Top 15 Goals Quotations

Top 15 Goals Quotations

By Danielle Hollister

Examine your own personal goals and find methods to achieve your desires with these valuable quotations about setting goals...

1. "The most important thing about having goals is having one."
   -- Geoffrey F. Abert


2. "It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit."
   -- Anonymous


3. "No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
   -- Bette Davis


4. "A goal is a dream that has an ending. "
   -- Duke Ellington


5. "The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach."
   -- Edgar A. Guest


6. "Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal."
   -- Elbert Hubbard


7. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
   -- Thomas Jefferson


8. "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."
   -- Helen Keller


9. "A goal properly set is halfway reached."
   -- Abraham Lincoln


10. "It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach."
    -- Benjamin E. Mays


11. "Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."
    -- Mary Lou Retton


12. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
    -- Ralph Vaull Starr


13. "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
    -- Henry David Thoreau


14. "Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve."
    -- Denis Waitley


15. "What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
    -- Zig Ziglar

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Top 25 Leadership Quotations

Top 25 Leadership Quotations

By Danielle Hollister

Ponder what it takes to be a true leader with these practical quotes that will lead you to a more precise understanding of the secrets to successful leadership...

1. "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
   --Anonymous


2. "No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him."
   --W. H. Auden


3. "Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."
   --Warren Bennis


4. "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
   -- Andrew Carnegie


5. "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
   --Rosalynn Carter


6. "Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others."
   --David Cooper


7. "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality."
   -- Max DePree


8. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
   --Dwight D. Eisenhower


9. "A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."
   --Russell H. Ewing


10. "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. "
    -- Harold Geneen


11. "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
    --Arnold Glasow


12. "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. "
    -- John Kenneth Galbraith


13. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
    --Theodore Hesburgh


14. "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
    --Walter Lippmann


15. "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."
    --Tom Landry


16. "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
    --John Maxwell


17. "The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way."
    -- Henry Miller


18. "The leader must know, most know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows."
    --Clarence B. Randall


19. "The person who know "how" will always have job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss."
    --Diane Ravitch


20. "A true leader is hated by most, and respected by all. A follower is liked by all, and respected by none."
    --Scott Smigler


21. "Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."
    --Brian Tracey


22. "You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it."
    --Harry S. Truman


23. "Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others."
    --Unknown


24. "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
    --Thomas J. Watson


25. "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
    --Sam Walton

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Top 50 Mom Quotations

Top 50 Mom Quotations

By Danielle Hollister

1. "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
   -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)


2. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
   -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)


3. "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
   -- Agatha Christie


4. "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
   -- Albert Einstein


5. "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
   -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


6. "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
   -- Aristotle


7. "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
   -- Arnold Bennett


8. "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
   whose place no one else can take."
   -- Cardinal Mermillod


9. "A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
   -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher


10. "I really learned it all from mothers."
    -- Dr. Benjamin Spock


11. "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers."
    -- Edgar Watson Howe


12. "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
    -- George Washington (1732-1799)


13. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
    -- Henry Ward Beecher


14. "What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
    -- Henry Ward Beecher


15. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
    -- Honore' de Balzac


16. "Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
    -- Hosea Ballou


17. "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
    -- James Joyce


18. "The best academy, a mother's knee."
    -- James Russell Lowell


19. "The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
    -- Jane Sellman


20. "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
    -- Jewish proverb


21. "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
    -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy


22. "A boy's best friend is his mother."
    -- Joseph Stefano


23. "Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
    -- Kate Douglas Wiggin


24. "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
    -- Lin Yutang


25. "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
    -- Mark Twain


26. "Motherhood is like Albania-- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there."
    -- Marni Jackson


27. "We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
    -- Mary Antin


28. "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."
    -- Maya Angelou


29. "Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions."
    -- Nancy Stahl


30. "Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)


31. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
    -- Oscar Wilde


32. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
    -- Pablo Picasso


33. "A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you."
    -- Phyllis McGinley


34. "Men are what their mothers made them."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


35. "There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


36. "A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
    -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


37. "People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society."
    -- Stephen R. Covey


38. "Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
    -- Sydney Biddle Barrows


39. "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."
    -- Sydney J. Harris


40. "An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."
    -- Spanish proverb


41. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
    -- Theodore Hesburgh


42. "A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
    -- Thomas C. Haliburton


43. "Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."
    -- Toni Morrison


44. "Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives."
    -- Unknown


45. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
    -- Victor Hugo


46. "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
    --Washington Irving


47. "The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother."
    -- W. C. Fields


48. "A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
    -- W. D. Howells


49. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
    --William Makepeace Thackeray


50. "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
    -- William Ross Wallace

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Top 25 Grandparent Quotations

Top 25 Grandparent Quotations

By Danielle Hollister

Grandparent Quotations

1. "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy--the mother. "
   -- Claudette Colbert


2. "What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate."
   -- Bill Cosby


3. "Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
   -- Edward H. Dreschnack


4. "Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends."
   -- Allan Frome


5. "Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children."
   -- Ruth Goode


6. "Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
   -- Alex Haley


7. "Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."
   -- Doug Larson


8. "The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent."
   -- Sam Levenson


9. "When a child is born, so are grandmothers."
   -- Judith Levy


10. "The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and living grandmother or grandfather. "
    -- Margaret Mead


11. "Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent."
    -- Donald A. Norberg


12. "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
    -- Proverb


13. "If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. "
    -- Italian Proverb


