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Position, Power, Money or Popularity do not make a man Great
Thoughts Moral Lessons Life Mantras Heart-Touching Rhymes About us
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
- Basho
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Lao-Tze
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
- Unknown Author
a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn
how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
- Virgil Garnett
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
- Oscar Levant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever
told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
- New York City detective
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to
get out of jury duty.
- Norm Crosby
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- Lily Tomlin
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
- Richard Lewis
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart
just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
- Anon
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- H. L. Mencken
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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