Quotes To Stimulate Your Thoughts 3a
1. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
2. Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
3. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
William Rounseville Alger
4. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
5. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
6. Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
7. The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
George Moore
8. Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
Spike Lee
9. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat
10. As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
11. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
12. Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha Christie
13. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
14. When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
15. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
16. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
17. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
18. I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
19. Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Unknown
20. Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb Melbourne
21. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
22. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
23. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
24. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
25. To the world you might be one person; but to one person you might be the world.
Unknown
26. Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
27. Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
28. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
29. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
30. There are two things I have learned: There is a God. And I'm not Him.
Unknown
31. There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie
32. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
33. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
34. Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it.
Pohl
35. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle
36. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
37. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
38. Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Unknown
39. The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
40. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
41. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandi
42. If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sir Winston Churchill
43. Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
F. M. Hubbard
44. Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
45. All things are possible until they are proved impossible. And even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
46. Love conquers all.
Virgil
47. Our real blessings often appear to us
in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments;
but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison
48. The meaning of things lies not
in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
49. Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Anonymous
50. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
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