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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961)
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
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“If you listen to the never-do’s, it’s never done.” -David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George was born in 1863 in Wales. He became a British Prime Minister (1916 - 1922). David Lloyd George passed on in 1945.
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin was born in 1896. He was an American lyricist. Ira Gershwin passed on in 1983.
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“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
“I buy when other people are selling.” -J. Paul Getty
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” -Albert Giacometti
Albert Giacometti was a sculptor.
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883. He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became a Lebanese-born American artist, poet, novelist, and philosopher. Kahlil Gibran passed on in 1931.
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
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“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
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He did nothing in particular,
And did it very well
-W. S. Gilbert
“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.
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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
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You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillian
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“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about B.C.E. 400)
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
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“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
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“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.” -Germain G. Glidden
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“On the other side of fear lies freedom!” -J. B. Glossinger
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Thaddeus Golas
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.
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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
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“I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment.” -Stedman Graham
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“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.” -Amy Grant
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“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” -Cary Grant
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
Cary Grant is a pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in 1904. He was an English stage actor and a Hollywood film actor. He became an American citizen in 1942. Archibald Alexander Leach passed on in 1986.
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
David Grayson was born in 1890. David Grayson passed on in 1990.
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“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.” -Horace Greeley
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only resources.” -Horace Greeley
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.” -Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in 1811. He was an editor of the “New-York Tribune” newspaper and a United States Congress member representing New York State. Horace Greeley passed on in 1872.
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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” -Dennis Green
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961)
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
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“If you listen to the never-do’s, it’s never done.” -David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George was born in 1863 in Wales. He became a British Prime Minister (1916 - 1922). David Lloyd George passed on in 1945.
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin was born in 1896. He was an American lyricist. Ira Gershwin passed on in 1983.
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“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
“I buy when other people are selling.” -J. Paul Getty
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” -Albert Giacometti
Albert Giacometti was a sculptor.
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883. He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became a Lebanese-born American artist, poet, novelist, and philosopher. Kahlil Gibran passed on in 1931.
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
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“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
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He did nothing in particular,
And did it very well
-W. S. Gilbert
“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.
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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
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You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillian
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“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about B.C.E. 400)
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
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“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
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“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.” -Germain G. Glidden
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“On the other side of fear lies freedom!” -J. B. Glossinger
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Thaddeus Golas
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.
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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
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“I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment.” -Stedman Graham
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“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.” -Amy Grant
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“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” -Cary Grant
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
Cary Grant is a pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in 1904. He was an English stage actor and a Hollywood film actor. He became an American citizen in 1942. Archibald Alexander Leach passed on in 1986.
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
David Grayson was born in 1890. David Grayson passed on in 1990.
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“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.” -Horace Greeley
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only resources.” -Horace Greeley
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.” -Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in 1811. He was an editor of the “New-York Tribune” newspaper and a United States Congress member representing New York State. Horace Greeley passed on in 1872.
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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” -Dennis Green
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
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