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“I am not strange, I am just not normal.” -Salvador Dali
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” -Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in 1904. Salvador Dali passed on in 1989.
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“Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo: “The College Blue Book” (1995)
Anthony J. D’Angelo is an American writer.
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“Follow your own star.” -Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was born in about 1265. He was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is known for the epic poem, “Commedia,” later named “La divina commedia” (English: “The Divine Comedy”). Dante Alighieri passed on in 1321.
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“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” -Charles Darwin
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” -Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was married to Emma Wedgwood (1808 - 1896) in 1839. He was an English naturalist, geologist, writer, and proponent of the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin passed on at 73 years of age on 19 April 1882 in Downe, Kent, England.
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“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a young man farther than mere smartness.” -Henry P. Daveson
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“If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.” -Clinton Davidson
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“If you’re too busy to enjoy life, you’re too busy.” -Jeff Davidson
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“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” -Bette Davis
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“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.” -Elmer Davis
Elmer Davis was born in 1890. Elmer Davis passed on in 1958.
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“Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself . . .” -Gwen Davis: “Marriage” (1981)
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“Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it is not firmly laid in youth, there will ever be a weak spot in the foundation.” -Jefferson Davis
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“Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.” -Humphrey Davy
Humphry Davy was born on 17 December 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He became a chemist and an inventor. Humphry Davy passed on at 50 years of age on 29 May 1829 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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“Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” -Deborah Day
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“People say, what is the sense of our small effort. They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless. There’s too much work to do.” -Dorothy Day
“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.” -Dorothy Day
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“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” -Barbara De Angelis
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” -Barbara De Angelis
Barbara De Angelis was born on 4 March 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a lecturer, a writer, and a television personality.
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“Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience.” -Comte de Buffon
“Style is the man.” -Comte de Buffon
Comte de Buffon was born as Georges Louis Leclerc on 7 September 1707 in Montbard, Burgundy, France. He became a naturalist and a mathematician. Comte de Buffon passed on at 80 years of age on 16 April 1788 in Paris, France.
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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” -Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat: as attributed in “The Guernsey Magazine” (November 1877)
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, was born on 17 September 1743 in Ribemont, France. He became a philosopher, a mathematician, and a political scientist. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, passed on at 50 years of age on 28 March 1794 in Bourg-la-Reine, France.
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“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on 1 May 1881 in Orcines, Auvergne, France. He became an idealist philosopher and a Jesuit priest, and trained as a paleontologist and a geologist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point and further developed Vladimir Vernadsky’s concept of noosphere. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passed on at 74 years of age on 10 April 1955 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” -Baron Pierre De Coubertin
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“A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.” -Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere was born in 1645. French essayist and moralist. Jean de la Bruyere passed on in 1696.
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“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince or one of the people.” -Jean de La Fontaine
“By the work one knows the workman.” -Jean de La Fontaine
“This beast is very wicked; when attacked, it defends itself.” -Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was born in 1621. He was a French poet, orator, and historian. Jean de La Fontaine passed on in 1695.
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“Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.” -François de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales”
“To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“We should not judge of a man’s merit by his good qualities but by the use he can make of them.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld and François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac, was born on 15 September 1613 in Rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France. He was a soldier and a writer of maxims and memoirs. François de La Rochefoucauld passed on at 66 years of age on 17 March 1680 in Paris, France.
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“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” -Pierre Simon de Laplace
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“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” -Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850. Guy de Maupassant passed on in 1893.
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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” -Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Mille was born on 18 September 1905 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a dancer and a choreographer. Agnes George de Mille passed on at 88 years of age on 7 October 1993.
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“There are a million ways to lose a work day but not even a single way to get one back.” -Tom DeMarco
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“Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” -Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was born on 12 August 1881 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a silent movie director and a filmmaker. Cecil Blount DeMille passed on at 77 years of age on 21 January 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.” -Michel de Montaigne
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 1, chapter 9
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.” -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
“Saying is one thing and doing is another.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 2, chapter 31
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on 28 February 1533. He was a French moralist and essayist. He is known for his book of essays, “Essais” (English: “Essays”). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne passed on at 58 years of age on 13 September 1592.
