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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

More Quoties

Getting these out of the way before it gets bigger. :)
  1. He who doesn't find a little enough with find nothing enough. - Epicurus
  2. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates
  3. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
  5. The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Tennyson
  6. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. - Zora Neale Hurston
  7. Never let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers
  8. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
  9. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
  10. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
  11. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
  12. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
  13. He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. - Chinese Proverb
  14. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
  15. A little nonsense now and then si relished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl
  16. Be thankful for what you have. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. - Oprah Winfrey
  17. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
  18. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Coleridge
  19. If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit. Give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus
  20. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb
  21. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  22. Life is far too important a thing to ever talk about seriously. - Oscar Wilde
  23. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
  24. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
  25. I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. - Booker T. Washington
  26. Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which all self-respect springs. - Joan Didion
  27. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli
  28. The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  29. I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
  30. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. - Martin Luther King Jr. 
  31. Play for more than you can afford to lose and you'll learn the game. - Winston Churchill
  32. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
  33. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  34. He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  35. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. - Aesop
  36. Let him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates
  37. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde
  38. In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend. - Solon
  39. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned. - P.T. Barnum
  40. What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have means much more. - Seneca
  41. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
  42. The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great
  43. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus
  44. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca
  45. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albret Einstein
  46. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein
  47. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Satanaya
  48. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. - Mae West
  49. He who has hope has everything. - Arabic Proverb
  50. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula LeGuin

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