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June 30, 2008

Success Sayings & Quotes

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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. - Joseph Heller

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

 

June 30, 2008

Understanding Sayings & Quotes

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It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. - Pope John Paul II

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. - George Soros

 

June 30, 2008

Business Sayings & Quotes

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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. - Bertie Charles Forbes

My life and death are not purely and simply my own business. I live by and for others, and my death involves others. - Thomas Merton

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. - Isak Dinesen

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. - Alexander Pope

 

June 30, 2008

Clever Sayings & Quotes

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

June 30, 2008

Life Sayings & Quotes

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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Pierre de Coubertin

Every good citizen makes his country’s honour his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. - Andrew Jackson

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The tension between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot,’ makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one’s self. - Anatole Broyard

 

May 8, 2008

motivational one liners & motivation sayings

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While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
~words of encouragement by Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
~sayings about words of encouragement by Martin H. Fischer

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
~quotes about Women by Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Poker is… a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
~inspirational words of encouragement by David A Daniel

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
~saying on Religion by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~inspirational words of encouragement by John C. Collins

 

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

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If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~change by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
~sayings about change by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~quotes about Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~famous quotes on change by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~saying on Teachers by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

May 3, 2008

quotes about Friendship by Alan Loy Mcginnis

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When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
~quotes about Friendship by Alan Loy Mcginnis

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
~famous quotes on change by Kenneth Clark

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world
~saying on Dance by Mata Hari

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
~famous quotes on change by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
~change by Ruth Ann Schabacker

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
~sayings about change by Ambrose Bierce

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything
~quotes about Labor Day by John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~famous quotes on change by Abraham Maslow

 

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

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If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~change by Mother Teresa

No man can follow Christ and go astray.
~sayings about change by William H.P. Faunce

I’m not against half naked girls - not as often as I’d like to be.
~quotes about Women by Benny Hill

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~famous quotes on change by Lauren Raffo

A grownup is a child with layers on.
~saying on Inner Child by Woody Harrelson

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
~famous quotes on change by Author Unknown

 

March 27, 2008

saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

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There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it
 ~saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
 ~easter motivational quote by Joy Hargrove

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
 ~easter by Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.
 ~sayings about easter by Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
 ~quotes about Music by Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
 ~easter motivational quote by Lord Dewar

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
 ~saying on Grandparents by Fanny Fern

 

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