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“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” -Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Life is what tends toward the improbable.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love begins when nothing is expected in return.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, commonly known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He became an aviator and a novelist. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry passed on at 44 years of age on 31 July 1944 when his plane went down over the ocean south of Marseille, France.
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.” -Francis De Sales
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” -Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567. He became a Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva. He is known for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the “Introduction to the Devout Life” and the “Treatise on the Love of God.” Francis de Sales passed away on 28 December 1622.
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“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” -Madame de Staël
“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.” -Madame de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (maiden name Necker), also known simply as Madame de Staël, was born on 22 April 1766 in Paris, France. She became a writer. Germaine de Staël passed on at 51 years of age on 14 July 1817 in Paris, France.
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“Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded.” -Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
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“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (Lope Felix Carpio de Vega)
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere
“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” -Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries was born on 27 February 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became an editor and a novelist. Peter De Vries passed on at 83 years of age on 28 September 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.” -Eugene V. Debs
“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.” -Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs was born in 1855. Eugene Victor Debs passed on in 1926.
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“To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.” -Keith Degreen
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“The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.” -Eugene Delacroix
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“Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.” -Mike Delaney
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“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” -Democritus
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus
Democritus of Abdera was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. Democritus of Abdera passed on in about 370 B.C.E.
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“Who will bell the cat?” -Eustache Deschamps
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“I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.” -Zooey Deschanel
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“Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” -Lori Deschene
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M. DeVos
Richard Marvin Devos, Senior was born in 1926. Richard Marvin DeVos, Senior passed on in 2018.
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“A champion is a loser who gets up and tries once again.” -Dennis DeYoung
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“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you only spend it once.” -Lillian Dickson
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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.” -Denis Diderot: “Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu” (1745)
Denis Diderot was born in 1713. He was a French writer, art critic, and philosopher. He is known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the “Encyclopédie.” Denis Diderot passed on in 1784.
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“If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.” -Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard was born as Meta Ann Doak on 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a writer.
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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, and you don’t do it, it won’t happen.” -Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was born in 1914. He was an American professional baseball player. Joe DiMaggio passed on in 1999.
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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” -Ernest Dimnet
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“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen is a pseudonym of Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke, who was born in 1885. She was a Danish writer. Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke passed on in 1962.
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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no education like adversity.” -Disraeli
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli was born on 21 December 1804 in Bloomsbury, London, England. He was married to Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis in 1839. He became a British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874 - 1880), a statesman, and a novelist. Benjamin Disraeli passed on at 76 years of age on 19 April 1881 in Mayfair, London, England.
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“The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.” -Isaac D’Israeli
Isaac D’Israeli was born in 1766. He was an English writer and the father of Benjamin Disraeli. Isaac D’Israeli passed on in 1848.
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“The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.” -Dorothy Dix
“You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.” -Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who was born on 18 November 1861 in Woodstock, Tennessee, United States of America. She became an advice columnists and a journalist. Dorothy Dix passed on at 90 years of age on 16 December 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
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“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne.
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” -John Donne: “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1624), ‘Meditation XVII’
John Donne (jŏn dŭn) was born on 22 January 1572 in London, England. He was married to Ann More in 1601. He became a soldier, a courtier, a poet, a satirist, and a dean of Saint Paul’s. He became a Catholic priest and later converted to the Anglican faith. He is known as the author of “Divine Poems” (1607) and “A Hymn to God the Father” (1623). John Donne passed on at 59 years of age on 31 March 1631 in London, England.
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“The one thing all famous authors, world-class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.” -Mike Dooley
Dooley, Mike. Mike Dooley is an American writer.
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“Love all God’s creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He became a novelist, a short story writer, a journalist, and a publisher and editor of magazines. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky passed on at 59 years of age on 9 February 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” -William O. Douglas
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” -William O. Douglas
William Orville Douglas was born in 1898. He was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. William Orville Douglas passed on in 1980.
