Favourite quotes

As a keen conservationist, I thought I should recycle some of my favourite quotes. You can find more at A Treasure Chest of Great Quotes.

Franklin P. Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Greg Aldrik
Ask yourself, "If all jobs paid $2 an hour, what job would I want to do?"
When you answer that question, start doing it, even if you have to do it for free at first.

Thomas à Kempis[as often quoted by Scot McKay]
Man proposes, but God disposes.

G. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case.
It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."

Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who knew his way out of the grave.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

I may not practise what I preach, but God forbid that I preach what I practise.

Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Goethe
There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that never otherwise would have occurred . . .
Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can do,
Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.

If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.