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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. | Aristotle | |
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. | Albert Einstein | |
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. | Henri Frederic Amiel | |
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. | Maya Angelou | |
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. | St. Jerome | |
The dog that trots about finds a bone. | Golda Meir | |
After all is said and done, more is said than done. | Aesop American Proverbs | |
Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. | Chinese Proverbs | |
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. | George Santayana | |
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. | Jean Richter |
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Action Quotes - Part1
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Advantage Quotes - Part1
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. | Henry Kissinger | |
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. | Charles Buxton | |
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | |
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. | Sophia Loren | |
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. | George Santayana | |
Funny Quotes - Part1
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It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something. | Jack Handey | |
I am at two with nature. | Woody Allen | |
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. | Woody Allen | |
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. | Woody Allen | |
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter. | Henry Elliot | |
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. | William Hazlitt | |
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. | Mark Twain | |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. | Sir Francis Bacon | |
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. | Henry W Beecher | |
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. | Aristotle |
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Ability Quotes - Part1
Ability Quotes | Source | |
You can't have what you don't want. | John Acosta | |
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten. | Marilyn Monroe | |
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. | Unknown | |
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. | Wolfgang Goethe | |
Ability without honor is useless. | Marcus Cicero | |
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. | Wolfgang Goethe | |
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do | Orison S Marden | |
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. | Unknown | |
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar | |
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. | Marcus Cicero |
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Loneliness Quotes - Part1
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. | Orson Welles | |
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. | Mother Teresa | |
I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone. | Unknown | |
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. | Unknown | |
It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself. | Unknown | |
It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard. | Michellee David | |
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. | Henry Rollins | |
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. | Paul Tillich | |
Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. | ||
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. | Ronald Anthony | |
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