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.” -Robert Downey, Junior
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“A good deal happens in a man’s life that he isn’t responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such ‘breaks’ are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.” -Lawrence Downs
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“Contentment is the greatest wealth.” -Thomas Draxe
Thomas Draxe was born on an unknown date. He was an English Christian Puritan clergyman and writer. Thomas Draxe passed away on or shortly before 29 January 1618.
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“A greater poverty than that caused by money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the goodness, the beauty, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.” -Thomas Dreier
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“The ideal day never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.” -Horatio Dresser
Horatio Willis Dresser was born on 15 January 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine, United States of America as a son of Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. He became a New Thought religious leader and a writer. He is known for his books including, “The Power of Silence” (1895). Horatio Willis Dresser passed on at 88 years of age on 30 March 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.” -Peter Drucker
“As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.” -Peter Drucker
“Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of his responsibility to the enterprise itself. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.” -Peter Drucker
“Information is the manager’s main tool, indeed the manager’s ‘capital,’ and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.” -Peter Drucker
“Leaders . . . know how to say no. The pressure on leaders to do 984 different things is unbearable, so the effective ones learn how to say no and stick with it. They don’t suffocate themselves as a result. Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.” -Peter Drucker
“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -Peter Drucker
“Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -Peter Drucker
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” -Peter Drucker
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” -Peter Drucker
“The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives.” -Peter Drucker
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.” -Peter Drucker
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” -Peter Drucker
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” -Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in 1909. He was an Austrian-American management consultant and writer. Peter Ferdinand Drucker passed on in 2005.
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“Happiness . . . consists in giving, and in serving, others.” -Henry Drummond
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can do.” -Henry Drummond
“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.” -Henry Drummond
“You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” -Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond was born in 1851. He was a Scottish evangelist, writer, and lecturer. He is known for his book, “The Greatest Thing in the World,” which encourages people to follow God’s two great commandments: to love God and to love each other. Henry Drummond passed on in 1897.
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Happy the man and happy he alone
He who can call today his own:
He who secure within can say
Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.
-John Dryden
“They say everything in the world is good for something.” -John Dryden: “The Spanish Friar” (1681), Act 3, scene 2
John Dryden (jŏn drīdꞋn) was born on 9 August 1631 in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England. He was married to Elizabeth Howard in 1663. He became an English poet, dramatist, translator, and literary critic. He excelled in comedy, heroic tragedy, satiric verse, translation, and literary criticism. He was poet laureate of England (1668 - 1688), and wrote some of his best-known poetic satires during that time, among them, “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681) and “The Medal” (1682). John Dryden passed on at 68 years of age on 1 May 1700 in London, England.
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“Joy is not dependent on circumstances.” -Faith Duck
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“Setting goals is basically, planning celebrations.” -Drew Dudley
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“The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.” -Paul Duffy
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“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities which we usually reserve for war.” -John Foster Dulles
“The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.” -John Foster Dulles
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“One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education, never.” -Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. He was a French novelist and dramatist. He is known for his adventure novel, “Les Trois Mousquetaires” (English: “The Three Musketeers”) (1844). Alexandre Dumas passed on in 1870.
