize recipient, Born 1952) Categories: NEGOTIATION
Dowden, Edward: Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. (Edward Dowden: Irish critic, professor, and poet, 1843-19113) Categories: CONTRIBUTIONS, FAILURE
Drabble, Margaret: When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble: English biographer, novelist, and short story writer, Born 1939) Categories: POSSIBILITIES, UNCERTAINTY
Dray, Stephanie: Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved? (Stephanie Dray: Stephanie Dray, U.S. bestselling author of historical women’s fiction and fantasy, Born 1971)) Categories: WOMEN
Drew, Elizabeth: Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. (Elizabeth Drew: U.S. political journalist and author, 1887-1965) Categories: LANGUAGE
Drucker, Peter: Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
Drucker, Peter: One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, HIRING, MANAGEMENT
Drucker, Peter: Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: MANAGEMENT, PROFITABILITY
Drucker, Peter: The best way to predict the future is to create it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: FUTURE, INNOVATION
Drucker, Peter: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LISTENING, PERCEPTION
Drucker, Peter: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: EFFICIENCY, INEFFICIENCY
Drucker, Peter: We now accept that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005) Categories: LEARNING, UNLEARNING
Dryden, John: Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: ERRORS, THOROUGHNESS
Dryden, John: Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: ADVERSITY, FRIENDSHIP
Dryden, John: Genius must be born, and never can be taught. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: GENIUS
Dryden, John: Ill habits gather by unseen degrees / as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: HABITS
Dryden, John: None but the brave deserves the fair. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: BRAVERY, COURAGE
Dryden, John: She fear’d no danger, for she knew no sin. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: INNOCENCE
Dryden, John: War is the trade of kings. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700) Categories: WAR
DuBay, William: People want dignity, bread, and fairness — and see their ruling elites as parasites gorging themselves on the labor of others. (William DuBay: U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934) Categories: EQUALITY, GOVERNMENT, OPPRESSION
DuBay, William: The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers. (William DuBay: U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934) Categories: PRISONS
Du Bois, W.E.B.: The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963)) Categories: VOTING
Du Bois, W.E.B.: We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books. (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963)) Categories: EQUITY, POVERTY, PROSPERITY, SOCIETY
Duchamp, Marcel: I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. (Marcel Duchamp: French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer, 1887-1968) Categories: OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Dudek, Louis: A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature (Louis Dudek: Canadian poet, teacher, publisher, essayist, translator, and editor, l1918-2001) Categories: CRITICS
Dumas, Alexandre: All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope! (Alexandre Dumas: French novelist and playwright who is one of the most widely read French authors, 1802-18870) Categories: HOPE, PATIENCE, WISDOM
Dumas, Alexandre: There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. (Alexandre Dumas: French novelist and playwright who is one of the most widely read French authors, 1802-18870) Categories: HAPPINESS, MISERY
du Maurier, Daphne: Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. (Daphne du Maurier: English novelist and playwright, 1907-1989) Categories: HAPPINESS
du Maurier, Daphne: How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. (Daphne du Maurier: English novelist and playwright, 1907-1989) Categories: MIRRORS
Duncan, Isadora: What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan: U.S. and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe, 1877-1927) Categories: EXPERIENCE, READING
Duncan, Lisa: If someone values you only when you're about to walk out the door, you should definitely keep walking. (Lisa Duncan: U.S. author) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-WORTH
Duncan, Sara J.: One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. (Sara J. Duncan: Canadian author and journalist, 1861-1922) Categories: LAUGHTER, SELF-AWARENESS
Dundes, Alan: Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. (Alan Dundes: U.S. folklorist who spent much of his career as a professional academic and has been hailed as 'the most renowned Folklorist of his time,' 1934-2005) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS
Dundes, Alan: Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (Alan Dundes: U.S. folklorist who spent much of his career as a professional academic and has been hailed as 'the most renowned Folklorist of his time,' 1934-2005) Categories: COMMUNICATION
Dunn, Irina: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Irina Dunn: Australian writer, social activist, and filmmaker, who served in the Australian Senate representing the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Born 1948) Categories: FEMINISM, WOMEN
Dunn, Nell: It is a never ending battle — the struggle to be fully alive. (Nell Dunn: English playwright, screenwriter and author, Born 1936) Categories: INITIATIVE
Dunne, Finley P.: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Finley P. Dunne: U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936) Categories: BEHAVIOR
Dunne, Finley P.: No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. (Finley P. Dunne: U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936) Categories: POLITICS (U.S.A.)
Dunov, Peter: If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. (Peter Dunov: Bulgarian philosopher and spiritual teacher, 1864-1944) Categories: IDEAS, OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Durant, Will: Civilization exists with geologic consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, GEOLOGY
Durant, Will: Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981) Categories: EDUCATION, IGNORANCE
Durant, Will: Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981) Categories: SILENCE
Durant, Will: The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981) Categories: BEHAVIOR, DECISIONS
Durant, Will: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981) Categories: HABITS, EXCELLENCE
Dutch Proverb: A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch Proverb: ) Categories: PATIENCE
Dutch Proverb: He who has a choice has trouble. (Dutch Proverb: ) Categories: CHALLENGES, CHOICES
Dutch Proverb: He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb: ) Categories: INITIATIVE
Dutch Proverb: He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE
Dutch Proverb: Illness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. (Dutch Proverb: ) Categories: ILLNESS, SICKNESS
Dyer, Wayne W.: Bend, don't break with the wind. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015) Categories: COMPROMISE, FLEXIBILITY
Dyer, Wayne W.: By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015) Categories: CHILDREN, PARENTS, TEACHERS
Dyer, Wayne W.: Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015) Categories: ATTITUDE, CHANGE, PERCEPTION
Dyer, Wayne W.: Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS
Dyer, Wayne W.: When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015) Categories: JUDGMENT, PERCEPTION
Dylan, Bob: Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941) Categories: PARENTHOOD
Dylan, Bob: He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941) Categories: IDLENESS, VITALITY
Dylan, Bob: I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941) Categories: HEROES, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
Dyson, Brian: Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935) Categories: TIME, WORDS
Dyson, Brian: Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and . . . Today is a gift: that's why we call it The Present. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935) Categories: PRESENT, TIME
Dyson, Freeman: The universe is infinite in every direction. (Freeman Dyson: English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, 1923-2020) Categories: UNIVERSE