Berton Braley Quotes

#1. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.

John C. Maxwell

#2. Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

Berton Braley

#3. The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

Berton Braley

#4. Everything's going to be fine. Sooner or later you're going to find someone who knocks you right off your feet. Someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who kisses you and makes your knees weak. Relationships are complicated enough as it is. It's not worth settling for anything less.

Lindsey Kelk

#5. Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

Berton Braley

#6. That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.

Kathleen Glasgow

#7. Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!

Berton Braley

#9. Music is a defining element of character.

Plato

#10. You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

#11. Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.

Berton Braley

#12. The future belongs to him that does and dares.

Berton Braley

#13. Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

Berton Braley

#14. Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

J.R.D. Tata

#15. In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Paul Theroux

#16. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

Jack LaLanne

#17. I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

Concha Buika

#18. You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

Rita Mae Brown

#19. A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

Berton Braley

#20. There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

Mark Twain

#21. I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.

Charles Wright

#22. And a trashy romance novel. I don't care which one, but the less the guy on the cover is wearing, the better. Tattoos are a plus. Leather is another plus. And if there's an indication that he's a shifter, buy the whole series.

Kristen Ashley

#23. Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Orlando Bloom