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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!” -Isadora Duncan: as quoted in Franklin Rosemont, editor: “Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan” (2 June 1981)
Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan was born on 27 May 1877 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a dancer and lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until she passed on. Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan passed on at 50 years of age on 14 September 1927 in Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
“Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
Finley Peter Dunne was born as simply Peter Dunne on 10 July 1867 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, later adding his mother’s maiden name to his, calling himself Peter Finley Dunne, and eventually reversing the order and calling himself Finley Peter Dunne. He became a journalist and a humorist. Finley Peter Dunne passed on at 68 years of age on 24 April 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.” -Lewis Dunning
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“It is an error to suppose that books have no influence; it is a slow influence, like flowing water carving out a canyon, but it tells more and more with every year; and no one can pass an hour a day in the society of sages and heroes without being lifted up a notch or two by the company he has kept.” -Will Durant
“My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus . . . Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.” -Will Durant
“Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.” -Will Durant
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.” -Will Durant: “The Story of Civilization,” Volume II, “The Life of Greece” (1939), Chapter XII: Work and Wealth in Athens, page 277
“Sixty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant: as quoted in ‘Books: The Great Gadfly’ published in “Time” (8 October 1965) magazine (a book review of Will and Ariel Durant: “The Age of Voltaire” (1935))
“The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.” -Will Durant
“Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.” -Will Durant
“When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.” -Will Durant
Ariel Durant was born as Chaya Kaufman on 10 May 1898 in Khmel’nyts’ka, Ukraine. She became an American historian and writer, and co-author of several written works with her husband William James ‘Will’ Durant. Ariel Durant passed on at 83 years of age on 25 October 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
William James ‘Will’ Durant was born on 5 November 1885 in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a historian and a writer. He is known for his works that include, “The Story of Philosophy,” and “The Story of Civilization.” He co-authored several written works with his wife Ariel Durant. William James ‘Will’ Durant passed on at 96 years of age on 7 November 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
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“There is still today and tomorrow fresh with dreams: Life never grows old.” -Rita Duskin
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“The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.” -Timothy Dwight (similar quotation attributed to William Lyon Phelps)
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“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” -Wayne Dyer
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” -Wayne Dyer
“Surround yourself with people who are doers!” -Wayne Dyer
“There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” -Wayne Dyer
“You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.” -Wayne Dyer
“You’ll see it when you believe it.” -Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer was born in 1940. He is an American psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer.
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“Humanity is fortunate in having such a variety of energy resources at its disposal. In the very long run we shall need energy that is absolutely pollution free; we shall have sunlight. In the fairly long run we shall need energy that is inexhaustible and moderately clean; we shall have deuterium. In the short run we shall need energy that is readily usable and abundant; we shall uranium. Right now we need energy that is cheap and convenient; we have coal and oil. Nature has been kinder to us that we had a right to expect.” -Freeman John Dyson
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“I am not strange, I am just not normal.” -Salvador Dali
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” -Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in 1904. Salvador Dali passed on in 1989.
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“Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo: “The College Blue Book” (1995)
Anthony J. D’Angelo is an American writer.
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“Follow your own star.” -Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was born in about 1265. He was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is known for the epic poem, “Commedia,” later named “La divina commedia” (English: “The Divine Comedy”). Dante Alighieri passed on in 1321.
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“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” -Charles Darwin
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” -Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was married to Emma Wedgwood (1808 - 1896) in 1839. He was an English naturalist, geologist, writer, and proponent of the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin passed on at 73 years of age on 19 April 1882 in Downe, Kent, England.
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“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a young man farther than mere smartness.” -Henry P. Daveson
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“If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.” -Clinton Davidson
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“If you’re too busy to enjoy life, you’re too busy.” -Jeff Davidson
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“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” -Bette Davis
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“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.” -Elmer Davis
Elmer Davis was born in 1890. Elmer Davis passed on in 1958.
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“Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself . . .” -Gwen Davis: “Marriage” (1981)
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“Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it is not firmly laid in youth, there will ever be a weak spot in the foundation.” -Jefferson Davis
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“Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.” -Humphrey Davy
Humphry Davy was born on 17 December 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He became a chemist and an inventor. Humphry Davy passed on at 50 years of age on 29 May 1829 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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“Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” -Deborah Day
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“People say, what is the sense of our small effort. They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless. There’s too much work to do.” -Dorothy Day
“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.” -Dorothy Day
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“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” -Barbara De Angelis
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” -Barbara De Angelis
Barbara De Angelis was born on 4 March 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a lecturer, a writer, and a television personality.
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“Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience.” -Comte de Buffon
“Style is the man.” -Comte de Buffon
Comte de Buffon was born as Georges Louis Leclerc on 7 September 1707 in Montbard, Burgundy, France. He became a naturalist and a mathematician. Comte de Buffon passed on at 80 years of age on 16 April 1788 in Paris, France.
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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” -Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat: as attributed in “The Guernsey Magazine” (November 1877)
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, was born on 17 September 1743 in Ribemont, France. He became a philosopher, a mathematician, and a political scientist. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, passed on at 50 years of age on 28 March 1794 in Bourg-la-Reine, France.
