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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” -Sharon O’Brien
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
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“Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Creative action leads to ‘joy attraction’.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy. Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily. Creative action equals joy attraction. Joy is the path to your true purpose.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Marta Davidovich Ockuly was born in 1952. She is a humanistic psychologist. Author website www.JoyOfQuotes.com.
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“No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.” -Hortense Odlum
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“Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life’s simplest pleasures, like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in.” -Chrissy Ogden
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.” -William Ogden
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“The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.” -Lloyd John Ogilvie
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“I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.” -David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy was born in 1911.
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“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.” -Janette Oke
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -things that I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous . . . Since I cannot sing, I paint.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” -Mary Oliver
“You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” -Mary Oliver
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
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“No matter how much we learn there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know
I know I know I know the less.”
-A. Ray Olpin
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” -Ken Olsen (1977)
Ken Olsen founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, and was later its president and chairman.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“A graduation ceremony is where the commencement speaker tells 2000 students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.” -Robert Orben: “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches” (1984)
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben
“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. His poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873), “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878), and in other works. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
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“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)
José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
William A. Orton.
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
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“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” -Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born on 14 March 1844 in London, England. He became a poet. Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy passed on at ? years of age on 30 January 1881in London, England.
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“Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.” -Osho
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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” -Mirabel Osler
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler: “Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings” (1961) page 105
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -William Osler
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
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“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.” -Marie Osmond
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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” -Joel Osteen
You have to take the good with the bad,
smile when you are sad,
love what you’ve got
and remember what you had.
Always forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake but never regret,
people change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
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“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Otto
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“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” -Jim Otto
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” -Sharon O’Brien
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
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“Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Creative action leads to ‘joy attraction’.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy. Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily. Creative action equals joy attraction. Joy is the path to your true purpose.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Marta Davidovich Ockuly was born in 1952. She is a humanistic psychologist. Author website www.JoyOfQuotes.com.
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“No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.” -Hortense Odlum
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“Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life’s simplest pleasures, like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in.” -Chrissy Ogden
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.” -William Ogden
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“The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.” -Lloyd John Ogilvie
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“I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.” -David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy was born in 1911.
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“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.” -Janette Oke
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -things that I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous . . . Since I cannot sing, I paint.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” -Mary Oliver
“You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” -Mary Oliver
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
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“No matter how much we learn there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know
I know I know I know the less.”
-A. Ray Olpin
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” -Ken Olsen (1977)
Ken Olsen founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, and was later its president and chairman.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“A graduation ceremony is where the commencement speaker tells 2000 students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.” -Robert Orben: “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches” (1984)
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben
“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. His poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873), “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878), and in other works. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
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“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)
José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
William A. Orton.
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
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“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” -Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born on 14 March 1844 in London, England. He became a poet. Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy passed on at ? years of age on 30 January 1881in London, England.
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“Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.” -Osho
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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” -Mirabel Osler
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler: “Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings” (1961) page 105
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -William Osler
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
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“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.” -Marie Osmond
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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” -Joel Osteen
You have to take the good with the bad,
smile when you are sad,
love what you’ve got
and remember what you had.
Always forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake but never regret,
people change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
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“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Otto
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“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” -Jim Otto
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
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