There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
John Ruskin
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
Nathaniel Branden
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
John Pierpont Morgan
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliott
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government.
Abraham Lincoln
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
Richard Kemph
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
Kurt Vonnegut
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
Anon.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
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