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“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on 1 May 1881 in Orcines, Auvergne, France. He became an idealist philosopher and a Jesuit priest, and trained as a paleontologist and a geologist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the Omega Point and further developed Vladimir Vernadsky’s concept of noosphere. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passed on at 74 years of age on 10 April 1955 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” -Baron Pierre De Coubertin
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“A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.” -Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere was born in 1645. French essayist and moralist. Jean de la Bruyere passed on in 1696.
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“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince or one of the people.” -Jean de La Fontaine
“By the work one knows the workman.” -Jean de La Fontaine
“This beast is very wicked; when attacked, it defends itself.” -Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was born in 1621. He was a French poet, orator, and historian. Jean de La Fontaine passed on in 1695.
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“Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.” -François de La Rochefoucauld: “Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales”
“To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“We should not judge of a man’s merit by his good qualities but by the use he can make of them.” -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld, also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld and François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac, was born on 15 September 1613 in Rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France. He was a soldier and a writer of maxims and memoirs. François de La Rochefoucauld passed on at 66 years of age on 17 March 1680 in Paris, France.
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“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” -Pierre Simon de Laplace
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“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” -Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850. Guy de Maupassant passed on in 1893.
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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” -Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Mille was born on 18 September 1905 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a dancer and a choreographer. Agnes George de Mille passed on at 88 years of age on 7 October 1993.
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“There are a million ways to lose a work day but not even a single way to get one back.” -Tom DeMarco
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“Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” -Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was born on 12 August 1881 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a silent movie director and a filmmaker. Cecil Blount DeMille passed on at 77 years of age on 21 January 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.” -Michel de Montaigne
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 1, chapter 9
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.” -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
“Saying is one thing and doing is another.” -Michel de Montaigne: “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (March 1580), Book 2, chapter 31
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on 28 February 1533. He was a French moralist and essayist. He is known for his book of essays, “Essais” (English: “Essays”). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne passed on at 58 years of age on 13 September 1592.
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“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” -Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Life is what tends toward the improbable.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love begins when nothing is expected in return.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, commonly known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He became an aviator and a novelist. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry passed on at 44 years of age on 31 July 1944 when his plane went down over the ocean south of Marseille, France.
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.” -Francis De Sales
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” -Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales was born on 21 August 1567. He became a Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva. He is known for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the “Introduction to the Devout Life” and the “Treatise on the Love of God.” Francis de Sales passed away on 28 December 1622.
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“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” -Madame de Staël
“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.” -Madame de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (maiden name Necker), also known simply as Madame de Staël, was born on 22 April 1766 in Paris, France. She became a writer. Germaine de Staël passed on at 51 years of age on 14 July 1817 in Paris, France.
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“Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded.” -Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
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“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (Lope Felix Carpio de Vega)
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere
“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” -Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries was born on 27 February 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became an editor and a novelist. Peter De Vries passed on at 83 years of age on 28 September 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.” -Eugene V. Debs
“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.” -Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs was born in 1855. Eugene Victor Debs passed on in 1926.
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“To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.” -Keith Degreen
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“The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.” -Eugene Delacroix
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“Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.” -Mike Delaney
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“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.” -Democritus
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.” -Democritus
Democritus of Abdera was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. Democritus of Abdera passed on in about 370 B.C.E.
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“Who will bell the cat?” -Eustache Deschamps
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“I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.” -Zooey Deschanel
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“Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” -Lori Deschene
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M. DeVos
Richard Marvin Devos, Senior was born in 1926. Richard Marvin DeVos, Senior passed on in 2018.
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“A champion is a loser who gets up and tries once again.” -Dennis DeYoung
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“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you only spend it once.” -Lillian Dickson
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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.” -Denis Diderot: “Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu” (1745)
Denis Diderot was born in 1713. He was a French writer, art critic, and philosopher. He is known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the “Encyclopédie.” Denis Diderot passed on in 1784.
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“If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.” -Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard was born as Meta Ann Doak on 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She is a writer.
