MissNeekay’s Submitted Quotes

Don't be a woman that needs a man, be the woman that a man needs.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn't live a day without you.

There’s enough religion in the world for us to hate each other but not enough religion for us to love one another.

Bad things can only happen if good people do nothing.

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

You can't very well reason with someone when their whole argument is that logic doesn't count.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.