Selected Quotes from Various Sources

Selected Quotes from Various Sources

A champion is not one who never fails, but one who never quits.

A wise man does not entrust all his eggs to one basket.

An eye for an eye(cf. Leviticus 24:19-20) makes the world blind.

Be daring, be first, be different to be a success in business.

Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestones.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world - Eleanor Roosevelt

From savings comes having. From small beginnings come great things.

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. -Williard Marriott

Half the failures in life arise from stopping one's horse as it starts leaping.

Hardships, poverty, and wants are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of man.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. -Andrew Carnegie

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third place.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice;
So of all things you wear, your smile is most important.

It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. -W. Mitchell
One of the best ways to persuade others is by your ears - by listening to them.

One shouldn't look back except to learn.

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. - Goethe

The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm - this is wisdom. - Elbert Hubbard

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gets you something to do but it'll get you nowhere.

You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
An angry person is seldom reasonable; a reasonable man is seldom angry.
Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind.
A person can fail many times, but is not really a failure until he/she starts to blame someone else.
A person is grown up not when he can take care of himself, but when he can take care of others.
A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A person who makes no mistakes generally makes nothing.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
A relationship is like sand in your hand
If held loosely in the palm of your hand
It stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly it slips through your fingers.
As a man begins to live more seriously within, he begins to live more simply without.
A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Ask a question and you're a fool for 3 minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life. - Chinese proverb
A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
A smile is a fortune but you can't sell it; you can't buy it and you can't steal it, but it isn't good to anyone until it's given away.
FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus.
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." -Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." -DaveMatthews Band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." - Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee Iacocca
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Nigerian Proverb
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." -unknown

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