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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, and you don’t do it, it won’t happen.” -Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was born in 1914. He was an American professional baseball player. Joe DiMaggio passed on in 1999.
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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” -Ernest Dimnet
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“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen is a pseudonym of Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke, who was born in 1885. She was a Danish writer. Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke passed on in 1962.
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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no education like adversity.” -Disraeli
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli was born on 21 December 1804 in Bloomsbury, London, England. He was married to Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis in 1839. He became a British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874 - 1880), a statesman, and a novelist. Benjamin Disraeli passed on at 76 years of age on 19 April 1881 in Mayfair, London, England.
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“The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.” -Isaac D’Israeli
Isaac D’Israeli was born in 1766. He was an English writer and the father of Benjamin Disraeli. Isaac D’Israeli passed on in 1848.
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“The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.” -Dorothy Dix
“You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.” -Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who was born on 18 November 1861 in Woodstock, Tennessee, United States of America. She became an advice columnists and a journalist. Dorothy Dix passed on at 90 years of age on 16 December 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
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“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne.
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” -John Donne: “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (1624), ‘Meditation XVII’
John Donne (jŏn dŭn) was born on 22 January 1572 in London, England. He was married to Ann More in 1601. He became a soldier, a courtier, a poet, a satirist, and a dean of Saint Paul’s. He became a Catholic priest and later converted to the Anglican faith. He is known as the author of “Divine Poems” (1607) and “A Hymn to God the Father” (1623). John Donne passed on at 59 years of age on 31 March 1631 in London, England.
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“The one thing all famous authors, world-class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.” -Mike Dooley
Dooley, Mike. Mike Dooley is an American writer.
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“Love all God’s creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on 11 November 1821 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He became a novelist, a short story writer, a journalist, and a publisher and editor of magazines. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky passed on at 59 years of age on 9 February 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” -William O. Douglas
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” -William O. Douglas
William Orville Douglas was born in 1898. He was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. William Orville Douglas passed on in 1980.
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.” -Robert Downey, Junior
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“A good deal happens in a man’s life that he isn’t responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such ‘breaks’ are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.” -Lawrence Downs
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“Contentment is the greatest wealth.” -Thomas Draxe
Thomas Draxe was born on an unknown date. He was an English Christian Puritan clergyman and writer. Thomas Draxe passed away on or shortly before 29 January 1618.
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“A greater poverty than that caused by money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the goodness, the beauty, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.” -Thomas Dreier
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“The ideal day never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.” -Horatio Dresser
Horatio Willis Dresser was born on 15 January 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine, United States of America as a son of Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. He became a New Thought religious leader and a writer. He is known for his books including, “The Power of Silence” (1895). Horatio Willis Dresser passed on at 88 years of age on 30 March 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.” -Peter Drucker
“As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.” -Peter Drucker
“Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of his responsibility to the enterprise itself. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.” -Peter Drucker
“Information is the manager’s main tool, indeed the manager’s ‘capital,’ and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.” -Peter Drucker
“Leaders . . . know how to say no. The pressure on leaders to do 984 different things is unbearable, so the effective ones learn how to say no and stick with it. They don’t suffocate themselves as a result. Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.” -Peter Drucker
“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -Peter Drucker
“Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” -Peter Drucker
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” -Peter Drucker
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” -Peter Drucker
“The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives.” -Peter Drucker
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.” -Peter Drucker
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” -Peter Drucker
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” -Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in 1909. He was an Austrian-American management consultant and writer. Peter Ferdinand Drucker passed on in 2005.
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“Happiness . . . consists in giving, and in serving, others.” -Henry Drummond
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can do.” -Henry Drummond
“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.” -Henry Drummond
“You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” -Henry Drummond
Henry Drummond was born in 1851. He was a Scottish evangelist, writer, and lecturer. He is known for his book, “The Greatest Thing in the World,” which encourages people to follow God’s two great commandments: to love God and to love each other. Henry Drummond passed on in 1897.
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Happy the man and happy he alone
He who can call today his own:
He who secure within can say
Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.