14. "Perfect love sometimes does not come till the first grandchild."
    -- Welsh Proverb


15. "No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet."
    -- Unknown


16. "A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside."
    -- Unknown


17. "It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother."
    -- Unknown


18. "A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television."
    -- Unknown


19. "Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while... but our hearts forever."
    -- Unknown


20. "Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone."
    -- Unknown


21. "Grandmas outlast tyrants. That's why the world survives."
    -- Unknown


22. "A Grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher and a little bit best friend."
    -- Unknown


23. "Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and Love."
    -- Unknown


24. "Never have children, only grandchildren."
    -- Gore Vidal


25. "Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."
    -- Mary H. Waldrip

 

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Top 45 Heroes - Heroism Quotations

Heroes - Heroism Quotations - Top 45

By Danielle Hollister

1. "You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us."
   -- C. D. Andrews


2. "Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes."
   -- Jean Anouilh


3. "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
   -- Arthur Ashe


4. "I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance."
   -- James A. Autry


5. "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
   -- John Barth


6. "What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
   -- Jean Baudrillard


7. "The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way. "
   -- Laurence G. Boldt


8. "My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
   -- Bono


9. "Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."
   -- Bertolt Brecht


10. "Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away."
    -- Tom Brokaw


11. "The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. "
    -- Joseph Campbell


12. "The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win."
    -- J. M. Charlier


13. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
    -- Winston Churchill


14. "Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."
    -- Kevin Costner


15. "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
    -- Bette Davis


16. "A hero is simply someone who rises above his own human weaknesses, for an hour, a day, a year, to do something stirring."
    -- Betty Deramus


17. "The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
    -- Benjamin Disraeli


18. "Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
    -- Benjamin Disraeli


19. "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. "
    -- Bob Dylan


20. "The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


21. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


22. "Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. "
    -- Victor Hugo


23. "What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."
    -- Aldous Huxley


24. "There is no such man as a one-person hero. "
    -- Daniel Inouye


25. "A hero is someone we can admire without apology."
    -- Kitty Kelley


26. "Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more."
    -- George Kennan


27. "It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. "
    -- Louis Kossuth


28. "What is a hero without love for mankind."
    -- Doris Lessing


29. "Without heroes, we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
    -- Bernard Malamud (The Natural)


30. "You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat. "
    -- Mickey Mantle


31. "In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
    -- H. L. Mencken


32. "Calculation never made a hero."
    -- John Henry Newman


33. "I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."
    -- Florence Nightingale


34. "No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one."
    -- Jean Paul


35. "Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves."
    -- Carol Pearson (The Hero Within)


36. "When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences... Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
    -- Christopher Reeve


37. "The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. "
    -- Rainer Maria Rilke


38. "To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism."
    -- Sylvester Stallone


39. "The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat."
    -- Robert Louis Stevenson


40. "The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler."
    -- Mark Sullivan


41. "Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend."
    -- The Talmud


42. "If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes."
    -- Mark Twain


43. "Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. "
    -- Voltaire


44. "The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."
    -- Angus Wilson


45. "It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?"
    -- Jeanette Winterson

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10 St. Patrick's Day Quotes

10 St. Patrick's Day Quotes to Celebrate the Famous Irish Saint

Author: Noel Jameson

When St. Patrick's Day comes around people usually think about corned beef, clovers and beer, but these St. Patrick's Day quotes go to show you that the holiday is about much more than that. If you want to get in on the St. Patrick's Day celebration, here are some fun and festive quotes to get you started...

1. 'St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.' ~ Adrienne Cook

2. 'Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the 17th of March flavored strongly with the morning of the 18th.' ~ Author Unknown

3. 'St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.' ~ Charles M. Madigan

4. 'St. Patrick's Day is a religious holiday in Ireland. The first thing you do is go to church.' ~ Dermott Reid

5. 'Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. We want people to enjoy themselves and learn something about the great culture and traditions of Ireland.' ~ John Keane

6. 'Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage, everything else is secondary.' ~ John Dunleavy

7. 'Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.' ~ Scott McClellan

8. 'We tend to think of St. Patrick's Day as one big Irish party. However, St. Patrick's Day means something special to Irish people around the world. There is much that pulls the world apart today, but St. Patrick's Day is a time to start all over again and celebrate the positive things we all share in life!' ~ Dr. Sam Speron

9. 'Nobody gets upset with the Irish on St. Patrick's Day.' ~ Gabriela Lemus

10. 'The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption.' ~ Stephen Gwynn

And while not technically a quote, there's no St. Patrick's Day celebration without an Irish toast:

Here's to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold drink - and another one!

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14 Diane Arbus Quotes to Remember the Birth of a Genius

14 Diane Arbus Quotes to Remember the Birth of a Genius

Author: Noel Jameson

Diane Arbus's birthday is right around the corner and I felt it would be the perfect time to remember her with some enlightening and inspiring Diane Arbus quotes. While her pictures spoke volumes, her words had a message too. Let's revisit those messages now with these 14 quotes.

1. 'Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.'

2. 'Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.'

3. 'Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.'

4. 'Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.'

5. 'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.'

6. 'Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.'

7. 'It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, 'All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.'

8. 'I believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.'

9. 'My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.'

10. 'I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.'

11. 'I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.'

12. 'Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.'

13. 'Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.'

14. 'The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.'

Diane Arbus may be known for her photographs, but her depth and keen perception of the world around her went beyond what could be captured with a camera. Let these 14 Diane Arbus quotes serve as a reminder of this fact.

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