Renee Ward > Renee's Quotes

“Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”
― Stuart Aken

“Either they're still naive, or stupid.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

“A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”
― Toyi Ward, Par for the Curse

“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
― Martha Washington

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
― Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:
But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
― Havelock Ellis