quotes about being yourself and having fun

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. ~Paula Poundstone



The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabian Proverb



The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun



Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce



If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine



Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957



In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb



Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi



Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace



Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. ~Jack Handey



I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. ~Marsha Doble



The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein



If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney



If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope



If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader



They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb



There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? ~Martin H. Fischer