Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell
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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
Bernard Magazine
If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
James Albert Pike
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks At 50
Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.
Source Unknown
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Dennis Green
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob M. Braude
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Sir Edward Coke
He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry.
Abraham Lincoln
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
Source Unknown
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight
Phyllis Diller
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Lost and confused in an optical wonderland!
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
G. K. Chesterton
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland
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