-John Dryden
“They say everything in the world is good for something.” -John Dryden: “The Spanish Friar” (1681), Act 3, scene 2
John Dryden (jŏn drīdꞋn) was born on 9 August 1631 in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England. He was married to Elizabeth Howard in 1663. He became an English poet, dramatist, translator, and literary critic. He excelled in comedy, heroic tragedy, satiric verse, translation, and literary criticism. He was poet laureate of England (1668 - 1688), and wrote some of his best-known poetic satires during that time, among them, “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681) and “The Medal” (1682). John Dryden passed on at 68 years of age on 1 May 1700 in London, England.
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“Joy is not dependent on circumstances.” -Faith Duck
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“Setting goals is basically, planning celebrations.” -Drew Dudley
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“The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.” -Paul Duffy
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“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities which we usually reserve for war.” -John Foster Dulles
“The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.” -John Foster Dulles
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“One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education, never.” -Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. He was a French novelist and dramatist. He is known for his adventure novel, “Les Trois Mousquetaires” (English: “The Three Musketeers”) (1844). Alexandre Dumas passed on in 1870.
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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!” -Isadora Duncan: as quoted in Franklin Rosemont, editor: “Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan” (2 June 1981)
Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan was born on 27 May 1877 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a dancer and lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until she passed on. Angela Isadora ‘Isadora’ Duncan passed on at 50 years of age on 14 September 1927 in Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
“Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.” -Finley Peter Dunne
Finley Peter Dunne was born as simply Peter Dunne on 10 July 1867 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, later adding his mother’s maiden name to his, calling himself Peter Finley Dunne, and eventually reversing the order and calling himself Finley Peter Dunne. He became a journalist and a humorist. Finley Peter Dunne passed on at 68 years of age on 24 April 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.” -Lewis Dunning
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“It is an error to suppose that books have no influence; it is a slow influence, like flowing water carving out a canyon, but it tells more and more with every year; and no one can pass an hour a day in the society of sages and heroes without being lifted up a notch or two by the company he has kept.” -Will Durant
“My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus . . . Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.” -Will Durant
“Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.” -Will Durant
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.” -Will Durant: “The Story of Civilization,” Volume II, “The Life of Greece” (1939), Chapter XII: Work and Wealth in Athens, page 277
“Sixty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant: as quoted in ‘Books: The Great Gadfly’ published in “Time” (8 October 1965) magazine (a book review of Will and Ariel Durant: “The Age of Voltaire” (1935))
“The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.” -Will Durant
“Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.” -Will Durant
“When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.” -Will Durant
Ariel Durant was born as Chaya Kaufman on 10 May 1898 in Khmel’nyts’ka, Ukraine. She became an American historian and writer, and co-author of several written works with her husband William James ‘Will’ Durant. Ariel Durant passed on at 83 years of age on 25 October 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
William James ‘Will’ Durant was born on 5 November 1885 in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a historian and a writer. He is known for his works that include, “The Story of Philosophy,” and “The Story of Civilization.” He co-authored several written works with his wife Ariel Durant. William James ‘Will’ Durant passed on at 96 years of age on 7 November 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.
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“There is still today and tomorrow fresh with dreams: Life never grows old.” -Rita Duskin
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“The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.” -Timothy Dwight (similar quotation attributed to William Lyon Phelps)
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“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” -Wayne Dyer
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” -Wayne Dyer
“Surround yourself with people who are doers!” -Wayne Dyer
“There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” -Wayne Dyer
“You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.” -Wayne Dyer
“You’ll see it when you believe it.” -Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer was born in 1940. He is an American psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer.
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“Humanity is fortunate in having such a variety of energy resources at its disposal. In the very long run we shall need energy that is absolutely pollution free; we shall have sunlight. In the fairly long run we shall need energy that is inexhaustible and moderately clean; we shall have deuterium. In the short run we shall need energy that is readily usable and abundant; we shall uranium. Right now we need energy that is cheap and convenient; we have coal and oil. Nature has been kinder to us that we had a right to expect.” -Freeman John Dyson
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