Quotes To Stimulate Your Thoughts 3e
201. The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Josh Billings
202. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
203. We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from, life.
Sir William Osler
204. Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
205. It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
Malcolm Forbes
206. Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
207. How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
208. One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
209. The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles F. Kettering
210. Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
Unknown
211. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
212. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
213. We make our own fortunes and call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli
214. Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
215. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Justice O. W. Holmes
216. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
217. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefor, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
218. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
219. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
220. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
221. There are no gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson
222. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
223. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Mark Twain
224. He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo Da Vinci
225. The present is the point at which time touches eternity.
C. S. Lewis
226. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
227. Never assume the obvious is true.
William Safire
228. Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
Epicurus
229. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
230. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
231. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
232. The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
234. A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Unknown
235. One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
236. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
237. They can because they think they can.
Virgil
238. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege
239. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
240. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
241. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
242. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
243. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
244. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
245. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
236. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
237. They can because they think they can.
Virgil
238. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege
239. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
240. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
241. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
242. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
243. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
244. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
245. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
246. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
247. Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
248. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
249. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Unknown
250. Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein.
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