Zig Ziglar quotes

"People don't buy for logical reasons.  They buy for emotional reasons."

"You will get all you want in life if yo help enough other people get what they want."

--Zig Ziglar
Source:  Success Magazine, February 2013, pg 12.

Target quote

"We all yearn for something, and that something . . . is the other sock."
--Target commercial

M. C. Escher quotation

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."
--M. C. Escher

original source unknown

From The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

I just read The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen in one sitting.  It is a sweet, captivating, romantic book.  Out if it, I pulled a few quotes I really liked.

"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front.  You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take.  But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when ou're really lucky, you meet someone with a map"

"Happiness means taking risks.  And if you're not a little scared, you're not doing it right."

Random quotation

"There are teenagers who have unprotected sex but have a case for their iPhone. Let that sink in." - rocketpowers.tumblr.com

John F. Kennedy quote

"There are three things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."
--John F. Kennedy

My source for the quote

Quotes about ignorance

"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people."
--Victor Cousin

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

--Harlan Ellison

 

“We kill all the caterpillars and complain that there are no butterflies.”

--John Marsden

 

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
--Hippocrates

 

“Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
--Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

 

“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.”

--Jonathan Hennessey

 

The Source of the Quotes

Charles Darwin & Ernest Hemingway quotes

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
--Charles Darwin

In other words, people who don't know anything believe they know more than somebody who actually knows more.  I can honestly see this in my behavior, and I pledge to try to actually know more than just believe it.

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
--Ernest Hemingway

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Longfellow quote

"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Abraham Lincoln quote

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."

--Abraham Lincoln

Vaughn Monroe quote

"When opportunity knocks at the door, some people are out in the back yard looking around for four-leaf clovers."
--Vaughn Monroe

George Washington quote

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
--George Washington

Will Rogers quote

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers

John Wayne quotation

"Life is hard; it's even harder if you're stupid."
--John Wayne

Dumbledore quote

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
--Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

David Brinkley quote

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
--David Brinkley

Mahatma Gandhi quote

"Oh, I don't reject Christ.  I love Christ.  It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.  If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."
--Mahatma Gandhi
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Albert Einstein quote

"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it.  Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.  It can be no other way.  This is not philosophy.  This is physics."
--Albert Einstein

While I like to think of this an as Einstein quote, I have now discovered that this quote is actually attributable to a channeler named Darryl Anka.  Thanks to Quote Investigator for providing the details.

Robin R. Meyers quote

“Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything.” 
― Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Willy Wonka quote

"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."
--Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory