Famous-Quotes P17
A cynic is a man who
knows the price of everything,
and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
A life spent making
mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
All truly wise
thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly
ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our
personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always aim at
complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your
thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
Always bear in mind
that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Be nice to people on
your way up because
you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
Be not the slave of
your own past.
Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and
swim far, so you
shall come back with self-respect,
with new power, with an advanced experience
that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you can, with
what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't say you don't
have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were
given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown
Even if you're on the
right track, you'll
get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Every really new idea
looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
History will be kind
to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
I haven't failed;
I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison
If you cannot work
with love but only with distaste, it is better
that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran
If you have built
castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is more
important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is the
beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire, you will what
you imagine
and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
It is common sense to
take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But
above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the mark of an
educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
It's a funny thing
about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get
it.
W. Somerset Maugham
It's kind of fun to
do the impossible.
Walt Disney
Keep away from people
who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
One word frees us of
all the weight and pain of life.
That word is love.
Sophocles
Our greatest glory is
not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius
Pleasure in the job
puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
The aim of life is
self-development. To realize one's
nature perfectly - that is what each of us
is here for.
Oscar Wilde
The secret to
creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources.
Albert Einstein
The significant
problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were
at when
we created them.
Albert Einstein
The true measure of a
man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
The whole problem
with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
While we are
postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
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